Well, they’ve been illegally fishing from internationally protected zones for decades so there’s that. The U.S. also had to cancel all of its contracts with China to recycle plastic because they either dumped it in the ocean or subcontracted with other Asian countries who dumped it in the ocean. You can determine whether or not that actually violates international law if you want, I would assume it does not. You can also be the judge on whether or not that should be against international law, if it is not. Plenty to take into consideration there, like how recycling plastic just produces more microplastic.

I’m just hoping China will see how arrogance is now destroying USA’s global dominance because they are alienating their allies.

China, the country not the place, is made of human beings. I don’t have much hope that they will escape that trap.

The American attacks were the protests, that’s the point you’re not understanding or refusing to acknowledge. They were not organic protests. I doubt most that participated were citizens, especially when 99% of the coverage was prewritten by NED-linked organizations.

I’ve just been reading along this thread and I think this is the part I don’t understand.

Is the idea here that the protests were Americans? I’m not sure I understand what you mean by ‘The American attacks were the protests’.

Beyond that, if we accept strictly what Iran has released about the number of protestors killed it is still an incredible amount of violence for a two day period. The fact that the Iranian regime released the same number, 3117, for number of deaths on multiple different occasions regarding these protests is odd — it would indicate to me that the number is false and probably higher.

Simply trying to understand what your point is here — I don’t necessarily disagree with most of what you’ve said. Specifically I agree with you that if we’d just left Iran alone things would have turned out much differently and much more positively for them.

and have declared that they respect international law

Because it’s advantageous to do so currently. Let’s not willfully ignore their illegal fishing fleets that have been operating for decades, among other things (like the whole plastic recycling debacle).

They do not care about international law. They care about making you think they do.

“THE CHILDREN. THINK OF THE CHILDREN. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU ARE TO THE CHILDREN!?!?”

Maybe you shouldn’t have kids if you can’t explain to them what a penis is.

You’re essentially asking them to accelerate towards a stop instead of temporarily incoveniencing you.

Pro tip: 3 seconds in between you and the car in front of you. That way this won’t ever inconvenience you again.

Yeah that just seems incorrect — have you driven a Tesla? Because they absolutely have the feature I’m talking about.

One thing to keep in mind is a feature of EVs is automatic braking when you take your foot off the gas. Mine has different settings on how hard you want it to brake. I think the idea is that it’s safer for something like an accident (which it is) and you gain some energy back into your battery.

I think that might be what you’re experiencing here.

That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter who I picked first — expecting Republicans to take responsibility for everything their kind has done is an impossibility. These people will never pay reparations willingly. It doesn’t matter if they’re to black people, gay people, trans people; these people will always try to get out of it despite having terrorized them for generations.

Shit, just look at the Nazis. A Jew signed the Treaty of Versailles? Well it must be the Jews that are the reason why we’re suffering post WW1 — certainly not because of the consequences of our actions. These types of people are perpetually punching down.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. My idea of a second chance involves what amounts to MAGAts choosing to voluntarily become slaves. It starts with reparations for African Americans, then we keep going down the list of people who have been harmed by their idealogy (I don’t really care what the order is, eventually we’d reach everyone that isn’t republican).

In other words, it’s something that will never happen.

I’m gonna be honest here, it’s gonna take a lot for me to feel like Republicans deserve a second chance. Like, every registered Republican gets to pay reparations — for starters. And I don’t mean to me specifically, I actually just mean straight up reparations to black people. We can talk about reparations for everyone else in the world fucked over by them after they agree to that.

‘If white, then pay reparations’ is their answer

If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.

Well, I’m an idiot and sometimes I need help 😂

I’m sure he’d pivot away to something else, considering that he pivoted from talking about trans rights to try and say “I shouldn’t have to worry about walking with my daughters down the street and walking into two dudes making out.” Basically suggesting that gay and trans people are the source of moral decay in the U.S.

The guy is the literal poster child of boomer moral decay, by the way. Digustingly obese, entitled, racist, MAGA.

You absolutely did, but let’s take your statement to its logical conclusion.

Roughly 85% of the world is religious. By your definition, they are simply all evil. So why then would you care about Venezuela being bombed, Iran being bombed, literally anywhere being bombed — they’re evil! Anywhere that has religious people is fair game, because religion is evil.

It’s almost like making blanket generalizations about most of the world is just fucking stupid. Weird how that worked out.

The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.

That sure as hell sounds like goalposts shifting to me.

Nope, my MAGA coworker hates gay people and is staunchly Athiest.

Yeah, I guess that’s true

It… also costs 100k

Edit: sorry, sorry, 70k — much better

I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.

Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themes that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.

Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.