Posts by TheHeretic
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This is what the competition shows should do with their groups - release one MV and disband immediately.
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I know it to be the opposite of monogamy and I think many people use the term polygamy in relation to all relationships where several people are dating each other or got married to each other no matter the gender.
The technical term for one man-multiple women is polygyny, but it is seldom used.
Polygamy - 99.999% of the time one man/multiple women - is historically a result of many young men getting killed off in wars. As a woman in such an imbalanced society, using China as an example, becoming the fourth concubine of the Prime Minister's third son was a far better economic outcome for her and her future children than marrying the local shopkeeper who could not help her family gain any power.
Nothing has changed today, except that the state does not officially sanction concubinage or other forms of polygamy. Though there is no shortage of young men now, a worthless man like Hunter Biden has no problem finding dozens of "concubines" willing to orbit him due to his perceived power and influence. Human nature doesn't change.
I don't think legalizing polygamy will happen if the state doesn't see a way to gain more tax revenues from it. Right now, it would probably take working women out of the employment market - and cost the state money.
Either way, polygamous relationships are financial in nature, and have little to do with love.
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And No! I don’t mean solely one man with several women.
That's what polygamous means. Relationships with one woman and more than one man are called polyandrous.
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Chinese actresses > all other Asian entertainers - even if they are seldom allowed to speak in their own voices on film. Can't argue with a "talent" pool of 1.4 billion people.
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It's a hard sell to non-Asian Americans. Boy groups are seen as promoting homosexuality - girl groups as promoting pedophilia. The concept of innocence is totally lacking on the American music scene, and when confronted with it, a jaded audience just can't process it.
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Would have been much better if Laysha had gotten this choreography.
I loved Stellar, but their company didn't. Their songs were good, but the MV concepts didn't suit their personalities.
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Mainland Chinese historical dramas are pretty good - little to no Communist content (MUCH less than Hollywood, these days) and great visuals. Shows I liked, in no particular order, are:
- Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace
- Secret of the Three Kingdoms
- The Imperial Doctress
- Scarlet Heart
- The Rebel Princess
- Princess Weiyoung
- The Legend of Fuyao
- The Legend of Hao Lan
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I see three tired little girls acting like faux American gangsters on camera. Where is this "prettiest" you speak of?
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Disappointment: aespa
Next Level is a typical stupid SM song, but aespa is FAR ahead of their young peers vocally and visually. Give them the right material and they will become legends.
Of course, I said that about Red Velvet in 2014 and SM still hasn't given them any decent material, so...
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I did - back in December. Certainly not the worst cold/flu virus I have ever had. If you take your Vitamin C, D, and Zinc it will pass quickly.
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She looks a lot like Rosé in "On the Ground" - a very pretty white girl.
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Epic truth bombs from the most beautiful girl in K-Pop - I can imagine how much harder it is for talented singers and dancers who lack confidence in their visuals.
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It's always sad to find out group members never really liked each other. Not sure if that's the case here, but T-ara's nearly total disappearance after making such a big deal about leaving their company and winning the lawsuit to keep control of their name suggests it is. So many K-Pop artists clearly hate the industry and want nothing more to do with it once their contracts expire.
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I love SNSD to death, but The Boys should have been their crowning achievement and it just...wasn't. That was the moment when they could have truly gone international and SM failed to give them the needed song.
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Why should I, a fully vaccinated person who has practiced self isolation and not came into contact with Covid 19 in the last year, be subjected to further health risk because of other people's decisions?
If your vaccine works, why do you care what others do?
If your vaccine doesn't work, why are you trying to force others to get it?
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To me this is super unfair. Why should the entire country wait for these elderly folks who only care about themselves? Why should the entire country be on pause because the elderly do not want to get vaccinated?
That whole (government propaganda-based) argument relies on several huge assumptions:
1) Vaccines are actually vaccines - when they are actually unapproved and experimental gene therapies.
2) Vaccines prevent COVID-19 transmission - when all of the manufacturers clearly state that they do NOT - all they can potentially do is minimize the severity of illness as it develops. Vitamin D and Zinc do the same thing, at a much lower profit for Big Pharma.
3) Cases = illnesses - when most cases remain asymptomatic, and are being identified by the badly flawed PCR tests that can't even tell the difference between COVID and influenza.
4) Social distancing and lockdowns (and even worse, mask mandates) are effective measures to control the spread of the virus - when if any of these things worked, we would not be talking about doing them a second time. The equation is simple enough for a even a politician to understand:
- If lockdowns work, why do we need another one?
- If lockdowns don't work, why do we need another one?
5) The Delta variant is somehow more dangerous that the initial versions of the virus - when the entire history of virology teaches us that newer variants of any virus are ALWAYS weaker. The illness and death rates of Delta so far are tiny, but the media never wants to mention those things since they are bad for ratings. Delta is a highly contagious cold, but no justification for a new mass panic.
6) Government is putting a whole country "on pause" for the good of the public - belief in which requires a level of naïveté on the part of that public that is almost impossible to comprehend.
There should instead be massive international public outrage at governments for trying to prolong this event to maximize their own power. European public reactions to these idiotic and unethical vaccine passport requirements so far have been heartening - it seems like people are finally waking up. Any politician advocating this kind of law needs to be flung from office so hard he will bounce twice.
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These schools charging 250k to students (kids really) for something like a History degree is criminal.
The criminal part is a government willing to loan money for such a program. It's a form of kickback in return for the institution's political support. Individual students have to understand that these entities are just using them to achieve their financial and political goals. When "free"money is dangled in front of them, they should be wary of what the real motives are.