Uncle Iroh ☑️ @[email protected]

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

Do you want me to hold your dick while you pee too?

Early Life section Wikipedia tells you his mother was Jewish and that he interned at a Jewish hospital. This isn't difficult.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

Cute and convincing if you're an easily swayed college undergrad. In the real world however, there are only a few principles of governance that are actually stable enough to create civilizations, let alone lasting ones.

That means territory, babies, energy sources, food, water, weapons, natural resources, and a shared set of values and stories that unite and nourish people over the centuries.

Study that & leave the undergrad nonsense to impressionable fools

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

My personal heuristic for cults is that the ideological/political ones have a maximum lifetime of 3 generations - 90 years or so - before they half-life into eventual failure.

Communism, Zionism, Feminism, Transgenderism, NeoLiberalism, Atheism, Psychology - as far as I can tell these are all true examples of ideological cults that have not proven themselves over the long term.

None of these will last.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

You're reaching so hard.

(((Robert Jay Lifton))) advocates for psychological counseling & therapy, which itself is viewed by many as a cult. The State has a long history of using psychology for social control and manipulation.

I'm not going to accept the ramblings of a Jewish psychology quack to inform me about how to think.

Here's the thing about actual cults - they don't last. Almost by definition they cannot.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

Your personal opinion of Confucianism bears no resemblance to the world's understanding and academic description of historical Confucianism.

Frankly it makes you look like an overly emotional retard.

Stick to the facts. You are talking about Communism specifically and ideologies in general.

Zionism is another great example of an ideology that leads to cult-like behavior.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

> Confucianism always creates religious cults

No it doesn't. Show me the evidence. If you cannot find it in China's history then it fails that test. Same for Japan which was stable for 1000 years under Confucianism with no cults to speak of.

> Feminism is a religious cult

No, it's an ideological cult. Not a religion.

You have created a false syllogism with false premises leading to a false conclusion.

Communism leads to cults, hence NK.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

Objectively you are wrong. So wrong. Holding territorial, cultural and poltical integrity for over 2000 years is an achievement and a historical fact when it comes to China.

Sure, they had internal conflicts and warring factions over all dynasties, but it was a remarkably coherent and stable form of governance.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

So what?

You don't seem to understand that I'm not advocating for Confucianism.

> Confucianism lacks a coherent moral system based on the consequences of actions

Again, so what? Confucianism isn't a consequentialist religion. What it does have is virtue ethics and a very clear set of moral principles based on duty - filial piety, loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, propriety.

I fail to see your point.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

And?

My or your disaproval or distaste for life under Confucian rule doesn't change the historical facts.

@shortstories @teratology @DoubleD

Not even close. The Chinese Empire would like a word.

Literally no other culture has held longer cultural, political, and territorial continuity for over 2,000 years than the Chinese under Confucianism.

Confucianism has historically proved itself to be incredibly stable and very very patriarchal.

@teratology @DoubleD @shortstories

SK's a irredeemable shitshow. They've lost an entire generation, perhaps 2, to radical feminism.

When it's all played out, SK are going to be the textbook lesson to all nations on the destructive force of feminism.