America - The Official Thread
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It's one I've made for at least a couple decades now and it's really only ever been appreciated by those who are smartasses like myself, but it's also a joke I'm compelled to make because that's my sense of humor.
I do tend to avoid it if my read of a situation suggests it would be inappropriate, but this situation is so thoroughly asinine and the joke feels right.
There's obviously nothing democratic about a monarchy, and it's absolutely asinine that an American think tank that blindly espouses American exceptionalism to bigots with a boner for authoritarianism is flogging the "cancel culture" horse beyond death to pander to stupid people wallowing in their perceived victimhood.
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@ryzno @TexRex Probably best to leave it right there chaps...
Perhaps I should have dealt with this privately and not publicly, so apologies for that.
But I do think that one word jokes/replies like 'Yes.', however meaningful they may be to the person who posted them, are almost impossible to interpret as much more than a sarcastic dismissal... which is not always unjustified... but my point was that it's a joke/technique that should be used a bit more sparingly, and not every week.
Anyway, let's move on please, is that OK with you guys?
Perhaps I should have dealt with this privately and not publicly, so apologies for that.
But I do think that one word jokes/replies like 'Yes.', however meaningful they may be to the person who posted them, are almost impossible to interpret as much more than a sarcastic dismissal... which is not always unjustified... but my point was that it's a joke/technique that should be used a bit more sparingly, and not every week.
Anyway, let's move on please, is that OK with you guys?
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I'm good. I apologize for my involvement in this entirely unnecessary tangent.
I also apologize for the frequency with which I make that particular joke. This is the first time anyone on this platform has said anything about it and now that someone has, I'll use it more sparingly.
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Yeah but no but the white guy said he was doing it because he was ill... of course he wasn't racist like those black guys and the racist china virus. /s
I suspect these broadcasts only exist to make Fox viewers feel comfortable about looking down on minorities. The minute someone other than them is portrayed as the victim, they get all kinds of jealous.
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The "black on Asian" violence bit was out of line for sure. But the latter part, the thing that tweet is highlighting, seems reasonable to me.
China's government is giving a bad rap to Chinese Americans. Their government is absolutely inexcusable, and often the primary reason that Chinese people emigrate to the US to begin with. I think there's plenty of evidence to suggest that China's treatment of the Covid crisis in its early stages was largely to blame for its global spread. Obviously most other countries did a terrible job of containing it themselves but it originated in China and their government is notorious for pretending nothing is happening and they stuck to that script with Covid. Chinese Americans have chosen to live here, not there, for multitudes of reasons, but I highly doubt that they regret leaving the CCP's impeccable treatment of its citizens, its politics, its crises, any of that stuff. Sort of like the time they misfired a space rocket and said only 8 people died after it blew up an entire city.
Related, I stumbled upon a Reddit thread the other day where an obnoxious number of people were equating various modern Chinese government and cultural values with all of Asia, and I took issue with that. I reported dozens of posts, the entire thread, etc. Obviously the Chinese government has natured various problematic cultural values over the past several decades but I had never seen so many people equate those problems with an entire continent before and it struck me as really messed up. Some of these posts had hundreds of upvotes, whereas the few reasonable posts suggesting that "not all Asian countries are like China" or something along those lines had dozens and dozens of downvotes. This seemed like a really odd symptom of Asian hate and I truly don't understand where its come from. Is it all Covid related? Do this many people really believe that the entire Asian continent is a hellhole full of people who lie and cheat? How could so many people take such a blanketed and uneducated stance? These posts weren't controversial, there wasn't a slight sway one way or the other, this was literally hundreds of unique users all piling on the same bandwagon to suggest that "Asian culture" was problematic. What the hell is going on here?
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That's just Reddit. Sometimes you get real and meaningful discussion, but often you just get a bandwagon of people piling on. Especially if something gets crossposted to a vehement community and they all storm over and start dumping their opinions.
It's sometimes easy to forget that Reddit really isn't that far removed from 4chan and Something Awful.
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There is nothing reasonable about demanding Chinese-Americans denounce China. First, this is full-blown “China invented COVID-19 and infected Americans to make Donald Trump look bad and give the election to Joe Biden” conspiracy theory crazy. Second, Chinese-Americans are American citizens, not Chinese. They are no more required to denounce the Chinese government than any other group of Americans. Third, only a small percentage of Chinese-Americans are actually from China. The vast percentage of Chinese-Americans are born right here in the US, just like Italian-Americans, Brazilian-Americans, Ethiopian-Americans, Pakistani-Americans, and, well, just about every one else born here. Please note I am not defending China. They have a deeply corrupt government that badly mishandled the outbreak of the disease. They sought to protect the state rather than the people, and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have died and will die because of it.
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My review of the morning news:
10 shot in Colorado store
Biden can't walk up stairs
Cloudy with high of 70°F
Traffic sucks
Biden can't talk
Asian hate
White people bad
Hershal Walker is running in the 2022 election
Chance of rain
Guns bad
Big rig fire
Off to work...
10 shot in Colorado store
Biden can't walk up stairs
Cloudy with high of 70°F
Traffic sucks
Biden can't talk
Asian hate
White people bad
Hershal Walker is running in the 2022 election
Chance of rain
Guns bad
Big rig fire
Off to work...
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The 9th Circuit appeals court says the second amendment does not guarantee a right to carry weapons openly or concealed in public spaces.
Good. Like my gun policy suggestion previously, everybody is allowed to "keep and bear"...on their own property. But not on anybody else's property, not without being licensed and in my opinion well-educated on the matter. I believe conservatives' attitudes toward unlimited open carry is just more evidence of their extreme lack of education on gun-related matters. They purposefully avoid formal education on the matter because they believe Grandpa knows everything they'll ever need to know.
Good. Like my gun policy suggestion previously, everybody is allowed to "keep and bear"...on their own property. But not on anybody else's property, not without being licensed and in my opinion well-educated on the matter. I believe conservatives' attitudes toward unlimited open carry is just more evidence of their extreme lack of education on gun-related matters. They purposefully avoid formal education on the matter because they believe Grandpa knows everything they'll ever need to know.
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