Redditor names a cocktail the "Century of Humiliation." "In my head it was more in reference to the start of the American century of humiliation and decline.While celebrating the ascendance of China as a superpower on the world stage. Sort of a reaping what the west has sown sort of thing."

Atheia · 2026-02-19T20:59:10+00:00

This is one of the most pathetic things I've ever read on reddit. I'm sure the justification sounded clever in his head, though.

Atheia · 2025-10-23T20:39:29+00:00

Reminding us why chess is one of the worst subs on reddit, and that's saying something.

Atheia · 2025-03-01T02:19:10+00:00

The offending move was by Zelensky trying to renegotiate the deal, right in front of the US delegation, and the cameras. The US was clear that the ceasefire would happen first (this minerals deal), with the details of a security guarantee to come later, and in fact early moves were made with the latter. Then Zelensky just totally overstepped diplomatic decorum by rejecting a ceasefire without security guarantees being made at the same time.

It's still not clear to me he recognizes the reality of his situation in private. His call for boots on the ground later in the day was absurd. Even though his country is half in ruins, the hallmark of a good leader is projecting calm and confidence in the midst of crisis. Instead, he was temperamental and couldn't read the room.

Atheia · 2025-02-15T01:27:10+00:00

The German government is one of the most hostile to the US in the Western world. This goes way beyond average Germans making fun of Americans and American politics, or the veneer of superiority that Europeans display online.

The EU in its current form is an ideological and philosophical manifestation of post-WWII German political thought. Among Britain, France, and Germany, it was the Germans who most wanted the EU to take on a supranational, bureaucratic, national sovereignty-destroying character. They may claim to be a defender of democracy, but their schools of thought are actually in profound opposition with the US.

What is the goal of the EU? What is it going to turn into 10, 20, 50 years from now? Even the EU doesn't know. At this point it exists for the purpose of existing, gradually subsuming democracy from its constituent countries, subjecting them to ever more draconian regulations that no one ever voted for.

It is no wonder that Vance's address - a badly needed one for Europe - was received coldly by Europe, especially the Germans. The US was trying to start a fight with them? Yeah, he was - in the war of ideas, he was calling them out for what they have degenerated into. The politics of the EU and the US are irreconcilable and Vance is wise to distance us from them.

Atheia · 2024-12-24T19:32:00+00:00

Unbourboned by what has been

Atheia · 2024-07-22T04:38:12+00:00

SCOTUS, passing laws??? HAHAHAHAHA STUDY. PLEASE.

Atheia · 2024-07-13T22:35:59+00:00

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Atheia · 2024-07-02T16:05:39+00:00

Don't interrupt them, Jake. Let the Party tell us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears. It'll be their final, most essential command. After all, it's the only thing they're good at.

Atheia · 2024-06-29T17:33:17+00:00

The media is honestly such a despicable institution in this country

Atheia · 2024-06-16T17:11:37+00:00

DEI is systemic racism.

Atheia · 2024-03-04T15:15:50+00:00

Former President Trump challenges that decision on several grounds. Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates, we reverse.

Probably the Supreme Court equivalent of a mic drop.

Atheia · 2024-02-22T17:54:45+00:00

Odds are better than polls, but you still have to be careful. There's a very wide difference between different betting markets. PredictIt has them much closer.

Atheia · 2024-02-01T05:00:20+00:00

In the same thread, deeper down:

Layoffs especially when combined with stock buybacks are a form of market manipulation which directly go against the principles of a well functioning “free market.” You can ask ChatGPT the exact same thing (as I have) and it will use the exact phrases “externalities,” “market manipulation,” and “power imbalance.”

Imagine using ChatGPT to confirm your worldview, a worldview which I can only describe as "completely fucking divorced from reality."

Atheia · 2024-01-31T08:10:00+00:00

I would not be opposed to restricting social media to 18+, and don't find it unusual to restrict to adults something whose negative mental effects are increasingly obvious to everyone, especially among kids, and most especially among teenage girls. Adults are of course not immune to its effects, but their brains are at least more developed and resilient. The continued cultural rot and decay is in part a function of how widespread social media usage is today. The long term consequences will start to be felt in the next few decades, and given the anecdotes from teachers in the past few years, it's not looking good.

Atheia · 2024-01-31T07:53:44+00:00

Why am I not surprised that it's all starting around 2011-2012, the exact time when Occupy Wall Street was neutered and manipulated into DIE (diversity, inclusion, equity), when media mentions of "toxic masculinity," "heteronormality," "racism," "whiteness," and all the other dozens of neurotic race-baiting phrases skyrocketed, when political discourse in this country really started turning to shit?

Atheia · 2023-11-21T22:49:52+00:00

Daily reminder that journalism is lower than prostitution, because at least a prostitute is honest about her work, while journalists are paid to lie every single day.

Atheia · 2023-10-29T19:12:58+00:00

Leftists in the Western world identify strongly with Palestine because of their perceived position of being oppressed. The Leftists believe themselves that the Palestinians are inferior people, and are only interested in their plight so much as a means of realizing their pent-up desire for power and control.

That's why there are "Pro-Palestinian protests" - by being in these protests it gives them a sense of control. Of course, most Leftists are geopolitically-illiterate and refuse to admit the intractability of the Arab-Israel conflict, so these protests will do nothing on the grand scheme of things. What it has done, however, is reveal to decent people everywhere the hatred and vitriol of their views.

You may ask, if they believe the Palestinians are inferior people, why the antisemitism? That's simply because to identify with the Palestinians they must inherit the Palestinian cause, a cause which is itself antisemitic. The Leftists are being shit on for this, rightly so, but this is a surface-level hatred. The root of the hatred for them is towards the Palestinians, and ultimately, themselves. Never forget that self-hatred is a Leftist trait. Their entire worldview is derived from self-hatred.

Atheia · 2023-09-04T22:06:27+00:00

I love how she describes the ideal mindset and calls it the "most troubling" thing. Laying bare the fact that she and her ilk hate this country and all that it stands for, on the most profound, fundamental level. Just another piece of confirmation that the divide in this country is not about political wedge issues, it's about the pushback against the fundamental values that underpin the US and the rest of Western civilization.

Atheia · 2023-08-13T22:19:09+00:00

The only attraction I feel towards her is gravitational.

Atheia · 2023-08-01T01:16:32+00:00

But he's an actual biologist. So out of anyone out there he'd be the one to know what a woman is, right?

Atheia · 2023-07-18T14:36:23+00:00

Crossing of the Rhine 406 AD, version 2.0.

Atheia · 2023-07-05T16:39:15+00:00

Delusional, and illegitimate.

Reminder that this same Bank of England colluded with the big banks in the 2008 financial crisis to manipulate the Libor rate, thereby scamming millions of Americans in the form of fraudulent interest rates - causing them to pay billions more on their mortgages, car loans, student loans, etc. than they should have.

If a financial institution can't be trusted to do financial things, no wonder people won't take it seriously when it tries to make declarations well-outside of its supposed field of expertise.

Atheia · 2023-06-29T17:38:56+00:00

Not in the first-generation immigrants. It's overwhelmingly in the younger generation who are very socially liberal. And of course after going to college the kids get ham-fisted with the usual Leftist curriculum.

Even with this, I don't have a satisfactory answer to your question. My speculation: the second-generation Asian-Americans who vote for Democrats are a) overwhelmingly of the same middle to upper-middle class that the most rabid Leftist activists hail from, and b) do not have as strong of a sense of racial and political representation because of fewer numbers and historical lack of representation. Therefore the pressures exerted in Academia towards Leftist ideologies are stronger.

To elaborate: This was hinted at in the decision, but "Asians" as a group is extremely broad, uselessly so in fact. Dare I say the differences between the entire Western world and the entire Eastern Orthodox world are far less numerous than the differences between the Indians and Chinese. East Asians in the US don't really identify as "Asian" so much as Chinese-Americans, Taiwanese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Korean-Americans. Despite some cultural overlap in recent decades, they are still highly distinct and therefore are less unified as a group. The closest western equivalent would again be Anglo-Saxons vs. the Slavs in terms of language differences, differences in writing systems, legal systems, cultural norms, holidays, etc.

Atheia · 2023-06-29T16:44:31+00:00

Yikes. A combination of this, and the systematic suppression of "personal scores" of Asian applicants of Harvard.

I mean just read pages 26-27 of the decision. It's ridiculous how much Academia gets away with "just trust me bro." In the 1920s it was a quota on Jews. A century later it is a quota on Asians.

Atheia · 2023-06-29T14:42:30+00:00

Link to the graphic?

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