Before I got married and had kids I used to travel a lot. Long story short at one point I kinda lost my shit and got washed up in China. Mostly Beijing in Sanlitun. I was just a drunk idiot partying but I saw some dark shit there. The CCP has waged a spiritual war against its citizens for generations. It was an illuminating experience but after a couple of months I woke up and said I got to get the hell out of here
That explains a lot about one of my expat friends who lived in China for a bit. Also I will never forget how real things got for me when a high school classmate who was a correspondent for CNN at the time was detained for about three days in the mid 2000s. Very unnerving.
Your uncle was not only short,but circumspect... truthful,but not really anything that could be readily be construed as anti Party.
I'm sorry your family must worry for them. How could you not??
Remind me never to accept an invite to a social gathering with you,Yuri. You walk in circles that I just can't dress for. That and some of the folks you know wouldn't care for my lack of filter.
" Well,you sanctimonious rat bastard...let me elucidate and educated your heretofore ignorant single cluster of neurons...if that is at all possible...." ( said in a Georgia drawl, so they can be assured I'm ' a racist ' 🙄)
These gatherings are part and parcel of living in Karenland. I still have no filter and have always been blunt about calling out sanctimonious bullshit, but these comrades behave like teenage girls. First they will smear you as morally and intellectually deficient, then they will be passive aggressive and tell you to stop discussing certain topics because they can't adequately defend their NPC goodthink. It appears many of my readers are based in the South, maybe I should move there...
I had the peculiar fate during my employed years of working almost entirely for prominent social welfare or grantmaking organizations whose boards and clientele were in the circles you describe. I was usually the executive secretary i.e. indentured servant to same. I had the amusing experience of having at one point worked for an organization that received grants from so and so, to working for a foundation that made grants to so and sundry, so a hoity toity who treated me with contempt at A. was required to treat me with elementary courtesy at B. when she came calling. I did make sure to remind her of where we'd been acquainted.
We probably know some of the same people, though, as I note, from a somewhat differing power dynamic...
Well, one way to get things done is to create committees of eager volunteers to act as juries and sift through the grant applications. The minions fill out checklists and score on a rubric. Which applicant says things just the right way? Which applicant checks all the boxes? Then, the paid employees can be one step away from the dirty details, and just take credit for the big announcements.
Yikes- and here I complained to my son that I didn't like being in crowds because I couldn't just hurt people for pissing me off...( understand..I own a Martial Arts school...and although I don't hurt people for that reason (( I get paid,poorly,to)) ...I take poorly to people treating me with contempt. I'm sorry you can't just put people like that lady in a finger lock and not let her up until she's on her knees, drooling .
We're in the process of ridding ourselves of our traitorous Sec State Raffensburger ,and hopefully with him our Gov Kemp down here in Georgia. While I applaud Kemps having withstood the country's wrath when he broke us back open pretty damn quick, I cannot forgive him blocking efforts to investigate the 2020 election fraud. Colluders must be ousted.
Here in the hilly and mountainous north ,we have all 4 seasons, tho winter precip tends to thankfully ( having grown up Maine) disappear quickly.
I'm too close to ATL ( 90 min) but I accept that to miss the heat that builds just 30 minutes below me.
You can live hours from Atlanta, or any metro area...which is how many of us here in Gawgeeia prefer it.
Having raved for my state,SW N Carolina and NW S Carolina ( really this whole tri-state area) are stunning and green.
At least I shall have no worries about you voting for the Socialists policies you'd be fleeing. We could use your keen mind here, and if you need a sponsor? Ask someone else- I'm a bit of a curmudgeon ,so probably make an inadequate guarantor. Lololol.
I had a bright idea. As a bonafide INTJ, I have decided to get a t-shirt made with "I'm A People Person" on it. Maybe with multi-colored rainbow and unicorns galloping over the top...maybe traipsing is a better word.
Why is this relevant? Because I want to be at that party when you are splainin thangs to these people.
As a bona-fide INTJ/INFJ cusp ... my explainations tend to be passionate yet subtle. " I dun thought about this, and feel that what I've judged you for deserves this outcome...." 🤣
Yes!! Give me cold,hard data and I'll research the hell outta stuff...but I'm going to use my intuition to gut check how deep to dig. Also if you're lying to me 😂
My astrology chart actually helped me discern my polarization..." oh, I acknowledged that now...it explains so much..."
Lol! I took the test multiple times and always landed squarely on introvert, intuition, and judging, but always spilt that thinking/feeling category straight down the middle!
Read both, and went, yup, that's me!
Not as cold as the t, lots of passion, but cannot stop the critical thinking aspect that must analyze the facts from every side, and must puzzle out the big questions.
But put a child, a flower, or a lover in front of me, (or a worthy cause!) and I'm 100% an f!
Slightly split personality, and it's in my chart as well, but I think, and feel, ; )) it's the best of both worlds!
Glad to meet a fellow INT/FJ!!!
Of course it would happen on Substack.... We rare creatures know where to congregate!
But I'm glad you were able to speak to your uncle and to let us know that this is no exaggeration. I trust nothing I read anywhere about anything anymore, except on those Substacks I've chosen to subscribe to, where I must take the leap of faith in believing their often anonymous authors are both of good faith and genuinely knowledgeable.
Dang, I was gonna subscribe, but then saw your WHINE about abortion. I have the odd view that I care a thousand times more about the rights of actual living, breathing human beings than I do about the "rights" of insensate blobs of ectoplasm. Accordingly I avoid screeds that pretend they're the same.
Before I got married and had kids I used to travel a lot. Long story short at one point I kinda lost my shit and got washed up in China. Mostly Beijing in Sanlitun. I was just a drunk idiot partying but I saw some dark shit there. The CCP has waged a spiritual war against its citizens for generations. It was an illuminating experience but after a couple of months I woke up and said I got to get the hell out of here
American officers aiding China in WWII wrote glowingly about Chinese culture and civilization. Only took the CCP 50 years to wipe millennia away.
Let's take a deep breath and remember that every culture has its great glories and its great horrors.
That explains a lot about one of my expat friends who lived in China for a bit. Also I will never forget how real things got for me when a high school classmate who was a correspondent for CNN at the time was detained for about three days in the mid 2000s. Very unnerving.
Your uncle was not only short,but circumspect... truthful,but not really anything that could be readily be construed as anti Party.
I'm sorry your family must worry for them. How could you not??
Remind me never to accept an invite to a social gathering with you,Yuri. You walk in circles that I just can't dress for. That and some of the folks you know wouldn't care for my lack of filter.
" Well,you sanctimonious rat bastard...let me elucidate and educated your heretofore ignorant single cluster of neurons...if that is at all possible...." ( said in a Georgia drawl, so they can be assured I'm ' a racist ' 🙄)
These gatherings are part and parcel of living in Karenland. I still have no filter and have always been blunt about calling out sanctimonious bullshit, but these comrades behave like teenage girls. First they will smear you as morally and intellectually deficient, then they will be passive aggressive and tell you to stop discussing certain topics because they can't adequately defend their NPC goodthink. It appears many of my readers are based in the South, maybe I should move there...
I had the peculiar fate during my employed years of working almost entirely for prominent social welfare or grantmaking organizations whose boards and clientele were in the circles you describe. I was usually the executive secretary i.e. indentured servant to same. I had the amusing experience of having at one point worked for an organization that received grants from so and so, to working for a foundation that made grants to so and sundry, so a hoity toity who treated me with contempt at A. was required to treat me with elementary courtesy at B. when she came calling. I did make sure to remind her of where we'd been acquainted.
We probably know some of the same people, though, as I note, from a somewhat differing power dynamic...
The amount of pettiness and pretension in that world makes me wonder how anything gets done... oh wait...
Right?
Well, one way to get things done is to create committees of eager volunteers to act as juries and sift through the grant applications. The minions fill out checklists and score on a rubric. Which applicant says things just the right way? Which applicant checks all the boxes? Then, the paid employees can be one step away from the dirty details, and just take credit for the big announcements.
Yikes- and here I complained to my son that I didn't like being in crowds because I couldn't just hurt people for pissing me off...( understand..I own a Martial Arts school...and although I don't hurt people for that reason (( I get paid,poorly,to)) ...I take poorly to people treating me with contempt. I'm sorry you can't just put people like that lady in a finger lock and not let her up until she's on her knees, drooling .
Well, it was quite pleasurable to see her in the begging position (not to me but to my boss, but I was the front desk Gorgonette...).
PS: It may not surprise you if I list all the times I was fired from jobs for insufficient subservience...
Good!
I believe I already brought that up. It even came with an offer to teach you how to talk right. 😂
We're in the process of ridding ourselves of our traitorous Sec State Raffensburger ,and hopefully with him our Gov Kemp down here in Georgia. While I applaud Kemps having withstood the country's wrath when he broke us back open pretty damn quick, I cannot forgive him blocking efforts to investigate the 2020 election fraud. Colluders must be ousted.
Here in the hilly and mountainous north ,we have all 4 seasons, tho winter precip tends to thankfully ( having grown up Maine) disappear quickly.
I'm too close to ATL ( 90 min) but I accept that to miss the heat that builds just 30 minutes below me.
You can live hours from Atlanta, or any metro area...which is how many of us here in Gawgeeia prefer it.
Having raved for my state,SW N Carolina and NW S Carolina ( really this whole tri-state area) are stunning and green.
At least I shall have no worries about you voting for the Socialists policies you'd be fleeing. We could use your keen mind here, and if you need a sponsor? Ask someone else- I'm a bit of a curmudgeon ,so probably make an inadequate guarantor. Lololol.
I had a bright idea. As a bonafide INTJ, I have decided to get a t-shirt made with "I'm A People Person" on it. Maybe with multi-colored rainbow and unicorns galloping over the top...maybe traipsing is a better word.
Why is this relevant? Because I want to be at that party when you are splainin thangs to these people.
As a bona-fide INTJ/INFJ cusp ... my explainations tend to be passionate yet subtle. " I dun thought about this, and feel that what I've judged you for deserves this outcome...." 🤣
Lol, you and are Meyers-Briggs identical twins, and unbelievably rare creatures:
INT/FJs!
It took me years to figure out how this split works in my life but, if you give me an exam, you'll talk to the T.
If it's a life choice, or there's a real human being or animal in front of me the F usually prevails.
Simple for me, but complicated for my spouse, lol!!
Yes!! Give me cold,hard data and I'll research the hell outta stuff...but I'm going to use my intuition to gut check how deep to dig. Also if you're lying to me 😂
My astrology chart actually helped me discern my polarization..." oh, I acknowledged that now...it explains so much..."
Frequency is Everything.
Howdy sister!!
Lol! I took the test multiple times and always landed squarely on introvert, intuition, and judging, but always spilt that thinking/feeling category straight down the middle!
Read both, and went, yup, that's me!
Not as cold as the t, lots of passion, but cannot stop the critical thinking aspect that must analyze the facts from every side, and must puzzle out the big questions.
But put a child, a flower, or a lover in front of me, (or a worthy cause!) and I'm 100% an f!
Slightly split personality, and it's in my chart as well, but I think, and feel, ; )) it's the best of both worlds!
Glad to meet a fellow INT/FJ!!!
Of course it would happen on Substack.... We rare creatures know where to congregate!
😁
This is the truth! 😅
Thanks for reaching out,girl... being a unicorn can be exhausting. 😃
I'm very sorry.
But I'm glad you were able to speak to your uncle and to let us know that this is no exaggeration. I trust nothing I read anywhere about anything anymore, except on those Substacks I've chosen to subscribe to, where I must take the leap of faith in believing their often anonymous authors are both of good faith and genuinely knowledgeable.
Also ACLU is almost entirely transgender nonsense now https://twitter.com/chasestrangio/status/1526913970745098241
Dang, I was gonna subscribe, but then saw your WHINE about abortion. I have the odd view that I care a thousand times more about the rights of actual living, breathing human beings than I do about the "rights" of insensate blobs of ectoplasm. Accordingly I avoid screeds that pretend they're the same.
We all started as insensate blobs, comrade.
No pretending is required. If you aren’t prepared to be a parent, keep your zipper up and your legs together.
OK, so what happened to "How To Lick Boots"?