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- Comment on One Of Hong Kong's Last Opposition Parties Says It Will Disband 1 week ago:
And this is why you are ignorant
- Comment on Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds 1 week ago:
Yeah, fuckers, it’s using statistics. And it turns out, when you spend a century downplaying all of the state violence and massacres you perpetrate domestically ad globally, it’s going to pick up on that and use it.
Even worse though is how much this entire article and framing itself if Western propaganda. They take as a given that the only words that should be used are these particular words and use that standard to judge the output of the LLM. They’re either entirely lack self awareness of their brazen hypocrisy or they are ideological fanatics without a shred of decency or shame.
- Comment on One Of Hong Kong's Last Opposition Parties Says It Will Disband 1 week ago:
I don’t think you understand just how ridiculous your sentence is.
Hong Kong IS China. It was carved away from China by the British and occupied for a long time. Reunification has always been the goal.
During the British occupation, they treated the Chinese like shit - right up until the point where Thatcher realized they would not be able to extend their occupation past 1999 no matter what they tried. So you know what the British did? They started a propaganda campaign to define Hong Kongers as a new identity and got a bunch of comprador Chinese people to take huge paychecks and powerful positions to lead independent movements that looked eerily similar to running a liberal democracy opposed to China.
That’s why when the protects happened the protestors were mostly young people who were being goaded on by local politicians. The grandparents in Hong Kong actually told their grandkids to stop protesting because they knew what the game was.
Hong Kong was finally returned to China and China did something that no other country has done in this situation, they created a policy framework of one country two systems. Hong Kong got to govern itself using systems that the British had put in place and this would allow life in Hong Kong to continue without major disruption while the process of reunification happened organically over time. The only place where that could not occur is national security. Hong Kong would not be expected to defend itself against enemies foreign and domestic, and it wouldn’t be expected to run its own counter intelligence programs. That means that the existing Chinese national security framework would replace the British national security framework in Hong Kong and would do so on a much faster timeline than any other governance.
This is ultimately what the protests were about - a Chinese national security law that the Chinese state used as part of counterintelligence specifically against the types of infiltration that the Brits and Americans are fond of. This had the result of making certain comprador politicians ineligible for public office and that sparked the protests.
Now that the compradors are out of office you know what’s happening in Hong Kong? Organic reintegration of Hong Kong into the primary governance framework of China. Why? Because the Brits aren’t there creating financial incentives for sedition and the Chinese system is incredibly effective at improving quality of life.
This idea that Hong Kong doesn’t have autonomy is silly. They absolutely have the legal right to continue the process of choosing how their system evolves. And it turns out that when you remove British influence, a community of mostly Han Chinese with friends, family, and colleagues all across China are going to slowly drift towards the governance model that is most effective at creating the best life for everyone. Whole process democracy ensures Hong Kong maintains a level of autonomy that benefits them, and one country two systems allows Hong Kong to decide how long it wants to hold on to the systems the British put in place.
Literally nothing about this process is negative except the things that are historically contiguous with the traumatic separation and dominance of Hong Kong by the Brits.
- Comment on One Of Hong Kong's Last Opposition Parties Says It Will Disband 1 week ago:
The true lesson is that protesting against the anti-imperialists to maintain an ideology imposed on you by your imperialist occupier is most effectively disarmed through dialogue, demonstrating patience and tolerance, and ultimately showing the people that national security against the imperialists is important enough to make changes to the law.
- Comment on One Of Hong Kong's Last Opposition Parties Says It Will Disband 1 week ago:
LOL. Peaceful. The protestors were throwing Molotovs at the police for weeks and the police showed more restraint that anything in the US, UK, or Canada.
- Comment on Astronomy has a major data problem. Simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms 1 week ago:
Astronomy is constantly discovering never-befor observed phenomenon. The idea that you can simulate realistic images of anything requires you to have sufficient knowledge of reality, and astronomy keeps showing us that we don’t have that.
The only way I can see this being helpful is to train algorithms for what is already known and can be safely filtered out, making it easier to detect new observations
- Comment on “Dark” personality thrives in societies with corruption and inequality 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, because those societies are shaped by their failure to manage dark triad personalities in the first place. Pretty obvious.
- Comment on Indonesia inks strategic partnership with Russia 2 weeks ago:
So the US using Taiwan as a lethal proxy and creating Chinese defensive action makes Chinese terrorist?
You got oatmeal for brains.
- Comment on Indonesia inks strategic partnership with Russia 2 weeks ago:
China will never attack Taiwan unless the US makes it an imminent threat.
- Comment on Indonesia inks strategic partnership with Russia 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. They should only be doing business with China.
Because here’s what a real terrorist country looks like:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program
And of course if one argues that Europe is nicer we have:
- Comment on Iran missiles kill 10 in Israel in night of mutual attacks 3 weeks ago:
You have it backwards. Israel is the lapdog. The North Atlantic imperial bloc let’s the lapdog shit wherever, they feed it, and when the lapdog feels insecure it barks at the imperialists looking for support. If it doesn’t get enough support it goes and starts attacking someone, knowing that the imperialist block will come in and scream “what are you doing to my little poopsie woopsie!?”
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour 5 weeks ago:
By trawling tens of thousands of videos posted on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese sister app, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) has uncovered a largely hidden force that is helping to fuel China’s economic expansion. Geolocating the videos and reviewing Chinese state media reports allowed TBIJ, The New York Times and Der Spiegel to identify Xinjiang minority workers in 75 factories across 11 regions.
So let me get this straight. A British non-profit is making a claim of widespread slave labor by looking at TikTok videos? They’re not physically on the ground doing investigation, they’re not interviewing anyone, they’re just making massive claims based on short-form video content? Real journalism.
The region’s current five-year plan requires all able members of ethnic minority households to be employed
You can read the 5-year plan for the Xinjiang region here and there’s is absolutely no evidence for this claim.
Real journalism.
He added that HRW’s research showed swearing allegiance to the flag is “political indoctrination” and part of the suite of repressive policies that “constitute crimes against humanity”.
Wow. Really. So the USA has been committing crimes against humanity en masse every single day for over a century by having millions of children recite the pledge of allegiance in school? Real journalism.
The 5-year plan, however, does include some gems:
We will implement modern vocational and technical education quality improvement plans, build a number of high-level vocational technical colleges and majors, and steadily develop vocational undergraduate education. We will deepen the integration of vocational and general education and achieve mutual recognition and vertical flow between vocational and technical education and general education.
Because as we know from history, whenever you want to subjugate an entire ethnicity and use them for slave labor you build technical colleges and focus on ensuring that vocational, technical, and general education are not mutually exclusive. You want well-rounded slaves, after all.
Or this gem:
We will strictly implement policies complementing kindergartens (配套园政策) in urban communities, actively develop infant and childcare service institutions of various forms, encourage employers with the necessary conditions to provide infant care services, support social forces such as enterprises, public institutions, and social organizations in their provision of inclusive childcare services, and encourage kindergartens to develop integrated nursery and childcare services. We will promote the professional and standardized development of infant care services and improve the quality and level of childcare and early childhood education.
Because when you’re engaged in mass slave labor and genocide, as we know from history, the dictatorship must apply strict discipline to its bureaucrats to improve childcare and early childhood education. Obviously.
And then of course we have this lovely comparison that shows exactly how bad it is Xinjiang.
But sure. Let’s go with the “journalism that can’t even get basic facts about a document right without turning it into Western sinophobic propaganda slop” because they looked at so many TikToks that how could they possibly be wrong about their conclusions?
- Comment on 'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime 5 weeks ago:
Can you imagine Spain trying to hold the US accountable for every single law that might effect Puerto Rico, especially national security laws that are designed to ensure the continued stability of the country against potential meddling from Spain?
- Comment on 'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime 5 weeks ago:
This article that you posted is you parroting propaganda. Try not to immediately believe everything Western media tells you and try not to immediately dismiss anything that runs counter to the Western propaganda line.
- Comment on 'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime 5 weeks ago:
He collaborated with war Hawks in the USA like Bolton and Pompeo as part of his campaign as a British national to fight against the return of Hong Kong to the governance of China, spread anti-chinese propaganda, and politically organizing against the state.
That’s all that’s needed. If a British national who lived in California and built up relationships with Russian and Iranian leaders was organizing politically to have California secede from the USA you can be damned sure that person would be in prison.
- Comment on 'The plight of Jimmy Lai shames us all:' Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai now exceeded 1,600 days in solitary confinement, yet has committed no crime 5 weeks ago:
Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture
Solitary confinement is a form of torture. It’s torture when China does it, it’s torture when the USA does it. The difference isn’t which country is a dictatorship. The difference is that the USA does it to infants and children after ripping them away from their parents who are seeking asylum and does it to prisoners when their prison guards have their ego bruised, while China is using it on a literal enemy of the state trained and funded by a foreign government with a long history of being an adversary.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Holy shit. Replacing OS native components with React Native is wild .
- Comment on Spain, the only major European country to extradite people to China despite the ‘generalized violence’ in its prisons 5 weeks ago:
It’s one issue - Will the EHCR throw a hissy fit, go public with criticism, and engage in legal fuckery for EVERY extradition or just some extraditions? If it’s just some which, ones? If it’s the ones where the prisoners might face human rights violations, great! Now let’s look at their behavior? Oh shit, double standard?! How bad is the double standard? Wow, a decade of a standing agreement to rubber stamp ALL extraditions to the USA vs screaming about a Chinese “businessman”. That seems like a really unbalanced behavior. What’s the justification?
Consequently, the ECHR exempted Liu from having to prove a specific personal risk, given that the extradition request indicated that, once in China, he would be placed in a detention center, which was “sufficient” to deny the extradition. “An individual requesting protection must be guaranteed the benefit of the doubt,” reads the judgment of October 6, 2022.
So literally the extradition request says please extradite a criminal for the purposes of imprisonment, which is literally what extradition is for, and the fact that it’s a request for extradition is grounds to deny the request?
This isn’t even a double standard at this point. It’s pure bullshit.
No, we’re not arguing about whether China or the USA is bad or worse or bad at the same time. We’re arguing about the behavior of the EHCR, European lawyers, European media, and European states. And my position is that the entire suite of behavior is completely informed by politicized sinophobia.
- Comment on Spain, the only major European country to extradite people to China despite the ‘generalized violence’ in its prisons 5 weeks ago:
You don’t see the difference between throwing a shit fit and publicly demanding that China write a letter ensuring human rights on a every single extradition versus having a standing treaty for the last 10 years with the USA?
- Comment on Spain, the only major European country to extradite people to China despite the ‘generalized violence’ in its prisons 1 month ago:
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=legis…
So the only evidence of torture they have is a statement by a US-based Chinese person that turned in his business partner and then claimed he did so because he was tortured. Wild.
Meanwhile the US regularly puts people, including children in solitary confinement, regularly kills prisoners, regularly oversees sexual assault by both staff and other inmates and has zero political interest in even speaking of it let alone solving it…
And then of course there’s the US government literally championing their power to torture first by saying it’s not torture, then by saying they torture prisoners who fall into a magical third category, then by renditioning them to foreign countries (many in the EU) where they can torture prisoners without any oversight, then by protecting the people who get caught torturing people.
But sure, go off on how it’s OK to have a standing extradition treaty with the US but China is just a step too far!
You people and your boogeymen.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok 1 month ago:
It’s called the will to power. If you start from the question “How do I gain power?” then it becomes obvious. She is claiming Christianity because doing so gives her power. She is not making a mistake, she is making a move.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 1 month ago:
Hermit kingdom
- Comment on China’s Xi Jinping likens ‘US hegemony’ to ‘fascist forces’ ahead of Vladimir Putin summit 1 month ago:
Cool. So anyway. The commenter said Xi is correct about the US being fascist under this administration but implied that it would be incorrect to say the US was fascist under prior administrations, so, I wrote my comment to provide the context to show that this implication was wrong. The US has been a fascist force for many decades. Some points of view grounded in historical analysis posit that the US has been fascist since inception because it was formed from a colonial society that was fascist.
But yeah, Trump is more isolationist in some ways than a bunch of recent presidents. That’s also true
- Comment on China’s Xi Jinping likens ‘US hegemony’ to ‘fascist forces’ ahead of Vladimir Putin summit 1 month ago:
It was such a short comment that they wrote. Do you have short term memory loss?
Under the current administration, Xi isn’t wrong about fascist forces.
Is this saying Trump is isolating America? No. It is saying that Xi isn’t wrong about fascist forces but specifically under this current administration, contrasting it with prior administrations.
I’m not sure about the “hegemony” part, the way the US is isolating itself.
Here’s where they said Trump is isolating America.
A full 50% of their comment was NOT about isolating America.
- Comment on China’s Xi Jinping likens ‘US hegemony’ to ‘fascist forces’ ahead of Vladimir Putin summit 1 month ago:
You don’t think the US-directed NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the US invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, the training of death squads in the School of the Americas, the genocidal rampage of the US in Vietnam and Korea, the annual vote in the UN against resolutions condemning the glorification of Nazis, the staffing of NATO with Nazis officers, the collaboration with the Vatican to save Nazi officers and give them new identities and lives all over the US and Latin America, the development of neo-nazi sleeper cells (called stay-behind militias) throughout Europe, the protection of the rights of the KKK and of white people lynching black people, the systemic eugenics programs, the forced sterilizations of undesirables, the mass incarceration of their population, their use of slave labor to produce billions of dollars of goods for for-profit companies, and the collective punishment of civilians in a dozen countries over the past multiple decades…
You think all of that doesn’t reveal the USA as a fascist global hegemon but electing Trump does?
- Comment on [Opinion] Are we witnessing the end of US exceptionalism — and the beginning of European renaissance? 1 month ago:
US exceptionalism is the belief that the USA is the exception to the rules by which others are governed, not that the US is awesome. So no, we are witnessing the continued escalation of US exceptionalism wherein the US continues to act more and more like everyone else has to follow rules and the US is the exception in that it need not follow any of those rules.
- Comment on Kremlin says Russia ready for mass mobilization like in WWII 'at any moment' 2 months ago:
Actually. Let me ask a different question. Do you think North Atlantic ambitions to invade Russia have ever gone away? The West invaded Russia 3 times already - Napoleon, the Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, and the third reich’s objective in WW2. Russia has been a continuous target of North Atlantic aggression for over 200 years.
- Comment on China suggests COVID-19 originated in US in response to Trump allegation 2 months ago:
The report from China is not claiming that it originated in a laboratory in the USA. It is claiming that patient zero may have been in America not in China and that the US may have deliberately hid information about the timeline of the natural emergence of the disease in order to bolster the narrative that it originated (naturally or otherwise) in China.
- Comment on Kremlin says Russia ready for mass mobilization like in WWII 'at any moment' 2 months ago:
You think China wants to invade Russia?
