Addfwyn @ Addfwyn @lemmygrad.ml

Marxist-Leninist. Tankie. Based in the imperial vassal state of Japan.

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Have we heard anything about the cause of death actually? Long and slow heart attack? Maybe choked on some amok trey?

Oh agreed again for sure, there's plenty of people still around as bad as him. I don't think we are in any disagreement at all.

I will say that since he was still meetings diplomatic figures he probably had some pull, so it remains a good thing he kicked out now because he was likely still actively doing harm.
There's also a tiny chance some people might go "Huh, if this guy was that bad maybe some of these other politicians were too...". I don't hold all that much hope, but call me an optimist.

I agree, though I do not think there is any harm in celebrating the death of an objectively horrible person. As long as you don't think that everything is peachy-keen and all that is left is rainbows and unicorns.

I always have kept a few days off on hand for just this sort of emergency.

Calling off tomorrow and having a long weekend celebration. Cracking open a bottle of the good stuff.

To be totally realistic am under no delusions that this fixes much of anything, but allow me these few days just to enjoy some good news. Also considering he was still making trips to meet with heads of state, he was exerting some kind of influence that we should be thankful is now gone.

I think he can technically run, but not win. In fact I think he managed to get on one ballot, might be wrong.

I assume there is some grift there to drum up donations, but I can't imagine it will be very effective.

That has always been China's position regarding exporting ideology. They've generally been of the mind that every state needs to come to their own revolution. It's a reason they are always so explicit about "Socialism with Chinese characteristics".

While part of me does selfishly wish there were states a bit more proactive about facilitating socialism, the position makes absolute sense. If we look at the AES states today, none of them have exactly the same structures in place. I don't think Chinese socialism would work in Cuba, or Cuban socialism in Vietnam.

I organise as well as I am able to help bring about "socialism with Japanese characteristics", and hopefully we get there someday. I believe all states will, if not necessarily in our own lifetimes.

President Xi being extremely eloquent and mature, it is always great to see somebody with a firm grasp of politics and international relations making statements.

On the other hand, Biden literally calls him a dictator the second his back is turned.

I hope there are people who take President Xi's words to heart in the US government, because the leadership sure as hell isn't.

On the offchance you are open to learning, please read "On Authority". It is readily available online and is practically the length of a brochure.

Anything longer than a headline tends to exceed the average lib's attention span, but there are always those rare folks that can be convinced. Go ahead, own a tankie and prove me wrong.

I do get some encouragement seeing things like this, or the students protesting who didn't back down even when their future careers were threatened.

The fact that they saw through the incredibly biased framing of the question especially.
"said they side with the terrorist group that just earlier this month purposefully targeted and slaughtered innocent civilians.". There's not even the hint of trying to be journalists anymore with them.

Hawaii doesn't even get this level of help, and they're actually an [occupied] state already. Maybe they should instigate a war against a pre-approved American enemy.

Is US equipment really what you want for a war in the middle east? It doesn't necessarily have the best track record when used against resistance groups with handmade ordnance and AK-47s.

They 100% would be making that argument during the time period(ignoring for a minute that the US still has slavery anyway). Heck, they still do, I grew up going to a school where our teachers seriously argued that the slaves were better off as slaves, with a much higher quality of life.

A few highlights I remember were them saying "slaves were usually never beaten because that would affect their ability to work" and "it gave structure to their life". Also "most slave owners were good people who were friends with their slaves".

I may be misremembering something, but isn't the US planning on packaging Ukraine and Israel aid into the same package to get both passed htrough?

Considering they have Americans driving vehicles into Chinese consulates, I would say that their plans are proceeding exactly as they wanted them to.

I see more Israel/Ukraine flag combos, but I have seen a few of those as well.

I sorta get it, if someone were looking at both situations purely as "resistance fighters against their oppressors" They aren't actually comparable in that way at all, but the mental gymnastics required for somebody with only a surface level understanding isn't too great. I feel those might be the people that you could have some hope of educating on the realities of the situation.

A “senior China correspondent” that cites Radio Free Asia for anything can probably be safely ignored, especially given her history of articles.

Maybe be fixed is extremely optimistic. When posed with the question of "should you starve civilians", "Gee, I am really conflicted about that. I really need more information first" is not really an answer one would expect any sane human being to have.

I look forward to the next couple months, when the NYT will be writing an article about the counteroffensive stalling out because nobody could have predicated how cold the winter would be.

There's an absolutely obscene amount of waste, I had a friend who used to work at a defensive contractor and they grossly overcharge on every item on every contract. Even replacement bolts and screws were marked up hundreds of times. In many cases the exact itemized bill isn't given to the government as the contractor prefers to keep it confidential (I can't imagine why). All of that excess probably ends up in the executive level pockets on one side or the other.

They might spend more than the next several countries combined in defense spending, but I would be honestly surprised if they got more value out of that spending than any of them.

I have it on good authority that Russia is launching artillery shells from trebuchets, because they are out of everything else. Ukraine is about to win this time, really!