I think they mean a real person, the player, would need a minimum of “12 charisma” to even think of saying something like that to the DM.
And the meme says “me with 8 real life charisma” y’know, so less than 12.
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If I’m honest, I don’t believe the official story at all.
Too many holes. Too many weird coincidences.
One that I see few people talking about is Philip D Zelikow. He is an ideologue for the right. And his main work was on myths and civilization building, how civilizations are built (or re-built) around myths.
He had a very interesting article a few years before 9/11 about how the US needed a major tragic event, like a terror attack, like bombing in the WTC, to kickstart a new myth. To shape the future of the country, shift its direction from the last major myth (WW2 and the fight against communism) after the victory at “the end of history”.
This guy was put in charge of writing up the official story from the 9/11 commission.
I don’t know what exactly happened. But I don’t believe the official story is all I can say.
It feels too much like the shady CIA operations we have lots of details for now from the 50s and 60s. Like I can see a Blowback on 9/11 in a few years. Or an Eyes Wide Open.
I really recommend Eyes Wide Open on YouTube btw. And James Corbett on 9/11 stuff as well. Both super well sourced.
Yeah? The executives are firing people, to lower costs, make the numbers look better..? Which makes the owners of the business money?
Why wouldn’t the executives get bonuses or golden parachutes if let go? They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.
Executives don’t make products, provide services, or add any productive value. They are just the face of the owners, and will do the “hard” things for them.
Like lie, commit crimes, do mass-layoffs etc etc.
Dang I can’t find anything on that that’s not NED propaganda /: seems like it’s fake surprise surprise
Why do you say there is a separated class of rulers? Nothing seems to indicate that.
Anyone can join politics in China, and many of top officials rose from being farmers, factory workers, elementary school teachers etc.
Do you know how their government works? How democracy works in China?
That’s not a thing 😄
What “Han Chinese policy”..?
You know the one-child policy only applied to Han Chinese in major cities right? Ethnic minorities were exempt.
And ethnic minorities have autonomy, meaning they rule themselves and have their own laws/governments. Like the Tai people in Guangxi, or Inner Mongolia where they still have signs in the Mongolian script. While in Mongolia they use the Cyrillic alphabet 😄
The Chinese government sponsors local cultural events and practices, builds temples to local religions (like the largest Buddhist temple in the world in southwest China), incentivizes learning local languages (by having bilingual schools) etc etc.
What has any western country done in that respect? In guarding and preserving minority cultures? Like how are Canada or Australia doing? I won’t even mention the US 😄
Lmao vuvuzela ok gotcha
Can it become a global superpower without becoming “democratic”?
Because that means a liberal western style democracy right? Where policies enacted by representatives only benefit 1% of the people? Like scientific research has shown that like 10% of laws passed actually represent the will of the vast majority of people. And 50% represent the will of the 1%.
While in China people are constantly polled (like monthly or weekly sometimes) about their opinions, situations, desires, and then laws are formed from that. They participate in local government in councils, and directly decide how their immediate community lives.
What even is democracy? To me it’s to have the will of the people represented in our states.
This doesn’t happen anywhere in the west. When was the last time a government in any major western country was POPULAR. And did what people actually wanted?
How is THAT democracy?
China is not easy to immigrate to, true. But saying they are monocultures or xenophobic is CRAZY.
China has way more peoples and cultures than most countries. It has waaaay more languages officially spoken and taught in school than the US. It’s more comparable to the EU, if it had formed like a thousand years earlier.
Just search a couple of random Chinese provinces or autonomous regions (places where minorities self-govern 😲) in like the north and the south, or the west and the east, and read on the culture and ethnicities there.
Seriously Americans insist they have such vast cultural differences within the US, because “here we say pop and there they say soda; most people here are anabaptist, but there they are Methodists”.
Bro in China they speak languages that are not even related. They follow religions that are separated by thousands of years. They have cultural practices that are unique to their region that developed for thousands and thousands of years.
China is infinitely more diverse than 90% of countries in the world.
Hummm the “liberal world order” is 100% “countries” using arms to push their will. Countries being “the west”.
And YOU having “human rights” is not really dependent on the “liberal world order”. Most of your rights were won by blood and tears during the late 1800s and early 1900s, through popular movements mostly ideologically aligned first with anarchism then with communism.
Also, the vast majority of the world not having human rights and being colonized and exploited IS your “liberal world order”.
So not really sure how you specifically benefit from western imperialism, unless you are a billionaire ofc. Which I highly doubt.
The play is to do to China right back what it did to the US and Europe. Play coy, act like you’re capitulating. But then steal their app, ai and fusion techs and idk, become socialist as a joke?