zlemflolia Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 let's just defend the US instead in their quest to destabilize China and maintain world dominance surely things will work out better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 No. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 1 hour ago, cyanobacteria said: let's just defend the US instead in their quest to destabilize China and maintain world dominance surely things will work out better real poop burrito or shit sandwich menu we're looking at here fellas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 1 hour ago, cyanobacteria said: let's just defend the US instead in their quest to destabilize China and maintain world dominance surely things will work out better FReEDOm isn'T FREE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, cyanobacteria said: let's just defend the US instead in their quest to destabilize China and maintain world dominance surely things will work out better Maybe someone should have told the CIA to not destroy Yugoslawia. Yugoslawia already had plans to fully democratise the country. They had a plan to make the country transition from the necessary dictatorship (necessary to fight off the facist Italians in the partisan wars) into a democratic socialism. They have had free healthcare and education for a long time, and a welfare state and their economy didn't rely on outsourced slave labour, something modern Americans can only dream of. Yet they were too dangerous as an embodiment of a third way between full-on fascist/capitalist imperialism and authoritarian fake communism, so the American government preferred a bloody war to happen there, with thousands of dead children. China, on the other hand, is a fascist regime with no interest in democracy. Sure, the total death count and amount of violence is still less than that of the US, but they are catching up. No need to be an apologist of a fascist regime only because it's in rivalry with US imperialism. Edited March 15, 2021 by dingformung 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 28 minutes ago, dingformung said: Maybe someone should have told the CIA to not destroy Yugoslawia. Yugoslawia already had plans to fully democratise the country. They had a plan to make the country transition from the necessary dictatorship (necessary to fight off the facist Italians in the partisan wars) into a democratic socialism. They have had free healthcare and education for a long time, and a welfare state and their economy didn't rely on outsourced slave labour, something modern Americans can only dream of. Yet they were too dangerous as an embodiment of a third way between full-on fascist/capitalist imperialism and authoritarian fake communism, so the American government preferred a bloody war to happen there, with thousands of dead children. China, on the other hand, is a fascist regime with no interest in democracy. Sure, the total death count and amount of violence is still less than that of the US, but they are catching up. No need to be an apologist of a fascist regime only because it's in rivalry with US imperialism. china being fascist is a pretty big claim, im not convinced. not saying its perfect but its clearly not fascist doesn't even make sense to claim so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Move this to the China thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 Just now, Silent Member said: Move this to the China thread? better not be china start trouble in this thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 2 minutes ago, Silent Member said: Move this to the China thread? Would probably be better. But I don't really feel like discussing these serious topics for entertainment. It's just saddening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 1615725075191.mp4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 The blank before punctuation marks in French looks so wrong. Bonjour ! Comment ça va ? Idiots 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 (edited) french ppl dislike the shrek franchise so much that even their word for "to dismiss" is limoger Edited March 15, 2021 by Cryptowen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 It took me many hours to get the joke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 i still don't get it... anyway what's the point of ending each word with a silent letter... ffs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 15 minutes ago, Tim_J said: i still don't get it... anyway what's the point of ending each word with a silent letter... ffs... they leave a space so there's room for Napoleon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I think it's a pun, there's "oger" in "limoger". And Shrek is an oger. Ya know The French are right in looking down on American pop culture, though. It lacks sophistication and is made for brainless plebs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ignatius Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 1 minute ago, dingformung said: I think it's a pun, there's "oger" in "limoger". And Shrek is an oger. Ya know The French are right in looking down on American pop culture, though. It lacks sophistication and is made for brainless plebs. mainstream culture is so different in america and often regional or differs by state even but yeah.. it's really easy to shit on USA culture in general. all the stuff that gets amplified to other countries isn't the good stuff usually. when i was in paris in the 90s all these US tv shows had finally gotten dubbed into french and so some french people we met want to talk about Dallas and "who shot Jr" and also miami Vice. i think the effect of suburbia on US culture is probably interesting in a "ugh why'd we do that?" kind oof way. once people fled cities culture became something different.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, dingformung said: I think it's a pun, there's "oger" in "limoger". And Shrek is an oger. Ya know The French are right in looking down on American pop culture, though. It lacks sophistication and is made for brainless plebs. when i don't get jokes that just mean they ain't funny.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Just now, Tim_J said: when i don't get jokes that just mean they ain't funny.... do you like fishsticks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, ignatius said: mainstream culture is so different in america and often regional or differs by state even but yeah.. it's really easy to shit on USA culture in general. all the stuff that gets amplified to other countries isn't the good stuff usually. when i was in paris in the 90s all these US tv shows had finally gotten dubbed into french and so some french people we met want to talk about Dallas and "who shot Jr" and also miami Vice. i think the effect of suburbia on US culture is probably interesting in a "ugh why'd we do that?" kind oof way. once people fled cities culture became something different.. I was of course being intentionally provocative. I prefer American pop culture to the German one. For some reason "King of Queens" is really popular in Germany. No idea why. Mainstream culture in general is usually bad, though. People all over the world lack good taste Edited March 17, 2021 by dingformung 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 14 minutes ago, ignatius said: do you like fishsticks? yu're a gay fish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 2 hours ago, dingformung said: For some reason "King of Queens" is really popular in Germany. No idea why. that's truly bizarre. it's things like this that make you want to give up trying to understand human behavior altogether. for the most part, we are a predictable species. but then a wrench gets thrown into the flow of the universe somewhere, and you end up with "hey the Germans love Kevin James!" please don't tell me his ridiculous movies are popular there too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Most of us don't export pizza. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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