Obviously ideally you'd never have to raise the retirement age, but I'm not going to presume that I know better than the entirety of the planning apparatus that decided this needed to happen in the PRC.

This will be the liberal line in China forever.

Their stance on China's economy is entirely based on a desire for it to fail and not on observing it at all.

In my experience the more I've gotten paid the less stressful my job has been.

My pay was worst when my job was taking emotional abuse from the consumer public while working in a hot kitchen where I got burned a lot.

It improved when my job became taking emotional abuse from the consumer public in an air-conditioned setting.

It improved a lot more when I lucked into a promotion where I touch spreadsheets and send out emails about the spreadsheets and nobody screams at me anymore.

I remember they were ringing alarm bells for months before anyone did anything.

The Americans around me spent months saying that China was being alarmist and draconian and making fun of their rapid build hospitals.

The idea that they drug their feet on warning people is pure historical revisionism.

Using nuclear reactions as massively destructive weapons could easily be described with this one:

Behold! The awesome fires of God. The limitless power of pure creation itself. Look carefully! Observe how it is used for the same purpose a man might use an especially sharp rock.

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K6BD on my Hexbear?

Royalty is a continuous posting motion.

Wait no

To post properly, you must continually self-annihilate when posting. Your hand must become a hand that is posting, your body a body that is posting, your mind, a mind that is posting. You must instantaneously destroy your fake pre-present self. It is a useless hanger on.

I mean idk what counts as a "real Trot" but SWP (USA) has foreign policy positions indistinguishable from the state dept due to the contrarianism.

They sent reporters to the Ukraine to do pro-Maidan coverage ten years ago.

They're also a cult who tried to get a younger family member of mine (who grew up impoverished in the projects) to drop out of university and salt grocery stores and tried to get a friend of mine who was recovering from a major life threatening surgery to go to an event that was like an 8 hour car ride away. They were extremely aggressive about that second one also.

I will always hate the SWP. Fuck their shitty newspaper "The Militant" too. Ukronazi boosting sectarian shitheads.

We have a complex and frankly fragile system of family members who care for one another's kids and maintain specific work schedules so that one grownup is always available in my family, that we built from scratch (not really from a cultural background where this is the norm, it's out of necessity) and it's frankly the only way my family has been able to support any children.

I'm genuinely not sure how a person pays for rent/mortgage, utilities, gas and food while also paying the kinds of prices that childcare costs in even low COL areas of the US.

Cool to blame the left for libs once again pulling a Hindenburg

Anabaptists and JWs are both extremist Christians. Methodists don't do that shit. There isn't a mainstream branch of Scientology where you don't have to cut off contact with your kid because they found another religion or decided to just be an atheist, or came out as LGBT.

Zionism isn't a religion, it's a white supremacist settler colonial ideology.

You're not arguing in good faith if, when I point out that many religions have extremist offshoots but are not themselves, inherently, radical and dangerous, you start pointing out instances of radical offshoots of religions. It comes off like reddit new atheism shit.

You want to say that Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc overall are just as dangerous as Scientology but it's just obviously untrue and kind of bigoted.