The history of the protest-turned-riot-turned-massacre is genuinely incredible. I wish more Americans learned enough about Chinese history to understand the significance of the event. It wasn’t just one guy in front of a line of tanks. And the movement didn’t end in Tienamen, either.

Dengism into the 21st century was defined by that movement and the backlash and it’s reverberations. Modern Chinese domestic policy exists as a combination carrot and stick to discourage this kind of insurrection from happening again.

Would that the US people had the kind of courage and social cohesion necessary for a Tienamen in the modern day.

I mean, again, this joke gets made all the time.

But you do need to know your audience. OP seems to think “we’re trying to have a baby” is personally offensive, so I have to assume they have very thin skin.

The funny thing about the comic is that I’ve heard this exact joke from a gay couple, responding to a straight couple saying it.

“What’s your New Years plans?”

“This year, we’re finally going for it. We’re going to try for a baby”

“Oh honey… messy kiss with partner… we’ve been going in raw for years. But hope you have better luck.”

Basically the state of RedditLemmy atm

I guess I’m curious what “enlightenment” you felt you got out of it.

I met people from a variety of backgrounds, including people who’d grown up overseas. I had roommates for the first time, which gave me a taste of living with others who didn’t share my same habits or hygiene. I started dating seriously for the first time. Experimented with alcohol and a few other substances. A bunch of friends came out of the closet. I spent every summer doing a different low wage job - grocery store, teacher, assembly line worker, entry level paid worker on a political campaign. Put more miles behind the wheel in my freshman year than my entire life previously. Got to watch a particle accelerator fire and buy a homeless guy a drink at a local bar.

Idk how to really nail it down in simple terms, but I had such a broader exposure to the rest of the world in those university years.

Agreed but I get annoyed at people who have this idea of if we just educate everyone -> utopia and that conservatism is a function of undereducation

Oh, I agree. Some of the worst reactionaries are college educated. I don’t think college makes you liberal.

What’s the old saying? “A Conservative is just a Liberal that’s been mugged by reality”?

I had more than a few diehard Republicans in my friend group in college. Like, I got to meet the kind of people you just see shit talking on CrossFire IRL. People who unironically thought we should do genocide in Iraq because these were subhumans who had forfeited their right to life. People who were in Engineering because they wanted to build the bombs we were dropping in Afghanistan. People who used the hard-r at the end of the n-word just to prove they could.

Also incredibly enlightening.

american claim their country is worse than iran

The worst country in the world is the one that is oppressing me, personally.

nobody cared

Trump Threatens Iran Intervention. History Shows When Foreign Support Works

Somebody clearly cares

And then, despite finding out that Moody was in fact a Death Eater trying to kill him the whole time, somehow that didn’t taint his opinion on the Auror thing at all.

Moody wasn’t trying to kill him. He’d been kidnapped and replaced by a Death Eater in order to infiltrate the school. At the end of book 4, the deception is revealed and the death eater is arrested by the Aurors.

The real Moody returns in book 5 and serves as a loyal companion and mentor through the end of the series.

He had more experience by then end of the 7th book fighting Dark Wizards than most Aurors at the ministry would have. That job would have been boring as hell after Voldemort and the Death Eaters were defeated.

Voldemort is just the latest in a long line of evil wizards. They’re stubbornly common place.

I do think Harry’s career as an Auror can’t last. The best “old man Potter” story is going to read like a Harry Dresden novel - a washed up ex-cop turned private eye with as many enemies in the bureaucracy as the underworld.

But it’s reasonable for Harry to consider joining the Aurors after graduation, only to find out the hard way what being a Wizard Cop means in practice.

People who talk about how college makes you “Enlightened”, “Well Rounded”, etc. always baffle me.

Being a young twenty year old living apart from your parents among your peers with lots of free time to study and develop your talents enlightens you and rounds you out.

Universities are great because they facilitate that kind of social and intellectual development.

These elite prestigious institutions graduate some of the most evil and diabolical human beings driven purely by greed and prestige.

Evil people congregate in everywhere. I wouldn’t put this on universities specifically

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Pretty famously, he climbed directly up on the tank and chewed out the driver, then got back down and continued to block the tank. Others in the crowd pulled him away back down the street. The tank didn’t try to run him over, he was never reported captured, and as far as we’re aware he’s alive to this day.

Imagine an American climbing onto the hood of an ICE van or stubbornly maneuvering in front of a vehicle.

Extrovert = Has Friends

Historically speaking, a safe bet

Now kiss

Liberal Arts degrees are fantastically useful in the fields of sales and marketing. Tons of MBAs have liberal arts undergrad degrees. Tons of lawyers have liberal arts degrees. Tons of real estate agents have liberal arts degrees. Tons of professional con artists, police agents, and intelligence officers have liberal arts degrees.

The idea that the degree is useless, that you can’t get a job, or that you are only able to work in academia is entirely false.

The problem with these degrees is that they teach you how to be horrifyingly evil and then politely ask you not to, while dangling an enormous bucket of cash in your face to do exactly that.

Scientist: “Any interaction could alter history!”

Another Scientist: “Bro, meteor’s still going to hit if we kick back a few brews and dino-wrangle.”

Third Scientist: “Way… hic ahead of you. YEHAW!”

The point is if there is a god the dude has bigger concerns.

The clock-maker is not concerned exclusively with the largest gears.

We’re on our own, there’s no sign that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

“God doesn’t care about small things” is the antithesis of Biblical teaching. Both the Old and the New Testaments go through great pains to convey how the most humble individuals in the most basic circumstances still receive Divine Attention.

If you’re arguing with a Christian on these terms, you’re queuing yourself up for an ass kicking. They’ve got much better poetry than a grainy photo of a galaxy that isn’t even the Milky Way, btw.

Did you just “everyone’s a little ADHD” me?

No.

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Hardly. Starting a project is often pretty straightforward, the possibilities are boundless, and the vision can be fuzzy without interfering with the initial work.

As soon as you get to the more complex and less fun bits of the project - reconciling flaws in the initial design, repeatedly failing in execution of a step in the operation, finding a missing piece, being forced to backtrack because you missed a step, debugging, validating results, beautifying the final project, documentation - its normal to get frustrated, lose enthusiasm, and shift focus. You don’t have to be diagnosed with anything to experience anxiety, boredom, or ennui. These are universal human conditions.

If anything, I’d argue a certain level of OCD is necessary to get a project over the finish line. If you’re not a touch masochistic, nothing will ever get done.

A lot of the early stigmas and taboos about diet, clothing, and hygiene emerged from ritualized practices intended to prevent disease and promote human health. The lack of understanding meant the ritual divorced itself from the real best practices over time. But prohibitions on eating shellfish and chopping off the foreskin of your dick and keeping menstruating women out of the house were ultimately primitive efforts at avoiding food poisoning, curbing the spread of STIs, and managing the bloody mess of periodic period flow.