Actual convo with Gravi

LordoftheFlies

Gravi needs a festive Christmas kick to the 'nads from the Krampus for this vile act of culinary terrorism.

Nonbinaryandroid

Humans need to invade Mars. We're going to build a Dyson sphere and we are going to make the Martians pay for it.

xoenix

Hmm.

Also, an interesting detail.

Nonbinaryandroid

South Korea has long had a, let's call it a chaotic political climate. Lots of corruption.

In the west you're going to be getting most of the news through a propagandistic lense. South is the US ally and a stable healthy democracy, North is a Communist shithole, true to some extent but like anything a gross oversimplification.

Since North and South Koreans are all Koreans it's not enough to say that communism is the only reason why North Korea is an insane dystopia. Other communist countries around the world have similar problems but are nowhere near North Korea. Likewise South Korea being capitalist isn't enough to describe its problems since other capitalist countries have similar problems but not quite to the same extent.

What North and South Korea do share are the same cultural roots. So it's not surprising that the political situations in both countries are dysfunctional. They share the same root culture.

There was a time not so long ago that South Korea was an impoverished dictatorship and the North was seen as an attractive destination for defection. That situatuon has changed a lot as capitalism did allow for Korea to have it's economic miracle leaving the North behind especially after the collapse of the Soviet union. However the political situatuon in South Korea has always been quite chaotic and you don't get much of it in the western news cycle, usually Korea only pops up when the North does something stupid.

At the moment it appears that the current president was going to be impeached and jailed for a reason I don't fully understand, and that he tried to declare martial law to prevent that procedure and pull off a de facto coup. It seems at the moment this strategy has failed spectacularly.

It is safe to assume both countries have spies in the other and some degree of "infiltration" if it can be called that but I don't think it is significant. I think the president is likely using that to call upon the fear of the North to rally supporters.

I've become more racist as I've gotten older and learned more about Korea as I'm convinced their culture North or South tends to produce a lot of crazy. Generally nice people most of the time, good food, interesting history, but their societies are fucked.

Bridgeheadprod

Then I deserve the freaking medal of valour!

xoenix

The kind of extreme soft & sensitive language required whenever talking around gender specials frequently reminds me of class critiques which, even by the time I was in college, were pretty soft. There were stories of older instructors throwing bad work out windows and making students cry, but that pretty much ended by our day. The good/poor quality argument in the arts was lost decades ago in a similar manner to how the sex binary was blurred.

ActuallyNot

Yes you can. They're not very heavy.

It's not obvious why you'd want to.

Nonbinaryandroid

You can't send aborted babies to mars.

SoCo

This stinks of more signs that the US dollar is actually-actually failing. Remember, one thing you do to protect your currency in a massive world-wide economic depression, is to inflate your currency and also levy many tariffs.

ActuallyNot

The strong survive the weak perish.

Is that so?

Is being strong correlated to being dumb, do you think?

You can either be an Eloi or you can be a Morlock.

Neither are going to make it to Mars.

Nonbinaryandroid

The strong survive the weak perish. If humanity is to hope to become galactically dominant in this epoch then we need to evolve. You can either be an Eloi or you can be a Morlock.

TotalAnon1337

We're not re arguing this. You are acting in bad faith.

ActuallyNot

So an older man who already has his family?

Do you worry that your daughter won't get the same care as your wife did?

Nonbinaryandroid

I think generally what happens is that creative types are more tolerant of certain kinds of weirdness than the rest of the planet. Especially in college. The problems come about when you get these fully disconnected from reality coupled with the unfortunate tendency of many creative types to be unable to handle criticism constructively.

I've made the argument a few times in groups that I've been in that while I personally don't really give a rats ass if you want to come into work dressed like a drag queen, and in fact honestly I appreciate the entertainment, it gives off an air of unprofessionalism that will be viewed negatively in most public facing rolls. Yes the verbal criticism you are getting is mostly coming from people who are "triggered" and bigoted to some degree but the damning problem isn't them it's the people that see it and are smart enough not to say anything just writing us off entirely, opportunities are lost. I might get shit on for mentioning this, but I'm not making the rules by which society operates I just understand that if you want to break them you have to accept the consequences.

Basically I think a loud minority just ends up controlling the social dynamic. In any situation it seems the most intolerant and loudest voices set the standards. Be that progressive or regressive. It's why people cringe at thought of Mohammed cartoons. Enough intolerant people out there willing to behead you over it. Why you don't say "hmm maybe having gay characters in this kid show isn't a good idea" enough crazies to brand you as a biggot and destroy your career convinces most to stay silent.

It's the "wrong side of history" argument. Yeah you say I'm on the wrong side of history but history isn't here yet. History is written by the victors. Trump one again does that mean he is on the right side of history.

It just seems obvious to me that if you are trying to market something, making a marketing campaign that targets some wildly small demographic at the risk of alienating your core market with some culture war bullshit is a losing proposition. It was the same with the Disney gay stuff. It doesn't matter if it's mostly tame and not controversial to you and your circle. You publish it, you lose loads of your potential market. And damage the brand. It's nothing new either seems nobody remembers the decades long boycott of Disney from the Baptists.

Nonbinaryandroid

The entire reason this becomes an issue is because of how messy the language is. Allows for incendiary journalism to go by undetected by most.

Nonbinaryandroid

When do we get the shadow King?

SoCo

Everything I said is from Wikipedia or memory. I've been watching this proxy war since the very obvious coup of a fake color-revolution back in 2014. I remember the sketchy foreign snipers that were employed to shoot both sides for show. I remember in 2015 and the following few years, both sides breaking the peace agreements that the whole world was urging on West versus East Ukraine. I remember the reports on the news about their war's risk to the water table in the area, due to the cold war nuclear waste being put in jeopardy. I remember many new reports, documentaries, and humanitarian efforts due to the mines.

Brewdabier

California can't use all its solar power.

Not that they can't, they wont. Copper Mountain Solar Facility for example is a huge waste of money.

SoCo

Woods wasn't the only one to write a book about gathering a group of WH insiders to help sabotage America from the inside, to make Trump look bad. I wish I could find the other guy's name or the article about it.

zyxzevn

Science's Lost Breakthroughs: Trailblazers of Transmutation and LENR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQfV5lQpGQ

cunninglingus

Many of the files posted by 4chan were already found on Biden’s ~~abandoned laptop via an~~ iPhone XS backup, according to a ~~the Washington Examiner~~ disinformation tabloid.

Alright genius: what's the service for this backup??? iCloud? The iCloud account hacked by your dearest criminal friends in Russia?

HiddenFox

You want a minimum wage even if you make above that mark. With out it you start a race to the bottom and in the end it will drag down the wages of everyone. There will always be some moron willing to do the work for .10c less and another after him and another after him.

Minimum wage should be tied to inflation lagging a year behind.

FullRetard

Many of the files posted by 4chan were already found on Biden’s abandoned laptop via an iPhone XS backup, according to the Washington Examiner.

Faggot

HiddenFox

Point of order, this town of 1400 does not have a flag pole...

PsychoTranyRedditMod

I'm with the mayor on this one.

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