>>85253

>see through layers of paint

Truly, we live in the future.

>boomers

I don't know what birth years qualify as boomers, but I think I've seen the person who I suspect is responsible for this particular case, and they didn't look very old.

>why is this in the travel thread?

Because >>82872 (OP):

>maps are welcome here

That's why I considered this thread more suitable than derailing the Ukraine thread again, or posting in the fatposting containment thread.

>>85221

>so you have to move 2-4 boxes of dishes and equipment only.
>only

2-4 boxes (I asume you mean those 30L moving boxes) already warrant 4 trips from the kitchen to the transportation device, which, if you're alone is already twice as much time as you'd need if even just one person helped.
And 2-4 boxes for kitchen stuff is already beyond a single-room apartment and chances that you have as many boxes for each additional living compartment are high, so if we talk about the bare minimum kitchen, bathroom, bedroom (incl. all clothes) we are at up to 12 boxes, which means 12 trips back and forth, only counting boxes and not big stuff like bookshelves and the bed.
Obviously if you only rent fully furnished, then it's easy, but if you actually have own stuff, complexity increases exponentially.
Also, apartments and houses have horror evacui as much as any empty room. If there is room, it will be filled, and each bigger apartment will lead to more stuff unless you are VERY conscious and strict about minimalism.

I have moved 8 times so far and only the very first time was actually manageable alone because I was literally only throwing my rolled-up mattress plus clothes into my car.
The last time I moved was a merger of two apartments in different parts of Germany that took two days and one more trip than expected because we had underestimated just how much stuff we have that even a Sprinter wasn't enough to carry everything in one go. And in the new place it doesn't even seem so much.
Sorry for the long assburgering.

>>79223

>who will pay

Money gets free once you stop tax cuts and other things that are beneficial to the service industry that is travel by air. You can make it a market thing as with all things.

>Also, if you don't just so happen to live near one of those cities that are connected in the first place you will still have to find a way to get there

I don't think you have an airport in front of your house, do you?

>slower, flexible

first won't matter once it's common and second is true but you could also change the concept of mobility once outside of rail tracks and stations. You can not just change one thing when it comes to general mobility concepts is my guess.

Also
>>58573

>Ultimately, I think racists played the long game and won.

They really truly didn't. Everything after the UTR rally was a total disaster.

Moreover they weren't playing the long game and were pretty damn low IQ for "5D chessmasters." Trump was a short term sacrifice for long term victory. In Tarot it would be described as a reversal

>A seemingly total victory that hides within it the seeds of crushing and final defeat

Likewise for liberalism, when Trump when it clearly was

>A crushing and seemingly total defeat that hides within it the seeds of final victory

The smart thing to do is always take down your enemy like the rural folk wisdom how to take down a barn: cut a small hole in the roof and stand back and watch.

The smart long game racists had been playing was to claim all racism has been solved with a wink and a nod while letting SJWs look like idiots calling everything Nazi and claiming racists are hiding under their beds. Indeed, this already had been discrediting them.

Instead what woketard right wingers effectively did was give these screeching idiots a solid target, and not only that but now they had all these milquetoast housewives otherwise thinking them negroes is acting up again crying racism about nothing and seeing a bunch of scary retards marching like they're in 1930s Munich with torches, and actively telling regular people and political moderates to gas this Jews. This electrified them and this atmosphere helped to make even a ton of Trump voters actively sympathize with BLM until, again, you stood back and watched BLM self destruct with the rioting.

In combination of all that the "great white hope" they stupidly saw in Zion Don effectively took down right wingism in America at this point. You might have helped further radicalize people that already agreed with you, but you massively pushed everybody else away who now just see you as dangerous idiots. It's gotten so bad that basically so far as a lot of people care they see you as a bunch of terrorists and don't care about deplatforming or actively applaud it.

It's like staging a terrorist attack and somehow thinking you got back at the man, too stupid to realize you basically just discredited your own people. Anyone with a couple braincells left saw exactly what was happening and the damage it was doing with things like the 6th DC Riots that in turn led to the total clusterfuck of amoral optics management with nobody able to agree on "now it was antifa false flagging" "no it totally was us we got invited in" "no there was no riot" and so on while sensible Republicans immediately distanced themselves from that shit, the result of which is hundreds if not thousands of people being hunted down like dogs by the FBI and added to counterterror databases.

Yeah good job. Anyone who was liberal and smart enough could see this as a final victory. Anyone smart enough as a Conservative can see the total defeat looming on the horizon and the disaster that POTUS Trump wrought and how in the wrong direction the GOP is going as a whole which may well lose them permanent influence for a generation and already it's been doing poorly since the 90s.

Seriously you just not only legitimized all the idiots looking for racists and Nazis under their beds but now also have electrified moderates against you and hitched yourselves to the dumbest self destruction I've ever seen.

It should be noted that the average GOP voter is older, whiter, more Conservative, more religous, and the average Democrat younger, browner

>older
>younger

Now imagine what happens when you gaslight all these people into not wearing masks, not getting vaccinated, not washing their hands, and turning it into a political issue while all the already younger liberal voters all are taking precuations, wearing PPE, getting vaccinated and so on particularly in already stereotypically filled with old people swing states like Florida where having even 10,000 extra votes matters.

They didn't play the long game. They impulsively took an opening. They took the bait that any chess player knows exactly how to do to a novice opponent. They thought taking out that rook was some great victory not understanding a trap was laid for their final and total defeat, and all the while ended up playing the game exactly how their opponent wanted them to play it and they marched like lemmings to their doom. Now this is effectively just a mopping up job ensuring "the great replacement" gets accelerated enough to the point where they permanently lose hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states on top of losing the cultural war. By the time 2024 shows up there will be a lot of dead Republicans not voting in critical states like Florida. This will be happening on top of the fact Trump himself that white nats stupidly supported took them down as a whole, that parading like actual Nazis and providing every scrap of ammunition to shrieking liberals they could so they could say "see we were right all along there's Nazis everywhere trying to genocide you" and ruining their own optics, and on top of that clearly coming across as unsympathetic and amoral lying sociopaths who only care about optics while liberals can go back to painting themselves as concerned humanitarians.

If you really want your opponent to lose you never interrupt him when he is making a mistake. I found particular irony in the fact poltards kept repeating this as a mantra to themselves all while they were falling on their own swords.

If you need any further evidence of this just look at how rapidly the situation changed in 4 short years controlling every branch of government to a few years later controlling completely fuckall with no significant accomplishments to show for it and being utterly hated by the majority of the country. Your only hope now is that the Tuckers and Qtards of the world shut the fuck up for long enough to watch Dems and liberals consistently making a series of mistakes.

>>58606
Perhaps I wasn't clear by my last line. It was the racists on imageboards that steadfastly held the line and kept their messaging consistent throughout the years which drove away non-racists and even embarrassed liberals who were unprepared to respond to them. The only boards on 4krebs that happen to be liberal or left-wing these days are /his/, /mu/ and /lit/, and even /his/ and /lit/ still happens to have racists from time to time.

I disagree with the notion that "pretending racism is over" would be the winning move because, if the respective careers of anti-racist activists like Tim Wise, Jane Elliott, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi and others I can't be bothered to recall are any indication, fighting racism is an evermoving goalpost. They have redefined racism to mean literally anything that puts colored people in a disadvantageous position even if its in done entirely according to the rules of equality. This is why they have now shifted the discourse away from equality to equity. It's why conversations with anti-racists ultimately end in failure when you play by their rules. Blowing up the game and saying "White people have interests" is a far more viable strategy.

In terms of actualizing real life political goals, you are correct that the right got high on their own supply and impulsively took an opening when everyone should've hesitated and carefully calculated the next big move. Complacency is death, and that was another critical error on part of the right. Instead of playing like they're losing, they got reckless. No one argues that UTR wasn't a total shitshow, and ironically, the fallout couldn't have divided the right more. There was the era of infighting known as the Optics War which Groypers / AmNats openly feuded with alt-righters / WNs over who ruined everything when it should've been the opportunity where differences were put aside and resources pooled together to fight common enemies.

Re: Trump. Once he caved on the wall after a long period of shutdowns, there was nothing left to support. Bollard Fencing is not a wall. Everyone who had voted for him had been conned. Come 2019, Trump's most enthusiastic supporters from years past completely gave up on him and left behind Republican Party activists, QBoomers and AmNats / Groypers who foolishly thought they could take over the party. I consider the fallout of 1/6/2021 to be just desserts for every AmNat who shat on alt-righters for being openly racist. For every time AmNats cheered whenever prominent alt-righters would suffer misfortune, they're now getting hunted down by the FBI and even sold out by their own leaders. For me, this development couldn't be more fitting.

Re: popular consensus. It means absolutely nothing to me that the majority of the country has been conditioned by the media apparatus to hate people who are pro-White. The number of people capable of independent thought or going against the grain have always been outnumbered those who conform and follow trends. That people approve of the FBI throwing geriatrics in jail for marching around the Capitol is entirely predictable because the media is designed to manufacture consent. A complete plagiarist, womanizing fraud like Martin Luther King, Jr. had exactly 30% approval in his lifetime, but upon being assassinated and the riots that engulfed major cities following, he was canonized as a saint, and it was ultimately a Republican who honored MLK with a Federal holiday, not a Democrat. Of course, once those FBI files will get declassified at the end of this decade, we'll see the true nature of MLK. Other thing is: Democrats are just as absolutely shameless with who they associate with as Republicans. Consensus doesn't mean jackshit. Only thing is, the media apparatus won't report on it because it's literally owned by corporate interests with money in both parties. Jimmy Carter's wife and Mayor Harvey Milk both openly stumped for Rev. Jim Jones with the latter even going on record to condemn People's Temple defectors and concerned relatives of those who went down to Guyana as liars. Later that year, the Jonestown Massacre happened. It's only in some online commentary that you'll find this information.

The Republican Party collapsing would be an absolute boon for me because it's already been long speculated by some people, including some of my own Democrat relatives who had ties to George Soros (no word of hyperbole) that the GOP will never win another US Election and will slowly dwindle into irrelevant regional power. They openly scoffed that only shitholes like Alabama will be Red, and even that could turn. Just this last Election, the Dems proved they don't even need Florida to win an election anymore. They took Virginia and Arizona, and Texas will likely be next. What will politically reunite the racists will be the absolute excesses of progressives and modern leftists. History has shown them to be absolute ghouls who can leave nothing alone. Liberals do not care if you're a basic bitch boomer Republican, Neocon, AmNat / Groyper, WN, alt-righter, TradCath, OrthoBro, Fascist or Nazi. So long as you represent an opposition to their plan, then you must be destroyed by every means necessary.

>Tucker

He's controlled opposition: https://dissident-mag.com/2021/04/24/cant-schmuck-the-tuck/

In the meantime, we'll just be irreverent, insightful and, most importantly, funny. Comedy is the greatest weapon to winning hearts and minds, and oh boy, I couldn't think of a less funny, sanctimonious bunch than your average shitlib.

On a completely different note, I'll leave you with this:
https://youtu.be/ArOQF4kadHA

>>84527

>why do Chinese repress the Muslim minority in its west?

Beijing represses every non-state association and every collective identity besides "citizen of the PRC", or subdues it to the point of it becoming an entirely state-puppeteered farce deprived of all agency.

I think the level of repression depends on who the Party deems you to be, and in some cases also on where you are. Smaller non-muslim rural ethnic minorities tend to get reduced to the role of docile, simple but happy people providing colourful background to propaganda and exoticism to Chinese tourists [0]. It's different with identity groups that are sufficiently large and poorly integrated to be classified as a collective potential threat. Imagine you are a young male member of a sizeable group that lives largely separate from the Hàn, you communicate among yourselves in a language they cannot understand, and some members of your group have recently been implicated in violence against Hàn.

The Manchus are probably too integrated and invested in larger Hàn society to be a fertile ground for separatism, except of course for the odd wewuzzer (>>79221). They are a minority in much of their heartland [1] and – after peaceful self-Sinicization while they dominated China – no longer cause suspicion by speaking a language among themselves that state agents might not understand.

The Mongol problem has been largely solved by reducing their numbers. Anti-Mongol massacres were perpetrated not only in the late 1960s by our dear business partner and slave labour provider the Chinese Communists [2], but notably also against the state in 1891 [3], when the balance of power between Hàn and the Mongols was more favourable to the latter than in later times to say the least, and the anti-Mongol rebellion was consequently crushed by the Qing state. More recently, the Hàn by their sheer numbers have made the Mongols a minority on their own clay [4] through migration instead of massacres. Note that there is little to no incentive for Hàn immigrant schoolchildren to learn a local non-Hàn language (it's certainly not compulsory, and I think usually not even possible), but schools do force everyone to learn Hàn language.

I don't know much about Tibetans in Tibet AR, in Qinghai and in Sichuan, other than some of them apparently see the mass Hàn immigration to Lhasa as the beginning of the same Umvolkung scenario that has played out in Inner Mongolia, and that there are places off limits to foreign journalists.

Now to Muslim minorities: At least outside of Xinjiang, I don't think Huí (Hàn-speaking ethnic muslims who don't officially count as Hàn) have to swallow much more shit from the state than their Hàn neighbours, but Uyghurs probably do. In other words, I think what's happening is not so much Chinese repressing all ethnic muslims as such, but rather the CPC making sure that all religious activity (not limited to what passes for Islam in China) is state-controlled and 100% apolitical (or pro-CPC; and the CPC being very inclusive in what they deem political), and the Party giving Uyghurs in particular special treatment all across China. I think that not only is there way more mutual hate between Uyghurs and Hàn than between other ethnic Muslim minorities and Hàn (both inside and outside of Xinjiang), but also that things are different in Xinjiang Uyghur AR compared to, say, Ningxia Hui AR or Qinghai. The two main reasons for this are probably that, partly as an effect of the Dzungar genocide of the 1750s, Xinjiang today has by far the highest percentage of Muslims, despite Hàn colonization of rural parts through the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC; does anything similar exist elsewhere in China?) since the 1950s, and that there has been mob violence (by Uyghurs and by Hàn, against each other) and other terrorism (apart of course from the state terrorizing its subjects, business as usual). I think no Chinese region has seen harsher measures than Xinjiang with the CPC shutting down communication [5] and allegedly denying all Xinjiang Uyghurs permission to leave the PRC after the riots (and to this day?).

Other minorities are smaller both in absolute and in relative numbers, and hence easier to subdue. Uyghurs are more numerous, inhabit a huge territory, and outnumber Hàn in many places. Compare this to the situation of many ethnic groups elsewhere in China which are so small or so scattered that Ürümqi-style ethnic mob violence would have technically been hardly possible.

Note how English Wikipedia [6] lists many "terrorist attacks" in China ascribed to Uyghurs, but (as far as I've skimmed) none ascribed to Huí or other Muslim minorities from Xinjiang or elsewhere in China – although, to be fair, Xinjiang's Uyghur population vastly outnumbers other ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang so this may be expected. I can't remember if I've ever read about ethnic clashes involving any groups other than Uyghurs, Tibetans or Mongols on one side and Hàn on the other in the PRC.

The CPC's measures against Islamist "terrorists" (in the 21st century; it was "splittists" in the 20th century) is of course de facto a crackdown on all things considered Islamic. Old women are (or were?) no longer allowed to wear their traditional headscarves. You have probably seen the beards verboten poster, which probably only applies to people who are suspicious on account of being born in the wrong time, place, and ethnicity – I doubt that a single Hàn living in the eastern half of China will get into similar trouble for having a beard. If your question was about such rules, i can only guess why they are that way. Qing China's queue law comes to mind: Shaving one's beard and not wearing a headscarf could be plegdes of allegiance to the Zhonghua minzu, ways to wear one's submission on one's body for all to see (not least the surveillance cameras [7]), also similar to what some people in the West say about sheeple like me who wear a medical mask.

Curiously, there is also discrimination against the Hàn majority: I think official members of ethnic minorities were allowed more children than Hàn (but see [8]) and still get easier access to higher education than Hàn, which I think has somewhat diminished the prestige of minority-held academic degrees as a side effect (imagine HR thinking: "She's an official member of an ethnic minority, so maybe the reason she got into university wasn't that she's smart…"). And historically, Hàn have of course themselves suffered ethnically motivated violence when under non-Hàn domination, such as when they were massacred during invasions and rebellions. I'll stop here, enjoy your goji berries.

[0] https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/pdf/11283
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuang_Guandong
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Säuberung_der_Inneren_Mongolei
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindandao_incident
[4] Inner Mongolia AR as a whole: 17 percent Mongols. Hohhot, its administrative centre: 10 percent Mongols. Baotou, its largest city: 2.3 percent Mongols.
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_Ürümqi_riots#Public_services_and_Internet_access
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_China#Chronology_of_major_events
[7] pp. 2–25 of https://archiv.reporter-forum.de/fileadmin/pdf/Reporterpreis_2019/RP19_Reader_Sieger.pdf (in German; “best Reportage of 2019”, by Harald Maass)
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#Xinjiang