Because America doesn’t want to maintain political neutrality.
America has a long-standing policy of using our military and various alphabet soup agencies to effectively subjugate foreign countries in the name of profit (for the already very wealthy ofc). We also have a longstanding policy of using our effective military and economic control over most of the world as a bludgeon to force other countries to play along.
Political Neutrality doesn’t get you an empire.
Republicans are out literally killing people for not being fascist enough…
Its hard to say what the most popular are.
Star Wars is sorta explicitly not psionics, the force is an outside thing that force users can tap into.
Mass effect has psionics, but psionics in general play a really minor role, some psionic characters play big roles, but them being psionic is meh.
Warhammer 40K might be the most popular franchise where psionics plays a major role. Every major faction except the Necrons are defined/driven by their psionics.
Star Trek has some psionics, but those are generally minor plot points, not major ones.
Dune has the Atreides be psionic, the Bene-Gesserit are arguably psionic, as are the navigators.
Akira is all about psionics, and is arguably Sci-Fi, if a grittier, closer to current reality one.
Arguably the most popular series with psionics is Star Trek.
Arguably the most popular series where psionics plays a large role is either Dune or Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K has probably made more money, but I think more people have read Dune.
No-one’s out here reading trashy sentimentalist novels because they aren’t good, but they were hugely popular in the 18th century.
I mean, trashy sentimentalist is like half of Shakespeare tbh. Its all jokes about women, dick jokes and violence.
Everyone except the already very wealthy yes.
Elect Republicans, get republican policies.
The country still hadnt really recovered from Reagan, then we got Bush, then we got Trump.
Obama and Biden could only do so much to stop the dumpster fire, and Nazis are famously bad for the economy.
Thats fairly rare.
Even with tenure, professors just dont make that much money generally.
Conservatives arent actually interested in learning, or in science for its own sake.
Without the grift, why would conservatives bother
Depending on how you define “academic”
There are certainly people who can get doctorates while still being right wing, those are the ones that get paid a lot of money to tell poor people to stop complaining about being poor.
Yeah, if you don’t do any political activism, and you don’t say things that are unapproved too loudly, and you don’t end up at one of those slave labor (BYD) or corpo plants with the suicide netting, then you can certainly get by with the way things are.
Is this America or is this propaganda about what China is supposed to be like?
But political activism and freedom of speech and the bill of rights is also how we make things better. Without those, and without people who fought for those, we wouldn’t have “the weekend” as a concept.
China also has the concept of the weekend…
And with how much efficiency has risen over the last hundred years, we should be able to do better than just the weekend.
But we live under capitalism, so the most likely result is that the weekend is going to only be for those born wealthy.
So on one hand, I have propagandists who I know have been lying to me for years.
On the other hand I have friends over to my house who occasionally talk about China, and say that while its not particularly amazing, its really not much worse than growing up poor and black in America (and we live in areas of America that aren’t batshit).
I don’t think China is some bastion of democracy, but I am increasingly skeptical when Capitalists tell me how awful China is supposed to be…and by “Awful” they mean that China might do the same shit that America does, except they actually arrest government officials who are too corrupt.
Trump’s overextended the military and can’t do much more besides putting tariffs on allies soon.
Trump is in the process of destroying the military sure, but America still has the 1st second and 3rd largest Air forces in the world, we have more supercarriers than the rest of the world combined.
And the Nazis managed to do a lot of damage before they got stopped.
China is content to simply watch America destroy itself (and democracy around the world), China has always been good at the long game.
If China hears them talking shit…in my house…
Do you think Chinese spies are listening at the windows?
Is China there? I know that Conservatives like to say that it is, but Republicans always lie.
Ive got friends who came from China, they disagree.
had some bad losses in trading lately, took a short break and now trying to actually fix my risk management before going back in
Unless you have insider trading knowledge, start with a huge amount of money, or find some other way to cheat, Trading is just gambling.
If you want to invest, put your money in index funds. I used to say the SP500 or 100, but unfortunately Musk has been allowed to just offload his losses into those funds.
SP500 High Dividend Yield (Other companies have similar) are a decent option, they focus on the 500 companies with historically high dividends.
if you’re older and already been through your 20s, what do you wish someone told you back then? like what actually mattered vs what you thought mattered at the time.
Stay active, you don’t need to be in the gym 24/7, but find something athletic that you enjoy doing, try to stay in the habit of doing something athletic for an hour every other day at a minimum.
Avoid the sugar trap. I get it, soda tasts good, cookies taste good, but the more sugar you eat, the harder it is to avoid sugar later. Get in the habit of eating healthy while you are 20, it will save your life later.
Learn to snack better (if you are a snacker). Snacking is fine, snacking on poptarts, mini doughnuts and soda will kill you. I use chia-seed pudding when I am getting snacky, very low calorie, and as a bonus it has a lot of fiber. Make it with a nice tea, and its a tasty, healthy snack that can last the whole time between lunch and dinner.
Avoid the manosphere/redpill/Christian Values/Alpha Male trap. It doesnt impress the ladies, it wont make you friends, it just makes you miserable (and then telling you that its everyone elses fault, but they totally see how great you can be if you just buy this 69.99 protein powder).
(And this is probably the most important) Learn to not be a an asshole, the bar is literally so low for men that just being a decent human being will get you plenty of attention. Learn to be respectful when women say no, learn to not care if somebody else is gay/trans/black/fat/bald etc, and especially learn to not make fun of people for it. Learn to talk to people, and hang out without putting them down. Learn to be genuinly happy for others successes, and how to build up others.
This will make you actual friends that stay with you, will impress the ladies (seriously, im of average looks and build, and I have a GF, 2 FWB and 2 more sometimes partners, all just from being an actually kind, decent, safe person), and will set you up to have a much more fulfilling life.
You say China, you mean Republicans
You say Chinese, but you mean Republican.
Its another fad/advertising thing.
At another point, when the Keto Diet was everywhere, there was a restaurant near me that proudly announced that 100% of its menu was “Keto Diet”. There where Keto diet snacks and Keto diet frozen meals etc.
Then there was the fat free phase, I dunno if you remember the fat free cookies that you could buy, or fat free salad dressing, or fat free bread etc.
This trend seems to come from the rise of fitness influencers, and in this case its based in some kind of truth. You need protein if you are working out a lot, you cant built real muscle without it. And so fitness influencers started making videos about the food they ate, and the big thing about it was how much protein it had because that’s what they cared about.
And since influencer driven sales are huge now, you see a lot of companies wanting to cash in on the protein craze, so the packaging shifts towards showing off the protein content, because thats what everyone (or enough people) are tracking right now.
Standwithus is a pro-zionist group, thats best known for ah, massaging the facts…deep tissue massaging the facts.
Frankly, they border on being a hate group, and they have done more damage to the cause of jews worldwide than anybody but perhaps Israel itself.
If Standwithus is saying that anti-Semitism has increased, its a pretty good bet that actual anti-semitism has gone down (and no, saying that the IDF should stop raping Palestinians isnt anti-Semitic.)
But then they cant give you a bunch of bad information and pretend like its accurate.
Edit: I should be more specific.
But then the techbros can’t feed you a bunch of propaganda and pretend like its good information.