and then mao zedong ate all of them in the bite of '89

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Queer acceptance scales very closely with HDI with a 5-20 year lag. The actual causes I believe are poverty reduction, achieved higher education, urbanization, and most recently, internet access, which are all major HDI contributors.

(There’s also a big contributing factor outside of HDI, which is queer legislation eg., sodomy laws, gay marriage, name/gender changing, surgery, hormone therapy. This more or less defines the boundaries of how much or little queer acceptance is allowed within a country for reasons I do not understand)

There’s some capitalist tricknology embedded in HDI because of its use of nominal GDP/capita rather than GDP(PPP)/capita, but it’s very widely used and good enough for this application.

By queer acceptance I’m talking about reduced hate crimes, and myriad trust-me-bro self-surveys, because it’s a somewhat nebulous concept.

There are of course some very obvious outliers. Rich, extraction based countries (UAE, Bahrain) have a lower than expected rate of acceptance. Poor, tourism based countries (Thailand, Cuba) have much higher acceptance rates than expected.

There’s also a very noticable East-West divide on which queers are accepted. Western nations strongly prefer cisgender homosexuals, and asian nations are conparatively more lenient when it comes to binary trans people.

The HDI-queer connection makes a lot of sense dialectically. The further advanced capitalism becomes in a nation, the more thouroughly the vestiges of feudalism are liquidated until a breaking point is reached where they can no longer justify the rigid gender norms that engender queerphobias.

Just gave myself the ick

real

Ironically it was the hard sciences that kept me deluded for much longer than necessary. They really instill a false sense of knowing.

I despise western chauvanism, and I see it everywhere now. I’m in the hard sciences right now, and you’d be suprised how woefully entrenched educated liberals still are, even after seeing multiple simultaneous genocides facitiltated by their oh-so progressive liberal parties. It is impossible to confront them and not see the disgust in their eyes.

The Thailand thing has been happening at all 800+ US military bases since the fifties. It’s kind of crazy people don’t know about this stuff.

This whole post is selfcrit veiled in humor. I look at my former self with extreme contempt.

I’m exaggerating for comedic effect here. I don’t actually want to be a piece of shit liberal again. “Schizophrenic Islamist” isn’t something a modern Marxist-Leninist would ever dare udder about someone else, especially in the current geopolitical situation, where Islam has become a massive anti-imperial counterweight. I’m pointing out here how stifling the atmosphere is in liberal countries when it comes to recounting very real war crimes.

so true king

Trans people are more accepted than gay people in many asian countries. I’m not sure why this is.

Dialectics were pretty straightforeward for me because they show up constantly in chemistry and biology.

Honestly, I’ve never seen a better incarnation of a dialectic than a chemical reaction reaching equilibrium under one set of conditions and then changing to meet a different equilibrium under different circumstances.

I miss not caring about the dialectical nature of the manifold intersections of mundane bullshit. I feel like such a freak.

Like, I don’t wanna feel compelled to tell Jessica the 200 year history of why she’s in medical debt.

This guy is a limited hangout personified.

Gordan Chang is a Chinese psyop to make Americans even stupider. Bless.

Taikonauts?

It’s so hard to tell for me. I like to read the white-papers by western think-tanks and the analysis is often of the same caliber as a Marxist’s, just with different wording.

Does the leadership refuse to read these things and just paint by number?

I’m pretty sure the most important european atlanticists at the levers of power do actually have a sober analysis of the situation. Their base of power lies outside of Europe though, so their decisions will be made independently of economic or social outcomes for the EU.

There are plenty of genuine fools though. It is a possibility that a critical mass of them has been reached like in the US.

Can someone tell me why Malaysia is cool like this?