Indian elites are so pathetic, a white oligarch follows their prime minister and it makes headline news
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"Self-determination" is good only if the people are American vassals, it apparently doesn't apply for the Donbas region.
Lethe
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Rhetoric about particular ideological or moral commitments often serves to justify and legitimise the pursuit of national interests. Where one's interests clash with one's self-image and declared values, it is typically the latter that gives way and rhetorical smokescreens and propaganda are deployed to cover the gap. That is the cynical take on things. My point is that this is not 100% of the story, particularly for political figures who have spent most of their time and energy dealing with domestic political issues yet are now compelled to meet the world armed only with the mythology they have absorbed via osmosis over the decades, and the advice they receive from the foreign affairs and national security apparatus, the latter in particular filled with hard-nosed bastards who never saw a principle they didn't want to discard for national advantage.
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Racism really. There was a really interesting article 10 years ago, I forgot from what publication, but it analyzed why Iran despite not having nukes was constantly paraded in the media as a pariah state capable of ending the world, while North Korea with a nuclear arsenal in the dozens is always laughed at as a cheesy James Bond villain. The answer was really simple in that Americans were conditioned to fear Muslims as the number one national security threat, whereas for North Korea got the reaction it did because of media stereotypes of East Asians being timid and having small d*cks.
But in the end, what the common man thinks of North Korea doesn't affect policy and American commanders know to back off from that country. I assume that attitude will be the same with China if it ever came to blows, the chain of command knows that the country's coastal defence and hypersonic missiles are not to be trifled with.
Another possible explanation is the US can destroy Iran with little consequences, but would not dare to attack North Korea due to the fear of China. Their propaganda machineries were directed to build the case for war with Iran but not North Korea.
AssassinsMace
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I just saw CNN do a segment on the pedo-Lama incident. There were five panelist including the host. Four of them expressed discomfort. One was defending him claiming it's another culture. Since when has that stopped Westerners from forcing their views onto others? Of course they acted like this was a surprise to them but there have always been rumors before.
I saw an interview with an elderly woman whose childhood village was along the border with Tibet. She talked about how Tibetans would raid her village and kidnapped the women and take them back to Tibet. The reason why she wasn't taken was because she had a facial deformity and was considered ugly. Of course that was okay with Tibetans so is that excusable?
The lie is that the West believes in universal values hence how they get people to ally with them. No they don't believe in universal values and only believe a crime has happened by two factors... who commits the act and who's the victim of that act.
I saw an interview with an elderly woman whose childhood village was along the border with Tibet. She talked about how Tibetans would raid her village and kidnapped the women and take them back to Tibet. The reason why she wasn't taken was because she had a facial deformity and was considered ugly. Of course that was okay with Tibetans so is that excusable?
The lie is that the West believes in universal values hence how they get people to ally with them. No they don't believe in universal values and only believe a crime has happened by two factors... who commits the act and who's the victim of that act.
I don't trust the LA Times to tell me about Tibetan culture.
I've watched many travel videos from Tibet, but I have not seen any tongue-sticking gesture. There were a number of uniquely Tibetan hand gestures, but no tongue gestures that I've seen so far. If such a gesture really exists, it's definitely not in the mainstream in Tibet.
I'm no expert on Tibet. But I have a feeling that this tongue gesture nonsense is probably something that was started by this current Dalai Lama for his own agenda. Kinda like other religious leaders coming up with the 'tradition' of the altar boys, or marrying underaged girls.
I know that some haters will say: "Oh but the See See Pee destroyed the real Tibetan culture. So we don't see that anymore in Chinese-occupied Tibet". Well if the CCP had eradicated pedophilia and slavery from Tibetan culture, that's all the better for everyone. If they admire that kind of culture so much, they can keep them in the West and India. Those idiots have eradicated Native American and Aboriginal cultures anyway. And are in the process of eradicating Kashmiri culture. Who are they to judge China and Tibet?
Tongue sticking does exist in Tibet. It is used by serfs to show subservience to their slave masters.
We banned their favorite pass time activity, why do you think they are upset?
I see. Then this 'culture' had been eradicated along with serf slavery. It doesn't sound like such a bad thing for humanity.
I feel that this tongue gesture thing is definitely more prominent in the English language media. The photo images that I've seen are not many. And many of them are from India. So, I'm gonna not take it as a true Tibetan cultural heritage that is worth defending. Tibetan culture is actually much more colourful than what the West and Indians are telling us. They have much more positive things to show from their culture than serfdom and tongue gesture.
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