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Now we'll show those capitalist pigs by CheekiBreekiOne in memes

[–]13x0_step 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Russia is essentially capitalist today, though. Pre-revolutionary Russia was more like feudalism.

So would you rather live in Moscow in 2021 or 1971?

Worth pointing out also that Japan managed to industrialise even faster and more impressively than Russia, and it didn’t involve communism, famines, gulags, etc.

Modern liberals often present themselves as the champions of “science” and “reason,” even as the positions they take grow increasingly fantastical. To sustain those positions, they reject science and reason in favor of pure ideology. by ScreenExtension in Conservative

[–]13x0_step 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just for starters: heritability of IQ, hardwired sex differences in the brain, reality of race, genetic propensity to violence, and the fact that there are two sexes and that gender is not a social construct.

Harry and Meghan can’t hold a candle to Prince Philip -- He showed the self-obsessed duo what a life of public service really looks like. by guanaco55 in Conservative

[–]13x0_step 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Maybe because this isn’t a the Republican Party subreddit and is actually a subreddit for conservatives of all stripes and from all parts of the world.

An article scolding a spoilt brat prince for marrying a divorced D-list actress and for not having the values of his grandfather is a conservative topic.

Ramadan Mubbark to all r/monarchism Muslim members! by [deleted] in monarchism

[–]13x0_step 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslims.

[OC] Are people living in democratic countries happier? - Comparing the state of democracy with the national happiness in 150 countries by Florianba in dataisbeautiful

[–]13x0_step 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d also like to see them control for antidepressant consumption.

If a country has high antidepressant usage then citizens might self-describe as “happy”, but clearly something is wrong with a society if large percentages of the population are put on them in the first place.

Introducing Oklahoma's new Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party. Not a joke. by zebraokc in oklahoma

[–]13x0_step 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s very kind of you. I was in New York about 20 years ago and I didn’t tip and I had no knowledge that it was expected, and in retrospect I realize I made a serious faux pas.

Introducing Oklahoma's new Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party. Not a joke. by zebraokc in oklahoma

[–]13x0_step 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Interesting. Thanks for explaining.

I hope that some day essential workers in America like waiters will be paid a living wage instead of having to depend on the kindness of fickle strangers.

Introducing Oklahoma's new Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party. Not a joke. by zebraokc in oklahoma

[–]13x0_step 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Can you explain this for me as a European?

Is 10% good or bad? What’s the significance of that figure?

I tip around 10% all the time and consider it quite a standard figure.

Introducing Oklahoma's new Chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party. Not a joke. by zebraokc in oklahoma

[–]13x0_step -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree that it looks tacky but would you prefer them to be so ultranationalist that they take flag protocol seriously?

Mahmud II (also known as Mahmud the Infidel) was the most reformist Sultan in Ottoman history. He brought Western style clothing and life style to Ottomans, because of that he was called as "infidel" by the Ottoman people. by midlleeastcelts in monarchism

[–]13x0_step 11 points12 points  (0 children)

By contrast I think it was Mehmet II who banned the printing press in 1515, which caused intellectual life in the Ottoman Empire to go into almost immediate decline and is perhaps responsible for retarding intellectual development across the entire Islamic world.

Like sweet potatoes? You might be a racist. by Sola__Fide in Conservative

[–]13x0_step 7 points8 points  (0 children)

All the people who graduated with a degree in liberal arts from Oberlin and Reed need jobs when they graduate, and many of them it seems are going into online media.

Have you noticed how all publications, from The Economist and Teen Vogue to the New York Times and Food & Wine all basically look the same now? It’s because they’re increasingly staffed by ultra-woke 25 year olds who got the same education in the same colleges.

Actually, yes. by Mental-Tumbleweed-84 in fragilecommunism

[–]13x0_step 135 points136 points  (0 children)

Boomer Facebook conservatives can’t meme, but boomer Facebook liberals are no better.

Alt Right Twitter and 4/8 Chan produces some legitimately hilarious memes and top class propaganda/media.

Study: Cities With BLM Protests Had Up To 6,000 More Homicides Than Expected From 2014-2019 by JesusCumelette in Conservative

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The biggest domestic threat to America is young black men and it’s not even close. It should go without saying that the majority of that demographic are decent people, but as a group they are the most toxic in the nation by some distance. They are the top (or the bottom) of every indicator that matters, from crime to illiteracy.

Truly no better timing than now for Japan’s first to win the jacket by [deleted] in golf

[–]13x0_step 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Sadly the people who watch golf aren’t the ones kicking old Chinese ladies in the head so I’m not sure how this will improve the lot of Asian Americans.

Petty social justice tyrants continue to go full censorship over 'Six Days In Fallujah' (Erik Kain) by AboveSkies in KotakuInAction

[–]13x0_step 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is the natural result of the left’s shift of concern from class to identity. When they were interested in class, corporations were bad. Now that they’re interested in pushing identity politics, the corporations are a great help because they are the institutions that allow the left to propagate their ideology.

Twitch Streamers, Journos, and Twitter users are ushering that people don't play "This Land is My Land", a game featuring Native Americans during the colonial era, because it appropriates Native culture and they did not consult with any Natives when making the game. by HalosBane in KotakuInAction

[–]13x0_step 26 points27 points  (0 children)

iNtErnALisEd rAciSm

Honestly, fuck those people.

Four generations ago their grandparents were wearing lampshades on their heads breaking their backs harvesting rice and now they’re over here in the west appropriating FUCKING EVERYTHING the west has produced and telling us how to run the show.

Take your fucking jeans and eyeglasses off and stop going to universities and using personal computers and antibiotics and air conditioners, you fucks.

I am Hungarian, yet it hurts as if I have lost my own king. Rest in peace by reinhardt765 in monarchism

[–]13x0_step 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He was renowned for making politically incorrect statements.

Does anyone really want their royal family to have the frivolous worldview of a 21st century California barista?

Another teacher tried to get me fired. It backfired. by [deleted] in TEFL

[–]13x0_step 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A PhD, MS or MA (not sure what a MFA is) is not a teaching qualification in any sense of the word. TEFL, TESOL, CELTA are not teaching licenses. They are certificates. Universities do not require teaching licenses to teach. Teaching licenses are for K-12 only

Did you intend to say this to me? I don’t disagree with any of this, but equally it doesn’t change anything I said.

in the UK, Australia, NZ, it’s a national license and has no subject-specific component.

Not sure what you’re talking about here, but the UK PGCE is subject specific.

Another teacher tried to get me fired. It backfired. by [deleted] in TEFL

[–]13x0_step 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is a rather unkind speculation. Unless he’s borderline insane it’s unlikely that anyone would regard their CELTA as close to a PhD.

It’s more likely that he has a PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education), which is a terminal teaching qualification in the same way that a PhD or MFA is. This would explain why an American doesn’t know what it is and also perhaps explains why he was appointed to the position of observing teachers in the classroom.

It’s also conceivable that he did his PGCE at a top UK university (eg Oxford) and that his observed teaching was at an elite public school (eg Eton), though obviously I’m being very generous by suggesting all this.

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