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Donald Trump even slapped tariffs on an Island which has no people, only penguins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

We already have a thread about this.

Why Are So Many Women Searching for Ultra-Violent Porn? https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-are-so-many-women-searching-for-ultra-violent-porn/

That guy has always been a player and super charismatic with da ladies, why would he need to resort to rape. I don't understand some of these people who have really good game. Its like, if some pick up guru has game that's really on point, then why is he getting charged with rape? I expect some ugly person with no game to get charged with rape, as he has no way of getting sex other wise. But no, its usually the opposite. Why? Is it the power?

I think this really speaks to the poor epistemology of the MAGA movement. Obama is right, if he did was Trump is doing, than the Republicans would have impeached him. Remember the Hillary Clinton email scandal? Where is the response from MAGA about the recent Signal leaks? Or how about when Trump improperly had classified documents in his Mar-A-Lago residence? Leading to his property being raided. They [The Republicans and the MAGA movement] even advocated defunding the FBI over this. When its their guy mishandling classified information, they defend him to the bitter end, because they're too self-biased and have traded an endless lust for power over epistemological contemplation, for which they never cared about to begin with.

Thank you to all who replied to my thread. Cruizer has been with me since I was less than ten years old, and so his passing feels like the end of an era. I have been crying some bit for the past two days, and all of your beautiful comments have really been helping me. I can’t believe that this thread has received as many replies as it did in such a short period of time, it even received a reply from Leo himself. I’ve said this before, but I view this forum as an extension of my friends/family, especially the more consistent frequent members. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you.

@Princess Arabia I think this thread is good enough. I view this forum as an extension of my family/friends, so I wanted to share this moment. Cruizy was there when my grandpa was still alive, who saw Cruizy through Skype calls as he lived in Russia, so this cat was a historical family relic.

I’m of course very devastated by this loss. We adopted Cruizy when he was 1 years old and I’m 22 years now. So you do the math of how old I was when we adopted him. Cruizy was found by my mom’s coworker when he was less than one year. He was found abandoned in a field of a farm, covered in scratches and barbed wire. The coworker attempted to raise Cruizy, but he was actively terrorizing the other cats she owned, so much so that the other cats were getting depression. So to see if the other cat’s depression could be alleviated, she gave my family Cruizy. This was supposed to be a temporary thing, but he later grew on us. Cruizy was with me for the bulk of my childhood. Through all of my life problems and successes. From middle, high school, through college, I remember Cruizy. When Cruizy’s heath was getting worse, a day before he died, I sat with him in the basement alone until midnight. When we first took him home, he sat in an alcove (or nook) in the laundry room for days. I had to lure him out with meat. But right before he died, he went back to the same nook in the laundry room, where he hasn’t been for years, where I would later discover his body. Pic above is the alcove in the laundry room. 2011 - April 4th, 2025

Using Leo's videos, Understanding Impermanence and What Is Death to cope. @Leo Gura if you're reading this, which videos do you recommend for this situation?

Rest in peace, ‘Cruizer’. 2011 - 2025 I’m very sad about this, I wish I spent more time with my cat.

I just did a google search, and it turns at Bashar (Darryl Anka) is of Lebanese descent. Just like me! Cool.

The number one burning question I've always had of China, is its Communist Party, and their ideology. They liberalized because they didn't have the productive capacity to enact proper socialism as China before the revolution was feudal and agricultural. But do they actually have a plan to achieve socialism? From what I can infer, the CPC has no intentions of communal and employee ownership of the means of production, because by their definition of socialist, they already are socialist, with Chinese characteristics, of course. Current Chinese policy is about "perfecting" and "deepening" the policies they have already implemented. This means more markets, more private ownership and more export of capital. Central planning has long ceased to exist and has been replaced by a system where the market is "decisive" (not the only force, but by the CPC's own admission "decisive"). CPC members don't see China ever becoming socialist because by their own definition it already IS socialist. They don't see themselves as passing through a retreat like the Soviets did with the NEP, they consider the current system to be a superior socialist system to the central planning they previously practiced. In the minds of CPC members, all they need to do is keep "developing" and they are set. But don't blame Xi for this. All he is doing is continuing a process that Deng Xiaoping set into motion and every General Secretary since has followed. It was Deng who set off on the "Southern Tour" that kickstarted further marketisation reforms when they stalled after causing economic and social crisis. It was Jiang Zemin who declared the "Socialist Market Economy" and unleashed the firesale of public assets in the 90's. It was Hu Jintao who started the "stablity maintanence" and "harmonious society" programs that now make it impossible for Marxists in China to criticise Opening and Reform. The mid to long term goal of the CPC is embodied in the "Centenary Goals". By 2050 China is supposed to have become a "strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and modern socialist country". Based on what those terms mean in China today and their silence on exploitation, I personally don't think the CPC has any intention of droping market forces, exploitation or private ownership within our lifetimes, if ever.