The Octonaut

Nope. Maori deserve release from this nonsense too.

Also, lol at the very native, very traditional “koronahaiea ceremony”. What a very coincidental word for it! About as Maori as, well, half the Kiwis claiming to be Maori actually.

Hang all monarchs equally 💖

Can we not do the “boys should be grateful” thing please? It’s one step away from “Niiiice” and two away from “An erection is consent”. It’s not particularly helpful yo reduce a transmasc to “a person with a vagina” either.

You have to actively turn it on by renaming game files.

But even then, we’re talking cartoon nipples not hard-core tentacle hentai.

HoniePop is a fun little time-based matching game and the content is sometimes funny while never quite veering into actual porn.

It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.

Do you not consider Russians human?

You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.

www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?

You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️

Explained is not the same as justified.

I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.

I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.

And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.

Arf arf arf

No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.

The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.

“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.

It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.

We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it

abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology

sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor

sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food

“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”

lol look at this guy still thinking in terms of “the crime comes first”.

You arrest the dissident, then choose which ‘law’ they’ve broken. Don’t worry about the details. ‘Who is responsible’? The guy you just arrested. Duh.

If you label “when people from the middle east kill family members for disobeying the family” as honor killings, then yes it’s going to be a list of primarily Muslim people.

If you replace “from the middle east” with “from Italian-American culture” you get a list of mafioso.

If you replace it with “from the Italian peninsula c.0 AD” then you get a list of Roman patriarchs who had the literal power of life or death legally over their offspring and numbered rather than named their useless daughters.

Islam did not make these people kill their families. It did however make an American decide to call it an “honor killing”.

The Dalai Lama(s) are worshipped as reincarnations Avalokiteśvara, the Buddha of Compassion.

If “god” means “something you can pray to, to directly make changes to reality”, then they are definitely a god. The issue here is the conceptual trappings of Christianity’s deity as a creator and omnipotent being.

The section on Tibetan Buddhism in the Wikipedia Avalokiteśvara article leads quite happily with calling them a deity and follows by noting the link to the Dalai Lama(s)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalokiteśvara?wprov=sfla1

Tibetan Buddhist beliefs Avalokiteśvara is an important deity in Tibetan Buddhism. He is regarded in the Vajrayana teachings as a Buddha.[56]

…(Paragraph on Tara)…

Certain living tulku lineages, including the Dalai Lamas and the Karmapas, are considered by many Tibetan Buddhists to also be manifestations of Avalokiteśvara.[60][61][62]

The next protest will be the one! So long as nobody gives Trump a reason to make a mean tweet about the protests and there are at least 6 viral signs held up, he’s done for this time