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Semjeza

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  • Cuba Libre 🇨🇺

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  • The WHO does good work, but it's as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.Not that way that the US doesn't also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people's dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.

    More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn't allow that to happen.

  • Cuba Libre 🇨🇺

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  • We can't be sure.

    The PRC isn't blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.

    And even so, it doesn't make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.

  • Cuba Libre 🇨🇺

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  • Cuba's medical work is amazing.

    The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.

  • Fair Trade

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  • The PRC is helping kill Balochi and Burmese to keep it's access to resources in those areas in the 21st century.Which is far fewer than US imperialism across any comparible time scale.

    Over the last 5,000 years: millions.

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    Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support

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  • On migration and trans rights they're cleaving pretty right wing.

    On economics, they're still quite centre-left-ish.

    And since everything is polarised these days, they get to be centre-left to the right, and moderate right to the left.

  • It's a vicious cycle...

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  • Maybe, tell me your progressive policy party and we'll find out.

  • It's a vicious cycle...

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  • And which political party has a remotely progressive policy line?

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • I get that. The hypocrisy of criticising one side, but not being able to bear any criticism when the other side does the same is infuriatingly lacking in moral backbone.

    And while a change from US to Chinese hegemony might have some short term gains for some places, there would also be losses for others - one need only look at the Balochi, Tamils, Myanmar/Burma, Afghanistan for no shortage of examples.The PRC is an imperial power ascendent, and the national ideology and mood is already scarily fascistic.

    I mentioned Israel-Palestine for history, as too many folks seem to want to portray October 8th as a random, unprovoked attack by Palestinians - removing it from historic context which, all events, must always be kept.We can never hope to build a better future without knowing and understanding how events lead to one another.

    Anyhow, I'm sorry for any stress caused.

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • The whole "Israel-Palestine conflict began on October 8th, do not look at the ageing historical events behind the curtain argument". And then seem to basically fallacy fallacy at anything you might have to think about how it fits with your narrative. If you're actually trying to bring nuance and point out how large nations are bullies who use military and economic clout to force their will on the world around them: that's what I'm saying too. Go back and look over what I've said with that lens, and see if you can find that reading.

    Also, what's with the focus on 100 years ago? Time hasn't moved that fast yet. Round up by 50%? Just say S70 my friend.

    And for the purpose of friendship I should assume you actually want to make a point and ask:"OK then, what information do you actually want to convey to me? What is the core idea you want to assert, not a negation of something said but an idea that stands on its own."

  • Gospel of love

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  • But why quibble over the murkier "did he exist" ground when you could engage on "was he a miracle working guy who came back from the dead" and make them find more evidence for that!

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • Its funny of you to call my response to a post calling out China "whataboutism" when part of the idea of the original post is that the countries called out as hostile have done far fewer wars than the PoV nation-Empire The USA.How dare I complicate a "China = bad, US = good" by exploring that the PRC might have reasons that make sense for it's actions.How dare I not assume that China's aggressive expansion of fishing started in the 1970s when Korea and the US were engaging in anti-Communist war games around the DPRK and PRC after the Korean War.

    Vietnam, Philippines, and the RoC are also part of the mess which is the South China Sea dispute (which really kicked off in the 70s too, with the discovery of oil there (how dare I write this aside insinuating which country is known best for its violations of international law, norms, and rules for a little bit of the black gold)) which to be clear I'm not on the PRC's side on (or indeed any of the claimants on the whole. The South China seas is a mess, and needs to be settled; obviously the PRC has much greater clout and military power than the other claimants, so it won't follow any arbitration that doesn't give it most of what if wants - following the precedent set by the US with the UN and ICJ (there's that "whataboutism" again, right? How dare I draw parallels and recognise similarities between hegemonic powers).

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • Responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to China responding to...

    Not sure what your point is. I said PRC and US both did it. So you agree with that, right?

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    Do people really "need" friends?

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  • Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?

    Why do you think you need a romantic partner?

    ... A better question would be: "what do you define as a friend?"

  • Music 🎶

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  • No shade on long songs, but when a good 3 to 5 mins are quite dissonant and with bizzare snippets of lyrics it tends to get called out by people who haven't listened to Maggot Brain all the way through before.

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • I'll assume you've already taken to heart that the PRC invaded the PRV in 1979, as part of the Sink-Soviet split to punish Soviet allies in East Asia after Glasnost (this part of history is quite complicated, so it's OK that you got it wrong, we should all be learning all the time).

    Taiwan, or the RoC if you prefer (since that's the name that some countries continue to recognise it as a nation under) , was indeed fascist (and certainly totalitarian) under Qiang Kai Shek, especially post retreat to Taiwan, (although not Imperial - the Imperial of China ended in 1911, and could only arguably be said to start again in 1959). However, with Lee Tung Hui's reforms and the end of dictatorship that changed, opening up the country, ending the death squads and brining about an opening up and freer press. And to preempt your criticism of the wave of 本生人 having been US educated, where would you expect them to have gone? The PRC? Or a nation trying to build ties with it? Japan and the PRC were pretty friendly at the time, so that would've been out too.

    And since you notice that Vietnam, Philippines are indeed not a threat to the PRC, maybe you should reevaluate what I mean by: "Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam are about as much of a threat to the PRC as Palestine is to Israel." (with its iron dome, vastly superior firepower, and being on an entirely different scale of military capabilities, although to be fair to Vietnam, they did beat both the US and PRC in a war.)

  • Damning Pentagon Leak Reveals Huge Blow to U.S. Defenses

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  • Military exercises with Japan and South Korea in East China Sea? Exercises with Philippines and Vietnam in the contested waters the PRC claims despite international court rulings to the contrary?

    A lot of use of language calling China a threat?

  • Starmer vows to act on social media after meeting bereaved parents

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  • Requiring ID makes people happier with ID docs overall, so that they can still swipe through TikTok or whatever they do these days.

    Asking change and responsibility of the companies might lower shareholder value.

  • Music 🎶

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  • All fun and games until they realise that Wars of Armageddon has a 10 minute run time.

    That said, no one has complained about PJ Harvey yet.

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    Can you guess which country this is?

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  • Zionism, especially it's modern incarnation: sure.

    But there was a struggle for Israel's soul that fascism won, due to that Zionist influence. But it needn't have necessarily won.

    It was fascist in its paramilitary early days, too. But that also predated the state.