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If there's any solace to take here, it's that guys like this, Stancil and Yglesias are poison to literally any political movement now. Expose all but the most ideologically committed centrists to this rhetoric and they go feral. Their time in the political spotlight is at an end
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If there's any solace to take here, it's that guys like this, Stancil and Yglesias are poison to literally any political movement now. Expose all but the most ideologically committed centrists to this rhetoric and they go feral. Their time in the political spotlight is at an end
The cost of my insurance next year is about to increase by almost $200 per pay. $200! I don't earn a lot and that increase is going to change my quality of life. But I am nevertheless still employed and the US' numbers do be going up, so to people like this guy I am actually experiencing a delusion.
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The cost of my insurance next year is about to increase by almost $200 per pay. $200! I don't earn a lot and that increase is going to change my quality of life. But I am nevertheless still employed and the US' numbers do be going up, so to people like this guy I am actually experiencing a delusion.
Legitimately one of the worst parts about being subjected to economist's rhetoric is that they disregard questions about who the economy best serves on a fundamental level and instead retreat into semantic arguments about percentage point increases when people say they can't afford shit
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Legitimately one of the worst parts about being subjected to economist's rhetoric is that they disregard questions about who the economy best serves on a fundamental level and instead retreat into semantic arguments about percentage point increases when people say they can't afford shit
The smug Stancil-style pseudo-intellectuals are the worst of them, too. Even ignoring the last year, is it really so surprising that a population that cannot access healthcare and is always under the implicit threat of homelessness doesn't like the stupid fucking US economy?
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The smug Stancil-style pseudo-intellectuals are the worst of them, too. Even ignoring the last year, is it really so surprising that a population that cannot access healthcare and is always under the implicit threat of homelessness doesn't like the stupid fucking US economy?
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Chongqing's Hamlet Shines at the 14th China Art Festival
On Oct 17, Shakespeare's brooding prince took on a new voice in Chongqing as acclaimed Chinese theatre director Gu Lei premiered Hamlet Gossip at the Chongqing Beijing Opera Theatre, a highlight of th...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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But you just named art produced in that country you ostensibly respect and like!!!! See how you can separate the country and the art? You just did it!
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
But you just named art produced in that country you ostensibly respect and like!!!! See how you can separate the country and the art? You just did it!
Like which play specifically?
December 12, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Like which play specifically?
Lmao I have traveled abroad and no, I do not think my position that "good art is possible in any country" is the result of propaganda, I think your position that 'Chinese people can't make good art because politics' is the one informed by propaganda
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Lmao I have traveled abroad and no, I do not think my position that "good art is possible in any country" is the result of propaganda, I think your position that 'Chinese people can't make good art because politics' is the one informed by propaganda
And when Shakespeare wrote the Henriad he had to flatter the ruling monarchy by writing their families in a positive light in order for his plays to be performed! You can think the country's censorship is bad but admire an artist's craft. There's no contradiction there
December 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
And when Shakespeare wrote the Henriad he had to flatter the ruling monarchy by writing their families in a positive light in order for his plays to be performed! You can think the country's censorship is bad but admire an artist's craft. There's no contradiction there
Again, you're describing the exact behaviour of, say, the Call of Duty devs, who make a series which has run cover for US war crimes and was swallowed by a near-monopoly-sized publisher. You seem pretty much totally ideologically committed to your 'China Bad' stance tho so I'm gonna tap out here
December 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Again, you're describing the exact behaviour of, say, the Call of Duty devs, who make a series which has run cover for US war crimes and was swallowed by a near-monopoly-sized publisher. You seem pretty much totally ideologically committed to your 'China Bad' stance tho so I'm gonna tap out here
I mean if you're judging the entire output of a country by free to play bullshit then all games made by all countries are bad. That game is no less embarrassing than what Call of Duty has become. Look for the smaller stuff. It exists, I promise. Example:
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December 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I mean if you're judging the entire output of a country by free to play bullshit then all games made by all countries are bad. That game is no less embarrassing than what Call of Duty has become. Look for the smaller stuff. It exists, I promise. Example:
Now that I think about it it sounds like you think Chinese art might actually be *good*, so compelling that it could singlehandedly supplant all art produced around the world somehow. You have a very confusing position!
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Now that I think about it it sounds like you think Chinese art might actually be *good*, so compelling that it could singlehandedly supplant all art produced around the world somehow. You have a very confusing position!
Do you understand that the richest men in the world own most of the US free press? Regardless, I'm not making any claims about who is censored more, I'm claiming that making good art is possible under the conditions of censorship. You're saying Chinese art is bad sight unseen, which is reactionary
December 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Do you understand that the richest men in the world own most of the US free press? Regardless, I'm not making any claims about who is censored more, I'm claiming that making good art is possible under the conditions of censorship. You're saying Chinese art is bad sight unseen, which is reactionary
Why? You think there's no intrinsic value to it. Unless you DO think there's value to watching/reading/listening to it, even just in an academic sense, in which case I don't get what you're arguing about
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Why? You think there's no intrinsic value to it. Unless you DO think there's value to watching/reading/listening to it, even just in an academic sense, in which case I don't get what you're arguing about
That's not even slightly an inane point. Do you think Americans failed to make any good art during the McCarthy era? When they could've been/were jailed for political wrongthink? You're using jingoism to disguise the fact that you're incurious about Chinese media and haven't engaged with it at all
December 12, 2025 at 4:44 AM
That's not even slightly an inane point. Do you think Americans failed to make any good art during the McCarthy era? When they could've been/were jailed for political wrongthink? You're using jingoism to disguise the fact that you're incurious about Chinese media and haven't engaged with it at all
Ideology is not a static thing, it constantly changes and evolves thanks to material conditions, the influence of others and experience. It's not always productive to debate someone but it's *definitely* not productive to believe there's nothing that can change about people's ideological biases
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Ideology is not a static thing, it constantly changes and evolves thanks to material conditions, the influence of others and experience. It's not always productive to debate someone but it's *definitely* not productive to believe there's nothing that can change about people's ideological biases
It's not just "human nature" to get angry at the perceived 'gendered' action of getting flavored coffee or veganism. It's also insufficient as an explanation because it provides no ability to resolve the contradictory nature of the arguments. Implies 'people are just like this, so oh well!'
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's not just "human nature" to get angry at the perceived 'gendered' action of getting flavored coffee or veganism. It's also insufficient as an explanation because it provides no ability to resolve the contradictory nature of the arguments. Implies 'people are just like this, so oh well!'
Also the majority of political polling works like this, obfuscating the reality of what is being asked by pretending there is an objective or non-ideological ideology. Ideology is just the framework a person uses to think. No person or topic is non-ideological, people are only more or less engaged
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Also the majority of political polling works like this, obfuscating the reality of what is being asked by pretending there is an objective or non-ideological ideology. Ideology is just the framework a person uses to think. No person or topic is non-ideological, people are only more or less engaged
Like what is proven by this? The only thing that matters to me in these results is that virtually no one self-identifies as a moderate. Yglesias' entire mission is finding the center, which seems to virtually not exist in any political context. The imagined middle ground is dead
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Like what is proven by this? The only thing that matters to me in these results is that virtually no one self-identifies as a moderate. Yglesias' entire mission is finding the center, which seems to virtually not exist in any political context. The imagined middle ground is dead
This is part of what makes the ongoing post-Harris argument for this mercenary, intellectually dishonest centrism so annoying. If you ask someone "do you like affordability" and they say yes...of course they do. But when you dig into it those people will have ideological biases that matter
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is part of what makes the ongoing post-Harris argument for this mercenary, intellectually dishonest centrism so annoying. If you ask someone "do you like affordability" and they say yes...of course they do. But when you dig into it those people will have ideological biases that matter