A World for Cabbages

Personal blog of some guy from Sydney. Mostly memes, video games, Jojo, military history.

[todaysdocument]

Five Presidents chat at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum on April 25, 2013. 

Collection BHO-WHPO: Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration)

Series: Presidential Photographs

Image description: Presidents George H. W. Bush, Carter, Obama, Clinton, and George W. Bush, as well as First Ladies Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama are all outside the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. They are casually chatting. 

[weaponisedcabbages]

I didn't know they did conventions for war criminals

[verycooltrash-deactivated201907]

[azzandra]

I’m Romanian and I didn’t even know that’s what drujba meant, oh my god, this is hilarious.

[trilllizard666]

*Revs chainsaw* THIS IS SHAPED LIKE A FRIEND

[kd-heart]

I just realized this makes solving things with the power of friendship much more interesting

[weaponisedcabbages]

I'm down with this

[crazy-brazilian]

[pugzman3]

Thats ok....you can do it at IMDB

[assoc-of-free-people]

You can be immune to propaganda if you check imdb.

[weaponisedcabbages]

Not looking too slick on metacritic as well

[dead-twink-storage]

Love the endless deluge of fake dissidents that are like “yea I totally think the American government is filled racists, rapists, murderers, corrupt corporate puppets, and warmongers but any attempt to harm them or even just making them feel a little uncomfortable should be grounds for execution”

[dead-twink-storage]

Love the endless deluge of fake dissidents that are like “yea I totally think the American government is filled racists, rapists, murderers, corrupt corporate puppets, and warmongers but any attempt to harm them or even just making them feel a little uncomfortable should be grounds for execution”

[aiiaiiiyo]

Special effects master, Ray Harryhausen, demonstrates animating a skeleton warrior from 1963’s ‘Jason and the Argonauts’. Check this blog!

[thetyrannosaur]

dude is fast as shit

[weaponisedcabbages]

ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA

[freezingcloud-deactivated202402]

He shouldn't be watching porn in the first place. I wonder how he views his peers in the classroom at school.

[womany]

Idk, do young boys feel weird about the fact that their entire sex class places this unfair and torturous demands upon women all for their fleeting pleasure? I sure hope they don’t LIKE the fact that their actions effect the misfortunate young girls they have no choice but to be subjected to

[grossgirlterror]

IMAGINE thinking that you're the victim in a situation where YOU are watching a poor womans' rape on tape. The fucking AUDACITY. If you type shit like this you should actually kill yourself.

[noblepeasant]

Dude, at what point does he say that he's a victim? He's just saying "does anyone else find this strange, I wonder what they think about it". Just because you see yourself as a permanent victim doesn't mean everyone else does.

[noblepeasant]

[secret-senshi]

You can’t even come up with your own comeback that women didn’t invent first x). Appropriate, manipulate and covet. That’s all scrotes and tifs like you can do, sweetie

[noblepeasant]

[weaponisedcabbages]

Honestly more concerned that he's on Reddit than about him watching porn

[outlaw762x-deactivated20221122]

[natalieironside]

I’m about a 2 I think

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

This one

[weaponisedcabbages]

More like Tushyro Mifune

[sugarpkts]

death grips fish

guess what i’m reeling it

[m3n4c3v35537]

INTO THE BLUE

BAIT THEN YA CAST

HOOK COMING THROUGH LIKE FUCK WHAT WASSAT

[weaponisedcabbages]

When you come out, your fish is gone

When you come out, your fish is gone

I'M IN LAKE ERIE UHH

I'M IN - I'M IN LAKE ERIE UH

[7sxvxn7]

[weaponisedcabbages]

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

Don’t ask just Brooklyn thjngs

[enriquemzn262]

We unironically do this in Colombia since many corner stores sell soda in reusable glass bottles, where you’re supposed to bring an empty one so the new one can be sold to you, as otherwise you have to pay a premium to keep the bottle.

And since many don’t have the empty bottle on hand or just don’t want to pay the premium, the store owner will just pour the soda in a plastic bag, add a straw and sell that at the normal reusable price.

Although nowadays it’s not nearly as common as it once was, reusable personal glass bottles are slowly being passed out in favor of 2 liters plastic ones, while there’s now many options for disposable soft drink containers.

[epitoma-rei-militaris-deactivat]

I always wondered why the plastic bags full of soda were so ubiquitous in third world countries.

[weaponisedcabbages]

I've seen people do this for ice coffee in Vietnam. Since they generally will sell takeaway food as well, it's just cheaper to bulk buy plastic bags than to get plastic bags and cups too

[argumate]

while coronavirus plays into anti-China ideas worldwide, it’s also difficult to explain what’s so great about democracy when you’re being absolutely ravaged by a virus that China and Vietnam have already handled.

[generallemarc]

The great thing about democracy is that you don’t have religious dissidents being harvested for their organs. The great thing about democracy is that you don’t have over a million citizens tossed into gulags for the crime of not being born as ethnic Hans and revering God over the Party. The great thing about democracy is that you have independent entities that can keep you honest and prevent the government from lying to the WHO about human-to-human transmission, thereby exponentially worsening the pandemic.

Stop worshipping Xi pal-he’d still disappear you if you actually lived in his hellhole of a country.

[argumate]

that’s the thing, when it comes to accusing innocent Muslims of being terrorists and imprisoning them in camps that ship has already sailed to Guantanamo some time ago, the War on Terror provides a perfect justification for anything that can be framed as taming Islamic radicalism, and China can reasonably claim that (forced) Mandarin lessons are surely less egregious crimes against humanity than Apache helicopters firing at Iraqi civilians.

if we go a little further back to French Algeria we see an example of a notionally democratic republic committing the most appalling abuses against a breakaway province populated by an ethnic minority, so it’s clear that system of governance alone can’t guarantee humane outcomes.

the strength of the US is that it can elect a president as unfit for the office as Trump without collapsing into civil war (yet), the weakness of course is that he was nominated in the first place, a nation of three hundred million people choosing a bankrupt casino developer to head the executive branch.

when America sends in the national guard to enforce curfew and the cops are delivering beat downs and rubber bullets against journalists the rest of the world sees that and says huh, guess those precious freedoms are fake then, your democracy is just fancy words around the authoritarian fist like everybody else.

there might be a difference, but it’s subtle! your financial assets are probably more secure in America, so it’s the destination of choice if you’re rich (don’t carry cash in your car though, the cops can steal it without repercussions).

I’d hate to be railroaded by a secretive court and end up in a Chinese prison, but then I don’t think the American justice system is particularly good at delivering justice either, and the reputation of American prisons is not great.

now personally I believe in the strength of democracy and rule of law, but maintaining it in practice is difficult, and trying to paint China and the US as polar opposites isn’t very convincing.

rather than wanting China to be more like the US, I think I would rather that China and the US be more like a country should be, and that’s something we’re still dimly fumbling towards after all these years.

[generallemarc]

China is objectively worse than the US, you’re defending re-education camps run by China by saying America did some other stuff that was worse(because that’s how judging guilt and impact of crimes works), the national guard and police are paraplegic kittens compared to the PLA and MSS, and the difference is so vast that it’s almost too obvious to say. Guantanmo Bay holding a few dozen terrorists, of whom some maybe didn’t massacre civilians, is not the same thing as the Uighyr gulags. Guantanamo is also not on the level of the government re-writing of the Quran to reflect socialist values, which is also being done to the Bible. Clashes between protesters and cops are not the same as a complete repression of democratic ideas Hong-Kong style and the use of dissidents as organ farms. 

You are so impossibly ignorant of this situation that I can’t possibly imagine what combination of drugs and MotherJones articles you had to endure in order to have this warped a perception of reality. China should be more like the US, because China is a tyrannical Orwellian nightmare, and the US isn’t. No amount of anti-American hatebonering can change that.

[eightyonekilograms]

Golly I sure am glad I don’t live in a tyrannical Orwellian nightmare like China.

[argumate]

yeah, I’m not here to defend China, one country committing war crimes and torturing prisoners doesn’t justify another country committing genocide, that isn’t how justice works.

but if you’re trying to convince Chinese people that democracy is a superior system, which I believe it is, it certainly doesn’t help to have democracies running around committing war crimes and torturing prisoners!

imagine if Chelsea Manning was imprisoned for seven years for releasing evidence of Chinese war crimes, she’d be an American national hero.

the Hong Kong cops are acting in defense of tyranny and yet somehow still manage to be more professional and restrained in doing so than American cops who are apparently upholding rule of law and yet can murder people and steal shit with impunity; people see this! people know this! so when you tell them that they should be more like the US they demur and go well I don’t want to be shot by a cop for no reason, and it’s tough to argue with that.

we have to recognise Chinese government crimes, but not at the cost of ignoring US government crimes, or French government crimes, or Australian government crimes (turns out Australian troops have been executing civilians in Afghanistan, one more thing that the PLA hasn’t been doing).

painting the Chinese government as uniquely flawed isn’t just inaccurate, it’s also unhelpful, as it plays into narrative of America talking up the crimes of others as a partisan ploy to distract from its own misdeeds.

Xi Jinping was roasted for staying silent on the coronavirus for two weeks, but compare that with the utter clowning of Boris Johnson or Trump or Bolsonaro and naturally you might start to wonder exactly what benefit democracy has conferred on these countries.

if China is that bad and you still can’t outperform it, that’s appalling!

[toloveviceforitself]

The US imprisons more people, gross and per capita, than anywhere in the world. It requires a certain kind of propaganda poisoning to point to Chinese prison camps as a point in an argument for how the US is superior, and not recognize the irony.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

No, it requires the intelligence to realize that China lies about the amount of people it imprisons, while in the US it's usually public record. And also many countries straight up execute people for minor offenses, or they're never accused at all.

I have never seen a single person explain the connective logic between "the US has more prisoners" and "the US is tyrannical and worse than other countries".

I'm also fairly certain people have been murdered in Hong Kong. Cherry picking bad things the US supposedly does to downplay China's misdeeds is defending China, argumate.

[cookingwithroxy]

Let's be fucking serious here. China imprisons 1.7m, and 'detains' 1.5 mill just in the Ughurs that they're holding. That's 50% more than the US prison system, and that's just from combining known prisoners and known 'detainees' of ONE group.

The only reason China's 'prison' population is lower than the US's is because they don't count political prisoners as PRISONERS. You combine that with the fact that China treats Rioting as a crime worthy of execution and, oh as a small thing, treats the NUMBER of executions enacted each year as a STATE SECRET?

Yeah it's very fucking easy to claim America looks worse in comparison to China, when the only information you have on China is the propaganda that they ALLOW outsiders to see.

[weldingmaskon]

Yeah it's very fucking easy to claim America looks worse in comparison to China, when the only information you have on China is the propaganda that they ALLOW outsiders to see.

Yeah, pretty much.

[weaponisedcabbages]

Vietnam may have been doing well at the start of the pandemic but it that really isn't the case now

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-slips-to-bottom-on-covid-19-recovery-index-4337493.html

[studentlifeproblems]

[mauxanhduong]

[image description: a tweet by user @/CHIPANIMUS that reads “What happens in your head when you do 27 + 48? PLEASE respond I’m tryna see something”. end id.]

[paper-mario-wiki]

20 + 40 = 60

60 + ((8 + 8) - 1)) = 75

[hellsite-yano]

27 + 50 = 77 77 - 2 = 75

[weaponisedcabbages]

48+7=55

55+20=75

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

(Source.)

[ID: Tweet thread by @LunaOi_VN, broken up into three images. Tweet 1:

Sometimes I forgot that I was born when Vietnam was still being comprehensively embargoed by the US.

The economic sanction was lifted when I was 15 and my life change drastically since then.

Lemme tell ya, sanction sucks.

[Tweet 2:

In the sanction time: - No fresh milk except this condensed milk. It was like super fancy at that time. - No soft drinks like Coke, pepsi… - Virtually no candies or cookies except when I was sick or it was Tet holiday, my mom would buy me some Hai Chau cookies.

[images of condensed milk and the aforementioned cookies]

[Tweet 3 (beginning of second image):

- No clean water. We had to drink yellow water from our well. - No stable electricity so of course there was no fridge, no oven, no electric rice cooker… - No gas/electric stove. I had to cook with straw/wood stove my whole childhood.

[Image of a pot of something being cooked in a fireplace] [image of two people getting water from a well]

[Tweet 4:

- No new clothes. I had to wear old clothes from my older brother. - When I was 10, I was chosen to study in art class but I could not join because my mom could not afford new art supplies for me. - Meat was somethign very fancy at that time. I could only eat beef twice a month.

[image of a set of colored pencils]

[Tweet 5:

- Virtually no medicine except for some basic anti-biotics and vitamins. - Mostly all the vaccines we had were from Cuba. Thanks, Cuba! And yes, Cubans vaccines are running through my veins to this day.

[Tweet 6 (beginning of third image):

After the sanction was lifted: - I finally could have some fresh milk. - Instant noodles became affordable. - Finally new clothes! Hell yeah! - More medicine, more vaccines.

[images of consumer food products, IDK]

[Tweet 7:

My final thought:

Fuck the US and its sanction!!!

And fuck YOU if you think sanction doesn’t affect a whole country’s economy and the life of millions of people just because the US says so.

[Tweet 8:

Vietnam was under US sanction for just 25 years, meanwhile Cuba has been under US sanction for 60 fucking years!!! That is I am so pissed at any fucking bootlickers and CIA-sympathizers who blaimed Cuba for what they has been going through. #HandsOffCuba

[End of thread. End description.]

[ace-pervert]

So can i ask why they didnt use their extensive border with China, Laos, Indonesia etc?

[weaponisedcabbages]

Linda Ooi is a commie shill and should not be trusted. That's why this post confuses me because she's basically admitting that pre-economic liberalisation Vietnam was incompetent, couldn't meet the basic needs of its people and needed a foreign superpower to bail it out.

[baradragon]

so many people hate shinji cause he whines like a bitch but hes 14…… some of yall are pushing 30 and lash out when the military propaganda movie doesnt have enough gay baiting