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Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

PhilippAchtel posted:

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1597274085570248705

This is what qualifies you to be a TV journalist. No points or reasoning presented. Just wave at what you think is obvious and act huffy and offended when people push back in any way.

The bankruptcy of the American "left" is illustrated by how bloodthirsty they are. Russia, Ukraine, china, Taiwan. Left right and center in America they all Bay for more blood. You're not allowed to to have a dissenting view on foreign policy without being treated as a foreign bot or paid off. loving awful. I can't believe I believed in Bernie or the squad for even 1 minute.

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mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Cpt_Obvious posted:

I tried to read this but there's just like 5 straight paragraphs of pointless fluff and I gave up.

I didn’t either tbh. the unsourced quote is from no logo, and I googled to see what became of the Hong Kong Blondes (dissolved immediately)

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
i'd love to see a contrast of these posts from the western trash left on chinese anti-lockdown protests vs like the canada truckers convoy

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

I post things i want others to read so I can make my conclusion based on expert input

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

mawarannahr posted:

I post things i want others to read so I can make my conclusion based on expert input

Way to exploit labour.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
You can support Xi Jinping to the hilt. I'm doing it right now. It's just that easy.

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Mirello posted:

The bankruptcy of the American "left" is illustrated by how bloodthirsty they are. Russia, Ukraine, china, Taiwan. Left right and center in America they all Bay for more blood. You're not allowed to to have a dissenting view on foreign policy without being treated as a foreign bot or paid off. loving awful. I can't believe I believed in Bernie or the squad for even 1 minute.

The difference between how Bernie and how Corbyn reacted to the events in Ukraine sealed the idea that there are no left-wing leaders in US politics. Well, you know, even more than his utter capitulation in 2020.

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010


lmfao

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

mila kunis posted:

i'd love to see a contrast of these posts from the western trash left on chinese anti-lockdown protests vs like the canada truckers convoy

It's especially nuts because zero-covid objectively achieved its goals. The truckers have a stronger case against the Western strategy of vaccines only!

Facehammer
Mar 11, 2008


If your Naomi be Klein,
Oh, buddy, oof

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

mila kunis posted:

i'd love to see a contrast of these posts from the western trash left on chinese anti-lockdown protests vs like the canada truckers convoy

if everyone in canada has covid, that affects me which is bad, if everyone in china has covid, 10 million chinese people die, which is good

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
No Logo more like No Bueno

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Naomi Who?

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

unwantedplatypus posted:

Protestors getting into fights with unarmed cops is not what an oppressive society looks like. We all know the police will shoot you dead on the spot if you get out of line in the US. I cannot comprehend thinking you live in an oppressive horrible, unfree society when you can get into physical confrontations with law enforcement and have a reasonable expectation you will not come away dead or permanently injured.

the other funny thing to american brains is that for example at these very protests, or so I'm told, they invite the cops before going to try to meet with government people cause they know the cops will keep the government honest.

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1597283019555237888

lmao meltdown incoming

I'd ask what's so complicated about the idea that the US left cannot criticize enemy nations without reinforcing the US state narrative, but it's doubtful Naomi is even being genuine here and not just whining that her take got some pushback.

"Bots," lol. Last refuge of the lib

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

those shanghai protestors aren't workers

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

PhilippAchtel posted:

https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1597283019555237888

lmao meltdown incoming

I'd ask what's so complicated about the idea that the US left cannot criticize enemy nations without reinforcing the US state narrative, but it's doubtful Naomi is even being genuine here and not just whining that her take got some pushback.

"Bots," lol. Last refuge of the lib

It really is funny how every "Leftwing" personality of the Late 90s and Bush years are just utterly useless as material conditions deteriorate pushes people further left than they are comfortable with

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

What about Michael Moore?

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Maximo Roboto posted:

What about Michael Moore?

The gyy that sent me a million emails about voting Democrat this year?

this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006

mila kunis posted:

i'd love to see a contrast of these posts from the western trash left on chinese anti-lockdown protests vs like the canada truckers convoy

i don’t really like to be made upset to that degree

it’s easy to say well the restrictions in china are legitimately more draconian or whatever and that loosening up doesn’t mean abandoning all mitigations, since all east asia seems to have taken an omicron wave with better results than the west. but that was already the direction of the announced policy! they pushed the new national policy of focusing on new vax tech, boosting elders, reduced mass testing, shortened quarantines, etc., and it takes time for provincial and municipal administrations to develop implementations. they probably should have made a more public push starting in spring instead of having a year of limited announcements for fear of causing a ruckus before the party congress, but that’s how stuff happens there. way less onerous than the stupid things that happen before and after western elections. dang kids in the censorship bubble don’t know how good they have it

Computer Serf
May 14, 2005
Buglord
apparently something is stirring in China?? why is it so hard to get timely reasonably objective context included news reporting out of China?

meanwhile heres another think tank fellow reporting on big trouble in little China

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-protests-harbinger-or-passing

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Not So Fast posted:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFQJpLqU/

Interesting TikTok video on the protests, going over the different nature of some of the protests - how the Shanghai protests are more anti-CPC and political, while other protests feature support for Maoism and the party while still trying to hold them accountable.

Pro watch.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011


University of Chicago was where an Iranian woman was threatened with violence and had a speaking engagement moved online because she opposes sanctions.

https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1589316877804789764?s=20&t=fREhS8KWVx0MSo9_1pd9XQ

As a city Chicago is also home to organized Banderites who openly fly UPA flags at their rallies and on their streets.

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

she's pathetic.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Maximo Roboto posted:

What about Michael Moore?

He did an hour plus long theater performance about how much he loves Hillary.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

leftishly forging solidarity soul bonds with all wealthy foreign citizens and frothing expats looking to overthrow our geopolitical, economic, and religious/racial enemies

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

gradenko_2000 posted:

the thing about this is that people genuinely believe that the Tiananmen Tank Man got run over

And also that he was trying to stop them from coming in rather than trying to stop them from leaving

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
american "progressives" once it comes to china:

https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

one of the most awful things I've read on twitter tbh

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

the sharper libs will point out that no he wasnt killed but he disappeared forever afterwards communistically

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Mirello posted:

american "progressives" once it comes to china:

https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

one of the most awful things I've read on twitter tbh

god drat

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Senior Editor, @RawStory. Proud @newsguild union member. Progressive Montanan. #Bozeman

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Nationalist-Progressive.

PhilippAchtel
May 31, 2011

Maximo Roboto posted:

What about Michael Moore?

lol











lmao

Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


PhilippAchtel posted:

https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1597283019555237888

lmao meltdown incoming

I'd ask what's so complicated about the idea that the US left cannot criticize enemy nations without reinforcing the US state narrative, but it's doubtful Naomi is even being genuine here and not just whining that her take got some pushback.

"Bots," lol. Last refuge of the lib

If I'm being generous, it's because coming from the West you feel like you have to have a take on the Current Thing, otherwise you're called out as not caring or supporting the bad people or whatever.

I fully expect everyone who's claimed to have read Manufacturing Consent to just parrot the "we support the protestors we see on TV, solidarity with the narrative" line

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

Mirello posted:

ryan grim has to be one of the stupidest loving journalists on twitter. dems keep stabbing you in the back, but he'll work for them forever. it's really astonishing to me people that spend their whole lives writing about the faults of liberal "democracy" but then defend it to their dying breath.

He used to be a stockbroker before he became a journalist. Matt Levine was part of a pretty big white collar law firm which defended wall street before he went to write for bloomberg. I think both those guys do good journalism but you still have to be very cautious of them.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
Klein has also criticized Venezuela developing itself using it's oil reserves.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Mirello posted:

american "progressives" once it comes to china:

https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

one of the most awful things I've read on twitter tbh

holy poo poo

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

Mirello posted:

american "progressives" once it comes to china:

https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

one of the most awful things I've read on twitter tbh

Hope this freak dies ngl

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Mirello posted:

american "progressives" once it comes to china:

https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

one of the most awful things I've read on twitter tbh

I think I may have posted this ironically a few months back.

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this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006

this allusion meant posted:

i don’t really like to be made upset to that degree


well the world never obliges me on this

https://twitter.com/aliabunimah/status/1597285175230353408?s=46&t=bvtz96DDSa6LSwkcqHFbyQ
https://twitter.com/aliabunimah/status/1597315124096040960?s=46&t=bvtz96DDSa6LSwkcqHFbyQ

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