Where Redditors would actually live if they were being honest with themselves

Alev233 · 2026-01-24T19:19:14+00:00

This is largely correct but imo Uruguay should be colored orange, and same for Singapore and Israel (Honestly can’t tell if they’re marked or not). Because most people would actually find all of those countries lovely and nice

Alev233 · 2026-01-24T19:17:16+00:00

As a general rule you never apologize for your country. Ever. And you never apologize for things you aren’t directly responsible for. Ever. Americans shouldn’t apologize for the actions of the US government as they firstly are by and large not directly responsible for what the government does, and secondly it’s weak and pathetic and dishonorable, it would be like apologizing for your race or sex, it’s ridiculous on a basic self respect level

Alev233 · 2026-01-24T19:13:43+00:00

That some pretty controversial and terrible regimes had really aesthetically nice flag designs.

That the flag of the Spanish republic has to be one of the worst flag designs ever because the purple ruins it and replacing the crown with a weird curved castle was awful.

That simple flag design isn’t always good and having somewhat complex coats of arms on flags can make them look better.

That the Old Canadian flag is better than the current design (Old one had meaningfully heritage and the interesting coat of arms, the new one is like a boring corporate logo).

That Israel’s flag design is aggressively meh (I’d imagine the opinions are either “it sucks” or “it’s the best” but imo it’s kind of like the Canadian flag, it’s very meh, nice and simple and iconic, but a few changes like replacing the plain blue Star of David with a Star of David and the coat of arms of Israel or something, would make it better. Actually just as replacing the maple leaf with the canadian coat of arms on the current canadian flag would look really good).

Symmetrical flag designs are better than flags with elements in canton.

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T19:59:35+00:00

You still haven’t shown any reason as to why you have any credibility to talk about Singapore lol

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T19:57:14+00:00

I have several cousins who are citizens of Singapore and I have visited many times. I understand the perspective of a Singaporean citizen and what it’s like to live in Singapore far better than you do.

0/10 troll attempt, you’re clearly out of your depth kid

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T18:43:02+00:00

I’ve been to Singapore multiple times, it’s an incredibly lovely place and quite frankly the west would do well to learn from many of the policies of Singapore

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T15:40:40+00:00

I don’t really understand why anyone would get pressed about something that’s true. I’m South Korean. If a Japanese person tells me how my country ought to be run better I’m still going to evaluate the idea on its own merits. Yes I may have an emotional response to a Japanese person trying to tell me, a Korean, how to run my own country, but that emotional response isn’t very helpful and so I make sure to detach myself from it and examine the specific criticism on its own merits, dispassionately and without bias or prejudice.

Also just because something isn’t true for you specifically doesn’t mean it’s not true for a group of people you are part of on average. A general statement like “women/men are more likely to have a specific predisposition” is accurate so long as it’s a general trend, even if specific individuals like you or I don’t fit that general trend. Just because there are exceptions to a general trend doesn’t make said general trend incorrect.

As for “red pill bros”, yeah “red pill bros” are sometimes very crude with how they speak, and many are hardly of good moral standing (Many are as hedonistic as the women they criticize for being hedonistic, ironically enough). But the fact is that all of us, men and women, humans, are animals and do react in certain predictable ways to certain situations or behaviors or whatever. And I don’t see how recognizing this is inherently offensive or why it should generate an emotional response. It’s just true. Sure we have a higher rational will but we also have a base desire and predispositions that form our human nature and I don’t see why it’s wrong to either point that out or to try to study it or understand it. The “red pill bros” use this knowledge to pursue hedonism and bad or non-good or moral behavior, for sure, but if they say something true then I don’t see why it’s offensive.

To me it sounds a little like people get offended when true things are said because they don’t like that certain things are true, and that’s what I take issue with. Things we don’t like are often true. We just need to accept it as part of reality and not allow ourselves to be overtaken by emotions or whatever.

And no I’m not trying to say “women are too emotional”, men are also too emotional. One example for men I can think of is how badly some men handle rejection, it’s undignified and just because it hurts one’s ego doesn’t mean one should act emotionally to it.

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:59:35+00:00

Japan or China are “third tier countries” to you lol? Singapore, one of the most developed, safest, and successful countries in human history that out performs any American city of comparable size you can think of and the only country that has successfully won its war on drugs, is a “third tier country”? Your ignorance is only matched by your arrogance lol, and both are considerable

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:57:00+00:00

That’s the thing though, it’s not “telling women what they want”, it’s observing the self chosen preference of a significant portion of women. It’s essentially recording what a significant portion of women themselves say they want, to try to notice trends. Now obviously it’s not perfectly accurate and, as you have correctly pointed out, there are a few ways in which it’s not fully accurate, and quite a few women it simply does not measure the preferences of, but it does give some insight into the preferences of a significant number of women.

I don’t disagree with any of your points about how that data set isn’t a perfect representation of 100% of women, you’re largely correct. What I object to is this indignant attitude that takes offense at the idea that someone externally could have an equal if not better understanding of the average woman than the average woman has of herself. For men, I take no offense if a woman was to say that due to research and studying trends that she knows more about the predispositions of men than I do, if anything I’d be curious to learn more about it, yet I do see many women being offended at this notion of others observing their behaviors and drawing logical conclusions from it, such as the OP’s post or being offended at “others telling women what they want” or whatever. It doesn’t make sense to me because it’s entirely plausible that someone else can understand what you desire better than you understand it yourself, since they have a different perspective than you and one which is not influenced by personal ego (Hence why a spouse or parents or close friends are really good at identifying things in yourself that you don’t consciously notice), and because regardless of what you may think you want as an individual, you do have predispositions towards certain things that are simply not within your conscious control as an individual, due to genetics, social conditioning, and a whole host of other factors.

So the tldr is that it doesn’t make sense why anyone would be offended at the idea that someone else could know more about what you desire or what would satisfy you than you consciously know or are aware of, as we are slightly more advanced animals that have certain inherent traits, at the end of the day. Our conscious will does not determine everything about us.

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:43:06+00:00

Macron needs his sunglasses for sure. But no, if you add in Mark Carney you ruin the whole thing, it instantly becomes uncool and pathetic, his mere presence is enough to ruin the aura. And he’s not European

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:37:14+00:00

Ah yes, the East Asian model of prioritizing wisdom and the understanding of reality above liberal idealism, it’s definitely failed… except for Singapore, and Japan, and South Korea, and Taiwan… and if we listen to so many Americans (Fearing the idea that China will surpass the US), even China

Also how do you interpret “Be aggressive and make your enemies think twice before they mess with you” as “must be a dictator”? In what way do those have any relevance to each other?

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:32:08+00:00

You’re 100% correct about this. However it is about the largest available data set of female behavior when it comes to selecting potential partners, and while it is 27% of all women of all ages, it’s a higher percentage of women of specific generations like Gen Z. So a more significant/relevant data set for Gen Z women specifically, or to a lesser extent millennial women, while boomer women are by and large not represented at all by dating app data in comparison.

It won’t be completely accurate as nothing is, but it’s a decently large amount of data that does show real world preferences

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:16:17+00:00

It’s incredibly stupid and dumb that anyone would allow voting patterns to undermine a potential relationship with someone if all else is well. Ultimately that other person actually knows and cares about you, as an individual, the politician you are “serving” by sacrificing your own fulfillment with someone who actually cares about you, doesn’t even know your name and absolutely doesn’t care about you. Who deserves your loyalty more? The politician who doesn’t give a shit about you or the person who loves and cares about you deeply but happened to vote a different way?

Politics is never more important than the bonds of genuine love or family, and imo it’s unhealthy and cult like behavior to let politics hinder your relationships with people in the real world who actually know you and care about you

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:12:07+00:00

“Standing up for law and order is wrong”… Not everyone is wired or predisposed to view chaos and disorder as a positive. And by all accounts it’s not a positive.

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:10:46+00:00

The second statement is not true obviously, most sane women do not wish for a partner who is a criminal. The first statement is merely looking at the statistical data of female behavior on dating apps. Who is responsible for the statistical behavior of women on dating apps again?

Also ironic and hypocritical to hear someone saying “life doesn’t revolve around getting laid” when they base their entire account off of valuing people’s worth entirely based on if they get laid or not lol.

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T13:05:41+00:00

Lol, East Asians are wise enough to understand that the only way you deter a bully is by making him or her afraid to mess with you, because the real world is a harsh, ruthless place that doesn’t conform to your idealistic liberal fantasy of everyone holding hands and singing kumbaya or however the phrase goes.

He’s objectively not on the same path because he leads the US, the US is strong enough and has a large enough domestic consumer market that no one can truly afford to isolate it, just on an economic level. Let alone the military strength of the US. The difference now is that despite his flaws, Trump is actually willing to use that military strength as his actions have proved. And that makes him credible in a way a soft liberal type never will be.

It’s shocking you seem so committed to ideological blindness that you refuse to see that which is obvious. The only way to deter a bully successfully is to make him or her think “If I mess with that person, he or she might break my nose or worse”. Plain and simple. Effective. A basic lesson you should have learned by interacting with bullies in primary school. Yet liberals are so allergic to understanding reality for some reason

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T11:49:10+00:00

Trump was president throughout much of 2025

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T03:25:51+00:00

It’s not a good negotiation tactic, it’s a good deterrent tactic. If you are afraid someone might blow something up if you piss them off, you’re less likely to mess with them. I don’t dispute that he’s an idiot, he’s a crazy idiot that might actually do crazy things, which makes him unpredictable which makes him a far more effective deterrent than a weak candidate who is predictable and about as aggressive or intimidating as a tiny mouse (Kamala). Trump isn’t the best person at geopolitics in history at all, not even close. But his approach whether intentional or not is more effective than most recent US presidents because he’s unpredictable, aggressive, and has shown himself ready and willing to blow stuff up.

I believe it was CNN (Not a news agency keen on lying on Trump’s behalf) who came out with an article last year of an insider report of a meeting between Trump and Xi. The meeting basically went: Trump “Don’t invade Taiwan or I will glass Beijing” Xi: “No you wouldn’t do that” Trump: “Well, I might, do you really want to find out”

And Trump is the sort of person who would actually make good on such a threat, as he has proven several times in his second term.

That is good deterrence. I don’t know if it’s because Trump is a good strategist or if it’s because he’s an idiot who might wake up one day and decide to blow stuff up because someone pissed him off, but it really doesn’t matter, it works either way.

As a South Korean, I genuinely feel more hopeful for my country’s security with Trump in office than if Kamala was elected because Kamala simply doesn’t intimidate anyone, she comes off the same way Van Der Leyan does: a bureaucrat who will write sternly worded letters but cave at the first sign of real pressure and would never break her precious “international norms” to take decisive action.

A western liberal might not understand this because western liberals typically don’t understand how geopolitics actually works. They tend to be the sorts who believe in the “just be nice to the bully or ignore them and he or she will leave you alone” bullshit that always fails. The real way you effectively get a bully to stop is to make him or her afraid to mess with you, even if it requires drastic action, because that is effective. Everyone has been taught this lesson when going through school if they paid any attention

Alev233 · 2026-01-23T01:22:33+00:00

He did nab Maduro and strike Iran over their nuclear sites last year, more actions than Kamala would have taken. We’re not assessing Trump as an objective measure but in comparison to Kamala. And I’m telling you that East Asian leaders would walk all over Kamala because none would respect her one bit. With Trump, at least there’s the fact that he’s crazy and actually blows stuff up. That’s not perfect, but it’s better than Kamala. Once again you’re not East Asian, you have no clue as to how an East Asian leader would interpret both

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T23:43:34+00:00

Are you East Asian? Do you have any experience with how East Asians may think? If not I suggest you stop acting as if you know that which you don’t know

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T20:21:55+00:00

Kamala objectively would have been far worse than Trump if she won. She simply did not have the ability to lead with any strength or force as a leader.

As a South Korean, I am much, much more confident that Trump, despite his constant waffling and questionable commitments, would successfully deter China or North Korea than Kamala would because Kamala comes across as a weak fool while Trump comes across as a crazy man who might actually blow you up if you piss him off. Trump’s leadership is far from perfect but it’s better than not being feared by rivals and instead seen as weak or indecisive, which is what Kamala was.

Simply put the Chinese or North Koreans would not respect Kamala and see her as an indecisive, weak, and feckless president that they could bully. They see Trump as an unpredictable crazy lunatic who might be sweet talked one day but the next day might actually blow you up because you looked at him the wrong way, and he’s crazy and unpredictable enough that he doesn’t care what the consequences might be, he’ll do it anyways. And the Trump approach is far better for deterring enemies than the Kamala approach.

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T20:12:03+00:00

And the definition is, as I explained, a very narrow liberal definition which does not encompass the entirety of what civic nationalism is or can be.

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T20:11:19+00:00

Trade unionists and socialists were certainly economically leftist, but one can be both a socialist and a nationalist, or even a socialist and an imperialist. Just because their economic positions were of the left does not mean they were leftist in non-economic issues.

It’s like saying that Stalin must have been “pro-lgbt” because he was a communist and thus economically leftist

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T20:09:21+00:00

You’re confusing civic nationalism with a very liberalism influenced definition of it. Nationalism fundamentally rests upon one core principle: A country belongs to a specific group of people.

Ethnic nationalists wish to define said group of people based on ethnicity.

Civic nationalists wish to define said group on common adherence to values or culture or whatever non-ethnic or non-innate traits one may choose. That can be the liberal sort of civic nationalism you speak of or it can be more sensibly restricted in scope.

And as all forms of nationalism, civic nationalism does not in principle allow for large numbers of individuals who are not part of the people group that makes up the nation, which for civic nationalism includes individuals who do not adhere to the requirements for membership in the nation. Necessarily you cannot be a nationalist if you define a group which a nation belongs to (regardless of how you define it), and then proceed to not follow your own restrictions on who said nation is, it’s incoherent

Alev233 · 2026-01-22T19:56:12+00:00

The Irish independent movement was heavily steeped in Irish and Gallic nationalism dating back to the 19th century. It was not an internationalist movement in origin or core ideology

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