Republican men tend to expect (demand) all women be open and willing to date them, also to become ultra submissive to them and warp their entire lives around whatever the dude desires. It’s fucked up but it’s a real problem if you’re a woman. (Non-Republican men and even women can also have similar expectations, but there’s a reason “Would you date a Republican man?” is a meme.)

Presumably the one asking is the Republican… Ditch her.

Only one danger could have jeopardized this development – if our adversaries had understood its principle, established a clear understanding of our ideas, and not offered any resistance. Or, alternatively, if they had from the first day annihilated with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement.

They could have fought then, we can fight now. It’s getting a little late in the game, but i do not think it is too late.

This practice of appointing Republicans to critical positions to demonstrate bipartisanship has got to stop. (If the Dems ever get another chance, at least)

Honestly, this whole thing has been a fuck up.

Their job was to demonstrate that they knew what was happening, had a plan to address it, and their plan was being blocked by politicians who had none of that. They didn’t even try and i don’t think they ever really wanted to. Same with Obama bailing out the banks and leaving the regular people with the bill during the financial crash of 2008. (That was in no small part Bush’s fault, but he didn’t even try something different.)

I don’t think there has ever, in history, been a group capable of doing that at this scale other than the Democratic Party. They are the greatest to ever do it.

$0.80, something like that.

Akumetsu.

The people who voted for Trump do deserve the blame. In some sense, they deserve the biggest share of the blame. After all, they voted for him.

The Democratic Party failed us all, though. They also deserve a significant slice of blame.

A primary would have been a disaster. We would have for sure ended up with a candidate notably worse than Harris. Don’t forget the people who pushed Biden wanted Shapiro or fucking Newsom or someone. It wasn’t gonna be Bernie Sanders, that’s for fucking sure. I am suddenly seeing a lot of people calling for an open primary and i can’t imagine what the fuck those people would have thought would happen, there.

We were kinda stuck with Harris. The problem lies with her and with her backers, who failed to provide an attractive alternative to Trump.

The strategy is “Never Play Defense”.

They know what’s going on, they know what they’re doing. They just don’t care, they like Trump they just can’t argue their case and don’t care to.

Release! The! Tapes!

Come on, do it. It could have a real impact.

Got any recommendations?

He knows what he’s doing.

He would cheer them on and say it was a blow against the “trans agenda” or something, i’m sure.

How the fuck do you run someone over with a bulldozer… no matter what i think of it’s not coming up good…

“In 20 years, the historically developed ethnostate increased its life expectancy three (3) more years than a country which, to this day, lacks a common ethnicity or language and whose development has been uneven at best”

This is a weird ass argument. China was not a historically developed ethnostate during this time period. It had–and still has, much to the disappointment of its leaders–a number of different ethnic groups. Just because the Han dominate modern Chinese society does not mean there are no other ethnic groups there. China did not have a common language at this time, either, though it’s working hard to stamp them all out but one.

You thought it relevant enough to completely ignore it until it was pointed out, how sweet.

I was aware of this before you pointed it out, but i didn’t feel like it warranted inclusion. That’s not the one true measurement, either. It isn’t my job, here, to include every possible alternate look at the data. I’m not writing a doctoral thesis here, this isn’t a “gotcha”. There’s still really only one period where India wins this comparison, and it’s during a historically dramatic (and, yes, self-inflicted) famine in China.

You quite clearly are licking boots in trying to justify the horrific crimes of Mao and the CCP…

I am doing no such thing. Don’t read weird bullshit into my arguments.

Would you kindly read aloud for the class…

These are different numbers and… don’t really refute anything i said? “Life expectancy” is different from “life expectancy from birth” and i have been careful to compare like-for-like in this thread.

"…Correlation is causation!”

This is a sound argument and it does mean we can’t draw definitive conclusions from this, but these numbers do contradict the narrative that everything in China (or whatever Communist country you like) is horrible.

We’re fucking done here, bootlicker.

Cool.

Isn’t North and South Korea the best comparison for life expectancy versus communism/capitalism?

No, specifically because North Korea is not communist in any meaningful sense of the word. There’s no reason to believe it is representative of a generic communist state, and it does not compare well to the majority (to any?) of the communist states out there. Even if you do consider it communist, it is an outlier among those states. It simply does not make sense.

That chart does show North and South Korean life expectancies increasing at a similar rate (until the mid 90s, of course) but that does not mean there’s no difference in other states. Yes, life expectancy has been increasing globally but it is not uniformly distributed. China went from “average” to “above average” since the Communist Revolution. India went from “below average” to “below average”.

We could also look at Cuba or Vietnam as examples (looking at 2020). They’re much smaller and i don’t have the same kind of data on hand for them, but compared to the global numbers they’re closer to the “more developed countries” than they are to the global average. Again, India, is down in the “less developed countries”. If you care, North Korea is at 75 in 2020, above the global average despite… everything going on there. And yes, for the record, South Korea is doing better. They’re doing better than most, even better than (for example) Germany.

(I do not know how trustworthy those numbers are for North Korea tbh. I know China’s 2020 and beyond numbers have also been criticized but I’m working with what I have.)

And yes, life expectancy is not the be-all, end-all measurement of all value. It does matter, though.