Everyone’s relationships are different, but having a parasocial relationship feels more unfaithful than just watching random porn.
At least, this is how I’d feel about a partner watching porn.
If a future partner of mine watched a streamer of some kind of sexual nature, that would not be cool with me personally. None of my past partners have done this so, only hypothetical.
To each their own, I guess!
You’d have to bury it fairly deep.
I’m Australia at least, you’d just be warming up your beer.
Glass bottles at the beach is a big no no though.
As is tradition.
Fun fact, half the Australian beverages market is owned by one, now foreign, company - Asahi.
Our regulators have really been snoozing on their anti-monopoly duties in so many industries.
I hope the customer service representative was granted permission to ask if they required assistance applying to education programs.
It’s just that usually the $ unit comes before the number.
Which I accept, but don’t like for the inconsistency with how we write units after the number.
Because I’m a fairly basic Chinese (Mandarin) basic, this gave me a moment of feeling dumb before realising it’s Cantonese.
Even picking up is a data point which will mean you’ll get more spam calls, unfortunately
But this is a good habit for when you’re expecting a call from a doctor’s office or something, I’ll be using it, many thanks!
You would not expect a government based on a set of self-serving antidemocratic bureaucrats to result in such benefits
Sure, there was genuine ideological reasons for the USSRs achievements, but you’re moving the goal-posts a bit. The original claim you were disputing was whether the USSR was authoritarian, which many people agree that it was.
There can be genuine and successful efforts to improve people’s lives under any system, including in the USSR.
What was imperialist about it?
are the first to come to my mind.
It would be a lot easier to defend the USSR if they only intervened to allow the proletariat to hold referendums, but we both know this is not what happened on many occasions.
It seems to me that Russia was continuing in the tradition Russian Empire, just under new management, and was definitely the first among “equals” in the USSR and its sphere of influence.
As a side note, I’ve only done very little Wikipedia level reading on anarchocommunism, and as much as I also believe people help each other willingly, I’ve yet to hear a good defence on how it would be possible with the massive populations we have now, as opposed to pre-history.
It’s all well and good that there are federated groups, with free association, but this is fundamentally ignoring that not all regions are equally blessed in resources.
If you have money, well then you need a centralised or decentralised way of miniting the money.
If you don’t have money, well, I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to think that people will want to take care more of the people immediately around them, rather than people on the other side of the world, and since we’re not getting together on large scales to make binding decisions, then there’s no way to guarantee that everyone has a fair share.
I’m not saying that more decentralised government wouldn’t work, but I do remain thoroughly unconvinced that free association of small groups across the entire world, would lead to much equity at all.
And as much as we may dream, there WILL be dickheads ruining it for the rest of us. Humans are nice, but humans can also be awful. Pretending otherwise is foolish and doomed to failure.
I’m a socialist, and am very keen to hear your thoughts :)
In my point of view calling yourself a socialist and not being able to criticise the blatantly anti-democratic and imperial power the USSR became is weird.
Socialism (in my view of it) necessarily requires democratic structures at work as well as government.
Despite the USSR’s positives (all countries have them) let’s not pretend like they had a good template we should emulate (on governance and voting, that is).
Without democracy, you’re basically hoping the people in charge are benevolent. But then when they’re inevitably not at some point, you have no way to peacefully remove them.
Next minute you’ll be telling me China is a democracy just because they elect people the the National People’s Congress. (Another country, with many positives, which is not a democracy).
And please do not confuse my criticism of notionally socialist states (China is definitely not), with implicit praise of the “democracy” in the United States, what they have is barely democracy.
sapient
This is some human supremacist language
Reckon if I subtly cross-post to r/MelbourneTrains I’ll get banned on Reddit haha
One way to find out ;)
I am, the 2 most recent posts in the last 7 months are me! :(
I do enjoy that Lemmy has been going so strong, it’s been a very long while since I’ve heard this.
Just wish MelbourneTrains was active over here :(
I’ve looked over the fence. Very sad people aren’t posting here! And there’s many posts a day there!
Don’t leave late. Lobby your politicians for sensible transport infrastructure (i.e. not just cars)
There is no excuse, but people normalise the hell out of it
I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.
Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.
The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.
I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.
It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.
Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.
I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.
However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.
The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.
Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.
There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.
I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.
We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know
Old TestamentGod is a petty asshole
At least old Testament God was straight up about being an arsehole. People are pretending like sending people to hell for eternity because you had the audacity to grow up not in a Christian household, isn’t straight up narcissistic behaviour.
Believe in me with no evidence, otherwise I’m damning you for all time. Even if I’m the one who let you be born into a particular region or family.
If God were a person, he’d have no friends.
(Just me being salty)
They’ll be fine if they had the cash to cough up for an EV then.
Unfortunate for them, but I don’t feel sorry. This is the reality of capitalism. The means of the production are not democratically controlled, it just so happened that Elon is particularly stupid.