Posts made by Frederick

@sutieday:

Trump's repugnant words and actions over the past two weeks have shown absolutely zero respect or regard for members of the military or their families.

Donald Trump has never shown the military proper respect. Whether claiming Republican Sen. John McCain is not a war hero because he was captured, sneering at the sacrifices and very identity of Gold Star parents Khizr and Ghazala Khan, or pocketing a veteran’s Purple Heart, Trump cannot be counted on to do right by the troops, even as he wraps himself in the flag and invokes our armed forces to attack people protesting him.

https://shareblue.com/trumps-war-on-us-troops-13-insults-in-13-days/

I see that you and aadam started posting again today.  Aadam had good posts today.  You however..  not so much.
If anything, Trump gives too MUCH credit to the police and military.  John McCain is no war hero, his military service can be summarized as killing hundreds and permanently injuring hundreds more soldiers on a US aircraft carrier that he nearly sunk with his stupidity.  He then served his country best by being a prisoner of war.  The SON of Khizr and Ghazala Khan was a hero.. however his parents - Khizr and Ghazala are hypocritical, lying, pieces of shit who are a disgrace to their son.

@cteavin:

@aadam101:

I don't see what the big deal is.  I was a Boy Scout.  Our Troop leader had 2 sons and 2 daughters.  While the daughters weren't official members or anything they spent a lot of time with us.  Nobody ever gave it a second thought.  Scouting is a family venture.  Always has been.

I thought the issue was that the Girl's Scouts didn't have to integrate boys but the Boy Scout's did. If the GS want to create a space for girls then so too should the boys be allowed one.

It occurs to me that ironically, gay men would probably be the ones most against allowing girls in the boy scouts - although.. the girl scout organization is adamantly opposed to girls joining the boy scouts.  They probably figure that if girls join the boy scouts.. or a new "scouts" organization, that it will wipe out the Girl Scouts.

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

@aadam101:

I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I really think that this isn't going to end well for women.  Men are pigs and men want sex.  We have all had met "straight" men and I'm sure all of us have had sex with a few of them.  If I was a straight guy I would be terrified to  even look at a woman these days!  It's a lot easier for them to just have sex with other dudes.

That reminds me of something from last night…   I was watching a guy on Chaturbate.. and he was adamant that he is 100% straight.  He was jacking off while watching straight porn.  I wondered how straight he was when after he came, he ate his load for 200 tokens ($10).    I then did a bit of internet research on him, found his real name, life history, email, etc.  One comment he made on a blog is that he is completely straight, won't top or bottom a guy..  BUT he will let a guy suck his cock especially if they swallow!   Hmm.. maybe not so straight.  I am pretty sure he also lives with a sugar daddy.

@Adam, it's happening more and more (if the Internet is to be believed).

@Fred, why do we, as a culture, need to peg someone as gay/bi because they had some form of sex with a person of the same gender? It's political, an intent to normalize LGB people.

I love vegan food, raw vegan food, and cook a lot of vegetarians but I'm in no way a vegetarian. I simply have broad tastes. Straight people would have fewer hangups if they weren't pegged as closeted after a bj.

I wasn't trying to label him.  I know that at his age, guys tend to SAY they are straight for various reasons including that they have not yet learned about women.  Many of them probably imagine that they will have a wife and children some day.  This guy kept insisting he was straight.  He interested me because he is 6'4, has a genuine 10" cock, and his ass was magnificent.  I was researching him out of curiousity to see if he had any done any porn… and he has.. at least 2 which I should have by tomorrow.  Then there is another CB performer.. "boyalwayshorny"  who insists he is straight.. but in his shows he not only tops and bottoms for guys.. he loves it.  There are videos of him on his back getting fucked hard.. with him moaning like crazy.. bucking like a bronco.. and shooting half a dozen huge streams of cum all over the place and eating half of it.  I wish there were more straight guys like that.  He is also a champion cock sucker.

@raphjd:

If the 1st group is inside and the 2nd group is outside, not being violent then there is no issue.

In THAT case, that is fine… however.. when does that case ever occur?  There are invariably shouting matches,sticks & stones.. and bottles and bats, cars vandalized, roads blocked, etc.    In that Charlottesville fiasco, some right wing people were having a legitimate rally with a permit, in reaction to several monuments and statues being vandalized, destroyed, and removed.  The left wing people showed up to confront them.. and they came with bats, bars, and body armor.. and blocked off the streets.  There is video proving that the man who accelerated into a blocked off street had the back of his car being swung at with a bat enough to put a dent in it before he accelerated.  That will come out clearly in his trial.

@aadam101:

I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I really think that this isn't going to end well for women.  Men are pigs and men want sex.  We have all had met "straight" men and I'm sure all of us have had sex with a few of them.  If I was a straight guy I would be terrified to  even look at a woman these days!  It's a lot easier for them to just have sex with other dudes.

That reminds me of something from last night…  I was watching a guy on Chaturbate.. and he was adamant that he is 100% straight.  He was jacking off while watching straight porn.  I wondered how straight he was when after he came, he ate his load for 200 tokens ($10).    I then did a bit of internet research on him, found his real name, life history, email, etc.  One comment he made on a blog is that he is completely straight, won't top or bottom a guy..  BUT he will let a guy suck his cock especially if they swallow!  Hmm.. maybe not so straight.  I am pretty sure he also lives with a sugar daddy.

@raphjd:

NO!!!!!   Protesting is a protected form of speech.

Protesting only becomes a violation when they get violent/destructive or prevent others from exercising their right to free speech.

I would say that if one group is having a gathering.. and an opposing group shows up screaming chants and waving signs.. that second group is preventing the first group from exercising their right to free speech.

In large gatherings, such as Charlottesville, a group has to get a PERMIT to have an event.  No matter what the event is about, the people putting it on are allowed to do it because of "Freedom of Speech"

BUT!  It seems to me that people don't have the right to SUPRESS other people's Freedom of Speech by showing up to protest!  This would eliminate a whole lot of conflicts.  
Does FREEDOM OF SPEECH include the right to NOT HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

In short, I don't think Freedom of Speech gives people the right to PROTEST someone else's event.  
Here's an example… the Westboro Baptist church are famous for protesting the funerals of gay people and servicemen.   Do they have the right to protest the funerals?  I say NO!

also..
If someone is having a pro-choice rally, the pro-life people have no right to be there to protest the rally.
If someone is having a pro-life rally, the pro-choice people have no right to be there to protest the rally.

(I impressed MYSELF with my brilliant idea here!  Let's all click on the Blue Heart to the left.. I AGREE!)

@JohnAllenson:

What difference does it make that YAOI, Bodice Rippers, Slash, or M/M are predominately written by women?  They still romanticize Non-Consent.
(And there have been plenty of research papers on why women fantasize about gay relationships; as well as papers on why women romanticize non-consent.)
This doesn't mean that they depict behaviours that are acceptable in real life.
Granted, the question "If you ask someone out on a date and they say no" doesn't indicate WHY they said no.  If someone says, "I'm busy that day can we reschedule" that's different from "I'd rather stay just friends."

Your comment reminded me of something I heard a man say in an office.  "I spent $50 on my date last night.. and didn't even get a blowjob!"    But then what happens is the woman has a few drinks, gives a blowjob, and the next day files sexual assault charges for getting her drunk and sexually assaulting her.  Or.. having sex, and not getting a phone call later, and rape charges filed.  Glad I have no interest in wimmen!

I wonder if this idea would work..

Instead of having a MEN'S room, and WOMEN'S room.. 
have an generic / anybody room, and a WOMEN & CHILDREN room..

If women and children wanted to use the generic room, they would do so at their own risk.  The trans people would use the generic room without the stigma of going to a "men's room".

Large shopping malls already have a MEN'S, WOMEN'S, and FAMILY room.

In some countries in Europe, they have urinals without doors right on the sidewalks!  I always wondered what women think about that, because I don't think a urinal would work for most of them.

@cteavin:

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/20/students-crashed-a-college-republicans-m

I just have no words for this type of stupidity. It used to be that young people were taught how to think now they're just mirroring what they hear around them without thinking about it critically.

Is this the effect of affirmative action on campus', where people who score lower on the SAT's are let in?

Is this a failure of the parents or teachers?

Thoughts?

Not only is the SAT not really required anymore, they made the test much easier. 
The university I went to had high STANDARDS.. but they were not enforced! 
Even though I had extremely high SAT scores, they forced all incoming students to take the universities OWN placement test.. which is why I was able to start taking junior level engineering classes in my freshman year.  (that did not work out that well because at least one engineering teacher HATED having a 17 year old that looked 14 years old sitting in his class of people in their 20's.  I have to add an interesting thing about that class… everyone had to share a drafting table with another student... The guy I sat next to me in that class was 27 years old, and was an army veteran.  He was extremely quiet, and the instructor would nearly do that guy's work for him while completely ignoring my questions.  Despite sitting next to the guy for 4 hours a week for a semester, he completely ignored me outside of the classroom when I would see him on campus.  Just one year later, I heard his name on television.  He went into a building on campus, strangled a secretary to death, and sodomized her butt after she was dead.  This was witnessed by 3 students through the small glass window in the office door.  They thought they were watching some kinky sex.  He is in prison and will never be released.. which is GOOD in his case, however, from a LEGAL standpoint, that is a bit harsh.  He had no prior record, was not a violent person (although serving in the army must have required him to do some aggressive things).  So much for being insane!  Florida is famous for very long sentences, executions, etc.  They have the same public defenders for capital 1st degee murderers working on things like petty shoplifting and trespassing charges.  )
About 1/3 of the students admitted to the college had to do 1 year of non-credit remedial courses.  They failed to learn to reed, ryte, and do rithmetic in hye skool.

Honesty, college is a waste of time for almost everybody these days.  There is not much need for educated people in society anymore, especially since the computer age.  The medical field is one of the few vocations that REQUIRE a college degree, but even then, most medical functions could be done by just about anybody trained to do that one specific function.  Train some people to do dressings.. some to do injections, some to do liposuction, some to do colonoscopies, some to do catheders, some to do CAT scans / MRI,  some to take X-rays, some to administer anesthesia, some to do LASIK / PRK,  some to do EKGs, etc.  Most people think that doctors are super smart and knowledgeable.. WRONG.  Some people also believe that cops are hard working, brave, and honest.. hahaa!  :hehe:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/sat-act-not-required-colleges_n_2206391.html

http://college.usatoday.com/2014/07/07/no-the-sat-is-not-required-more-colleges-join-test-optional-train/

@cteavin:

@JohnAllenson:

If your argument is that a long-standing trope of literature means a behaviour is acceptable…

There's also a long-running trope in literature and film that someone will fall in love with you if you rape them. (Part of the definition of Bodice Ripper romance and normative in Uke/Seme YAOI.)
Another involves falling in love with a kidnapper/man who keeps her hostage. (Beauty and the Beast)
Another involves falling in love with someone who is physically or mentally abusive. (Taming of the Shrew.)

I'm in support of the idea that it's better to try to date someone who is interested in you rather than someone who is not.

It's interesting to me that you chose YAOI. Did you know that almost all YAOI is written by women? There's a subgenre called SHOTA in which elementary school-aged children get into sexual relationships with adults (or peers). There's another niche genre dealing with infants. The lioness's share is, you guessed it, written by women.

Think about that for a second.

Mom's are writing love stories and/or rape scenarios involving children.

The overwhelming majority of this kind of fiction is the more mainstream YAOI, or Boy's Love. If you pay attention to it you'll see it's very heteronormative (because it's written by women for women).

Honestly, I would love to do a Ph.D. on the why but my point in bringing this up is that YAOI happens in a foreign culture. The other examples all happened across time in, what is essentially, a foreign culture.

I love dissecting literature and film but saying Beauty & The Beast represents rape culture, or worse, Stockholms's Syndrom is to put a political spin on a time and culture we can know nothing about. What I'm saying is a little different.

The Troubadours shot time's romantic arrow, which follows a direct path through Shakespear and your bodice rippers to today. Using Queer Theory and Intersectionalism is a fun intellectual exercise but it shouldn't inform politics and policy, should it? Art imitates life imitates art; not the art critic informs art to inform life to inform the critic.

What's missing in your idea is serendipity. You're essentially saying there's a code so that no one ever feels uncomfortable and everyone feels respected. One rejection means a lifetime ban. But life is risk! Without it there are no serenades, no awkward love letters, no acknowledgment that it's okay to obsess on a crush. I see this tendency as a move towards repression which sets us on target for a new Victorian Age with its very seedy underbelly of all the things we're not supposed to do.

The saga of Craig & Tweek covers this. 
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=craig+tweek+yaoi&FORM=HDRSC2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweek_x_Craig

and they also continue this in the new Southpark game  "Fractured But Whole"  (butt hole)
Youtube Video

@cteavin:

@JohnAllenson:

I may have made an Arguement from Ignorance (none of the Transpeople I've met - which have been hundreds) but it's not automatically a false argument.
Is there evidence suggesting that costumes will desettle gender identity?  Why wouldn't they become Transvestites, or Exhibitionists, or actors?

ON the separate topic or changes in Pride.  I was a volunteer at or part of the committee running Pride Toronto from 1986 through to 2001.  The things that changed:

On Pride, is NAMBLA still allowed to march? That was a huge controversy way back when.

On dressing a child up, I'm not saying it's universally bad. The example in the article is an extreme, probably an outlier. If a child is allowed (or made) to dress up and gets one set of signals during the event and a very different set of signals outside, then it could lead to confusion. Don't you think it's odd that this generation in the West has had an upsurge in gender binary, et al.? Either this declaration that there are 63 genders plus fluidity is biological or cultural, and evolution doesn't take place within one generation.

For millennia children have been raised within relatively stable social constructs. Now some are not.

When I look at the western press I see a lot of adults trying to normalize extreme behaviour by exposing young people to different things (drag queens reading books at the library) and relaxing or erasing boundaries (allowing children to chose rather than being guided).

When I was a child dinner was whatever my mother cooked. If I didn't eat it, then I ate nothing. Today, the parent takes (food) orders from the child. Today we have young people choosing vegetarian diets, juice cleanses, junk food. Parents traditionally are supposed to carve a path the child follows. When parents neglect that duty external forces including all the media a child consumes and peer pressure create that path.

It's an interesting question as to where these many varied paths will lead.

My dad and his second wife bought a baby that was not yet born from a pregnant prostitute in Peru.  They spoiled that girl rotten - not that it made the girl happy - it just screwed that girl up!  In regards to food.  EVERY NIGHT they would have to get a special meal for the girl to eat.  She would NEVER eat what everybody else was eating.

As for NAMBLA, I have no problem with the National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes. 
http://wiki.southpark.cc.com/wiki/The_National_Association_of_Marlon_Brando_Look-Alikes

@raphjd:

I really hate this topic because it's got so many issues, with only a few that are sensible.

As anyone knows, who's read this section and the other places I post, I fully support trans-sexuals using the bathrooms that match their sex/gender.     This would include people like Blaire White and Skylar, of YouTube fame.

What I never will support is someone like Elliot Cope being a shit stirring special snowflake who claims to be a trans boy, who identifies as a girl.    NO, she is just a girl.

This includes Milo Stewart who's trans claim is that since she wears boys' underwear, she is trans, but non binary.

Dakota ties tampons in his/her/its beard, along with other idiotic things and claims to be a "trans gender terrorist".

The now former President of the Student Union in the UK claimed to be gender fluid because sometimes she wears jeans.

It's freaks like these that made it a criminal offense for people like Blaire White and Skylar to use the bathroom that matches their sex/gender.    REAL trans should not be criminalized.   But the "trans trenders" are more than happy to throw real trans under the bus to get the attention they seek for themselves.

That is exactly the problem.. and I'm not sure how they can fix the problem.
There are people born with:
no genitalia
BOTH a penis and a vagina
a very tiny penis (they are usually surgically modified to be female, but Senator John McCain kept his micro penis)

Then there are people who have had surgery to:
add breasts
take hormones
cut off dick
adam's apple shaved down
facial reconstruction

Then there are those who just:
pretend to be female for escorting purposes
dress in drag occasionally
dress in drag all the time
have identified as being a different gender their entire lives

Maybe the thing to do in regards to restrooms is require people's IDs to determine where they go potty.
If they are "trans"  that person should go to a medical doctor or psychologist or psychiatrist to legally have their ID reflect the gender they want. 
I think that would stop a LOT of the problems, but not all.  There are lots of cases where women sexually abuse men (they are usually called "wives").  Everyday you read about some middle aged cougar seducing teenage boys.  The police tend to ignore and turn a blind eye to crimes committed by females (which is why Hillary Clinton is not in prison).

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

I know enough about Chinese people and how despicable they can be.. I could post thousands of photo and video examples.  One of their beliefs is that meat tastes better if the animal suffered when slaughtered.  I suppose the theory is that adrenaline is released or something.  Another dodgy issue is that of wiping out every last rhino on the planet so they can grind up the horns to get a hard pecker.. or whatever the hell they do with the tiny gall bladders that they harvest from the last remaining bears.. or their annual festival of gobbling up dogs and cats.  The Japanese people are said to have  "militaristic" tendencies - which is why they have decided to avoid getting involved in anything that might lead to war.  The Chinese have a tendency to be "sadistic" and celebrate pain and degradation. I know that not all of them do, but as a country, they tolerate it.. so, don't expect me to be taking a holiday to China anytime this millennium.

Japan is much like the "Vulcans" on Star Trek.  They are very disciplined, logical, and peaceful.. but when their discipline fails.. I pity anybody who is their enemy.  In fact, that is another reason why Trump has to STOP North Korea.. before the Japanese decide they need to have nukes of their own.  I guarantee that the Japanese could produce superior nukes, very quickly, in great numbers, and would use them.  Plus.. they have Godzilla and Mothra on their side!

Well, I've been in Japan twenty plus years. Your idea that the Japanese are like Vulcans is rooted in Western media's portrayal of the Japanese. Nothing could be further from the truth. What translators cannot get right is the language:

Japanese has three distinct levels (not to mention all the variations through dialects and time), effectively three different languages. There's no way to correctly translate it. At best you get strange utterances with honor, respectfully, let's tacked on. Then there's the cultural differences. Did you know a Japanese pregnancy takes exactly ten months and ten days? That's not because human gestation differs in Asia, it's because time is counted differently.

If you don't want to like China, that's your choice but rooting your decision in stereotypes is, again, no different than modern snowflakes or the irrationality of the Christian right and what they know about homosexuality with all the pictures and YouTube videos they could show to back up their point.

The variety on this planet cannot be lensed through western thinking without distorting it.

Youtube Video

I used to work with a guy from Taiwan, and 2 Chinese guys.  I used to drive the Chinese guys crazy because they were not sure if I could understand what they were saying when they were speaking Chinese.  I would act as if I knew..hehe.    The guy from Taiwan's father was a big shot general who was given a town in Taiwan as a gift for his military service.. but left very little to his son in his will  The guy from Taiwan said that the Japanese language is actually a simplified version of Chinese.  Is that right?    Also, I know there are 3 major versions of Chinese,  Mandarin, Cantonese, and Traditional.

Right from CNN.. the shocking revelation of what that insensitive racist whitey pig (according to the moonbats) said to the widow of Sgt, Mark De Alencar.  Brace yourselves!

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/10/20/gold-star-widow-phone-call-trump-alencar-jnd-orig-vstop.cnn

It was just a matter of time before this happened. 
Some mega ugly transgendered bitch fucked a 10 year old girl in a bathroom.. 
So much for trans getting the right to go potty in the ladies room.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/10/19/transgender-wyoming-woman-convicted-sexually-assaulting-10-year-old-girl-in-bathroom.html

@cteavin:

@Frederick:

I never heard of Japan referred to as being communist.. imperialist, but not communist.  I am not aware that Japan ever was state run.. although the people of Japan may have voluntarily supported the state - they were not forced to. 
I would like to know more about Japan, but I know enough about China to not like nor trust them. 
One thing to be wary of when examining history is who wrote the history and when.  Anything written under government control or during a war is likely to be grossly inaccurate and misleading.

There has never been a truly communist country, Fred, just as there's never been a true democracy. We've seen different species of both. Gorbachev went as far to say that the USSR wasn't even run under a form of communism but something else, which is why when he was asked about a successful communist country he pointed out Japan.

From the 70's till the late 90's the state did have very firm control and almost everyone benefitted. That's been changing since the bubble burst. The point Gorbachev was making isn't that Japan was a literal communist country; rather, it was an ironic statement and self-effacement.

As for China, if you think you know enough, then you're as guilty as any snowflake who knows x, y, and z and insist the world be that way and no other. Be more like Socrates, my friend.

I know enough about Chinese people and how despicable they can be.. I could post thousands of photo and video examples.  One of their beliefs is that meat tastes better if the animal suffered when slaughtered.  I suppose the theory is that adrenaline is released or something.  Another dodgy issue is that of wiping out every last rhino on the planet so they can grind up the horns to get a hard pecker.. or whatever the hell they do with the tiny gall bladders that they harvest from the last remaining bears.. or their annual festival of gobbling up dogs and cats.  The Japanese people are said to have  "militaristic" tendencies - which is why they have decided to avoid getting involved in anything that might lead to war.  The Chinese have a tendency to be "sadistic" and celebrate pain and degradation. I know that not all of them do, but as a country, they tolerate it.. so, don't expect me to be taking a holiday to China anytime this millennium.

Japan is much like the "Vulcans" on Star Trek.  They are very disciplined, logical, and peaceful.. but when their discipline fails.. I pity anybody who is their enemy.  In fact, that is another reason why Trump has to STOP North Korea.. before the Japanese decide they need to have nukes of their own.  I guarantee that the Japanese could produce superior nukes, very quickly, in great numbers, and would use them.  Plus.. they have Godzilla and Mothra on their side!

The left's relentless attacks on Trump are now starting to crumble.. and backfire on the left.

On Friday's 10/19/2017 episode of "Hannity", Sean Hannity laid out the situation with Russia, the 20% of Uranium sold to Russia, it's implications, and all the people involved in it.  He did a great job doing that, and the bottom line is that they can kiss that investigation being done by Herr Mueller goodbye.. and they can also forget about Comey, McCabe, and Rosensteinberg.

Let me summarize:
Herr Mueller was the FBI director when "Uranium-Gate" began.. he was aware of it, and did nothing while Russia funneled hundreds of millions of $$$ into the Clinton campaign in exchange for turning a blind eye towards giving away 20% of the USA uranium reserves.. which wound up in Russia.. and then to who knows.. Iran?  North Korea?  China?  ISIS?  So.. ONE DOWN.. Herr Mueller!
James Comey succeeded Herr Mueller, and again continued this coverup of the "Uranium Gate" and then went on to protect Hillary in the "Email-Gate" saga.  TWO DOWN.. James Comey!
Then, the deputy director of the FBI under Comey - Andrew McCabe - became the interim FBI director.. again.. more carry over from Sheik Obama  and McCabe continued the coverup of Uranium Gate AND Email Gate.  THREE DOWN - Andrew McCabe!
While all this was going on.. Trump's appointee Jeff Sessions foolishly recused himself from anything to do with Russia just to appease Congress who would not have confirmed him otherwise.  This resulted in yet another carryover from Sheik Obama - Rod Rosenstein - appointing the ONE person who should have been excluded from being a special prosecutor - Herr Mueller!  Instead of COVERING his ass with Mueller, Rod Rosenstein has stepped into a proverbial "tar pit" from which there is no escape.  FOUR DOWN - Rod Rosenstein!

The big turn in this situation happened on Aug 2, 2017 when the interim FBI director was replaced with Trump appointed FBI director Christopher Wray.

So, basically , every attack made on Trump has fizzled and is now a problem for the democraps.  It didn't help the democrats any that Hillary has gone completely mad, and Harvey Weinstein's widespread abuses amongst the liberal crowd were exposed.

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@cteavin:

@Frederick:

I think this is the full text of the speech in the link below.   The fundamental problem with China's goals is that to achieve those goals requires a dictatorship of communism.  It's only been 41 years since the demise of that monster Mao Ets Dung.  Why that pig is still revered in China is perplexing.  Mao's basic scheme was to murder millions of people who opposed him or even COULD have opposed him, and replace them with young people he could control.  Living under communism would be almost as bad as having Hillary Clinton as president.  Anybody who enjoys working 12 hours per day on a mind numbing assembly line would love communism.

I have a question about China and it's manufacturing.. why doesn't China manufacture automobiles or aircraft.. or write their own computer software?

https://www.ncuscr.org/content/full-text-president-xi-jinpings-speech

The link is to a speech he made to the US, not the party speech. It'll take a while for someone to translate all 3.5 hours.

China is communist in name only. Actually, it was Gorbachev who said that Japan has been the only communist country on the planet. That might have been true of 80's/90's Japan.

China isn't what you think. You should go visit or learn about the culture. It's a way of thinking that can't be put into Google translate. To understand Chinese (Asian) thinking, you have to take the time to learn a new perspective. After that, you can answer those questions.

If you're interested, I can get you the name of an accessible sociological comparison of western vs Asian thinking as a primer. I've forgotten the title off hand.

I never heard of Japan referred to as being communist.. imperialist, but not communist.  I am not aware that Japan ever was state run.. although the people of Japan may have voluntarily supported the state - they were not forced to. 
I would like to know more about Japan, but I know enough about China to not like nor trust them. 
One thing to be wary of when examining history is who wrote the history and when.  Anything written under government control or during a war is likely to be grossly inaccurate and misleading.

@cteavin:

The author has a point in that the mother brings the child to gay pride in makeup, not that the child goes, as in, by himself. The parents bear responsibility for what their children see and do.

When I read these kinds of stories that are against bringing kids to Pride events they fall into two categories: There's too much sex in the air or the event normalizes (what is for your judgment).

Dressing a child in drag and taking them to Pride is new to me. I see a child getting lots of positive reinforcement at an age when the self isn't fully formed. In an age where parents are more likely to give anti-puberty drugs if their child feels they're transsexual, well, reinforcing gender-bending at a place with all that attention seems like a bad idea.

Thoughts?

https://medium.com/@Perri_Fisher/dragcon-just-the-latest-example-of-lgbt-exploitation-of-children-e711d4052aed

This reminds me of many years ago when I visited Amsterdam.  For those that don't know, Amsterdam is an ultra-clean and manicured city with a population of mostly attractive, intelligent people.  They have very loose laws regarding drugs and sex.  I think the reason that Amsterdam is so great is that there is so much freedom.. but of course with freedom comes people who abuse the freedoms.  I don't think they allow people to solicit sex ON the streets, but they do allow prostitutes to stand behind windows along the streets and bang on the windows, etc.  (They tried VERY hard to get my attention).  There are often prostitutes in street level windows, with sandwich boards with photos of people having sex, with a barker screaming "LIVE SEX ON STAGE!" Next to a church - sharing the same wall - with a theater that has live sex shows… next to a "coffee shop" that sells marijuana.   Anyway.. everybody gets along and is tolerant of just about everything..which is fine.  But.. one thing I saw was rather disturbing.  On one street, I happened to walk right past actor Robert De Niro.   In cities like Amsterdam, London, NYC, and Hollywood / Los Angeles - it is not unusual to spot a celebrity.  On that same street, there was this woman about 25 years old walking with an 8 year old boy in broad daylight walking along the sidewalk.  Both of them dressed head to toe in black leather.. with the boy in assless chaps with his hiney in full view... and the boy had a harness and collar on and the woman had him on a leash.    It was just like this photo only an 8 year old instead of a 45 year old man.  That stunned me!