

I think we are/were/have sent that upstream to the main lemmy code doohickey.
Nice try feds
I think we are/were/have sent that upstream to the main lemmy code doohickey.
Alas. If NATO ever tries to take these things in to a shooting war the logistics train is going to collapse in a week.
I like that analysis, thank you.
You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.
Studying Democratic Party politics, huh?
Watch some videos of people visiting. You can literally travel there, and they have a semi-open border with China. Just gotta step out of your bubble.
The US is still at war with the DPRK. We’ve been in an armistice, a stalemate, for 70 years.
Is writing bots hard? We need this bot and the sartre antisemitism quote bot over on Hexbear.
Lol imagine asking permission to be strapped.
Lol.
Suggest you read Mutual Aid, a Factor in Evolution, and kill the capitalist in your head.
Yeah, Gandhi is a shithead propped up because the liberal view if passive submission to state violence is politically useful for maintaining control. The British really gave up in India because Gandhi said he was no longer going to tell the armed factions not to fight, and the Brits decided they couldn’t afford to fight a real rebellion.
Big oof. Eco-fascism ahoy!
You’d think “people can’t afford to fuck” would be some kind of wake up call for capital.
“M*ngoloid” is an old eugencist :skull: phrenologist bullshit term from when psuedo-scientists tried to classify “The races”. It was used to disparage people with Downs syndrome by asserting they resembled Asian people.
But that just sparks off a war with Taiwan. As far as I know the ROC still claims to own Mongolia for some bizarre reason.
Social engineering works. Like really, really, shockingly well. The easiest way to get classified information out of people is to ask politely.
This isn’t accurate at all. The fighting happened when would-be insurgents ambushed pla troops. The pla had unarmed soldiers in the square for a long time. And i mean really unarmed. No helmets, no shields, no batons, no tear gas. When things finally touched off with the cia-backed "pro democracy) faction that was a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the people involved the pla ordered everyone out of the square and everyone left. That was it. When the cia backed wannabe insurgents started attacking the pla everyone was ordered to leave and they left. They didn’t do any brutal state repression. The cpc was in an extremely awkward position bc the vast majority of people involved in the June 4th incident were protesting against Dengist market liberalization, asking for a return to a more socialist economy. Others were protesting the restrictive social norms of contemporary China, arguing that the restrictive social norms were anti-communsit and that people should have more freedom to do simple stuff like publicly date and be publicly affectionate.
Ultimately a big part of the reason there was little reprisal is bc the cpc couldn’t crack down on pro-socialist protestors, and because in the end the whole thing ended mostly peacefully. The narrative around it is so utterly twisted and distorted. And if you ask people in China about it they don’t understand why westerners think it’s important. It’s just a minor incident in history from a long time ago.
The last four years have utterly shattered any illusions i’d had left about the true nature of democrats. Me too, blm, covid, yemen, and now gaza. They are serpents.