Trash Ops posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/socialaskan/status/1346526418180612096

comedyblissoption posted:

afaik contemporaneously most people at the time wanted to keep the soviet union intact, and then when that fell, most did not want the neoliberal shock therapy and it required tanks firing into the parliament and massacre of civilians to enforce this

gradenko_2000 posted:

[bernie panders]

gradenko_2000 posted:

We aren't going to war with China, right?

Junkozeyne posted:

Looking at the leper's colony it is good to know that CSPAM will do its part in upholding american hegemony lmao.

Ferrinus posted:

check your premises: joe biden is white

Fortaleza posted:

Genuine Pedophilia Accusations Megathread

Dixon Chisholm posted:

Still waiting on that list of Something Awful Moderator recognized genocides.

e-dt posted:

xi jinping cackles and twirls his moustache... he has strapped 10 thousand uighurs to train tracks through which a high speed train will shortly run. can dudley do - right, american soldier, save them this time ?

Dreylad posted:

i keep reading it as vache, im glad i don't know who that is anyway

gradenko_2000 posted:

can't spell

the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

without "mod"

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

quote:

In addition to the flag of Slovenia and the European Union, the NATO flag has been flying in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since yesterday. No, this is not a one-day media show on the 17th anniversary of Slovenia's accession to this military alliance, but the dark blue flag will hang there 24/7, 365 days a year, as announced by Foreign Minister Anže Logar. The symbolic militarization of foreign policy, of course, serves only as another depiction of kneeling or, more modernly, Logar’s simping for the United States. The actions, which can best be described as pathetic, primarily lead the casual reader to cringe, but their consequences can be far-reaching.

The United States and China are in the Cold War. This is far from reaching the intensity of the previous version, when the role of the US rival was played by the Soviet Union, which does not mean that it will not eventually lead to a conflict of similar relations. Slovenia has already chosen its side in this global muscle measurement. As a representative of a real peripheral country without its own agenda, the current government was happy to fulfill the wish of former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and sign a declaration on 5G technology, the sole purpose of which is to oust Chinese giant Huawei from the global market. Although the EU as a whole has not been prepared to follow Trump's aspirations for a trade war with China, it is clear that it has no intention of pretending to be neutral in this war to preserve the West, the United States, as the world's leading power.

The European Union thus imposed sanctions last week because Chinese authorities allegedly violated the rights of the Uighur Muslim minority. The issue of this minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang is increasingly becoming an ammunition for Western diplomats, who for years have been building a narrative about China as the next empire to occupy Hong Kong first, then Taiwan, Southeast Asia and the world. It seems that for the duration of this pandemic, this modern Red Scare is becoming more and more popular in the Western media, from which Slovenian journalists also draw.

Reports of what is happening in Xinjiang seem… dubious. If skepticism about the CGTN or other Chinese media outlets is justified, we can expect at least the same, if not even greater, caution from journalists when quoting media that are not close to what is happening at all. Instead, we can read and listen to articles in the mainstream media about 'independent reports on events', which the Multimedia Center of RTV Slovenia recently offered to its readers. Of course, five minutes of googling leads everyone to the conclusion that the first signatory researcher Azeem Ibrahim is a former member of the American British paratroopers and now, among other things, a lecturer at an institute that is part of the US Army War College. In media appearances, Ibrahim describes the Chinese leadership as“Architects of genocide” . It is a serious accusation, which both the USA and Canada have formally recognized as the truth, and with a non-binding resolution, the Dutch parliament also nodded to them from the EU.

The genocide was allegedly carried out by the Chinese authorities through a mass prison-camp campaign and the forced sterilization of women, although the sources for such allegations remain highly questionable and in some places worthless for any serious search for the truth. The fact that many independent human rights organizations are funded by the National Endowment for Democracy or, in other words, the U.S. Congress is also not exactly a thing that could simply be ignored. All the activities of countries in the 'war on terror' are worthy of detailed consideration and special attention when there is a possible violation of human rights, and this also applies to Shinjiang, but the flat use of the term genocide can be nothing but a political move. But the story of American imperialism is already really long and predictable, even if in the meantime they have sophisticated methods of asserting their own will.

American imperialism is the meeting point of the elites there and the two main parties, the only difference is the way. While Donald Trump has used phrases like “Chinese virus” or even “kung flu,” Biden, the UK, and the EU are stepping up the war with China in other ways. During the corona crisis, the West again accuses China of 'vaccination diplomacy', saying that the Communist Party there or, as we like to call all West-unfriendly governments - the regime - is exploiting the pandemic to spread geopolitical influence by bargaining or donating vaccines.To substantiate this thesis, various commentators point to the fact that China has not yet vaccinated its own population at all, so that obviously its geopolitical interest is more crucial than the lives of its own people. But this thesis ignores the numbers, which show that there have been only a few dozen infections in China in recent days, compared to thousands in ' developed ' countries, who have no choice but to try to vaccinate the population as soon as possible.

Former and declining empires are thus actively slandering China with accusations of imperialism in the global south. The economic model of privatization and economic reform on the notes of the International Monetary Fund has left devastation behind in Latin America or Africa, so don’t blame us if we don’t take the British or French ’concern for the welfare of Africans as completely sincere. But maybe in this version of the Cold War, we can get at least a vaccination match, instead of an arms race. In the latter case, the United States will in any case be long ahead of the rest of the world, trying to convince you that they are the ones defending the defense on the principle of that worn-out meme "look how close the Chinese have placed their country to our aircraft carriers . "

gradenko_2000 posted:

this is good

Comrade Koba posted:

Comrade Koba posted:

having way too much fun with this now

lumpentroll posted:

https://twitter.com/bristolideas/status/1385266943125594126

Ferrinus posted:

if you wanted to accomplish 2, you would have to either make black people overrepresented in the ruling class (i guess this is technically possible but would the rest really stand for it?) or actually reduce racial inequality in a material way such that homelessness doesn't fall more commonly and heavily on people of color (under capitalism? lmao)

i say swears online posted:

https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1386400534655995904

smarxist posted:

pssst. hey kid....
https://twitter.com/tom_usher_/status/1388102477376016387

Hot Karl Marx posted:

I read a tweet saying that they're actually on native land without their permission as well so I don't think this group/cult/whatever is going to end well. Hopefully no one dies I guess

exmarx posted:

why would you think this

Atrocious Joe posted:

You see democracy defined in the West a lot as direct elections for the chief executive and national legislature, but even the US doesn't qualify by that standard.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

F Stop Fitzgerald posted:

sorry stalin is bad now