The poster is Chinese, and regularly writes about struggling with cultural expectations with regards to traditional Chinese familial norms. If I wrote that white American family cultural norms were fucked, as a partly-white American, would that make me racist? Not only that, but families are placed at the midpoint, not the fucked-up 'end' of the drawing.

Gorgeous view!

If you look to the right on the first pic, you can see the water underneath. Building on top of bridges was actually a common practice in the late medieval and Renaissance periods. Gotta use all the space you got in a city!

"Racism is when you don't like the Chinese government"?

I'm flattered to have the comment posted here! 🙏

"He who does not work does not eat" - Lenin

"You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work removed" - Marxist-Leninist Britney Spears

That's where my mind went to as well.

https://mas.to/@ukraine_photos

Standard puzzles for the hero to solve, I think

THEN YOU ARE LOST

Don't tempt me

Mood

I stay off of .ml comms, but I make note of these fucks when they come into places where non-fascists gather.

We had to pull out eventually; we couldn't keep propping up the national government forever. But Trump's deal which released some 5,000 veteran Taliban fighters (with the final offensive consisting of no more than 80,000 Taliban fighters in total), and did so without involving the national government in negotiations at all, sealed the fate of post-war Afghanistan. With the Taliban significantly reinforced and the national government humiliated and stripped of what little legitimacy it had by peace negotiations held without its input, there was no other way it was going to go.

That these tankie fucks positively bootlick the Taliban just makes them more repulsive in light of that.

"I don't know why people call me a tankie!"

[simps for Chinese imperialism over Tibet because Mao Good]

Also, predictably, the link of them being 'attacked' for defending Biden pulling out of Afghanistan is nothing of the sort.

A little excitement makes life worth living*!

*until the catastrophic collapse, of course

Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.

I'll be sure to tell the janitor.

It's like you don't even understand the core moral dilemma of being an engineer working for a military supplier.

No, that’s not what I mean, and I’d appreciate you not putting words in my mouth.

So this isn't you?

We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.

Or is this not actually where we are or were at, and this line is complete disingenuous bullshit?

There is a material difference between providing Israel with military equipment and with some random consumer product that is just distributed everywhere. Sure, I’d argue it’s still wrong to do the latter, but it’s still a huge difference.

Ah, of course, if you're enabling the genocide through non-military means, it's okay. I mean, it's not like supplying Israel with goods frees up more of Israel's resources for military production and action.

You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.

Except what I'm pointing out is not where I think the ethical line is, I'm pointing out that you're arguing in blatant bad faith because you know your actual position isn't defensible.

We haven’t moved anywhere.

This you?

If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.

Sorry that you can't remember what you said a whole comment ago.

We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.

So what you mean is "If you're working for a major Western company, period, you're in the wrong." Since the list of Western companies that don't do business with Israel is very small.

Okay, so we've moved from "Your products will end up in Israel" to "Your work will benefit a company that benefits from Israeli contracts"

How many Eurofighters does Israel operate?