Thanks for that. Always interested in hearing different perspectives.

Kerala India achieved developed nation level performance on HDI (human development index) indices in a few short decades with expansive land and policy reforms under a democratically elected communist party.

Communism is an extremely effective tool at shaking off feudalistic old world tendencies but, as a system, it is extremely economically handicapped in a world where the wealthiest nations are capitalist.

Which is why China has had to adopted a hybrid “state capitalism” / mercantilism to achieve its rapid economic ascent.

If we’re going off election results it would be nearly two thirds of white men and more than half of white women so YMMV depending on which part of the country you’re in.

For which party and why? I would contend many people enjoy sex most when their partner is someone they respect, provided they’ve developed to a certain level of maturity. Perhaps you have an alternate rationale.

Even within dom/sub and other BDSM variations I would hope both partners respect each other because without that you’ve entered a very toxic and destructive space.

By respecting their agency.

The European age of mass human sacrifice in the form of witch burning (1450 to 1750) is certainly something we don’t want to bring back.

If someone’s physical safety is under threat then this seems like a reasonable tool for self protection.

Let’s hope someone doesn’t abuse it.

There’s truth to what you’re saying but it also doesn’t matter. If it were instead designated as “North Atlantic” or with any arbitrary label, you would still have a subgroup of those people thinking their superior and giving us phrenology, eugenics, Nazism etc and believing in _______ supremacy. The underlying problem doesn’t go away.

In UN proceedings the Middle East is referred to as West Asia.

Middle East is very much a colloquial anglo/euro-centric term. We’ll see if it’ll stick around outside of the West, where 80% of humanity resides.

This is called a bribe. Bridge owner bribed US president Donald Trump with $1 million dollars in exchange for blasting competitor.

Why not?

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I wouldn’t see it as being right or wrong. Both white folks in the comic would benefit from a broadening of perspective is all.

The white guy doesn’t understand why a unique space is needed for women and gets an explanation.

The white lady doesn’t understand why a unique space is needed for black women and gets an explanation.

Anyone with a cursory understanding of history, particularly modern colonial history, where Europeans and their descendants actively dabbled in propoganda/a worldview that white = human and nonwhite = non/subhuman (culminating in Nazism) would understand this but our education system often avoids these difficult topics. Women were not able to hold credit up until the 70s and so their financial security depending entirely on their husband, depriving them of agency.

Unfortunately we can’t just flip a switch and make this history and it’s legacy disappear. I don’t blame the people portrayed in this comic. I blame inadequate education.

You would have to overthrow capitalism first. Which would be quite the task in the good old USA.

Men don’t have emotions remember? Stoicism and what not.

This must be devastating for the Switch which also happens to be nearly tied for best selling console of all time.

Are we talking about Gate’s home country, which was also home to the most notorious child rapist and trafficker of our time, who was also close to the country’s child rapist in chief? You know, the ‘disgraced financier’ whose collaborators have had to face no accountability whatsoever.

Because if we’re going to talk about countries that are “a-ok with rape”…

From whose perspective? That’s certainly true from the perspective of Americans and other Western countries but if you’re from a nation in the Global South there absolutely is more than a kernel of truth in their sense of same shit, different day.

That shouldn’t dissuade Americans from voting responsibly though. The American imperial machine is going to do what it does. You should still aspire to mobilize a majority that prefers a competent non-pedophile in your highest office.

Viktor&Rolf Spicebomb is a great autumn scent if you’re looking for a pumpkin spice esque masculine scent.

That’s a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.

The ancient Egyptians used sandalwood to produce perfume oils. Smelling like wood isn’t ever going out of style.