there’s gotta be a version of this meme where kaiba shows off his rare monkey and yugi just shows off the same monkey

*gets scammed 10 million times* this is just like a seat belt

i wonder why the scammy stuff gets the limelight. hm...

the proliferation of cars was a bad thing too

for some people, they will simply never care about or ever consider negative effects of a technology. as long as it’s in the name of ‘progress,’ they are happy. ironically, they think it’s everyone else who’s out-of-touch with reality

why would they want to buy it from you when they could buy it normally

what you’re saying here just makes it even more important not to let this stuff get worse

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the US is absolutely not the lesser evil. it’s easy to feel that way when you’re fully immersed in their propaganda though

i definitely have never been to china and dont know much about it, so, fair enough! i just hope the people reading and liking your comments are also chinese, because if they aren’t, i suspect they may interpret your criticisms in a way that is very different from what you intend

it’s bizarre and racist to claim that chinese people have a ‘cultural lack of empathy’

The nascar thing makes no sense at all. Many countries have video games, this one is apparently the most popular one, it’s that simple. Why does this bother you

Your analysis isn’t right, though. The reason we can make movies showing the US in a bad light isn’t that the US is less oppressive, it’s that the US is *more successful at being oppressive.* They don’t need to be as obvious or heavyhanded with their censorship.

Like why would the US need to openly and explicitly…

u definitely sound american...

I know this post is kiiiind of a joke, but it’s the type of joke that shows that most westerners don’t actually care about it being “imperialist” or whatever. Really they’re only interested in the region being controlled by forces that are friendly to the west, so it is more of a team sport thing to them, which is…

The influence of the west really does contribute to these problems, though. For example, censoring the Tibet thing. Yes China is heavyhanded with that kind of stuff, but it’s more understandable when you consider the fact that western forces would be really excited if China broke up into little pieces, actively push…

Communism is good, though. The people teaching you that it’s bad have a personal stake you believing so.

For example, your criticism of communism is not accurate. You can definitely create and own something under communism. Here is a random reddit thread where someone had that concern and people answer it in an…