Ok, first of all, I think you handled it well. The worst thing you could have done was instinctively say something like "nu uh!! that sounds like western propaganda!" and then be completely proven wrong and forever lose credibility in that lib's (hopefully future leftist's) eyes.
Second, know your shit at least. It's pretty well known that Xi himself traveled to the US as young man. He has ties to some Iowa town or something. (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/world/asia/xi-jinping-of-china-makes-a-return-trip-to-iowa.html)
Third, if someone ever brings that dumb shit about his daughter up again, just mention how Tim Walz taught English in China and basically loves China (though he has super lib views on Tienanmen, Tibet, "organ harvesting", etc.). (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html)
I dunno, I don't really see her caste status as a big factor in her political rise/career. Also, she's not really the "settler" since she was born here right? It would be her parents that are the "settlers"? But wouldn't "immigrants" be more appropriate for her parents? It's not like they came here to dispossess the natives of anything. I think you're really stretching your analysis here with both the "Brahmin" and "settler" thing. She's bad, but not because of those reasons.
I see what you're saying, but ultimately I think it doesn't have to do with the violence itself and more to do with the overall way in which we frame things. For example, no matter how hard a creator might try to make something seem "brutal" or "anticapitalist," there's gonna be people that interpret it completely the other way. Kind of like the "Squid Game is actually pretty cool! Also it's pro capitalist and anti communist!"
Same thing for violence I think. Like past and current indigenous cultures are very close to "violence" when it comes to things like hunting and slaughtering livestock for food, but you didn't see the kind of brutal violence you're talking about until things colonialism/imperialism.
I could see a future communist society that doesn't have issues with real life violence but still has action movies and video games. It doesn't really seem like a contradiction to me.
Does anyone actually say "rightist"? Sounds like some "oh yeah, if we're leftists, then YOU'RE RIGHTISTS!! HAHA THE PEN IS MIGHTER THAN THE SWORD MLADY!!"
If you go to a climbing wall you'll be surrounded by hot, ripped leftists.
In my experience they may seem "leftist" but they are at most AOC democrat sheepherders. They're also the type that stopped masking immediately when all those around them stopped. They're the types that wanted to vote for Biden in 2020 cuz "muh harm reduction."
Honestly, fuck gym climbers. The real ones are the ones who dirtbag and climb outdoors. The indoor climbers are just a bunch of liberal PMC motherfuckers that can afford to spend $90 month at a climbing gym. They probably work for some military contractor or some other industry like that and will ultimately side with the fash because they are liberals.
Also, they can be pretty vain as well. Just look at the motherfucking dudes who climb with their shirts off in the gym. They do it for the sole purpose of "impressing chicks" smh. Some girls do this as well by basically wearing bikinis while climbing. Which honestly puts off any new climber who's not skinny or "hot." Good luck taking a heavier/bigger friend with you while climbing. Whatever "salt of the earth" there was in climbing is completely gone and it is now just as commodified as football.
Honestly it's sad that this response didn't get any engagement other than some likes. It's on this point that I have a huge issue with leftist discourse. They act like all you need to do is "be a nice person" and suddenly you'll find a date. But as any cis-het guy knows, that doesn't actually work. Like you said, attraction is completely different than just being a decent person.
To people that have said "I was just nice and I got a date/girlfriend/wife" I say this: is there some other factor you aren't aware of? Are you tall, decent looking, etc? Did you grow up with male role models that "taught" you how to flirt? Did you get lucky in high school and build of that experience in a positive feedback cycle? Most people who are successful at dating wouldn't be able to tell you why, even if their life depended on it. It's just the water they swim in (similar to how people who had good circumstances and lucky breaks think that success is just "hard work").
Finally, the whole "just be a nice guy" advice is actually suuuuuper dangerous because a guy is going to be nice, not get any dates, get friendzoned, and then head into the red pill sphere because they are practically the only guys out there that try to give dating advice that isn't your cliche "be yourself" horsefuckshit. And the left doesn't do anyone any favors by saying "you just need to completely change your whole mindset and outlook" while you got all these "a-hole" guys getting success with even "nice girls." The disconnect is gonna make any potential leftist guy do a 180 and head into the red pill sphere. Like you said, even guys who do shitty things will get success in the dating world, so we need to acknowledge that and try to build dating advice around what actually works. Anyway I just wanted to rant about that huge blind spot I see in the left.
This actually doesn't seem too bad. In a way it's like a mini digital detox. I don't really see anything wrong with it. Kinda weird to see ppl here acting like it's "psycho" to try this. Humans haven't had any kind of tech for 99.99% of their history, so kinda of just being alone with your thoughts has been the norm and what we basically evolved with. What's actually "psycho" is thinking that constantly having something entertaining at your call and beckon is normal. To anyone that thinks otherwise, take a deep breath, step back, and really look inward and do some self-crit.
It's only because it seems to be associated with red-pill stuff that ppl here seem to be so annoyed with it. If it was a marxist that advocated this, would ppl really be so upset? I could easily see Breht from Rev Left advocating for something like this. Honestly this just seems like "bad guy does stuff, so I don't like" shit. Once again, the western left is basically just "vibes" and "feels" in a weirdly idealist way.
Whether you think it's true or not at any given moment depends on what narrative you want to support.
Yeah the narrative of "these dumb sand n-words are too backwards to develop complex military operations that completely take us by surprise and reveal to the world our hubris in our own military might and faith in our technology. Yeah we're super racist."
Yeah but the Israelis "always know" that there's gonna be "an imminent attack." I just don't buy it. It's more like they're trying to cover their ass by saying "we didn't get owned! actually we had ALL THE DETAILS!" (which is actually what they are basically claiming).
I hold some hope that the younger generation can change things, but honestly, most younger hindu americans i know mostly don't care and are all about the "STEM grind" bullshit.
Ok, first of all, I think you handled it well. The worst thing you could have done was instinctively say something like "nu uh!! that sounds like western propaganda!" and then be completely proven wrong and forever lose credibility in that lib's (hopefully future leftist's) eyes.
Second, know your shit at least. It's pretty well known that Xi himself traveled to the US as young man. He has ties to some Iowa town or something. (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/world/asia/xi-jinping-of-china-makes-a-return-trip-to-iowa.html)
Third, if someone ever brings that dumb shit about his daughter up again, just mention how Tim Walz taught English in China and basically loves China (though he has super lib views on Tienanmen, Tibet, "organ harvesting", etc.). (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html)