When you tidy up your sewing basket and restock, and finally get back to your embroidery.

I bought two denim maxi skirts and some wool sweaters, so this is now StellaEveryDay. 😁 #fashion

This is sadly typical of German women. Men in Cologne throw things (fireworks?) at her head, on New Year's Eve and she becomes upset that it's being "instrumentalized" by right-wing politics, is trying to bury the story, and refuses to press charges because that would encourage the racists, or something. The German left has completely failed their women, by brainwashing and shaming them like this. Their behavior is now completely erratic and illogical, as they are so confused about how they should respond when personally attacked.

t-online – Köln

Twitch-Streamerin wird an Silvester in Köln attackiert – das sagt sie dazu

Ein Clip aus der Kölner Silvesternacht geistert durchs Netz: Zu sehen ist der Angriff auf eine populäre Twitch-Streamerin. Die fühlt sich missve...

Insult me, personally, and the convo is over.

Just as you try to defend Russian suppression of free speech as the West being _almost as bad, sort of, on a long enough timeline_, you are quick to defend Chinese corruption as the West being _almost as bad, sort of, on a long enough time line_. Don't bother. You got nothing.

I'm not claiming that the CCP leaders are faking these statistics on purpose. I'm claiming that there are people all up and down the Chinese chain of command and the industrial supply lines that siphon off value and fudge the numbers, for their personal gain. This accumulates over time, so that the statistics that the CCP depends on _for their own decisions_, are full of noise. That is how they end up building entire towns for people that have not been born, and then the towns stay empty and the real estate investors go bankrupt. Central planning — and the nonsense statistics it depends on — are inherently inefficient and ineffective. There is no transparency. There are no watchdogs. There are no investigative journalists or oppositional critics. There are no real elections, where a fresh set of people take a look at the books. Every once in a while, there is a demonstrative purge, to calm the public, and then it's quickly back to normal. Garbage in. Garbage out. From top to bottom. From coast to coast. They might as well have the Minnesota Democratic Party run their country.