you're only allowed to call the PRC "totalitarian" or undemocratic if you condemn the "democracies" of the english speaking world. the US president isn't even the person who gets the most votes🤡

Taiwan does not "generally" have a stance against reunification, some independence parties are a bit more popular than they used to be, but them becoming a legally independent state requires vast constitutional and international changes no government has even begun to implement

Say, what would the data show if we measured cumulatively instead of pretending history began in the 1990s?

46% of s. Koreans support unification versus 26% against, the United States constitutes the single greatest obstacle to this & Korean soverignty

military presence in the country is pretty different from occupation

45 fucking years the US propped up, armed, and aided the dictatorial rule of conservative and military governments in South Korea. South Korea's army still comes under US control in wartime, but sure 2 decades of just mostly corrupt "democracy" means they can just opt-out of US military garrisons. nothing bad would happen to the government that demands that, no matter how popular it is with the Korean people

if you're not willing to concede anything

the US won't concede basic demands like moving their troops off the border! fucking ridiculous equating Korea's refusal to expose itself to attack with US bases thousands of miles away from the US

chronic food shortage stricken, ostracized

i wonder why a country under economic sanction from the US & its allies for decades might have economic trouble. i wonder why they're rude to the US after the US bombed and murdered their people for 3 years & still occupy the southern half of their country

here's a compromise, we get rid of all the vetos, and let the general assembly make binding decisions. surely the majority of the world's population & nations would vote in support of Western Democratic interests

I also was very clear that I don't believe in criminalizing the people on-camera in porn so I'm not sure why you're saying the things you are

you just believe in continuing criminalization of any way for that performance to make them money? that's why people do it, when only the johns are 'illegal' sexwork still has to be clandestine and outside public scrutiny & protections

I would suspect they want less oversight of human trafficking

what oversight do they have now and how is it improved by dragging people to court for visiting pornhub? seriously we're talking about the trafficking capital of the world (maybe in competition with libya) and you're worried that being less litigious toward the most widely accepted & least dangerous form of sexwork is going to hamstring the very effective ukrainian police's efforts against trafficking, if such a thing even exists at all

talking about the country that won 'most corrupt in europe' (and you know how stiff that competition is) for a decade and you're skeptical about taking away an excuse for their cops to harass people?

when the acts of pornography or prostitution etc. are forced underground by their illegality, it makes human trafficking easier because the victims will also be liable to be arrested, and therefore don't report. decriminalization opens up the doors somewhat so scrutiny can fall on the most specifically harmful & less common sexcrimes, while ignoring people just trying to put bread on the table

i think that reactionary suburb brain is almost a kind of stockholm syndrome. literally, for all of history the overwhelming majority of people have always congregated in walkable units.

suburbs were created as a corporate racist policy a vast number of people simply had the most access to, not because there was a fair and weighed decision on everyone's part. and following that it's sunk cost & aversion to change. like literally all the nascent suburbanites came from apartments, tenements, and public projects, there wasn't some groundswell of people demanding, against every civilizational instinct to spread themselves out in isolation that corporate demands "met", it's that the availability of newly-built properties the tenant would eventually own shifted almost entirely to suburban development---and lets not forget that early suburbs were much, much better served before neoliberalism began cannibalizing it, you couldn't very well get all the whites out of the city & into food deserts, they provided all the amenities and created all these suburban municipalities so suburbanites could pretend they still lived in cities, simply with more privacy, segregation, and automobiles.

tldr, if corporate greed hadn't created suburban sprawl as a product, we wouldn't even have people defending it, but they also created a constituency of people whose only capital is tied up in the suburban ponzi scheme who are now vociferous defenders of it

its so nice to see our elderly members physically active. you sure are a spry 78!

the option to crank it is important to the Volcel ethos, for if there is not written erotica to voluntarily refuse, are you truly voluntarily a cel?

baja is still california. you may refer to yankee-california as "occupied california" if you wish

i see your european = furry and raise you 17th century dutch art making chinese armor look like a fish/lizard

what if instead of smart watches they were smart swatches and they just had very smart looking colors/designs on them

junior high in nevada production of shakespeare-core

said in the style of ned flanders poorly recreating it at the watercooler 😻

it's like the providence of god's plan for the believers but the opportunists (probably most of them) definitely do

weird to think all of the posts here would be in accents out loud