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I’m gonna have to explain this out very simply: blackface has a long history going back more than a century before Obama was even born.

There do exist racist caricatures of Chinese people with squinty eyes. Pooh does not have the squinty eyes. Ive yet to see any evidence of Pooh being used as a racist caricature before Xi Jinping.

none of his personality resembles pooh, it’s just his race, if anything he’s ruthlessly efficient

I think you accidentally admitted the real issue: Pooh is silly, soft, and generally not that smart. Certain types of rulers need to be seen as strong, powerful, and perhaps even ruthless at all times.

The real offense is a possible degradation of his “strong man” image.

I could be corrected on this but as far as I’m aware, it’s not a caricature of Chinese people or Asian people, it’s specifically a caricature of Xi Jinping, one of the most powerful people in the world. In fact, on Forbes list in 2018, he is listed as the #1 most powerful person in the world.

So I don’t think it’s a question of race so much as a question of how far are we allowed to make fun of the most powerful people on the planet.

Interesting because discouraging people from voting also helps the right wing, so you’re pretty busy actively benefiting fascists in at least one way.

The complex supply chains are just as important for small businesses, but the small businesses have no leverage and are powerless to do anything about them.

Numerous failed businesses and bankruptcies beg to differ.

What Trump understands is marketing. A stupid enough audience, tell them lies with enough confidence, and they will let Trump fleece them like sheep.

Nonvoters are people who choose not to vote, not people prevented from voting by being in jail or dead. You think it’s straightforward because you’re an LLM running on an OG Raspberry Pi.

We also export a hell of a lot of soybeans, so when retaliatory tariffs kick in I guess our new ultra-masculine conservative government is going to have us all eating lots and lots of soy.

No, a voter is some who voted.

To you, nonvoter includes people who voted. You’re just a version of chatGPT with no conscious awareness prior to the year 2024.

If someone votes in 2020, then tries to off a candidate in 2024 and dies before they can vote in 2024, absolutely they are a voter.

Your argument is that someone who is politically active up until their death and doesn’t pull a Jesus to vote after death is a nonvoter?

My argument is that voting makes you a voter, including the 2020 general election and midterms.

Why are you biting the bullet in such a silly situation. They were politically active, besides voting also making donations to political parties. People who are invested in the political process do more.