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- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 1 week ago:
- Comment on China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Hermit kingdom
- Comment on China’s Xi Jinping likens ‘US hegemony’ to ‘fascist forces’ ahead of Vladimir Putin summit 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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' 1 month 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 1 month 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' 1 month ago:
You think China wants to invade Russia?
- Comment on China suggests COVID-19 originated in US in response to Trump allegation 1 month ago:
What methodology and what causal chains can you share that support such a position?
- Comment on What does a domain registrar actually do? 1 month ago:
Manage text files
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 1 month ago:
So confident in the IP regime of the US military
- Comment on Mexico's Sheinbaum Counters Trump Deportations With Tens of Thousands of Jobs for Returned Citizens 1 month ago:
Let’s go Keysenianismo!
- Comment on Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland 1 month ago:
Ooohhh that makes a lot more sense now
- Comment on Libyans grapple with fresh currency devaluation 1 month ago:
Wow, no mention of the fact that Libya was one of these most robust, resilient, and effective economies in all of Africa until the US destroyed it, mass murdered its people, tortured its leaders, and left it ruin.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
I think that, of all the governments on the planet, there’s no better government on the planet to have this particular power than the government of the PRC.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
Rare earth is absolutely crucial for the war machine:
defense.gov/…/dod-looks-to-establish-mine-to-magn…
army-technology.com/…/securing-the-rare-earth-sup…
nma.org/wp-content/…/infographic_defense-01.pdf
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
This framing takes all comparison out of the equation. The reality is that oil was monopolized by the white supremacist patriarchal capitalist North Atlantic Eurocentric empire - the same empire that has been dominating the globe for 500 years; the empire that invented racism as we know it today; the empire that at one point dominated 80% of the world population; the empire that dropped nukes on civilians; the empire that starves entire nations hoping the desperation of the people will cause them to get rid of leaders who are not aligned with the empire; the empire that trained death squads to go and murder entire families in cold blood for decades across multiple continents.
China is withholding critical materials from that empire. It’s not just a country holding something back from another country in a political vacuum. We’re talking about the actual real historical process of resisting the bloodiest and most brutal empire humanity has ever seen. Yes, it will make the USA seethe and seek to dominate via violence but they already do that every single day. Starving the war machine is exactly what needs to be done right now for the sake of everyone and everything on this planet.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
China has not dropped a single bomb in conflict since 1979 - 46 years ago. They have a nuclear policy of non-first-use. They have a consistent diplomatic policy of respecting everyone’s national sovereignty, of resolving conflict through patience and mutual understanding.
Why don’t you like them having such diplomatic power over industrial materials? Because they might use that power to push more nations towards mutual development and away from wasting resources on building more weapons in arms races?
- Comment on OneDrive clients for Windows, Mac still broken 10 months on 1 month ago:
Even if they fixed it, it would still be broken because OneDrive is built on SharePoint and works on the metaphor of SharePoint sites. It’s broken at a fundamental level
