When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.

Marriage Material

Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes. Come out cool as a cucumber and charming as a prince.”

Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes. Try to make it through dinner without mumbling, burping, or mentioning that I’m on my period.”

Unrealistic to believe the guy at the Linux stall would not come at him like John Constantine pulling out a demonic possession.

Mozart and Carlos Mencia trigger the same parts of the ear canal.

We need to get back to the root of human evolution and provide mankind with the information they know they can trust.

My man has an incredible figure

The degree to which the O&G industry has co-opted the Republican Party cannot be understated. This only really took root under Ford, when guys like Bush and Cheney were promoted into the upper echelons of the political leadership while in the midst of converting historically Dixiecrat Gulf Coast states to the Republican Party.

Democrats were late to the party, having more heavily aligned with the NY-based Finance Sector and CA-based global shipping magnets. It’s been the outsized demand for energy in Silicon Valley that has really collapsed the Green-ish Democrats into O&G by way of Obama/Trump/Biden Era rapidly escalating demands for electricity. And even then, Dems are consistently in favor of generic economic growth while Republicans are hyper-fixated on O&G growth exclusively.

The Emperor pitted two historic rival houses against one another, with the expectation that they’d annihilate themselves and leave room for upstarts to take their place. The Bene Jesuits had seen this cycle play out before and knew it would preserve the Emperor’s power at the expense of the advancement of the society as a whole. So, they backchanneled a breeding program between Atreides and Harkonen - on the Atreides side via Lady Jessica and Duke Leto, on the Harkonen side between Feyd-Rautha and Margot Fenring - to yield the prophesied optimal off-spring, the Kwisatz Hadarach.

But all of this ran afoul of a third agency, the Planetologists of Dune, who believed the planet’s perpetual condition of spice harvest was undermining what could be a new kind of Eden for domestic development and liberation. Their efforts to irrigate Arakus at the expense of the global galactic trade (catalyzed by Lady Jessica’s unlicensed male hier) was what ultimately undermined both the Emperor’s political schemes and the Bene Jesuits’ breeding program.

In the end, the primary antagonists of the Dune series are the environmentalists, fighting a guerrilla war against a Galactic Oil & Gas Industry.

It’s losing priority to Mandarin due to rapid economic expansion and public education teaching Mandarin.

Rubbing this on my back while drinking a tall glass of Dew Crimes

You’ll never make it in government with that attitude

The 1950 invasion was a military annexation by the PLA, not a domestic Marxist uprising.

Tibet wasn’t militarily annexed in 1950, because it was never officially independent. It was annexed in 1720 by the Qing Dynasty and only briefly splintered into an autocratic theocracy during the civil war.

Indonesians chose English for global trade while maintaining their state language. Tibetans face structural coercion

You must be joking.

Which Fortune 500 companies allow you to speak Indonesian exclusively?

Tibetan is dying out as a language because the Tibetan nationalists never bothered to build up educational infrastructure when they were in charge.

That’s just the CIA

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

Toughts

it assumes Chinese imperialism was necessary to defeudalize Tibet

It assumes Chinese Maoists aided Tibetan communists in their overthrow of the brutal theocracy that governed the country to date.

Certainly possible this could have happened another way, in the same way you might argue the US could have revolted against England without the help of France.

But the idea that Chinese integration with Tibet constitutes “imperialism” presumes China’s economy is parasitic - leeching resources, robbing land, and press ganging laborers for the benefit of Beijing. None of that is in evidence. Just the contrary. China and Tibet have been engaged in reciprocal mutual aid, to the benefit of both regions.

Most importantly, it doesn’t justify forced sinicization

Capital improvements being reframed as “forced sinicization” is just American agitprop. The Chinese government is extending education as an amenity to a province that lacked it. The Tibetans are learning Mandarin because it benefits them to speak fluently with their wealthy neighbors.

For the same reason Indonesians learn English and Italians learn German, Tibetans are learning Mandarin.

You’ll be disappointed

Quality of life in Tibet improved enormously under Chinese rule. LIfe expectancies rose from 37 to 78. Literacy jumped from the low 30%s to the mid 70%s. Tibetan lay residents owned their own homes for the first time in their nation’s history. The region’s economy expanded rapidly as did the population, thanks to modernizations in transportation, agriculture, and health care.

Meanwhile, with the colonial status of Hong Kong at an end and the city incorporated into the general Chinese economy, neighboring Shenzhen has enjoyed a similar economic boom. Residents can move freely into and out of the SEZ in a way they couldn’t under English occupation, they use a common currency rather than relying on conversions to and from British pounds, and they are free from British home rule. Most importantly, the residents are subject to the same taxation and civil rights afforded to the rest of the country - bringing an end to such labor atrocities as the 996 system, tax avoidance, and ecological crimes like illegal fishing and dumping.

Given the nightmarish wave of fascist policies currently spilling over the UK, I cannot imagine why anyone would envy living on the other side of the planet while being subjected to a Tommy Robinson inspired government.

• It is actually good to legally discourage 18 year olds from drinking

• It is actually good to legally discourage 18 year olds from smoking

• Thankfully, we’re throwing all the amenities of armed forces enlistment in the trashcan and going head first into meatgrinder conflicts that will poison people off the military for generations. So the only people crazy or foolish enough to enlist are folks I don’t like anyway.

Phone constantly getting blown up by my good friend Scam Likely