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When this conversation comes up, I always go back to this really succinct quote from Fran Lebowitz.
I love when the owner of the Italian place I eat lunch at wants to get in a deep sociopolitical chat with me and he gets fired up and starts screaming and scares off customers.
How do I communicate via dating profile that I hate “the talking stage” and would rather meet you right away, but if you absolutely must text with me first I’ll cooperate. I guess the answer is probably don’t, accept that culture is not how I’d like it to be but I’m stuck here.
EBTG is returning to acoustic. Ok, I’ll take it. I have been slowly working acoustic music back into my rotation. open.spotify.com/track/3mL4k…
It’s so hubristic for Americans to sit back and think they know more about Mao than Chinese people do. Do you think they don’t know how bad the famine was just because their school history lessons gloss over it? Their parents and grandparents lived it. teapawt.net/haugejostein/status/21…
Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons.
Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.
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Mao's Great Leap Forward and related policies caused an estimated 30-45 million famine deaths in 1959-1961 alone, with total excess deaths under his rule often estimated at 40 million or higher.
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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…
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I’m responding to the community note which is irrelevant to the post. The failures are well known but there’s more to it. They fast forwarded through the industrial revolution we had, we’re too far removed to relate.
I do think it’s silly to put dictator in quotes. We can call it what it is.
This is a strawman. Leftists don’t generally focus on the moral culpability of industrial pioneers, they talk about labor organizing itself for better conditions.
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I have legit been trying to remember the name of this song for the better part of a year. I remembered it from the local rock station, dug around Spotify sampling nu metal and never found it until now. Thank you, fat friend. teapawt.net/BazBombadil/status/211…
What a surprise that these people are horrible. They pay $1m to chase the past when the east village had a scene. That’s what this weird monkey bars fight is about, them having to come to terms with the current reality of the east village. Grow up! hellgatenyc.com/cb3-tompkins…
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I don’t know why no one at work trivia wanted to go with my team name The Black Quizraelites
It’s ironic that what it takes to become Trump’s successor is completely eschewing the appeal Trump had. Trump is authentic, even when he lies, but JD’s inauthenticity is transparent. I can’t see it working out in 2028. teapawt.net/atrupar/status/2115138…
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G. K. Chesterton on loving thy neighbor.
A sad thing about not knowing our neighbors as we once did is that they no longer test our patience — and thus build our character. More and more of our associations are completely voluntary. It's comfortable, but spiritually tragic.
Why don’t we have any of the good parts of self-diagnosed autism now? Bluntness. What happened to that?
You know who would be fun to put in this ad? The God Warrior. teapawt.net/firefox/status/2114498…
Obama got me with that Cheesecake Factory line, and I generally don’t enjoy his speeches. If he’s making fun of Trump I can’t help think about how he might have prevented him, but it was a good line.
This is crazy, as working class people have increasingly realigned toward republicans, you’re just going to cede that. teapawt.net/OliverALarkin/status/2…
This is such an insane thing to say out loud. No wonder Ashley Moody has been campaigning from the basement.
“When you stand up for representing the BOSSES and putting THEM first…we will thrive.”
Florida, vote @AngieNixon to stand up for working people.
Puritanism is alive in Mass. teapawt.net/barbarismcrit/status/2…
I would be curious to see the score for Chaldeans. My guess is that Muslims fare better. I will simply leave it at that. teapawt.net/PollTracker2024/status…
