Liberals think he got run over right? Also they know China is communist, has been for a while, and will be for the foreseeable future...

So this image is saying communists are on the winning side of history and liberals on the losing side by a wide margin?

This is what dates and hanging out with a friend turns into anyways. Go to a show/dinner/game then awkwardly walk around town because neither wants to go back home and do something less fun

leftists just adopt “capitalism bad and culturally underdeveloped people good” as their core principle and go from there instead of reading the books

This is fucking racist

The Avatar worldview. The James Cameron one, not the good one

Yeah sure ATLA certainly has no black and white message about the consequences of industrialism and imperialism on pre-industrial societies.

Some Polandball type shit, making out nation-states as characters in some pseudo-relatable sitcom

Desecrated

Because the Founding Fathers are a pantheon for the American civic religion? (Answering myself, unironically yes!)

Meanwhile they'll protect the acts of burning Qurans and rendering the Prophet in insulting ways as free speech, and not inciting public religious conflict

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind"

I wish I could tell you that I had some magic solution, or five-point plan to resolve this never-ending crisis. I don’t.

Then stfu Bernie

ngl that would be a funny bit if Musk started a whole ass Twitter thread rephrasing the entirety of the Aeneid in his usual raving manner, screeching about weapons and some dude from Troy

"Human nature" is always some extremely narrow definition given by non-philosophers.

Very quick philosophy lesson, "nature" basically means "essence" in one type of philosophy that thinks it's okay to reduce things to qualities that "make" a thing. So human nature is what all humans have, without which they are literally no longer humans, but something else.

Even then, this type of philosophy recognizes "accidental" properties, which are things that a thing can have without modifying its essence. So a swan is still a swan even if it has black feathers instead of white.

Now for the frustrating part: a human being not being greedy, brutal, participating in capitalism, whatever should not be dehumanized. This is not human nature. There's so much more interesting things about humanity that sets it apart from animality, like language and culture.

Fighting against Stalin does not mean you are fighting for nazism

Hitler or Stalin. Pick one because in the 1940s there was no other choice.

So which is it? Dilemma or not?

Also in the comics:

Earth Kingdom peasants rise up against the king for better conditions. The king asks Kyoshi, the avatar before Aang, to suppress them. Kyoshi won't serve the king at first, but then some windows get broken or something and she goes full cop and suppresses them, then further goes on to establish the Dai Li secret police to prevent further protests.

The "wisdom" being that the avatar answers to no king, but destroying private property is even worse, so some weird centrism is the best . In general, the Avatar is a disgusting centrist neoliberal corruption of the original Indian concept of a hero incarnated to deliver divine justice for the oppressed

We can, but we can't, because we don't. If we do, it wouldn't be what we do, so we shouldn't.

- capitalist koan, apparently

Is that a big bargaining chip or something? The presence of the Ukrainian Olympic team?