I’m surprised libs are upset that the DPRK got nukes to be honest, I would’ve thought they’d be happy about that; they get to badmouth and hate on the DPRK all they want, and the DPRK gets to not be invaded; it’s a win-win situation; do libs just HAVE to be the only people winning in all this? Do they really hate a situation where everyone’s a winner?
I don’t even know what these people want any more.
Libs: I have lost faith in the government and media! They are ALL monsters and liars!
Normal people: What about our government’s enemies?
Libs: They’re monsters, our government and media says so.
I think the joke is that there are stupid people who believe either are true
You’ve found it, the literal worst post on the internet
I wonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA
Far, FAR from it; China is gigantic with many different cultures and ethnicities, much like the Soviet Union was. One of the reasons why they both made it work easily is because they focused on what made them the same rather than capitalism melting their brains and telling them to be as divided as possible. We have a huge cultural problem where people are beginning to fall for this stupidity about ethnic and cultural homogeneity being cornerstones in a peaceful society, forgetting entirely that WW2 is what happens when the only ethnicity and culture is white and some imagined white culture.
Different regions in China have their own cultural differences but you don’t have a Chen Xiaopiro or similar crying about how this region or that celebrates that festival while most of China celebrates this other festival. I think even the government itself doesn’t allow divisive rhetoric in the first place, which, you know, good; freedom of speech shouldn’t be allowed to be a double edged sword.
Heck, Xinjiang maintains their own Uyghur language which is not only protected, but exists in their signs and apparently even the currency they use there has their (Arabic?) text on it as well. Tibet suffered unfortunately from some horrific cultural genocide during Mao’s time, wherein slaves were given their freedom and slave owners were made to be equal to everyone else, and unfortunately modern day Tibetans no longer recall or value the glory days of slavery, but their unique Tibetic languages are still alive and spoken there, and there hasn’t been this cultural erasure (short of ending slavery) that you got with Native Americans. I recall a discussion between a Uyghur and a guy in the states where he pointed out that Native American languages, many of them, were killed off and official institutions in regions where Native Americans live operate in English, whereas in the many different regions of China their unique dialects and languages are still alive and well.
Like I mentioned, the Chinese government itself also does what it can to stamp out divisive rhetoric, and honestly good; if we went a year with divisive rhetoric being stamped out, the division in our country would disintegrate. No more divisive rhetoric in the news, no more bigoted losers on youtube, straight up bans on all social media of people trying to divide the country, and the people grow closer again. The division that does exist however is entirely artificial; literally what cultural differences exist that would cause hostility? One group celebrates Christmas while another doesn’t? One group likes mostly Mexican food while the other doesn’t? The news and social media losers literally keep harping on and on and on about this nonsense and dividing people entirely artificially for political purposes, and they convince you that you came to your conclusions entirely on your own when in reality they never stop going on and on and on about this nonsense and trying to make you think this way of thinking is normal.
I used to work with a lib and I remember trying to explain to him just why people in China revolted, just how bad, just how dire their circumstances were; he never did seem to understand why workers should exist as a unified party or why all workers should have solidarity with one another
I get you’re being sarcastic but the reality is that people also benefited from being reactionary and so were incentivized to play dumb about what the government does; French people who hate Traore for example don’t hate him because he’s a dictator, they hate him because his success (and consequently the success of the Sahel states) will impact them economically but because they don’t want to reveal their orcish nature, they pretend they hate him because they hate dictatorships
I wish, instead the take away has been that America is turning into China
Ah, thanks
What does wumao mean? I’ve read twitter posts by Chinese users who use it against…I think anti-China Asian Americans?
And today, “the Nazis were just defending against Soviet aggression!”
The part of the story Cleetus didn’t share
The CIA openly admits to spying on people around the world and everyone’s reaction is now ‘Oh you’
Somehow (constant media propaganda most likely) they’ve convinced people that to do ANYTHING you have to get your hands dirty; that ‘ANYTHING’ however is rarely or only slightly in our benefit, it’s of a bigger benefit to an elite few instead. Even if you ascribe to ‘the ends justify the means’, the ends aren’t worth it and the means are just getting more and more horrific and we’re assuming the imperial boomerang isn’t on its way back.
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Yeah, it’s true 
Sanctions are a tool of war and should absolutely be called out for it
Also Rudy Giuliani celebrating the sanctions working, excitedly saying Iranian men and women are starving, and that Iranian men are being forced to sell their organs, excitedly saying this as evidence of sanctions working to a cheering crowd of fellow vampires.
Let’s not forget Israel bombing apartment buildings and hospitals in Iran and the Shah’s (son?) defending it saying they weren’t targeting civilians and that Iranians in Iran should continue supporting Israel, or Iranian AMERICANS who support everything Israel does in Iran regardless of how many civilians they kill cause they’re in America safe and sound; legit, I am all in favor of deporting Iranian Americans who support Israel back to Iran to get front row seats to America and Israel’s ‘liberation’ of Iran.
I’m reminded of a pastor who was shocked when his congregants complained about his reading from the bible cause they said it’s woke
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