To be honest with you, they are all beautiful to see. I remember many years ago, people with bigger brains than mine would say 'You should all learn Mandarin you're going to need it in a few decades!'
" What’s happening with TikTok and RedNote might seem small, but it is just one of the bricks which falls from the wall of a crumbling empire to build up another."
When I read this in your post this morning, it immediately brought to mind a quote from William James which I must share.
"“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
What encouraging news, Declan. Cheered me up no end.
I grew up in an age of optimism and full employment.
When the 1980s hit I payed attention and witnessed in real time the worst of humanity led by Washington slowly take more and more control over Western countries until they are now vassal states of the Empire. What made me sick was the way mainstream media and television groomed cultures, insidiously lied and along with deindustrialisation destroyed communities and solidarity that gave so many stability after WW2.
Having taught in different countries, my anger and sadness at what these ghouls dealt to younger generations affected me deeply; seeing what we had as a right taken away and replaced with vacuous culture, debt and lies that we can now see have only empowered and enriched a small minority of sociopathic ghouls.
The thought that younger western people are rejecting this shite in significant numbers and even learning Mandarin is music to my ears. May the numbers build and become a tidal wave, sinking and isolating these rotten, psychopathic warmongers and stopping them before they destroy all of us. 🙏
But seriously, many may want to move to China now, instead of the US, where infrastructure is crumbling, because ostensibly leftist politicians are actually more corrupt, it turns out, than Republicans.
Nobody, however, is more corrupt than the neocons (now neoliberals) and the arms dealers pushing it all. Death Inc never wants for profits, not in a climate of perpetual war.
Who cares if the planet is denuded into a hellscape of depleted uranium, concrete dust, twisted and mangled bodies and god knows what other military waste?
Oh well, there are also those bioweapon factories, er research labs, in Ukraine. So, we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
Love that video 😂😂😂😂
To be honest with you, they are all beautiful to see. I remember many years ago, people with bigger brains than mine would say 'You should all learn Mandarin you're going to need it in a few decades!'
Oh how right they were.
Is Mandarin 🇨🇳 harder to learn then American 🇺🇸 English? 😂
" What’s happening with TikTok and RedNote might seem small, but it is just one of the bricks which falls from the wall of a crumbling empire to build up another."
When I read this in your post this morning, it immediately brought to mind a quote from William James which I must share.
"“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
― William James
Your words give us hope!! ☮
Lol this is why I subscribed, Declan. This is hilarious and as always ON POINT my friend. Or should I say, comrade 👍
👏😂
What encouraging news, Declan. Cheered me up no end.
I grew up in an age of optimism and full employment.
When the 1980s hit I payed attention and witnessed in real time the worst of humanity led by Washington slowly take more and more control over Western countries until they are now vassal states of the Empire. What made me sick was the way mainstream media and television groomed cultures, insidiously lied and along with deindustrialisation destroyed communities and solidarity that gave so many stability after WW2.
Having taught in different countries, my anger and sadness at what these ghouls dealt to younger generations affected me deeply; seeing what we had as a right taken away and replaced with vacuous culture, debt and lies that we can now see have only empowered and enriched a small minority of sociopathic ghouls.
The thought that younger western people are rejecting this shite in significant numbers and even learning Mandarin is music to my ears. May the numbers build and become a tidal wave, sinking and isolating these rotten, psychopathic warmongers and stopping them before they destroy all of us. 🙏
This is just so glorious.
Informative and very entertaining. Tom
Thank you for reading, Tom!
I'm going to once again try to change my avatar there. I was able to change my background but not my avatar🤔
You'll figure it out, they're working on proper English integration now! They weren't prepared for the influx!
I got it🥳🤣 Already trolling Elon Musk on it🤣
Can you supply an app for Russian type tiktok? I'd like that. The Russians are a good people that we've been cut off from too.
Is yer man pangzai still on the go ? In followed him when i was on twitter. He used to drink loads of mad stuff and cook food.
Laughed a lot- loved it 😊
That is the best Trump impression!
But seriously, many may want to move to China now, instead of the US, where infrastructure is crumbling, because ostensibly leftist politicians are actually more corrupt, it turns out, than Republicans.
Nobody, however, is more corrupt than the neocons (now neoliberals) and the arms dealers pushing it all. Death Inc never wants for profits, not in a climate of perpetual war.
Who cares if the planet is denuded into a hellscape of depleted uranium, concrete dust, twisted and mangled bodies and god knows what other military waste?
Oh well, there are also those bioweapon factories, er research labs, in Ukraine. So, we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.