I don't know why Zizek is known outside his local village. Baffled by it. He has nothing to say and he says it badly.

Everybody did. Like lots of people attended the same parties as Epstein or were in a photograph with him.

Rational, nice-smelling comrades: Let me hear and consider what this person has to say and if I agree with it or not, regardless of what he said yesterday.

Internet goblins: Let me find one flaw in something this person said from cradle to grave and dismiss everything they every said, with plenty of recreational name-calling thrown in.

Part of it is basic human shittiness, part of it is the slant of the medium, where glib put-downs work well and careful thoughtful arguments do not. Like if the discussions were taking place as a back-and-forth of journal letters we would discuss things in a better way.

I hate the left tbh, always trying to condemn. It seems to be a hobby for some of them.

Your mom belongs to us all

I did mention the antipodes. I meant outside of America.

Non-Americans can virtue signal all they want about American racism but at the end of the day, ask them about gypsies or the condition of their indigenous

Do you have an example of this?

When do non-Americans put down their indigenous? Anti-indigenous sentiment is pretty exclusive to America, IME, apart from the antipodes and maybe Safrica.

kinda off-topic for the thread, but I have seen people here defend the CPC's least defensible moves

I am more ambivalent about China than most Hexbears (I am rational: the "absolutely everything China does is absolutely perfect" line is ridiculous), but this one policy makes me go wow

This is the best development in a long time. Wonderful leadership.

Oh yeah, the USA has that rigid electoral calendar, elections are not 'called'

There was an example of this when Sadiq Khan was elected mayor of London.

British press has headlines like: Sadiq's got it as expected.

USA press was like: London now has a MUSLIM mayor!!!!

I was never sure if that was a joke sub