First, this is a non-sequitur as there’s no direct relation between how China governs its territory and the kind of conditions it imposes/would impose on imperial vassals; by this logic Western (neo)colonialism must be “nice” and democratic because Western countries were until 2024 all democratic (hint: It fucking isn’t). Second, despite the authoritarianism Hong Kong has one of the highest standards of living in the world, higher even than mainland China. What exactly is your point here?

I mean Chinese and Mexican people have been in America for almost two centuries. I’m usually the first one to shit on Americans, but at this point Chinese-American stuff and Tex-Mex are theirs.

Thats only a good if Authoritarians don’t step into that gap

No, it’s good even if authoritarians (thinking of China here) step into the gap. It’s hard for Europeans to properly appreciate how absurdly evil US hegemony is and has been, and how much blood is on their hands for supporting it/kowtowing to it over the years. I’d rather have China as the world hegemon than, say, France frankly, and that’s not out of my love for China; the EU has a lot of introspection to do if it wants to avoid America’s fate, and I find this narrative of the EU as the innocent victim unfairly bullied by big brother America/last bastion of human rights to be very counterproductive towards that end.

The bad news: Yeah no, because there’s no political will in America to actually address the root cause that lead to this.

The “good” news: Yeah no, because MAGA isn’t going anywhere, so we don’t need to test this theory.

I know that’s not what you’re asking, but if you decide you want to watch more good anime without unreasonable amounts of jiggling tits, you should try Apothecary Diaries and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s end.

Unfortunately only a handful of US soldiers tends to die or be injured in these wars, so most of them will likely never see anything close to the evil they’re inflicting.

Party’s in my house at 7. Eat shit, Merz.

but that doesn’t automatically mean that going to a restaurant is a bad option.

Sure, but that’s an opinion, not a question. Clearly they consider it a bad (or at least less desirable) option.

where do their expectations come from?

If as you said this is a Russian thing and not a your parents thing, then presumably default social expectations. That’s what they’re used to, so that’s what they expect you to do, in the same way people in Western countries expect Christmas gifts. There’s no deeper answer unless you want the historical background or an explanation of why social expectations exist.

If you get it, then why are you asking?

What monopoly?

Again, you’re assuming that this belief exists in a vacuum and not as part of an elaborate belief system with clauses specifically meant to address this. Besides, your average leftist believes that if you (well society at large more like) disagree with them millions if not billions of people will be condemned to lifelong poverty for generations. The scale is a bit smaller than eternal damnation, but really this is just how it goes when you have strong/high-stakes opinions about anything.

Netanyahu Nobel prize when?

If Snowden and Assange are any indication, the harassment will extend way beyond the right side of the political spectrum.

A “true” believer therefore has a moral imperative of destroying diversity in order to protect other people.

I mean they have a moral imperative to try within whatever limits their interpretation of the religion imposes, but that’s it. It’s not like these religions imply, say, putting followers of other religions in reeducation camps. One can fully operate in a diverse society while still thinking “I’m right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to this thing,” for the same reason having political opinions isn’t mutually exclusive with diversity. BTW Islam =/= Islamism. The former is a religion; the latter is a political ideology based on the religion.

This is one of the parties that were formed into Likud BTW.

Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

If I had a nickel for each peninsula that’s shaped like a boot I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Subtility: 0.

Why do you think I liked the men that got the Democratic nomination for president?

Or, you know, neoliberal ghouls are unpopular no matter their gender. Have you considered that possibility?