If you play by the rules while your enemy doesn’t, you’ll be destroyed. Machiavelli said as much. So USA’s traditional allies have to start playing dirty to survive.

Understandable, I also do things the difficult way in my hobbies.

You can also get pre-mixed stuff if all that is a hassle.

I got a wooden cutting board and a tube each of oil and some stuff that seals it, those have lasted for 8 years now maybe.

Since I’m the privileged default of male at birth and comfortable being a man, I don’t have to be made to feel my gender too often.

Women and femmes get catcalled and harassed. I never have. Women get told to shut up subtly or not, and get their work stolen by men. I don’t. Enbys non-conforming people might get forced into the Man Box and asked “what are you?” I don’t get those questions. So I just get to go about my day not getting my gender shoved in my face.

That said, I’m fairly uncomfortable in highly-masculine situations. Like bros hanging out smelling like shit talking about cars and barbecue and tits. I like a lot of man-coded stuff though, like lifting weights and blasting heavy metal. I also like “softer” stuff like birdwatching and fashion (tho mostly men’s fashion).

Yeah that’s the thing. USA and China are both bad, sometimes due to the same thing (imperialism, capitalism, cronies running things etc), sometimes for unique things. Saying one country is good doesn’t make the other bad in the same domain. And vice versa.

However it is extremely important and necessary to compare things. Like you have compared military spending between different countries. The USA’s manifest destiny CAN be compared to the Han supremacy in China especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. But of course there are marked differences.

Nice genocide denial.

Also I’m not American nor pro-American.

Whataboutism.

China is #2 in military spending after the USA.

As for harassing brown people: well there’s the whole Uyghur thing. And the simmering fight with other countries over islands in the South China sea.

Two things can be bad. These are not sports teams where one side wins and the other loses.

I mean, China does also spend on their military and harass brown countries.

“It” meaning Crimea? It was never ceded. Still part of Ukraine officially.

They didn’t cede land back then either, it got taken over.

Escroc Monsieur

Considering Putin used a colonial war in Chechnya to consolidate power, it very much is a colonial state.

Ignoring the fisheries is extremely on character for the Canadian government tho

Canada should be renamed Tar Sands and Financing Horrible Mining Ventures brought to you by Loblaws, Bell, and Rogers.

AI’s primary purpose is to provide an unaccountable excuse to fire people and keep wages down.

Dumptruck ass is an upside.

But the pants thing is real. I got a nice pair of jeans and outgrew them in like 8 months.

I’m buying as much as I can second hand now because I’ve not even reached my final form.

I got into lifting. Which got me into fashion because I needed a whole new wardrobe once my clothes became too small for me.

25th or 2nd.