What the article fails to differentiate is that knowledge is not enough, and is not the decisive factor in opening doors to the world of the elite.

A person from an ivy league and no-name college can get the same knowledge but only the stamp of approval from the ivy league school opens the opportunities to spectacular success and wealth. The other person may be just as knowledgeable and competent but will max out at upper middle class.

The stamp is what counts.

Modern “let me google that for you”

That’s art for you. Music, fine art etc I’d guess is even more lopsided.

Pretty clear and obvious. Long list but a few are:
Uyghur Genocide and organ harvesting Tibetan conquest and oppression South China Sea Aggression (Phillippines, etc) Taiwan Outer Manchuria Dispute (Russia) Aranachal Pradesh Dispute (India, recent deaths)

Totalitarian rule by a dictator with unchecked power

Yeah that’s who you want to root for.

lol. The Chinese Communist Party needs to calm down with their imperialist conquest and cultural genocide of their neighbors.

And this matters because?

Since before we were homo sapiens distinct from our evolutionary cousins. Probably before our ancestors were recognizable as mammals, or even terrestrial.

Obviously. German national socialism is dead and Islamism is alive.

What’s crazy is letting thieves openly ransack stores.

What happens when pandemic 2 requires mask mandates?

Tartube

Cyberpunk 2077
Iron Harvest

No, we have a barely functioning centralized government structure. Iran does not because Israel and US killed them all. Nobody can speak for the whole country and control the IRGC.

Pon Pon Shit

or

Running with the Devil

The problem is there’s nobody in Iran in control of the country to enforce any agreement.

Yes Xi Jingping would spark this

Can’t clean anything over 1/8" tall, including itself.

Sad for the guy’s family members sure, but the fuckwad destroyed so many more families and got what was coming.