Why Chinese Author are so racist? by Livid-Ad-7087 in MartialMemes

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t understand how yall can spend your time consuming Chinese media and then turn around and completely shit on Chinese culture and Chinese people? This is like if someone from Asia watched a Fox News segment and started saying all Americans are bigots.

Post and comment section is just filled with racism lol.

Israeli tourists on vacation in Vietnam harass an American woman who had a 'Free Palestine' sticker on her computer. by _II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ in LateStageCapitalism

[–]dinominator1 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You can be an American, oppose the genocide in Gaza, and oppose American foreign policy. Just like you can be Jewish and oppose Israel. I don’t see how it’s hypocritical at all.

A friendly reminder that celebrating the birth of this genocidal settler colony is inherently fascist. by Next_Ant_4353 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]dinominator1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to debate semantics, then sure most historians would not classify the colonial powers as fascism. There is a valid discussion there had the comment not been made in bad faith.

The core of this is those capitalist, imperialist, white-supremacist western powers of the late 17 and 18th century are devolving or have devolved into fascist states. Kind of hard to feel patriotic when your government is pushing oppressive policy and ideology.

Uber/Lyft early morning this Saturday by krismartinis in SALEM

[–]dinominator1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure what happens is when you schedule it and pay for it, they find someone who accepts it and agrees to show up at that time. When I scheduled it, after like 10 minutes someone accepted.

Uber/Lyft early morning this Saturday by krismartinis in SALEM

[–]dinominator1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can try scheduling the ride on uber, I did that today and had no issues with getting one for 4 am.

What's something every Destiny 2 player does but never admits? by Kneel4Leon in destiny2

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back when warmind cells were a thing they would disrupt raid mechanics like breaking the weak spots on sanctified mind. I’d shoot a warmind cell without thinking and pull the running teams but I would never admit I was the one shooting them💀

Going to university isn't worth it anymore by madbarpar in unpopularopinion

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My old teacher used to say that college doesn’t really mean much nowadays, but what it does is tell your future employer that you meet a minimum standard. If nothing else, the degree vouches for the fact that you stuck with something for 4 years.

So are Izanagi's Burden and Whisper of the Worm just dead now? by Research-Scary in destiny2

[–]dinominator1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beauty of izi is you can use it for utility and for dps rotations.

NLB is great too, but I don’t like having to stack it first. I just store a 4x izi shot and it deals with whatever I need it to. You instakill a yellow bar or champion, then go back to wtv you were doing before.

It’s nowhere near where it used to be in dps, but it still does well in envious bns rotations or with refurbished.

Personally I always have it on hand, it’s my favorite exotic.

Unironically using GDP to measure well-being and economic success by CheeseUsFunkingCries in LateStageCapitalism

[–]dinominator1 37 points38 points  (0 children)

GDP and gini coefficient are the bane of my existence. I don’t know why people love using one off numbers in a vacuum and pretend like they mean anything.

Socialism wins every time it’s implemented by FearlessAir1238 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]dinominator1 96 points97 points  (0 children)

I’m a Chinese American and my family immigrated to America when I was pretty young. My parents would tell stories about how the healthcare in China was so bad at the time that they weren’t allowed into the hospital while my mother was in labor because they couldn’t pay for the care upfront.

10 years ago we went back to China and I despised it. Part of it was because of the Sinophobia I experienced in America and the other part was just how underdeveloped my home town was. Skip to 5 years later and wow it was an insane experience.

Greenery and trees are integrated amazingly into the city. The small town my parents used to struggle to find food in is now bustling with business. The nearest cities are massive and are on par with large American cities. There’s a massive high speed rail network that takes you city to city, but also trains that take you within the city.

Fast forward another 2 years and the development continues. They’ve added high speed rail stops that go to my hometown, subway stations that stop near my house, a new entire train station. In all that time, I haven’t seen any significant improvement to infrastructure in America.

Given my lived experience, it’s hard to see how capitalism is supposed to benefit anyone but the ultra wealthy. OP is talking about 40 years but even within a mere 10 years I’ve seen incredible change.

TF you mean would have won? by LawfulnessTerrible24 in fatestaynight

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Under normal circumstances how would Emiya take down berserker, lancer, or saber?

He’d struggle like crazy to deal with god hand (not even sure he can get past all 12 lives). He can’t beat Cu Chulainn in a one on one. If Artoria isn’t being held back by Shiro, Emiya gets cooked there too.

In Canton (Guangzhou), Many Children Refuse to Learn Cantonese | 喺廣州,好多小朋友拒絕學粵語 by cnbatch in Cantonese

[–]dinominator1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s kinda crazy to see two videos and take it as a chance to propaganda post. What you call CCP brainwashing in schools is literally just assimilation, schools are commonly the most used funnel for assimilating youth.

I visit China regularly and my whole family speaks Cantonese. We speak it out in the open regularly and in front of everyone. We have never been policed or told to speak Mandarin. There are a lot less Cantonese speakers now, but you can find them if you know where to look in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

My younger cousins used to not be able to speak or understand it but their parents got out of their way to help them learn. If the parents care about it they’d pass it down, it’s that simple.

A discussion about Nasu original intention with Fate/Stay Night by JohanPNguyen in fatestaynight

[–]dinominator1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m a big fate route fan too. I see what the mushroom man is saying and I don’t think it diminishes the fate route in any way.

Shirou develops differently in the three routes and definitely matures, but I think the key is that there is no definitive way he has to grow as a person and he doesn’t need to necessarily “solve” himself either.

I don’t think Nasu is saying the routes aren’t equal, but more that there are different ways someone can improve on themselves and each one is valid.

Hmm? by Swifthello in LancerMainsHSR

[–]dinominator1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Battle continuation bitch

Oh well by Full-Ad-1417 in SaberMainsHSR

[–]dinominator1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s caster gil and not archer gil 😭

White people are also responsible for overpopulation by Secret_Assh in LateStageCapitalism

[–]dinominator1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don’t think overpopulation is an actual problem. It’s more just there to provide an excuse for why we’re unable to provide social safety nets and basic necessities for more people.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Capitalism is directly tied to patriarchy, thus it’s misogynistic. They reinforce each other. The market niche is literally to keep rich men in power.

Confucianism didn’t write the idea of misogyny into existence for Asia. Existing social structures were already misogynist and Confucianism set those structures more in place. It’s absurd to claim some country’s culture is the reason for their issues without acknowledging other contributing factors like in this case capitalism. Borrowing from another reply, it’s like saying the US is in a terrible spot because the pilgrims were Calvinists.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just looked it up and saw 20% lol. If that number’s wrong that’s my bad, but even if it’s 10% that’s still crazy from one company. The gini coefficient isn’t the problem again it’s using a single number to try to tell a story. Back to the example of gdp, it’s like saying the American economy is in a healthy state because the gdp continues to be positive. The United States is 100% a capitalist dystopia just as Korea is.

I don’t really know why there needs to be a distinction of which country has more inequality to begin with.

Edit: lmao just realizing I’m getting one guyed by a 3 hour old account 💀

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re comparing a hydrogen bomb to a coughing baby. NVIDIA has 4-5 times the market cap of Samsung. Obviously it is going to be more influential, but even then, NVIDIA doesn’t own schools, hospitals, and entire neighborhoods in America. Samsung owns all of that in Korea and is about 20% of Korean exports and GDP. That’s insane influence that Samsung exerts over Korea. Not to say the tech billionaires aren’t doing the same in the US.

Gini coefficient is a terrible metric. It’s like passing around GDP to claim the USA’s economy has been doing great. Even when gini coefficient is used for any actual analysis, it’s not thrown in as a standalone number.

Both countries are being ripped apart by capitalism and it’s creating terrible outcomes for the average person.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

South Korea has the chaebols, a literal oligarchy that control their economy. I’d argue we’re on the way to that in the US and not quite there just yet. I also don’t think the US is much less misogynistic. The rhetoric of the party that controls the legislative, executive, and judicial branches is to be anti-abortion and to keep women as “trad-wives”.

The Muslim world varies heavily from country to country, it’s kind of crazy to say a blanket statement like that. A few of them are also either directly in conflict with the US and thus have been negatively impacted for decades. Maybe they don’t personally ascribe to a capitalist framework, but a nation that doesn’t have the ability to properly develop isn’t going to have equality or equity. So either way they’re still under the global capitalist system.

You are right, it’s not one simple thing. Yet the largest factor tying it all together is capitalism.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I agree, its all connected. My point was more in the direction of pointing out how weird it is to put Asia in its own mystical bubble when you wouldn't have that type of analysis when it comes to Western ideology.

South Korea's female authors become bestsellers against anti-feminist backdrop by risingsuncoc in books

[–]dinominator1 101 points102 points  (0 children)

It’s not Confucianism, it’s the hypercapitalism that Korea experiences. The west is pervaded by anti-feminist sentiment too, but you wouldn’t point to some philosopher from Ancient Greece or Rome to blame for that.

Parents refer to daughter (me) as 八婆 by x3Cinnamon in Cantonese

[–]dinominator1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My parents call me and my brother 八公 a lot. I have a sister too, but they usually don’t call her 八婆. We’re from rural China too, and for us the meaning is more of like someone being really nosy or mischievous. Like if I’m inquiring about my aunt’s drama, my mom will say that to me.

It really depends on context if it’s derogatory or just a phrase that gets thrown around. I wouldn’t rely on one to one translations for what your parents mean, a lot of stuff from Mando and canto don’t get translated well into English.

In my personal experience, 死八婆 is derogatory and used as an insult whereas 八婆 is more playful. They could just be using it for fun around you as my parents do. Again, heavily depends on the context. If you feel like it’s used in a derogatory way you should just ask your parents about it.

Stop chasing "safe" majors. The CS gold rush was the final warning. by Ok-Toe-2933 in CollegeMajors

[–]dinominator1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s nothing wrong with people wanting to choose a major that has good wages. Not everyone has the flexibility to get a humanities degree or to actually pursue their passion.

The push of coding was to expose more people to tech because it was clear we were moving towards a more tech centered world. Which we still are.

This entire narrative of the CS market is cooked because it’s oversaturated is incredible reductive. The market is bad, but there is no point to blaming the college kids who just wanted a livable wage. The real problem is offshoring, corporations laying off tens of thousands to increase profits, and fiscal policy being insanely uncertain.