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Not in any specific order, they all have their moments for me.

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  • Noah (peterpan) - Seperti Seharusnya
  • AJR - Neotheatre
  • Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
  • Powerwolf - Lupus Dei
  • Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
  • Dayglow - Fuzzybrain
  • Wallows - Nothing Happens
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    Yeah it's really weird. The British were inventors of a vicious form of financial capital that is holding the whole world hostage. A cultural tradition of short-term predatory lending and "indirect rule" that controls colonized populations through false rulers.

    And we focus on... a local town somewhere just acknowledging their history and holding a community event that has been done for the last 700years.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Saw a reel (TikTok? Shortform video?) about a Guy that was larping as a NEET in a tropical country.

    And one comment really summed up my thoughts: go back home and get a job lmao.

    Why do these people celebrate being leeches to society and seemingly aren't self-aware?

    They get our scientists and engineers meanwhile we get this.

    They're not sending us their best folks

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    China Sprints Ahead in Race to Modernize Global Money Flows, Bloomberg

    SWIFT and USD are not involved in the mBridge exchange process. Critics worry this could affect sanction enforcement. clueless

    Who is Critics and why are they so fuckin stupid?

    Integrating Thailand, which was once a member of the anti-communist military alliance (SEATO), into it's economic bloc in the past few decades through initiatives such as this is especially important considering the country's geostrategic location.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I have no skin in the game regarding this current debate so I’ll keep my own opinions to myself for now.

    However, you mentioning Brazil’s multi-party system did pique my interest because something similar happens here.

    It didn’t occur to me that for most USians having more than 2 relevant parties really is an abnormality.

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    I shared the full talk here a while back.

    It's interesting to note that even Singapore has started to drift from the West. (Which explains the WSJ article that was published a few days back.)

    Of course George Yeo is not Foreign Afffairs Minister anymore, but this view is also advocated by Singapore's current minister of foreign affairs.

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    Yup - I also did a quick double check with the stats, its more like hundreds of thousands (400k) per day.

    Apparently it is literally the busiest or one of the busiest land borders on Earth.

    and the forum might be interested in you making a post on this topic at some point

    I have a lot of ideas on this topic regarding Southeast Asian history in general - but I always seemingly want to cover a certain book before I start it, and never get round to actually drafting/creating a post.

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    Igauan Malam - Insomniacks right now but honourable mention to When The Moon Shines Red by Powerwolf, I listen to it regularly ever since I first found out about it a while back.

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    I tried to keep it short and I began to write an entire monograph lmao.

    TLDR: It just isn’t as materially important.

    People can easily travel between the two states, there’s iirc hundreds of thousands that pass through the immigration bridge weekly.

    Families are not separated and both states maintain cordial relations.

    Personally I would obviously like to see it happening, but when it isn’t necessary, you get limited by political bureaucracy than anything else.

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    Oh boy I thought I would cool it with the controversial LGBT stuff on this site but my country was pulled into the Western culture war this time (making my blood boil as per usual).

    The British band The 1975 decided to do a stunt where 2 male band members kissed on stage. Which was proceeded by a rant and behaviours that was very liberal, only could be done by someone who grew up in a hyper-capitalist and alienated society in which individualism festers like a plague.

    Needless to say, but this sort of "activism" doesn't work. That's obvious enough.

    Then the liberals that consume too much American media (or lives in America) comes out of the woodwork bashing the government for over-exaggerating, and/or praising this pathetic attempt at lecturing the barbarians for their bad values. Liberals really showcase remarkable cynicism and hatred of the masses.

    The sheer chauvinism in which you come into another country as a guest to perform and then lambast government policy in which you yourself are not affected by and in which you agreed to beforehand, while at the same time breaking many social norms - well that takes the cake.

    Thank you for giving right-wingers ammo to further politicize and police "LGBT" communities in this country - making it worse for everyone here by enflaming the already vicious identity politics prevalent here (referring to the local identity politics - not commenting on the American one).

    Good job, colonizer. I see that the Brits still think that anyone cares about what they have to say.

    The coverage by the Rolling Stone and The Independent is as chauvinistic as ever. I'd prefer it if you just called us primatives directly instead of this whole fake concern for human rights.

    Atleast Reuters had the decency to mention that:

    Friday's incident sparked uproar on Malaysian social media, including among some members of the LGBT community, who accused Healy of "performative activism" and said his action could expose the community to more stigma and discrimination.

    but in typical fashion doesn't mention that such behaviours, even if advocating for something the majority of the people agree, is not acceptable. It's a concert, not a political debate. Narcissistic behaviour and dysfunctional interpersonal skills (as determined by our culture and society at large) isn't something that should be promoted. Furthermore, this isn't even mentioning colonial history and ongoing imperialism.

    Liberals needs to be sent into re-education camps for decades to deworm their minds from their terminal brain disease.

    Alhamdullilah that most people here don't have it and recognised the chauvinism for what it is. (All non-english and many English replies on this tweet for example.)

     

    Set in a feudalistic fictional world, the song espouses a liberal (to use the term a bit anachronistically) feminist form of class collaborationism.

    Although both expresses ill-feelings toward the heteronormative patriarchy that they live in, the film tries to make a false equivalence between both of their lives just because of their gender. Erika exhibits false consciousness believing that a princess has the same experiences as her, an indentured servant whose forced to work due to her parent’s debts.

    This is clearly shown in the first few lines of the song, where Erika had to manually toil away in hard day’s work to even feed herself and yet brushes it off as being ‘used to it’, while Anneliese (the princess) just ‘has to ring a bell’ to have an omelette delivered to her bed. Erika, being kept ignorant by the ruling class, exclaims that they have the same lives.

    To use Frier’s analysis, it can be seen that Anneliese, although still part of the aristocracy, is denied humanity (agency) not only through her gender but also due to her class as shown by the song’s chorus ‘We carry through to do what we need to do’. Showcasing how everyone is oppressed to some extent in class society.

     

    The word must be something non-political that is in everyday use or in common speech.

    For example, in my mother language there's the word muak, which describes the feeling you get after eating the same dish repeatedly, leading to you being sick of it and not wanting to eat that dish anymore.

    Tired (ie. tired of eating the same x dish/food) may be the closest word/phrase in the English language that captures the meaning, but not exactly.

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