Progress towards an unsustainable capitalist dystopia that sets the world on fire is still progress right?

Or maybe they can’t work due to autoimmune disease or chronic illness and maybe even could work if they had healthcare…

Not necessarily. If doing that is against a persons value system, it’s perfectly acceptable for them to choose not to enter a relationship with that person. It doesn’t have to be related to control.

If my partner started doing that without telling me, I’d tell them it’s not consistent with my value system and see if they’d reconsider. If not, we’d go our separate ways.

They have suprisingly open hiring policies, unlike some American institutions under the current regime.

The world doesn’t become a better place through appearances. People should smile if they’re actually happy, not because they’re being coerced into it.

Most people will actually smile back at you if you’re even just somewhat pleasant to be around.

The implication is that China is a serious military threat so being allied with the West (not sure if the West as a whole is that strong militarily, moreso the US [perhaps the UK and France] specifically) is necessary for India.

China and India were friends long ago, throughout much of human history actually. The attitude between both regions was one of “you got your good thing going, and we got our good thing going”. It’s how both civilizations coexisted for thousands of years.

Things changed in the colonial era and after. Britain needed to bankroll their industrial revolution to, in their view, push humanity forward but really it was mostly for themselves. They turned India into a resource mining machine and pumped China full of opium (often grown in India) mostly so that they could… purchase tea?

Shortly after the end of WW2 and both nations were free from the shackles of Anglo tyranny, China was not happy with the borders the British had drawn and wanted to take control of a region, given to India, that connected Tibet and Xinjiang called Aksai Chin. This led to the Sino Indian war in 1962 which China won with a suprise attack, reasserting its presence as a major regional player and putting India in a position to more closely ally with the Soviet Union for military purposes.

Since then, India and China have not really been close, even if they are both BRICS nations. China also went on to help Pakistan procure nuclear weapons so its going to be quite some time before this relationship is mended.

Thats one way to see it. India and the West see each other as strategic allies in a mutually beneficial arrangement given Indias proximity to China and Russia. I don’t see it as one sided as you’re suggesting, especially since historically India and Russia have been friendly to each other.

They’ve gotten friendlier with the West in the past few decades. The distrust is for good reason given history of Western foreign interference (colonialism) and the US having a close relationship with Pakistan pre Bin Laden.

I take it here is not in the US.

But even if you’re in Sweden or Norway, it shouldn’t matter. People are people. And I can also confirm that there are black families that go to IKEA 🤣.

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I see it now. Yuck. Thank you.

Believe it or not, black people exist. Maybe not where you live specifically but I can personally confirm they’re real.

I’m not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans, and I definitely won’t say that they’re the most comfortable jeans I’ve ever worn or that they make your butt look amazing.

Why would I need to do that?

But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I’m not going to stop you.

Just so we’re clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans.

Sydney Sweeney has great jeans— you see what I did there, right?

Where is the implication that genes are related to personality though?

Social media has accelerated this. No one would know who this guy was in the 90s, for example.

Nah it’s time to hold Boomers accountable. They were too busy focusing on hedonism, selling out future generations for a tax cut and buying pickup trucks they didn’t need, to care about big picture concepts like climate change.

Amazing how generous we are with our language when the criminal is Hitler-approved demographically.

In an open marketplace I’m afraid that is a competitive disadvantage Especially with a 1 in 3 approval rating.

What’s a better term?