The longer ruling classes control a totalitarian system the more brutal the people become. It took centuries for people in the Orient and Africa to become as brutal as their leaders. The American people are getting there in one century thanks to the Democrat Party. Bet your last buck that Nancy Pelosi and Upchuck Schumer will bring in those caravans from Ceylon.
I went to Colombo, Sri Lanka in my long ago youth when it was called Ceylon. It was a God-awful place then, and the people were worse. I doubt if the people trying to come here today are any better.
The first time I went ashore in Colombo I saw a dozen or very scary people crawling towards me in the dim lit. Needless to say I did not know if I should run back to the ship, or ignore them. Luckily, an old-time seaman was with me. He pulled some coins and paper money and threw them at the advancing hoard. He laughed and explained that he always kept unspent currency from a country he left. He called them “beggar notes” to be used if and when he returned to a shit hole port as he did that evening.
Mutilating infants so they could be beggars was Ceylon’s contribution to civil society although it is common practice elsewhere.
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Incidentally, every time my family watched that TV show Columbo, (spelled with a u) I thought “How good can a detective be with that name?” I can only image what Ceylon is like now that it is the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. That is a name that warms the hearts of every double-talking American Socialist. It implies democratic ideals implemented by Socialists in a Republic. How has that been working out for used-to-be-free Americans?
Incidentally, to me Myanmar will always be Burma.
I often say Formosa. I do it because over the years I noticed that it drove liberals up the wall. I say Formosa because it confuses liberals with Taiwan. I often say Peking instead of Bejing because it annoys China’s ass-kissers on the Left. There are more countries whose names changed since my youth, but I still think of the names they went by before I swallowed the anchor.
Jesus Christ I can practically smell old people after reading this post. There has never been a more boomer thing ever written.
1. "I was at a random port town in a country once for a small period of time and saw some beggars, therefore they are a nation of uncivilized savages with no redeeming value." Like look, the beggars congregate in the touristy areas, at least the ones the government doesn't throw natives out of and treat as a reserve for privileged westerners. This is the case in virtually every poor country with a tourist industry, the government walls off areas for wealthy tourists because they don't want pestering beggars giving the place a bad name. But they don't give a shit about docks and stuff usually so you got the full brunt of the beggars. One exception is Cuba, they don't wall off beaches there and you can freely intermingle with the natives. Strangely there are almost no beggars there either because it's a horrible totalitarian evil society that actually takes care of its people and thus has basically no homelessness or poverty. Which I constantly hear of in the US as issues that are impossible to deal with. But Cuba dealt with them somehow even though they're much poorer. Go figure. Anyone good luck to the neocolonies like Sri Lanka still following the road their former colonial masters set out for them like good running dogs, and get rewarded by having hordes of their people turned into beggars and having to treat their own countrymen like invasive animals to be brushed aside and kept out of the sight of visiting royal dignitaries from visiting dignitaries from the world nobility, white civilization.
2. FYI Ceylon was a name that the Portuguese pretty much invented when they arrived. When Ceylon achieved independence, the Sinhalese majority took control of the countries and began instituting a number of reforms to emphasize the country as Sinhalese, to the great displeasure of the Tamil minority. The Tamils had previously been hugely favored by the British administrators and basically treated as the teachers pets, they were given all the positions in the state bureaucracy and such. When the Sinhalese took over they were incredibly resentful and instituted a number of measures against the Tamil minority. One of these was changing the name to Sri Lanka, that's the the Sinhalese name for the place. Tmail's use a different name, Elam, and FYI a lot of Tamil's still use Ceylon and refuse to use Sri Lanka because they find the colonial name more neutral than the Sinhalese one.
So basically you're taking the side of the Tamil Tigers and are a terrorist. Congrats.
It actually doesn't have anything to do with the somewhat bizarre decision to formally name the country the "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka". It's not a communist or socialist nation and never has been. South Asian countries just have some sort of obsession with giving themselves commie sounding names. For instance, Bangledesh is formally the "People's Republic of Bangladesh". Even though there is essentially no large socialist movement in the country. India goes with the rather banal "Republic of India", but it does declare itself a socialist state in its constitution. Which has pretty much no meaningful legal effect and doesn't change the fact that it's a capitalist country definitely in practice. I think it's a holdover from the Cold War - because the US was allied with Pakistan, and later China, both huge enemies of India, neighboring enemies of Pakistan were pushed into the Soviet sphere of influence for strategic reasons even though they were not really communist. Even after all this time India still basically has a Russian supplied armed forces, even under "based" "nationalist" "right wing" Modi. While Pakistan is happily placing M-16's on the border with Afghanistan, looking the other way and whistling for a bit, and then turning around like "Whoops, I wonder where the those went?"
Also the practice of mutilating infants to make them more useful beggars is basically an Indian one. Indians are based and right wing now due to Modi though so I guess you're not going to bother criticizing them.
As for the implementation of socialist ideals in America, we have no clue as to how that would work out as at no time has a government in America existed that strayed the least bit from pretty standard boring western liberal and imperialist ideology. Our president is still elected by an electoral college, this is essentially a relict of feudalism inherited from the Holy Roman Empire. We still have fucking middle ages ideas in our fucking constitution. There's nothing radical about America. The most radical time in American history was that time Debbs got 6% of the vote.
3. FYI the name change to "Myanmar" was a move by the fascist nationalist Burmese military government, who also wanted to spit in the face of ethnic minorities basically and rename the country after their own ethnic group. I'm glad that that you're taking the side of the Muslim Rhakine refugees and refusing to use that name, it's very progressive of you.
4. Wow using Formosa really does make you seem old. Again that's the fucking Portuguese name. Taiwan is the name used by the Chinese, because the Taiwanese are Chinese it is also the name used by residents of Taiwan province in China. I'm sort of noticing a pattern here, you're basically pissed that white people lost all their colonies and have decided to act petty and still use the colonial names. You know this isn't going to ever make white people rule the world again.
5. Peking was never anything. In the 19th century western Chinese scholars developed a standard for phonetically describing Chinese words using latin characters. The rules of this system did not at all follow the phonetic conventions of the way latin characters are used in English though. Strange as it sounds, "Peking" was supposed to be pronounced the exact same as "Beijing". But people who didn't know anything about the actual rules of the spelling system just started reading it using English phonetics, so you get "Pay-king", which was never at any point anything like the actual name of the city. Basically you are proudly misprounouncing some letters that some 19th century scholar arbitrarily decided to use to represent "Beijing". I truly hope this act of bravery and rebellion provides you with the satisfaction you desire.
Honestly the way most people pronounce "Beijing" is wrong anyway, "Beijing" is the spelling of the Pinyin latinization system, which was developed by the Chinese Commies in the middle of the 20th century to do away with the multitude of ass backwards systems westerners had invented to write Chinese over the years. But people again make the same mistake, they don't actually know the rules of Pinyin, so they come up with vague approximations of how it would be said if it were an English word. This often means pronouncing the "jing" syllable with some foreign sounding Frenchy "zhing" instead, because it looks a bit like how you would say some words of French etymology in English, so we start using French etymology for some reason, because again English spelling is garbage and has no rules, it is the calvinball of scripts. But properly it's just a simple "bay-jing", just a regular j, no weird French shit about it, as that phoneme doesn't even exist in Mandarin Chinese actually. Honestly "Peking" might actually sound closer to how the word actually sounds to a regular Chinese person than the beizhing shit. So again, I appreciate your work in achieving the goals of the Chinese communist party, and your deep respect for Chinese traditions and the Chinese government and people. I will pass along your sentiments to the local party boss and see that you are rewarded comrade.
