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Everyone talks about Greece like it was the apocalypse, but France is writing the real endgame for Europe with 5000 trillion in debt and a deadlocked parliament.

Lol, you guys crying about "jeets taking jobs!!!" is hilarious. Meanwhile, actual skilled engineers and workers from India are literally outperforming you in every tech and labor metric. Maybe it's not the H1-Bs, maybe it's that most of you peaked in high school lol

If the Asian continents were divided into Arab+Iran+Central Asia / East Asia+Southeast Asia, which side would Indians want to belong to?

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No, I was very interested in current affairs and economics and read many articles. Articles are a veritable treasure trove of knowledge.

They're not the ones breaking Spain apart, Spain's just too lazy to share the pie and too scared to lose control.

Spain steals their cash but refuses to give them a say...like, thanks for funding my Madrid fiesta
while they get jack shit.

It's not like medieval Europe was all that great or anything, but honestly, the material's rich as hell.

Endless wars dragging on, massive plagues killing thousands, peasants struggling to survive while nobles ignore or exploit them.
Political games, betrayals, and moral gray areas everywhere, with clear heroes and villains for stories to latch onto.

It's no surprise East Asians lean on this, Heroes appear in chaotic times, and it's the dark ages that truly shape their stories.
For now, medieval Europe fits that perfectly. it's a goldmine of conflict and tragedy to build on.

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You're right that cost of living and housing crises are real but blaming immigrants for those is missing the forest for the trees. Immigration didn't cause skyrocketing rents or stagnant wages.

Why? Immigrants aren't the ones buying up half the housing market or lobbying against tenant protections, that's on investors and policymakers.

And, Let me explain inflation and labor costs again, using the iPhone as an example.

That's a nice theory, but it ignores how capitalism actually works.

Companies don't magically innovate just because labor is expensive they just move operations to cheaper countries. That’s exactly what Apple and most tech firms have already done.

And no, higher prices don’t make people demand "longer lasting phones" it just prices more people out.

If making phones locally was such a great solution, the US wouldn't have outsourced its entire manufacturing base in the first place.

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Yeah, comfy prison is still prison

You can sugarcoat it all you want, but being banned from publishing, teaching, or freely expressing your life's work under threat of further punishment is repression, no matter how fluffy the pillow is.

"Living better than peasants" isn't a flex

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.

Germanic people? That's just an illusion. After thousands of years of mixing with all kinds of tribes and cultures, what pure Germanic race are you even talking about? From Frisians to Bavarians, Dutch to Scandinavians, everyone's been blended and changed beyond recognition. How can you call that a single people? The languages differ so much region to region, yet you want to lump them all together? Drop the fantasy and face reality

It's the difference between cultures that put real-life public figures at the center, and those that revolve around fictional characters.

Just because Naruto has a Japanese name doesn't make him Japanese. He's not a real person he's a cartoon character written by a japanese guy behind a desk

If there's any consolation, At leasts, At leasts Maybe it’s because of JAV or whatever, Japanese women are so popular they drive white guys crazy But China ends up getting neither the white d*ck nor the white p*ssy.

>Low IQ take: "America is mad about the Dead Hand threat!"
>Korean tier IQ: "America knows Putin won't negotiate, so they're using Medvedev's empty nuclear bluster as a convenient excuse to flex some hardware and look tough."

Russia's Dead Hand only activates if their entire leadership is wiped out meaning unless the U.S. launches a full decapitation strike, nothing actually happens.

In other words, Trump initiated a show of force in order to pressure Putin into coming to the negotiating table