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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Chinese people don't want it. Like even if most are pro-Palestine, I don't believe they're willing to sacrifice their current material comforts with open conflict with the west, especially if it appeared to be due to China's actions rather than attack from outside.

China's a democracy, but Chinese people aren't all ideological socialists, so what's the government to do?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Hexberian-style leftists

You mean terminally online liberals?

I'm the only real leftist here.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Orwell had dogshit politics but he wasn't a Nazi. For all his faults he did literally go to Spain to shoot them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I respect it but what's the point? I kinda hope he's some kind of super-criminal or as you say he's given up a lot to hide from a state that probably doesn't even care he exists even if they did know who he was.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is no one way people in England speak currently. Britain has massive diversity in accents.

As far as I understand, Shakespearean English sounded most like modern-day West Country English (imagine a stereotypical pirate). This accent is rhotic, similar to many American accents, but unlike the modern south-eastern or RP accents that most foreigners identify as "British".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The fact that he's still Arlington and Nathan did all this instead of just talking to the guy is pretty amazing.

He also built the airport and filled it with stalker-actors before discovering that the pilots don't even talk to each other before getting into the cockpit, which he'd already had made.

Obviously it's gonna have a use later in the series but at this point in the narrative it was all pointless.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

at the end when the white guy somehow saves the emperor and the samurai from the emperors’s evil assistant

This doesn't happen. The Samurai all die, that's the point. Tom Cruise doesn't save anything.

The Emperor's role is that he's a puppet of a pro-western faction, but only after the Samurai and his friend Ken Watanabe are defeated does he decide to change course to protect local culture and tradition.

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