Taiwan rightfully belongs under Chinese rule.
This is also the Taiwanese position.
Taiwan has never claimed independence, they’re called the Republic of China because they see themselves as the rightful Chinese government in exile. They don’t want a small isolated island, they want to take back the mainland.
The book is specifically about the exact opposite: Scout learns over and over that The System (the prevailing culture in America) is shit, and learns to look outside of it. She learns the “creepy weirdo” who lives next door is actually just a mentally ill man who was forced into being a hermit by the culture around her. She regularly hangs out with the ex-slave community in her town and treats them better than the adults do. She watches her father fight for the rights of a falsely accused black man.
Like no, it’s not a revolutionary book by any means. Atticus doesn’t go full John Brown on the jail to break Tom out, and yes the Finches do have a black housekeeper - shit ain’t perfect by any means. But it isn’t a book about how we must all accept the system.
As I understand it we should have /some/ more time until the invasion of Taiwan, mainly because they need more numbers of and more reliable marine landing vehicles with greater ranges.
China hasn’t made a single actual step towards invading Taiwan for reunification since the end of the Chinese Civil War.
It has been like 70 years of the US telling us they’re gonna invade any second now, and China has continued to not invade and maintain the policy of waiting for reunification to happen naturally.
But y’know go off, king
Russia is imperialist because it has close relations and ties to other nations like Belarus
The more nations you’re friends with the more imperialister you are
He has changed his ways/I believe in allowing people the opportunity to reform
I also believe in allowing people the opportunity to reform, but that’s usually involving things like drug crimes, or thefts, or other similar crimes fueled by socioeconomic factors
When someone goes and establishes a fairly complex human trafficking network though, it’s a little different
Other than Uvalde and the Las Vegas concert one, I’m fairly certain all the most brutal ones to enter the public psyche were under the Obama regime.
Safeties are entirely intended to prevent dangerous accidents.
Which is why trigger safeties aren’t safeties.
If the safety interlock on something dangerous is the same button to activate it, it’s not a safety.
Someone firebombed his house. He wasn’t there at the time, but it did happen at night and someone was definitely out to get him.
He may be a lib but his documentaries and exposure of corruption in Australia are legitimately great and earned him an assassination attempt, and he’s friends with I Did A Thing and Boy Boy. He’s probably close to becoming a comrade.
And Friendlyjordies
Admittedly I’d been watching a couple of Turkey Tom’s videos recently and definitely got the hidden fash vibes off him. I don’t even think it’s anything he expressly said, it’s just a vibe.
I wouldn’t call Finns chilled out.
If you took a random Finn, any single one, and put them in a room with Hitler, Mussolini (or some other fascist, I dunno), and a random Russian, plus a gun with two bullets, they’d double-tap the random Russian and ask for more ammo.
The only people with a more deep hatred and revanchism against Russia is Poland.
Russia is a paper tiger with the world’s worst tech! Unlike those strong Aryan Ukranians who used… Wait, what sort of weapons to defend themselves?
It’s a long video, yes, but it’s primarily a video about one of the largest queer creators on YouTube stealing from smaller queer creators, erasing their contribution to media and literary critique while simultaneously positioning himself as King Queer.
I know it’s a meme to laugh about internet drama and be contrarian and popular media here, but in this case, it’s a valid subject.
I actually speak 4 languages
Congratulations.
You’re on a Marxist forum with users all over the world, not Reddit.
Being multilingual isn’t fucking special, most of the world is, and most of our users are.
Poland. They’re already mad as fuck about Poland trying to close off the border to Ukranian goods.
Starting to think the ML in Lemmy.ml stands for machine learning, because there’s no way an adult human writes like this
Remember that literally everyone considered the ETIM a terrorist organization right up until Zenz fabricated his bunk genocide claims, and then very suddenly the US and a few key allies dropped that label from them.
Redditors are some of the most gullible fucks on the planet
Holy shit are you one of those people that actually fucking believes that?
Winnie the Pooh isn’t banned in China, you can go visit Shanghai Disney and go see him. You can buy Pooh merch. The only thing that got banned was comparing images of Xi and Obama to Winnie and Tigger, and if you can’t see why representing Xi with a literal yellow character and Obama with a character named Tigger might be worthy of social media bans, you’re willfully ignorant.
And Chinese people aren’t executed if they hear about Tiananmen Square. They know it fucking exists, they just refer to it by date and not by name.