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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldAsmeinkampf
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    17 hours ago

    The really funny bit is that Trump sent $200M in aid to Ukraine back in 2018 and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

    As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. had disbursed 58 percent of the $188 billion in spending related to the conflict (U.S. spending is first appropriated, then obligated, then disbursed).

    Anyone saying Trump wasn’t enthusiastically sending NATO arms and armor to the Ukrainian battlefront is either deeply misinformed our outright lying. The big difference between Biden and Trump, wrt Ukraine, was that Trump loved to get big beautiful photo-ops with Putin where they were both smiling and shaking hands. Meanwhile, Biden preferred photo-ops where he was frowning and shaking his head.


  • Men primarily select for beauty, while women select for other things

    Idk about that. Any high class club or bar in America will have That One Guy with a sorority’s worth of women just hanging off him.

    Also, men will fixate on beauty. But they routinely select for compatibility and accessibility. Guys pair up with girls who are interested in them. And finding a woman who reflects your own interests and passions is as much of the dating game as looking good. The standard for physical beauty is highly relative, such that the cutest girl in the computer science lounge probably won’t look anything like a Vogue Cover Model but will still have a hive of anxious, sweaty, love-struck co-eds hovering around them.

    women are essentially selectively bred for beauty

    Beauty standards are all over the map. Read your Freud. Straight men tend to gravitate towards women who remind them of their childhood primary caretakers (ie, mom). Women aren’t “selectively bred” for anything. They reproduce a cohort of young men who adopt the beauty standards established by their elders.

    It is not women who change to reflect male tastes but men who change to reflect female appearance.

    Where you see this pattern go off the rails is among latchkey kids who are exposed to mass media and denied access to a large cohort of IRL caregivers. When TV raises your kids, they’re going to grow up to believe Women On TV are what women should look like. But then beauty standards are established by TV production companies, not natural selection.





  • You know, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks “If we didn’t have laws, people would just do horrible things to one another because we’re all libidinal animals shackled by the threat of state violence.”

    But if I’d just stormed the US Capital Building, spent six months in iPad timeout, and then received a Presidential pardon to Do As Thou Wilt, I might get a little freaky with it under the preconception that laws really don’t apply to me.


  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldto Memes of Production@quokk.auNo individuality
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    18 hours ago

    China is the most-capitalist of any country

    “Capitalism is when people own things” is Milton Friedman brain.

    China is the most successful instance of decolonization in human history. China’s legal policy of domestic ownership is as revolutionary as any Soviet model imposed under Lenin.

    The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry. Domestic ownership remains the cornerstone of Chinese economic policy and guarantees a quality of life not seen anywhere in the world.

    An entire class of low paid factory workers prop up the billionaire elite

    Americans will complain that China is stealing they’re jobs, then dismiss high paid industrial positions in blue collar industry. It’s fucking crazy.

    You know what the retirement age is in China right now? 63! And that’s for able bodied men in white collar jobs. Blue collar working women earn their pensions at 55.

    We’ve got people in Western countries working into their fucking 80s, because they can’t afford rent otherwise.

    That’s why China has billionaires and America has trillionaires.