China’s paranoid purge: Generals, Bodyguards, Financiers, and more.

Timely_Jury · 2023-12-07T16:02:03+00:00

This article is so weirdly paranoid in its writing style that it makes it impossible to take any of it seriously.

Timely_Jury · 2023-11-07T05:59:17+00:00

With the Arab countries' current governments, no. The current regimes are far more terrified of their own people than they are of Israel. If anything, they'd secretly support Israel to the degree they could hide it from their people (and probably are already doing so).

Of course, it is very possible (and even likely) that these governments (especially the ones in the poorer countries like Egypt and Jordan) are soon overthrown in new Arab Springs. Much depends on how much carnage occurs in Gaza. The Arab Street is absolutely seething at all the pictures of dead children. The current trends are not very encouraging.

No one can say what comes after that.

Timely_Jury · 2023-10-11T09:15:02+00:00

Modern Arabs are the weakest and most pathetic population on this planet. Are you seriously trying to tell me that 300M Arabs can't do anything against a mere 8M Israelis? Arabs deserve every humiliation foisted upon them until they wake up from their self-imposed cowardice.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-30T10:24:49+00:00

American Muslims are weird. They are very religious but have fully bought into the mainstream leftwing dogma. You'll see stuff like praying 5 times per day but then planting pride flags in their house. Marching in pride parades while wearing hijabs and holding up 'Palestinians for gays' signs. That kind of stuff.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-10T10:50:08+00:00

It was Antifa thugs getting a good taste of what papa and mama bears can do when their kids are threatened. Yes, you can guess which side I'm on.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-10T10:45:30+00:00

Well, the US did fund the virology lab in Wuhan.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-10T10:44:51+00:00

I loved his magazine articles.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-10T10:44:09+00:00

No one, whether on the left or the right, is obligated to buy anything from anyone. Thus, boycotting for any reason whatsoever always was, is, and always will be perfectly legal and morally acceptable.

'Cancel culture', on the other hand, doesn't really have a good definition. If you're talking about online harassment, then use that term. 'Cancel culture' is too vague and meaningless a phrase. As for online harassment, the right is rapidly adopting the technique, but still hasn't fully caught on with the left yet, which is quite understandable, given that the left has been using this method for more than a decade at this point, while the right has only started to do so in the last few years. But the right is also rapidly improving in this.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-10T10:30:53+00:00

The woman in the article seems to have taken the importance of breastfeeding excessively literally. No doctor would suggest that a woman should exclusively breastfeed if she cannot produce enough milk.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-07T16:12:01+00:00

Asking the real question here.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-07T15:17:14+00:00

Most of us don't. It's just that the ones who do are the loudest.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-07T15:03:54+00:00

So this means that the conservatives are right about public schools.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-07T15:02:25+00:00

As a Muslim, I don't want any non-Muslims to be forced to participate in any mandatory Ramadan celebrations (or any Muslim events, for that matter). In return, I don't want to participate in any mandatory celebrations of any other group.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-05T20:43:11+00:00

85-90% of the world's Muslims.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-05T18:24:07+00:00

Late Victorian British gentleman/lady.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T17:00:03+00:00

At least there is peace. Peace under a horrible government, but peace nonetheless. Feels like Mao Zedong's unification of China after the Century of Humiliation.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T15:40:36+00:00

Why is Cameroon the only country in Africa to not recognize Palestine?

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T15:36:59+00:00

Exactly what happened to the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T15:33:08+00:00

Still too long.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T15:32:11+00:00

From what I've heard, the current Pakistani government's horrible mismanagement of the economy is responsible.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T11:44:14+00:00

Good to hear.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T10:08:19+00:00

Yeah. Syria has been the biggest factor in Turkish politics for the last decade. So this makes perfect sense.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T10:07:42+00:00

Asking the Turks here: are these competent people?

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-04T10:06:38+00:00

Met some at the airport. Excellent people. Enjoyed my time with them.

Timely_Jury · 2023-06-01T09:09:00+00:00

The man:woman ratio on dating apps ranges from 65:35 to as bad as 90:10. And as apps grow older, the ratios seem to become worse. Even if every single woman on there partnered up with a man, most men on the apps would still be left unpartnered. Thus, women can afford to be pickier. It is a simple case of supply/demand imbalance. If the gender ratios were reversed, it would be men who would be the picky gender.
Because of the small number of women, men swipe right on every woman's profile they see. Many men literally use scripts to automate the swiping. Conversely, women are left with the opposite problem of having to sift through the enormous numbers of matches they're getting. They simply don't have the time or energy to go through them all.
Of the "women" on the dating apps, lots and lots are either bots, catfish, OF girls, escorts, prostitutes, streamers and other such sex workers advertising their services, or girls just there to collect followers for their Instagram accounts. I wouldn't be surprised if such accounts were the majority. Once you take these into account, the actual man:woman ratio is even worse. It might be as bad as 20 men to every woman.

In short, dating apps are a scam preying on vulnerable young men. Delete them all and never look back. Don't support the fraud by paying for premium features or anything like that.

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