He is disdainful towards everyone, but I thought that him specifically not being interested in work place romance in his introduction was relevant.

The actual reason is probably that he isn’t interested in women as more than fetish objects and going after his coworkers would be far too conspicuous. But still.

Yoshikage Kira was all about appearing unremarkable and normal to the world, so he probably would have said that.

He also had disdain for the coworkers that hit on him.

Yeah, that is where I grew up. Lots of Dutch people.

A lot of people from the Nethelands moving in where I used to live in Sweden for that reason.

Also that it was a dying town with no jobs that is steadily spiraling downwards so people pick up drug/alcohol addictions to cope or move away meaning that housing is cheap. But if you want solitude it is pretty swell.

Snoop is no trifling German king, he is the new Charlemagne.

And they have zero tariffs to the US, great opportunity to bring back business pope.

You could just leave IIRC. You’re probably gonna get into combat with goblins, but you can also toggle to non-lethal attacks.

Yeah, I assumed he was a regular misogynist at the very least. But he hasn’t come out and infantilised women for being inherently less intelligent. The only people who are obsessed with brain size are the chauvinists who consider women as children mentally.

If he thinks that a physically larger brain means you’re smarter that means that he is likely a turbo-sexist.

Domino theory and French chauvinism. Cuba was nominally independent long before the revolution. Vietnam was still a French colony before WW2, and France wanted it back.

I was sadly exposed to hearing Douglas Murray speak and I wonder how anyone takes him seriously. He sounds like someone taking the piss with mocking a posh accent. Stephen Fry on quaaludes tier.

Kermit Peterson was strange, but I was under the impression that one of the things that made Murray famous was that people liked the way he talks.

If we count the X-men then half of them are busy fighting the us government.

I don’t think they understand how trade between the US and China works if they think China can’t deal without US imports without going into scarcity better than the reverse.

Also, China hasn’t levied tariffs on every other country. The US has.

It is just bizarre to me that China is reliant on US soybean export and are looking to offset it by growing corn.

I remeber posting about how I thought mercantilism was about to make a comeback as neoliberalism keeps faltering last summer, but I didn’t think it would be this blatant.

I’m pretty close with my mum but have had a tendency to not tell her about struggles I have, not because of anything she has done but rather because of shame and not wanting to make her sad. She would listen and is very non-judgemental but I’d rather shoulder it on my own. The only caveat to that is that she is proper anti-drugs.

Dad was a dickhead and he can RIP in piss.

Yeah, they are part of the history module from elementary to high school. A lot of these are still in it from the Olof Palme days when Sweden was marginally cool.

Wonder how much it has changed now as the succdems have moved further right and the conservative bloc has been in power for the last couple of decades.

The winter war. Sweden paints Finland as the plucky little underdog the same way that Finland itself does, can hardly recall the Nazis even being mentioned during that module. Also some stuff about the Extradition of the Balts post ww2 which some nationalists see as a national sin, especially since it had come up again post dissolution of the USSR. We have a lot more anti communists that ran away from the USSR than China.

The standard teaching of WW2 also includes the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact but excludes that none of the Allies were willing to help the Soviet Union contain Hitler.

Mao is mostly just that he implemented some bad policies leading to a lot of death which was regrettable, but overall he vastly improved China. Stalin was painted as malicious whereas Mao was incompetent in some ways while still overall positive.

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Brezhnev, Castro, Guevara, Allende, Mao, Tito and I do recall getting some stuff about Lumumba. This was in Sweden.

I recall it being fairly positive about all of them other than Stalin and Brezhnev. Mao was pretty mixed. It is pretty interesting in that relations between China and Sweden have taken a nosedive since I left school, so I would guess it would be a lot less positive about Mao today.

The reason for Allende is that there are a lot of Chilean communists that fled to Sweden during the Pinochet years, third largest Chilean diaspora in the world behind Argentina and the US.

Forgot about Ho Chi Minh, he was also depicted very positively.

Having 300 cases of measles without any dead very likely statistically speaking. The issue is that the (relatively, it would be several hundred thousand dead in the US without a vaccine) low mortality and risk of other complications is avoidable.

Anyway, I wish they’d pick a lane between measles is harmless and good to give to your kids and that it is imperative to give your kids snake oil to treat it lest they die a horrible death.