Social The Lounge v 204: Sour Grapes.

[Deleted member 579584]

Ever notice how no one besides me calls out dudes for having a constant thirst or hot chick avatars like they are trying to convince themselves....

Are only straight folks allowed to express themselves and represent themselves this way

I'm never going to give up my hot chick avatars you ..you... Juggalo

 

[Deleted member 579584]

I dunno, it they put in effort it works fine.

For example, IT was surprisingly good.

This is true IT was fantastic film second was ok, not great.

 

[LMP]

@The Diplomat If you want me to stay out of these threads so you guys have a safe space, consider it done. However, there was a 200+ reply thread on gheys today and I didn't start it. The fuck if I'm not allowed to speak on that. I own that thread now, and I didn't even need to post a scroll bomb.

Post where you want to brother, fuck anyone telling you otherwise.

 

[Day Drinking]

This is true IT was fantastic film second was ok, not great.

Thats the exception though. As a rule, they are shit. There are 20 Ghostbusters for every IT.

 

[Deleted member 579584]

Thats the exception though. As a rule, they are shit. There are 20 Ghostbusters for every IT.

2018 Halloween wasn't all that bad. What did you think of it

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

I'm sensing a little hostility. I'm as authentic as anybody that has ever posted on this forum. So authentic that some people actually can't handle it, and that also gets me into trouble here.

Don't mind him.

He's an just an OT leg... lol couldn't finish it

 

[The Diplomat]

Don't mind him.

He's an just an OT leg... lol couldn't finish it

You know what is happening, right?

I'm fucking around, making a few jokes to someone I already know, but he turns it around, and makes me out to be the asshole.

That is dumb. And anyone who falls for it is dumb, as well.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

*like

 

[Deleted member 579584]

You know what is happening, right?

I'm fucking around, making a few jokes to someone I already know, but he turns it around, and makes me out to be the asshole.

That is dumb. And anyone who falls for it is dumb, as well.

how about those Cowboys finally won a fucking game

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

You know what is happening, right?

I'm fucking around, making a few jokes to someone I already know, but he turns it around, and makes me out to be the asshole.

That is dumb. And anyone who falls for it is dumb, as well.

 

[The Diplomat]

Any response there?

 

[Deleted member 579584]

@AgonyandIrony playing tonight?

 

[Sara]

I agree. But Sherdog is a tricky business, and e-trust is lost quickly.

Also, @Deorum, I see you don't like my posts. Maybe it's a personal issue. The general rule in the like world is give a like, take a like. If you don't do that, the world turns to chaos, and you end up like @Sara with 40,000 posts but barely anything to show for it.

I have an archived thread bitch.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Any response there?

Yeah give me a minute...

 

[Deorum]

Why do you feel that even though you are bisexual, you need to make it your entire gimmick here? That isn't your entire being, it's just a sexual preference.

I'd hold off on making any direct comparisons but it's probably true that the CCP is the closest thing the world has yet seen to the NSDAP as far as autocratic industro-technik superpowers. It differentiates the People's Republic of China from your 'ordinary' third-world tin pot dictatorships. China wields significant influence on global affairs in myriad areas, it isn't limited to locality or region.

This is some decent historical context to the situation.

https://www.hudson.org/research/15095-the-anti-islamic-movement-in-china

The mass human rights atrocities in Xinjiang—the region in China’s far west, where Chinese Communist authorities have imprisoned upwards of one million Uyghur Muslims in “political reeducation” camps—are worsening, and this demands a far greater international response.

Meantime, Beijing’s sweeping crackdown against the Uyghurs and its modern day gulags have been accompanied by an alarming resurgence in China’s hostility toward religious minorities, and toward Islam and Muslims in particular. The anti-Muslim movement in China can be directly attributed to the ruling Communist Party’s atheism, ideology of Han Chinese supremacism, and “national rejuvenation.”

At the same time, contemporary Chinese anti-Muslim sentiments and harsh policies are not simply the byproduct of communism. They can be traced historically to Han Chinese chauvinism, which first appeared during the early Qing Dynasty, when China came to be ruled by an ethnic minority, the Manchus.

Throughout China’s imperial history, the term “Hui” was used at different times to refer to and also to derogate the adherents of monotheistic faiths like Islam, Judaism, and even Christianity.



During the Manchu/Qing Dynasty’s (1644-1911) westward territorial expansion into the heart of Eurasia, large numbers of Han Chinese migrated into territories previously dominated by non-Han peoples, including Hui Muslims.

This led to ethnic and religious tensions which frequently became violent in the empire’s interior regions and along its frontiers in Central Asia. It also gave rise to popular anti-Muslim and chauvinistic attitudes among Han Chinese, which included efforts to forcibly assimilate the Hui into Chinese society. It even led to calls to eliminate Muslims and Islam from the empire altogether.

This historical pattern of Han Chinese chauvinism and “Hui-phobia” has continued into the modern era. In recent times, the spread of the Internet and social media in China has contributed to a marked popular resurgence of anti-Muslim sentiment, actions and policies. This paper explores the evolution of anti-Islamic stereotyping and bigotry in China from the Hui-phobia of the early Qing to the blatant hostility toward Islam and Muslims today.

Yeh, as we saw earlier in the year.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...china-is-locking-down-half-a-billion-citizens

China has put more than half a billion people under partial or total lockdown in what it is calling an all-out "people's war" against the spread of the new coronavirus. It's equivalent to restricting the movement of the entire population of North America. To enforce sweeping quarantine measures over vast areas of the country, China has turned to a medley of low and high-tech measures. These methods reflect a decades-long history of social control now being mobilized on an unprecedented scale.

Xi's been flexing quite a bit and has broken from Dengism in a major way in terms of foreign policy. On a domestic front, he's got the ability to create and fold agencies at the snap of his fingers; can launch policies without any consensus, process or safeguards and... Xi's actually been damn close to flawless on everything from economic reform and infrastructure development to 'anti-corruption' (purging political adversaries) and poverty eradication to military capabilities and scientific advancement. The amendment that put him on equal footing with Chairman Mao needed a two-thirds majority from the National People's Congress in order to pass. It got 2,959 votes out of 2,964 (99.8%) approval with two against and three abstentions.

A more likely flashpoint would be an aggressive move on Taiwan. It's home to some of the largest pure play semiconductor foundries and most advanced process technology in the world (namely TSMC) with assets heavily integrated into the US defense network and supply chain. America simply can't stand back and allow it to be swallowed in the same way Hong Kong has.

I've actually thought since the beginning that Xi's consolidation of power has been part of a larger Politburo strategy of installing heavy handed leadership continuity over an extended period. The type that would be necessary if the CCP was going to implement the hard, economically slowing reforms required to rebalance itself from being investment-led to a more sustainable consumer-led growth model.

That's an entire thread.

I'm not sure about the general population but the possibility of domestic political reckoning is extremely rare regardless of the CCP's highly repressive nature (from a westerner perspective), and the middle class of the coastal cities is certainly more informed. Anecdotally, the people I met in Shanghai (pre-Xi) said there's kind of been an unspoken pact between the government and its people with a trade-off of continued prosperity and national achievement for staying out of politics.

It seems like a majority of the outrage lately has been far more focused on France and Macron. On the surface that appears ludicrous from the simple perspective of actual people vs. disrespectful caricatures, but the more I think about it... not really? I've been trying to view different countries, cultures and societies outside of my own myopic western worldview, i.e. "Repressive CCP, but how do Han citizens actually view their government?" -- And speaking of Khan, his country is economically in too deep to criticize the CCP over the Uyghur issue.

 

[Day Drinking]

2018 Halloween wasn't all that bad. What did you think of it

I havent seen it. I expected it to be bad.

 

[Deleted member 579584]

I havent seen it. I expected it to be bad.

If you have hoopla you can watch it for free

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

Most people ignore the lounge lizards

 

[The Diplomat]

You missed the joke, because either a) you have no sense or humor, possibly autistic, or b) you don't know me. Tired of defending myself.

 

[Day Drinking]

If you have hoopla you can watch it for free

I have the internet, all media is free