Appreciate your nuanced view on the topic, actually. Obligatory fuck Chinese capitalism (and American capitalism while we’re at it), but I always suspect it’s less obligatory than we make it seem here in the west.
After all, most people are just people, and take to live and let live first. It’s the greedy motherfuckers at the top ruining it for the rest of us, not the average citizens, Chinese, American or otherwise.
America has, since inception, been absolutely fine with violence, often celebrating it, and completely disgusted with sexuality. It’s perhaps the single most backwards thing about North American culture, imo.
But what do you expect out of a society whose entire history is “we wanted to go somewhere else, so we came to this place and killed the natives that got in our way.”
Monster Hunter Rise was more visually satisfying that Wilds. Prove me wrong (you can’t).
Capitalism is built on the notion that wealth is virtue.
If you are rich, you made good decisions and the invisible hand has guided money to your pockets. You’ve created things that contribute to the comfort/progress of society as a whole, and your reward for it is to be held above others.
If you are poor, you have not been actively contributing to society. You have instead been a drain, and the invisible hand is punishing you got this. Your inability to find meaningful ways to contribute is a vice, which should be looked down on. Ultimately, if you cannot afford to live, that is survival of the fittest, and the world is better off without you.
If you believe any of the above to be true, you are delusional scum of the earth, and you are the reason everything sucks. You’d also feel right at home with the right-wing chuds currently undoing decades of progress.
Millionaire’s are incompatible with communism. Billionaire’s are incompatible with socialism.
.ml says a lot of shit whenever they pry Winnie the Pooh’s cock from their mouths long enough to speak.
How can we accept transgender people for who they are / if they can’t accept themselves for who I see them as
Fixed your shitty, degenerate, transphobic meme for you.
“Communist.”
It’s almost like it was hand crafted at great expense by someone for whom English isn’t their first language.
Uh, yeah. Using other people as a means to your end is pretty well defined as immoral. Don’t try and throw your moral bankruptcy back at the whole world like we all feel the same.
Obligatory fuck China.
“classical examples of capitalism prove that ogliarcy is the outcome” isn’t a great argument when every real-world attempt at communism has led to fascism. Or, you know, China lying about being Communist while being exactly as economically capitalist as the states, abusing their poor class in exactly the same ways as the American prison system
It’s not like Dessalines, or the rest of .ml gives a shit about the reality of what they say though. It’s easy to make an argument when you lie through your teeth.
Reading it back over, I did get that fact backwards. Students at UK owned universities that are in China, as opposed to UK students in Chinese universities, so, you’re right.
Though the core of what I am saying here remains. They’re not the same thing, and both remain fucked.
It’s pretty clear given China’s massive successes in elevating people out of poverty, solving homelessness
If you call herding the homeless population into camps and abusing them for their labour, “elevating” them, and “solving homelessness,” I have a bridge to sell you.
I’ll be the first to say aloud that a forced pledge to the nation and flag in a school is a fucked up concept, but the whataboutism’s in this thread are insane. Equating natural born children in a state funded school singing the national anthem to foreign university students, paying their own way, being gathered in a sports arena to attend a pro-nation pledge of alliegence, complete with military personnel and armed guards, is not an honest comparison.
Both are questionable. The latter is clearly far worse. And more importantly, the former being bad doesn’t shield the latter from criticism. China can go fuck itself at LEAST as hard as American-brand nationalism.
Edit: Struck out my mistaken initial misread of OP. Point remains.
A thread about the BBC, Netflix and the Israel government. Goes into a feverish tirade about American genocide.
How’s that whole “destabilizing the west” op going? They paying you well over there? Or is this like a “they have my family” situation?
Gotta say, he fooled me too. I genuinely thought, “huh, it’s been a while since mickey7 graced us with his uncomfortable, sexist boomer humour” only to tab back. Shocked, I say.
You’ve gotta be pretty deep in the kool-aid to equate “North Korea is a pretty fucked up dictatorship” to “I wish white imperialists owned everything.” Then again, when you spend your time online attaching your ego to various fascist dictatorships, it’s going to result in some weird perceptions.
Hey, I also had immediately reacted to the graph and headline without reading, and came back to do the edit afterwards. I’m right here with you, fam. It was just an interesting topic point for me, so I dug in a little more.
In Canada, we are contracted to be in the building for ~6 hours of work a day, but for employment insurance purposes, it is considered an 8 hour day. The expectation is that every 6 hour in-building day has about 2 hours of work at home. Obviously, this is largely untrue: there are weeks where I work exactly 30 hours, and weeks where I work 60 hours dealing with every assignment, test and paper all coming in at the same time. But, in the surface, it is legally recorded to be a 40 hour work week even though those are not the hours I am required to work.
No idea how, exactly, this relates to Japan’s situation, but I thought it could be interesting for context.
Edit: Okay, I actually read the article, and it does talk about this.
The results showed that Japanese teachers were largely preoccupied with out-of-classroom activities.
They spent 17.8 hours a week on teaching, which is shorter than the international average of 22.7 hours.
However, lesson preparation in Japan took 8.2 hours a week (international average 7.4 hours); extracurricular activities, such as supervising clubs, consumed 5.6 hours (international average 1.7 hours); and administrative tasks, such as paperwork, took 5.2 hours (international average 3 hours).
Where a Japanese teacher spends 17.8 hours a week on teaching, I spend ~22 hours (trying my best to omit in-school prep time, which is not uniform week-to-week).
For further comparison, I definitely spend far fewer hours on lesson preparation, as we tend to share a lot of our lesson plans across teachers, probably spend close to the international average on administrative tasks, and spend like… maaybe 1.2 hours pre week on extracirriculuars. And those extracurricular hours are also pure optional: I can simply just say no and not do it.
I think is is fascinating how much time Japanese teachers spendon extracurriculars and administrative tasks, in particular. I find myself cursing the inefficiencies that lead to a lot of that administration time, as I often feel we could save a lot of time in that space. I wonder if Japanese teachers have similiar issues.
“You can have peace. Just surrender to our rule!”
Reminder that bullying exists from the school yard all the way to international politics.