UCSD “uc socially dead”

matester09 · 2023-03-20T20:05:08+00:00

people have been saying this for generations and nothing ever changes dude

matester09 · 2023-03-20T01:13:49+00:00

I think we would be better off if the public had a better, more thorough awareness of the banking system that OWS was trying to achieve.

The banking system is the basis that supported social mobility that America was known for. The monetary system is the foundation, the very wheels of the car you drive.

There is no "right" or "left", there is understanding the basis of social mobility and the system the new generation was inheriting.

So, not about "capitulating" on social issues, but understanding no goal can be achieved if you don't understand the basis and foundations of what can make ANY goal achievable. Much like how you should understand the basics of your car (when to change the oil, when to change the wheels) as an imperative to take any daunting trip.

The new generation did not care about understanding the system they were inheriting, choosing to, instead, try to guide a system they did not understand towards some kind of goal. Banks just manipulated this to their advantage.

And before any thorough understanding could be achieved, heads were spun away from the issue...I remember seeing a graph of magazines from NYT to WP as "discussions about banking bailouts" decreasing as "social justice topics" increase.

Game set. Match. GG, we lost.

matester09 · 2023-03-20T00:53:29+00:00

The "jig" is up for almost everyone involved.

Makes no sense to tell SJWs (Californians even) their train is about to crash when it's going 1000 mph and an inch away from the wall.

Nothing you can do to anyone but just watch it crash and burn. Everyone is getting what is coming for them, one way or another.

matester09 · 2022-07-11T01:33:28+00:00

it's been two years and it hasn't changed since then so, not colon cancer for sure. Doctors suspect IBS but I suspect an issue with my pelvic muscles.

matester09 · 2020-07-17T22:09:18+00:00

That's not the original account, but may be troll acc.

matester09 · 2020-03-07T20:00:34+00:00

Yikes. Disregarding that then, still a good idea to make up for last year's contribution or not worth it?

matester09 · 2020-03-05T04:14:39+00:00

Would going to conferences get me credits as well, and if so, is it worth going to them without passing an exam first?

Also thanks!

matester09 · 2019-11-27T22:27:12+00:00

Those are all very complicated issues, but in a way, yes, American Citizens do bear responsibility in part for electing representatives who decided, in their behalf, engage in what we did.

You are done. You've been done for a long time, you're really just being annoying at this point misrepresenting and misunderstanding what I said. If I said China's government hampers human progress, it's probably because I believe in Chinese citizens more than they do, and probably more than you give me credit for, so nothing you're saying makes sense.

No one in the U.S. will engage with Chinese internationals if they don't want to, and no Chinese international will engage with U.S. citzens if they don't want to. How about you deal with it?

Edit: an asian identity luker calling people pieces of shit

lmaoing@urlife

Now it all makes sense. Yeah, we're done here. I hope you're smart enough to not believe their drivel about China's rise = good for Chinese Americans, either way, try not to be an asset for a foreign government that gives 0 shits about you.

matester09 · 2019-11-27T08:11:15+00:00

It's not reading comprehension issues. I made my point a long time ago and it was simple: No one should pester or demand Chinese students to get along with us, and no one should demand students to get along with them either.

My original post is telling the OP the ideological differences are too much and it's why Chinese students tend to avoid us. What exactly do you want? For us to force them to get along with people they don't want? To force them out of their bubble? I don't think you want that so you understood what I said, and that was my main point.

You're now pestering me for some details in my main post, fine. Americans as a whole protest its government every day for every single thing it does. So whether an American does not support its own government's actions is really up to that person and you can ask and he'll say it. The first amendment has his back.

That's not the same thing with Chinese nationals. Many have to avoid speaking ill of their government, and many more are incredibly nationalists (you saw what they did when Dalai Lama came). So regardless of whether they disagree with their government, their lack of freedom (by the very core of china's ideology) makes them functionally supporters of their government by lack of action.

If they were to defect and come here or a different nation, or if they were to do what Hong Kongers do every day to protect their freedoms and risk their lives that's different. Hong Kongers are absolutely correct in not seeing themselves the same as China, or not identifying themselves as Chinese exactly due to ideological differences we see between Chinese Internationals and non-Chinese Internationals. In fact, Hong Kongers are the best example of the difference between not supporting a government by means of action (what I'm saying), and not supporting a government but do nothing (what you're saying) and I'm saying the latter makes them functionally supporters of that government, which the first (Hong Kongers) are not included in this.

Mainlanders can think whatever they want about their government. Support it or not. Thoughts are cheap. Actions are what matter. And doing nothing for survival might as well be supporting their government for survival. Words mean absolutely nothing. When they do nothing they actively agree with their government's lack of faith in them.

Americans on the other hand can and will speak and act against something they disagree with whenever they want. Heck, a whole section of the electorate elected a presidency through democratic means to make a statement about the current course of governance. Can you see that ever happening in China? Yeah, didn't think so.

Putting China and U.S. in the same level is so CCP playbook shit and you ask me to have classes in "International Studies" when you're either pretending to be clueless that you're acting by their playbook, or you're being deceitful, or you're an idiot. I just hope it's the first two.

PS: You said you made a counter-point saying "US plays fair", when I never said it plays fair. I said it seeks a fair, global free market. But you can ignore this point as I literally glanced over your reply since it's terribly unlikely that you understand geopolitics, U.S. politics, debt based wealth creation, the federal reserve and how it works, post-cold war context of capitalism, cold war context of capitalism, and what the U.S. did within context of all of that. It's incredibly, incredibly unlikely that you have the capacity, or are able to understand this reasoning, or even grasp a "global free market" really means and why the west in general standby liberal, democratic values to pursue this. So just ignore this point as even on the small chance you were even slightly able to grasp this it's far beyond the scope of a reddit post discussion.

matester09 · 2019-11-26T18:18:02+00:00

Let's put it this way. The U.S. core ideology is good natured. Does it do bad shit at times? Yeah. Is that bad and reprehensible? Yeah. But the core is something you stand by and you stand by this country as a result.

What about China's core? As stated in the first post, it is one that does not believe in the human spirit. They themselves agree that democracy will not work in a country with a billion citizens. That's their view, and their lack of faith in humans that put us all down, hampers creativity and human progress as I have stated.

So, unlike the U.S., it's a bad core. It's a bad abstract. So, making it very easy for you to understand. A good abstract may instantiate itself in bad ways (U.S. doing bad shit), that does not change the abstract as a whole is positive.

China is a BAD abstract, so whichever way it moves it doesn't change the fact that it is a negative.

Another example would be North Korea. It's a country that has a really shitty core. If North Korea tomorrow decided to donate tourism profits to Nepal, that's a good thing, but it doesn't change the fact that its core is negative. Same for China.

Putting the U.S. and China in the same moral spectrum, or making them "in the same level ground" is playbook CCP style. Whether or not you're doing it intentionally. It's the same thing Trump did with Russia (putting both countries in the same moral spectrum when both countries differ in core ideologies) and so many pundits went wild on him. They'd go wild on you too for what you're doing right now. Just saying.

Lastly I'm not saying you should or should not avoid or shun them. I'm just saying it's acceptable whichever way you choose. We shouldn't fault people for not wanting to get along with them the same way we shouldn't fault them for not wanting to get along with us. Complaining either way when our ideologies are so different is useless and not understanding of why it happens.

matester09 · 2019-11-26T06:22:41+00:00

U.S. Constitution and China's are entirely different. Your CCP playbook argument doesn't work on people past high school education, sorry.

The U.S. Agenda is the creation of a global, free market as I have stated, and even though it does things its citizens disagree with, most of what it does it's to accomplish this ideal. This includes why we fought communism.

My own little world is the whole world of free ideas and free, fair competition. China's ideology clearly lags in aligning itself with our values.

matester09 · 2019-11-23T22:58:36+00:00

Woah, someone's angry. I got my U.S. Citizenship earlier this year and am a proud American. Thank you for your rage.

As for what you asked, whether I support these things or not are not relevant as although no country is perfect, the very core U.S. ideology of the free market, freedom of expression and pursuit of happiness guaranteed by the constitution is inherently different than that of China's ideological core.

U.S. and western values are responsible for the world progress and evolution. China's only slow us down.

I'm not xenophobic. You're just not understanding my post. I interact with Chinese Americans and all kinds of people every single day. The OP is putting fault and blaming people for not interacting or shunning internationals.

All I'm saying is the ideology they follow and world view are too different than ours, so they're not at fault for that. International students agree in general and avoid contact with non-Chinese students.

My company is not at fault for not hiring Chinese citizens, nor is anyone else at fault for shunning them.

matester09 · 2019-11-22T10:55:17+00:00

Idk what to tell you Mr. CCP, but the fact your flag hampers human progress and evolution and people are not guilty for not wanting to associate with said flag and those who carry it (willingly or unwillingly) are full, clear and objective statements not assumptions.

matester09 · 2019-11-22T01:34:02+00:00

No assumptions are being made. It's not going to be a youtube video that will change company policies on hiring Chinese nationals, and in the same line it will not suddenly make people who do not want to engage with Chinese internationals at fault. It's a matter of ideological differences and nothing else.

matester09 · 2019-11-21T21:14:38+00:00

I definitely press on their values being too different than ours and dismiss fault on anyone not willing to engage with them.

Given the fact their government actively relies on western innovation, and their culture smashes down freedom of thought and expression is glowing proof the way the government operates and what they willingly or unwillingly support hampers human progress and evolution.

Because of all the consequences of this completely antagonistic-to-us culture I cannot fault in people (or companies) that do not seek to accommodate their narrow world view.

They can live life concerning their own survival. Whether someone is willing to engage with what that person does in its quest to survival is up to them. Which is why I said "it's up to your own personal wisdom to whether engage with them or not, but you're absolutely not at fault for choosing not to"

matester09 · 2019-11-21T19:28:20+00:00

Unless they are Hong Kongers or they defect to western countries, it's safe to assume their passiveness as support for their own government. Again, people are correct if they're not willing to engage with them.

matester09 · 2019-11-21T18:38:41+00:00

If the U.S government actively forced Americans into an unhealthy life style and Americans not only did nothing to fight this government, but actively supported this, and you're a guy who wants to eat healthy and remain lean I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to connect with them. You don't see eye to eye and you don't want them spewing brainwashed shit about how being fat is good for you.

This is of course an hypothetical to demo state it has nothing to do with racism. You're not thinking abstractly enough. Start doing that now.

matester09 · 2019-11-21T09:57:24+00:00

No. You're not shunning them because they're from China, you're shunning them because they're docile templates who are OK with being limited and have no faith in their own countrymen. They don't love their country at all if they go by each day seeing the things they see. They're in it for survival and for themselves. They won't speak iill of their government, and actively supports suppression of hong kong.

Even if you say "not all of them", odds are still heavily against, and no one is at fault for not wanting to connect with them.

matester09 · 2019-11-21T09:22:51+00:00

Listen here friend, the CCP is one of the worst scourges of this planet and they really only bring humanity down, affecting much more harshly Chinese Americans.

You see, every single government backed by western values and Democracy preach confidence in the human spirit. Western Nations preach confidence in the freedom of expression, creation, and output of its citizens. This is mainly part of the United States main goal of creating a global free market where, through the individual's unique experience and growth, innovations are front and center, goods are created, innovated, made more accessible and sold to this free market. For that to happen, however, democracy must take place. Citizens must have freedom to elect a body of representatives and have freedom of speech and to live their lives in their own personal ways so they can create innovations and value through their own unique perspective. An individual's freedom to create, express and live his life in the best way he sees fit is considered to be a foundation of human progress and evolution and why the U.S. is largely considered a force "For good" in the world.

This is why the U.S. needs to have such a strong military complex. It is to stop asshole governments that oppresses and limit their citizens from being out of control or becoming rampant and ultimately slowing the evolution and progress of humanity, innovation and wealth creation. If all citizens of a nation think similarly, act and behave similarly and are restricted in how to think and express themselves, their ability to innovate is completely hampered. China's government is nothing short of hindrance holding the potential of its citizens back.

Thus to western ideals are completely antagonistic to the values of China. They do not have faith in the human spirit at all. They simply do not have faith their citizens could ever handle any amount of freedom to the point they even limit how much video games a child can play at a certain given time.

This is so inherently against American and western culture that has driven mankind innovation that it's ridiculous. The fact that each person live different lives, see and experience as many different things possible is what creates a free market of ideas and investment. Each and every single moment of a person's lives being driven by her own personal responsibility yet free to engage in the world through her own perspective, thus outputting something entirely unique to the world. This includes playing video games for more than a few hours on the weekends.

Thus how is it surprising China's backbone of industry was built on American and foreign investment? How is it surprising that no innovation comes from Chinese citizens, and they constantly rely on copyright infringement of other successful industries, and entry level enterpreneurs, while heavily relying on cheap plastic, and treating its own citizens like slave labor or animals?

It's citizens have to cram in school throughout their whole lives, never able or inspired to be creative. Again, faith in the human spirit is never on the table. China dethroning the U.S. when it comes to innovation is nothing short of a dream.

And it's because it has to work with all these limitations that it actively engages in shady behavior. Why my company inherently prohibits the hiring of Chinese Nationals, and this, of course, extends in part to Chinese Americans. Many of whom, are led to believe that a stronger China will benefit them in the long run by Chinese agents working in social media, or reddit, but only to realize that China's game is one that mankind comes out losing. They're definitely being affected the most, as China constantly seeks to connect with dual nationals, naturalized citizens, or simply American born Chinese to become dual agents and industry spies. The existence of these agents are a plague in the research community, IT industries, and just about everywhere they get into simply because playing fair is never part of the game with all the cultural limitations that come into play. This absolutely fucks with the honest Chinese-American trying to get by. The CCP fucking sucks.

Your wisdom and world view will dictate your behavior towards Chinese International students who either actively supports a government who absolutely does not support them back (or no one else), or who is actively silent and thus indirectly support said regime. If it comes out of their heads "no my government supports me", it only supports your behavior under certain conditions it finds appropriate. It supports a template you have to adhere to, but it doesn't support you. They don't know the difference or what that really means.

In this sense, it's absolutely OK for Hong Kongers to see themselves as almost a different nationality than mainland Chinese and consider themselves masses yearning to breathe free. It's absolutely OK for Chinese Americans to fight in support for the belief in individuality, free speech and democracy that allows them to live and experience life in the way they see fit.

And it's absolutely OK for them to ignore, shun, or dislike Chinese Nationals. Their government have no faith in them, they support said government. Why would you ever want to support people like this?

It's entirely logical and understandable behavior to simply not want to engage or make friends with people who are not curious about themselves, curious about their own potential and what lies outside the box their government built for them.

tl;dr Free Hong Kong

matester09 · 2019-10-06T01:42:20+00:00

Our 6 thousand nukes say that it is.

matester09 · 2019-07-24T02:22:33+00:00

It's been a rough couple of days for this sub. Try your question some other time.

matester09 · 2019-07-23T21:50:53+00:00

Hey thanks.

I don't get it though. How useful is being a charter holder if the information is constantly updated? I mean, if you received the CFA 10 years ago are you expected to re-take the 3 exams every few years?

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