China was at war with Vietnam more recently than the US, and they have a number of border disputes.
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Words have meaning only insofar as the people you are communicating with understand them. No one is going to be confused by what you mean by zen, even if the meaning they interpret is far away from the cultural origins of the word.
At the moment you can order one online, so long as you are over 18
Guess what? Vampires were based on bigoted views of Jews too! You actually aren't helping your case!
Bram Stoker didn't invent vampires, and the creatures and mythology associated vastly pre-date the antisemitic culture surround his novels.
And "Fae" simply aren't comparable, they are intelligent life who can be interacted with and generally aren't ontologically malicious.
They're perfectly comparable. They are not ontologically malicious, but in the majority of their incarnations, they are completely divorced from human mortality or ways of thinking. Creatures that look like people, but do not think like us or share a remotely similar moral framework. (Plenty of mythological fairies are ontologically evil on top of that).
blah blah blaah it's just verbal diarhea because this conversation is old and you're just grasping at whatever you can.
I hadn't realised your name was supposed to be representative of the quality of your discourse.
Not every fantasy enemy has to be morally nuanced, and intractably evil groups aren't necessarily fascist or racist allegories.
Their world has an abundance of creatures that prey exclusively on humans, and a lot of them do so through mimicry. The demons are predator animals that feed exclusively on people, with the ability to work together to some degree, and very rudimentary abilities to pretend to be human in pursuit of that main goal. Creatures like them are prominent parts of nearly every cultures mythology, and just like the Fae, or vampires or anything similar, they don't need moral agency to work as antagonists.
Does that mean I need to start growing a goatee, or will one be provided for me?
there are other readings as well.
Having the rest of the world cut North Korea off gives China exclusive access to their markets and resources?
Does this count as a fetish? It's literally the default program for a living being.
Most people come preloaded with it.
Do cops get a lot of money? I wasn't under the impression it's a particularly well paid job, it's not in the UK at least.
in reality most socialists really hate the russian federation.
They are dancing around wearing the skin of a better, dead, country. Every moment the Russian Federation figuratively draws breath is an insult to the people who died to build a better world for their descendants.
That was the most reasonable part of the whole movie though.
That is more trade in dollars per capita for Israel compared to the US or EU though