Skysthelimit [none/use name]
The western countries are used to having Africa all to themselves and exploiting the shit out of it. Along comes China with the nerve - the nerve - to offer better deals than they are. Thus all the rage. The fact that China is getting shit done is outrageous. Africa needs to be kept poor and needy - not have railroads, highways and ports built so Africa can stand on its own two feet. Next they’re going to figure out they don’t need exploiters any more! What will the bankers do then?
The good news is that weed isn’t actually addictive. You can quit anytime you want to. You just have to want to. And the reason you like weed is because you don’t have anything better going on and weed is a substitute for the positive emotion you should be experiencing from life, but aren’t. You need something better than weed in your life.
The positive emotion is generated in the conception of the better future and then the evidence that you generate yourself that you’re moving towards it. That’s where the positive and fulfilling meaning of life comes. You want to be going somewhere that’s good enough so that that going is worth the trouble. Okay, what would make the journey worthwhile? You can ask yourself that.
Find the areas in your life where you have the ability to actually achieve success and focus on those first, because actually achieving that success is likely to open up opportunities that you couldn’t imagine or plan for in your state of relative failure. Cheap wins, they really help.
It’s obviously a defensive weapon causing the problems, but to admit this at this point would make the State Department look like a bunch of incompetent fools. So, blame it on TEH ROOSHINS it is.
One gets the idea these people missed out on the Red Scare and instead of thinking that that was awful and we should never do it again, they wanted to be Senator McCarthy and look for Russians under the bed every night.
Games Workshop is run by lawyers. They’re so bad, they’re like a parody of capitalism, but all too real. They constantly attack their fan base for creating fan works, even if it improves their own products.
How do they stay in business then? Well they aren’t interested in fan hobbyists. Their product isn’t minifigs or rulesets or anything like that. Their product is connecting fathers to sons. Modeling and painting and playing and attending conventions are things that fathers can do with their sons once they age out of that daddy-horsey shit. And Dad’s wallet is wide open - how else can he connect with his son, who would otherwise likely spend his time online and due to online influence become completely estranged from his father? That’s the product that GW sells, and that’s why they can get away with their outrageous attacks on their fans.
It means the unelected government, what’s variously called The Blob (Obama’s people), the Deep State (Trump’s people) or the administrative state (everyone else). None of them are subject to the other branches of government. As we saw under Obama, they straight up give orders. As we saw under Trump, they will straight up disobey orders they don’t agree with, and lie to the president. After the legislative branch passed a law forbidding them to spy on us, they broke the law, lied about it under oath to Congress and nobody went to prison.
With their man the senile Biden in, they now fully control the US government. You’re never getting your pre-virus freedoms back. They will fight before they give an inch.
If anyone wonders where the TERFs are hiding out after they were banned from Reddit, they are at https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/
Unfortunately, they are quick with the ban hammer, so it’s hard to get a word in edgewise with them. They’re not interested in hearing different opinions, they are only interested in hearing about how they’re right about everything.