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you’ve had three therapists in the last 12 months.

you’re about a mile of rungs beneath me on the looks and female charm ladder. maybe buck up camel man?

you know ... a bit of real advice here ... you keep bickering and sniping at my korea trip, clearly based in no fundamental critique, i mean it's opportunistic right .. one minute i'm here to be embedded in homogeneous hermit ethnonationalism ... the next i'm surfing on the supposed wave of american imitation export economy ...

but the thing you miss is: i just made 4-5 new friends that will be long-term contacts. i just met no less than 3 women who offered to marry me. i just expanded my horizons of experience and understanding. so much more to think about and so many new people to be grateful for.

you act like a querulous child and make all these silly, arid, forum posts. but i've actually just spent 2 years of my life really, genuinely enriching my experience. i don't think you get it man. i just changed my life for the better. i had a great time.

you are sniping from a position of abject disadvantage. you're not prepared to learn a single lesson from anyone else. you honestly come across like a lonely dude at a semi-permanent low ebb. i just accrued a lot of memories, anecdotes, lessons, options: life. you've done literally fucking nothing in that time. how sad.

you just have to accept that you’re going to bury your parents and be totally, completely alone with nothing in your life except for military LARP’er fantasies and race hate.

joyeux noël!

Dilbert_X wrote:

Godless whites are preferable to radicals and zealots from alien cultures.

Speaking of radical alien cultures - why don't you go and experience one?

speaking of alien experiences - why don’t you go outside? meet a woman?

korea has been plenty radically different from the UK. not that you’d know: you’re never been anywhere that your parents’ carry-on luggage didn’t take you.

saddest adult i’ve ever met. and you’re still trying to prove points against someone living their life on an internet forum

cuba by all accounts is nice except for the crippled economy thanks to sanctions and economic mismanagement. what’s exactly so abrasive or ugly about cuban culture?

lots of my friends have been on very good trips there. i’d go, given the chance.

do you actually know what you’re talking about? when’s the last time someone demonised cuba? is this the 1960d?

you don’t know anything about korea, as you’ve evinced many times in multiple discussions. that is plain enough. you had to be schooled on the fact that the biggest industrial success story since the 1980s actually does manufacture things.

there we go: ‘replacement’. the big scary buzzword that gets cucks like you pre-cumming in your marvel spider-man boxers. i don’t think there’s going to be any ‘replacement’, dilbert. that’s not the logic at work in culture. if white culture is changing or passing into senescence, it’s because we let it.

a big farrago was made in the press lately that ‘the UK is no longer a majority christian country according to a census’. zomg. some very choice reading of statistics there. the real story was that most britons are now declaring as secular/atheist, rather than the default CoE/anglican; the muslim population has barely grown a point or two since the last census, and is still a minority among minorities.

so it seems the people ‘replacing’ that traditional english christian culture you hymn about so much … are godless whites. if we lose our literary culture or traditions, for instance, it’s because the masses are turning on love island instead and tuning out.

don’t blame immigrants for the perceived deterioration of a culture. take some responsibility. analyse the issues at their root. blaming some tiny powerless minority just doesn’t turn me on, man.

how about a state with no fascism.

somehow i don’t think the objectives of BLM and robert mugabe have much in common. they are not militant. you could just read about this but never mind. better to entertain your little helter skelter race war fantasies.

creepy dudes.

how is that an argument? lmfao.

i’m arguing for the possibility of pluralist liberal democracy. the fact that the taliban exists doesn’t mean there can’t be any law-abiding muslims in the UK. jesus christ dilbert.

also you really undermine even these most fatuous of arguments when you flip-flop so erratically on my korea trip. when it suits you, i moved to a monoculture that has strictly protected itself from outside influences; then the next moment i moved to an american clone in the far east? lmao wat.

you’re a loser my guy! big L! yuuuuge!

an advanced merry xmas to you all from the land of the rising sun.

a friendly reminder on this day that the birth of jesus christ was an inclusive event at which all peoples were represented and all orientations, sexual as well as asexual and immaculate, were present 💌.

hope you have an exceedingly tolerant and plural day!!!

stop being racist against whites. she was just protesting for what she wanted. fascism in america.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its all part of the grand plan to lull everyone into a false sense of something.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr … has-become

hahaha

lmao no, the movements described above are not neo-liberals.

clueless as per usual.

haha the far-right as skinheads. what decade are we talking about man? did you miss the proud boys and all the new militias who keep decamping outside drag bars and polling stations? imagine talking as much cocky shite as you do whilst thinking the far-right is still the english defence league and a bunch of skinheads shouting ‘oi!’

Dilbert_X wrote:

We're talking about the far-right, not Brexit.

uziq wrote:

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said at the scene of Friday’s shooting that it was “not certain … the gunman was specifically targeting the Kurdish community”, but more likely “foreigners in general”.

brilliant.

erm only 1 paragraph of my post was related to brexit. but it's still an example of how contemporary politics is controlled by big money and vested interests.

the far-right is a majoritarian and well-funded operation. you getting antsy over moroccans lighting fires after football is fucking pathetic. which group are more well-organised, well-funded, and bear the most dangerous intent?

yes, how healthy and commendable, murdering people out of vague xenophobia and hatred of foreigners.

are you really going to try and defend that? grow the FUCK up man.

erm, do you know anything about who are funding these movements in the US and europe?

brexit was funded by arron banks, perhaps not a billionaire but mega-rich nonetheless. plugged in the press by people like the lord rothermere or the barclay brothers, who again live on a private island in the channel islands and are billionaires. let's not pretend they're not kingmakers in UK politics – because they are. the proles vote the way the redtops tell them to. and who owns the red top tabloids? billionaire press barons.

rupert murdoch. do i even need to go into details on this one? billionaire.

steve bannon and the latter day 'christo-fascist' right-wing movement that has coalesced in the wake of their project are funded by people like the kochs, peter thiel, etc. literal billionaires. a tier below in the 'mega-rich' and 'mega-powerful' donors list are the de vos's, prince, friess, and mercer.

look at the shadowy networks of thinktanks and special interest lobbying groups that have surrounded recent 'populist' administrations in the UK and the US. many of them don't declare their funding, but it's not hard to follow the scent of money back to some seriously monied and established interests.

again, think harder and do better. punching down on moroccans and kurds, of all fucking people, makes you look like an idiot.

your 'if the moors didn't come here in the first place ...' rhetoric is particularly ironic in the case of the kurds. a dispossessed people who have been forced to vacate their homelands by overweening large, not to say fascist, states (post-ataturk turkey has behaved very often like israel, you know, with actual literal genocides to their name). how funny that you spend reams of posts here and litres of fake crocodile tears on the palestinians ... because your real fascination is the Jewz. but kurds, a comparable group of displaced refugees ... they get no sympathy from you when a 69-year-old french racist murders them.

you're a trivial little miser.

Dilbert_X wrote:

If the Moors weren't invading Europe there wouldn't be a far right.

this is just abuser logic. the far-right are backed by billionaires and already occupy the positions of power. they are literally the majority forming around a minority.

‘if you didn’t act so annoying i wouldn’t have to beat you’.

do better.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … ng-reports

amazing. larssen and dilbert spend two pages telling me how moroccans are the problem and we need to get rid of violent islamists.

less than a week after the football stories and a boomer french guy opens fire in a kurdish cultural centre. that threatening group, the kurds. our allies in the middle east. lol.

The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said at the scene of Friday’s shooting that it was “not certain … the gunman was specifically targeting the Kurdish community”, but more likely “foreigners in general”.

brilliant.

now, again, repeat after me … i’ll say it very slowly: the far-right are a bigger threat to peace and civility in the west than moroccans or muslims.

the problem with the philosophical take of ‘ultimately nobody can deduce why someone takes their own life’ is that you can’t overinterpret lockdown stats to blame covid measures for a rise in suicides. if it’s some impregnable mystery or something irreducible to a mere organisation of facts and circumstance … you can’t credibly try and sway discussions on covid policy by relying on emotive anecdotes.

of course everyone is very sorry about that happening to you larssen. just like everyone is very sorry to hear about loved ones passing from covid. they are both tragic circumstances but the sorrow part is ultimately not that helpful for guiding policy. sunt lacrimae rerum.

there have been measurable upticks in people reporting mental health issues because of the pandemic in the UK. the lockdown criticisms tended to home in more on the effects of extended isolation and loneliness: in the elderly and those who need shielding, and in children and groups where socialising is considered very important to development. but it does seem like a very politically dubious choice to present an increase in anxiety or depressive disorders as a ‘worse’ ill than pretty much unmitigated death. america has got way too comfortable with a very high level of covid death. it feels like the political class kind of gave up on trying to fix that special type of stupidity incurred by the trump admin.

it’s very common and super ethically muddy even when it happens between university academics and their students, who are adults at least. huge power imbalance, weird dynamics.

half of south korea’s democratic leaders have been investigated, prosecuted and/or done custodial time. it hasn’t tended to slow down the corruption or scandals.

what it has done is make prosecutors the most powerful wing of the civil service, hence a locus of political power, and really a sort of crème-de-la-crème of all the corruption. the current populist blowhard derives much of his power base from the prosecutors’ office.

just some interesting context. trump does need to be punished, and seriously, for january 6th.

the pandemic and WFH did the more significant damage to the commercial real-estate sector.

my company downsized and i know of countless others, anecdotally, from speaking to friends in similar professions.

it feels like the global economy is on the precipice of a major downturn in 2023.

it seems to be a psychological type, you see a lot of middle-aged women teachers who fall in love or have emotional clinginess with their students.

of course there's the male teacher version too, but for Reasons these stories with female teachers always do the numbers in the media.

it's definitely predatory behaviour.

Dilbert_X wrote:

You're the one who keeps droning on about experiencing cultures, you've spent two years in an American tributary.

If Islam is so great have two years experiencing it.

i thought it’s a hermit monoculture?

most of the world is an ‘american tributary’, lol.

i do love that you’ve been accusing me of running away to a ‘pure’ culture untouched by liberal multiculturalism or whatever … and now suddenly i’ve just been hiding in a corner of america hidden in asia?

get a life my guy, i highly recommend it! you don’t need to spend your time making specious arguments on the internet! another way is possible!

in other news, musk has tanked tesla’s valuation so much that it has devalued more than bitcoin in this YTD. lmao.

why don't you leave your parents' office room and get a life?

all manner of protests spray graffiti, you getting exclusively vexed about BLM says more about your politics than any principled stand against 'destruction of public property'.

a statue or building can be jetwashed easily. indeed, they are. it's not 'destroying' a piece of heritage, is it? it comes at a small cost to the taxpayer, which is regrettable, but surely the bigger point is the protest itself?

how is it even comparable to carving something into rock and defacing it irreversibly? something which is fenced off and protected from public access?

i honestly do not care about people spraypainting a statue at a large protest. imagine getting angered and upset over that. it's pathetic.

next you'll be fulminating that those scots 'disrespect' the duke of wellington. omg it's an outrage!



who fucking cares?

you really must be so bored in your life, lmao.

dilbert, the loud atheist who hates all forms of organised religion, arguing to protect ... 'christian' countries.

far-right extremism and intolerance is a far more pressing problem than radical islam.

99% of the moroccan football fans at the world cup didn't create any trouble at all. french muslims.

grow up.

well, yes, when you're making out graffiti to be exclusively about BLM, or black people, or that it's about 'disrespect' and 'law breaking'i will give you context that it has been found in cities since the dawn of civilization, including your much-idealised roman culture.

what does this have to do with vandalising heritage sites again?

most of the large graffiti murals you see in modern cities are there because the local council or property owners have designated the space for it. it's not complicated dilbert. nowhere have i said 'scrawling graffiti on important historical sites is good, actually'.

you really need to grow up.

it had been a few pages since you mentioned israel. well done.

i don't approve of israel? and i don't know why i have to condemn netanyahu in the process of discussing football fans' misbehaviour. lmao. you are are a crank.

what are you driving at with this 'racist against whites' thing? i'm not sure what actual concrete example(s) you have in mind. because i'm disparaging about brexiteer's and their poor decision making? that's the only thing i can think of when you say i'm 'against whites campaigning for what they want'.

otherwise, no, defending the principle of a tolerant and inclusive society against ethnonationalists is not 'racist'.

such nonsense. the UK has some of the worst insulated homes in europe, they leak heat.

practically every written review submitted on the topic has said it's an easy way to lower household energy consumption in the winter.

Historically technological fixes haven't delivered any kind of reduction

lmao yeah. double-glazed windows for example sure never changed a thing.

when have i ever said graffiti is 'good'? i don't even like graffiti nor am i interested in it.

you being a paleo-conservative who thinks that property damage is as bad as taking human life is a different matter entirely.

"BLM are violent thugs! they spray things on a wall!"

-19 celcius here last night and i was out in it. had a few glasses of mulled wine. needs must.

Larssen wrote:

Who am I going to discuss the far right with here? Dilbert? That's your hobby. You love to hammer on it because you're 100% English. It's in your veins - a cultural tradition - to punch down. Esp. on the less able. It's why Dilbert shits on low skill poor immigrants and why you shit on Dilbert. It's helped you both feel better about yourselves for a decade. Normal people find no enjoyment in eviscerating the already pathetic.

criticising the far right is punching down? lmao what am i even reading.

didn’t a minor princeling just try to return germany to the kaiser?

https://jacobin.com/2022/12/from-bowlin … ting-alone

interesting essay reflecting, ~20 years on, from robert putnam's 'bowling alone: the collapse and revival of american community', a big talking point and cliché in the 2000s.

ramifications of increasing social atomisation on politics. seems pretty predictable enough but some nice insights from the author.

https://twitter.com/calebgamman/status/ … vVmz1V1EFw

i am really going to miss this sort of insight into senior-level mismanagement. it’s like an armando ianucci sitcom. the thick of it.

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/160 … aTf8Tk28_Q

cringe. he really has been in a position for so long now without anyone asking actually meaningful follow-up or clarifying questions.

he’s the coddled mummy’s boy who has deluded himself into thinking he really does know everything about everything, because those closest to him never correct or challenge him. spouting off on areas way beyond his expertise and minimising the idea that there could even be expertise and experts beyond his purview.

remind you of anyone?

Larssen wrote:

Your small-minded idiocy is seeping out, barely masked by half decent prose. It seems that over the years Dilbert has ground you down to his level and you're now stooping to his 2-sentence retorts and instinctual rehashing of banal shit he read some 30 years ago.

again, you don’t post a peep here about actual social and political mobilisations on the far-right. you seemingly can’t even acknowledge that other football fans burn things and have a ruck with the police.

how am i ‘small minded’ here when i’m the one taking the wide view, that disorder after football matches certainly isn’t the special preserve of any one group? morocco did world-historically well in this tournament; probably the best of any team in the whole cup, relatively speaking; as an arab team in the first muslim-world cup, they had the best story arc; moroccans are the biggest immigrant group in francophone western europe: is it any surprise that a bunch of moroccan fans especially turn it up to 11 in the streets?

you buy straight into the tabloid rhetoric. ‘riots across europe’. ‘organised uprising’. it’s just so divisive and so predictable and so lame. meanwhile there are actual networks with wide political reach, infiltration deep into state structures, access to weapons, actively planning false flag and coup operations … you’ve never voluntarily spent a single drop of ink on this forums over the far-right or ‘dangerous nationalism’ by whites. you’ll always admit it in this air of ‘decent politick’, in your student debating society prose, when it’s raised; but it’s not what gets you excited and running to bf2s to clack clack away and write essays, is it? no. what exercises you is losing a job interview to a black person. turks. moroccans. verrrrrrry interesting.

i’ll wait to be corrected the next time there’s a terrorist attack or major incident in western europe involving turks or moroccans. so far as i can see, the street unrest over the world cup was epiphenomenal and pretty clearly terminated with the world cup. they’re not still taking to the streets, they’re not organised or making any sort of protest or demand, there’s no shadowy international network having its text messages intercepted by the intelligence services. a working-class migrant diaspora had a rare moment of sporting pride and a tiny subset of the same saw it as an occasion to express their frustration with the police/their lot/etc.

were morocco fans conspicuous this year in the street affray? of course. it’s the first time they’ve ever come out and done well at football! jesus christ it’s not complicated. considering that most western nations were taking a pious (and hypocritical) approach to the qatar tournament, cancelling big screen showings in public squares and so on, it’s not surprising that there wasn’t the same energy and ruckus from other teams. you take the right-wing rhetoric and narrative framing of it as some sort of concerted, europe-ride uprising a little too credulously. a few antisocial elements from a few ghettoised communities going out and opportunistically starting trouble, now their community is in the global spotlight … is not that hard to understand. never mind that the vast majority partook in the celebrations and festival atmosphere as law-abiding, peaceable dual-nationals. but no. you want to start An Adult Conversation about moroccans in europe. lmao.

meanwhile they’ve been burning effigies of mbappé in argentina and chanting all sorts of racist and violent hate about him for days now … and this is as part of their celebrations. and you and dilbert seriously try and play this innocent, naive, ‘tell me who else behaves this way over football? who else burns things in the street even when they win?’ stuff. every fandom has behaved badly over the football in their own time!

but okay. i’m the small-minded one. i’m racist against whites. i’m a woke lib identity politics carol baskin

look forward to your next 4 paragraph post about how you despair for your kids and don’t care about them. “i’m out here helping people”. you are seriously bipolar or manic or something.

i’m glad those people will remember you … because it should be a part of your job. i have teachers i remember fondly too.

i’ve been helping to project manage the integration of machine learning and language AI to publishing. i’m sure you know the area intricately well. my job isn’t putting commas in the right place or rearranging broken syntax. i’m not concerned about it. AI will make my job easier.

i still work for the same department and still email the same colleagues every day. lol. ‘no one will remember you after you cut and run …’. i mean, to what extent does an average business or organisation give a shit about their employees after they’ve moved on and stopped being useful, anyway? are you expecting a plaque on the front lawn? ‘teacher macbeth: he was such a swell guy!’. you’ll really leave a legacy at that high school, i’m sure. are you that needy in your social life?

i could have dated asians in the UK too. i already met a korean in bristol. who, incidentally, remembered me, years after the fact, for the positive musical inspiration. i posted here about that, it was a neat anecdote. but congrats on your lothario skills at picking up suicidal girls. you’re killing it bro! every one can see your immense successes in the girl problems thread every day of the week. you’re a stud!

i would recommend you continue your grind in NJ, too. east asians are extremely colour biased and you will not do well out here. just a tip whilst you’re sailing so high on your confidence.

honestly what on the fuck are you even talking about at this point? it’s asinine.

how much of a crank do you have to be to claim that a few cases of antisocial behaviour after a few football games is a ‘social mobilisation’. lmao. yeah sure buddy. keep an eye on those dangerous nationalists! they’re plotting something big!

oh god it hurts so much!!!

i didn’t read any of that.

you’ve been expending an awful lot of multiparagraph wheeze lately on ‘wokism’ and ‘identity politics’ and now you’re suddenly very concerned about moroccan migrants. a pretty conspicuous trend i’d say.

yeah high-school teachers … that rare commodity. i.e. the career path everyone without any clue what they want to actually do goes into after finishing college.

i suppose you’ll be extra-indispensable when you become an administrator?

That's a typical Tuesday for me.

i wasn’t referring to your manipulative line of attack on dating apps.

it’s your fucking job lmao. grow up.

i sat and listened to a stranger’s life problems for two hours last night. i gave her some advice. she seemed down over a ‘toxic friendship’. i invited ger along to our xmas dinner as she’s lonely in seoul over xmas.

aren’t i just bloody amazing? look mom!

https://twitter.com/gffn/status/1605263 … lLnYErrfEQ

argentinians burning an effigy of mbappé. on his birthday. they won the tournament already.

why are they like this? only moroccans burn stuff over football.

your mileage may vary. the difference between a good performing school and a struggling state is egregiously vast in the UK.

we are still hung on the point why you think you need a cookie for putting in a little extra at work. do people really hang around in that profession taking shit from unruly kids if they’re not in some way interested in the little ones’ success and well-being?

or are you really that motivated by giving two-bit summaries of ww2?

cloud services were really the last word in the storage/size arms race on mobile devices. i pay an extra like $2 a month for the middle-tier apple icloud. i haven’t deleted (out of necessity) any photo or video now in about 8 years. since at least as far back as i care to remember, anyway. 10,000s of the things.

storage space now is mostly for apps and music, as the iphone is obviously an adequate mp3 player too. rarely need more than 32 or 64gb to this end. i don’t mind swapping around music playlists every 3 or 6 months.

i mean, the international elite spend a small fortune to send their children to school here, but sure, go off. i'm sure mahwah, NJ sets the standard.

it certainly would have been entirely normal for a teacher at my school to check with other teachers how a student is doing, if they're dropping behind, if there's any extramural or pastoral issues, etc. 'not my job, call the guidance counsellor' it very much wasn't.