Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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That take just increased global temps to the 2 degree mark.

It won't be, but nothing about being forced in an open air concentration camp is pretty

Been seeing claims on social media (so of course be skeptical) of at least one destroyed Merkava tank, POWs taken from that tank, a Zionist Entity military barracks overwhelmed with loss of all occupiers inside, and Palestinian fighters in control of at least one illegal settlement.

May Palestine finally be free, from the river to the sea.

Yeah that Czech dude is pretty fucked up in the head.

Taxation is a tool but it also creates inequality where rich people are able to smoke and poor people can't. That situation risks making tobacco a signifier of wealth - an aspirational good like an expensive handbag.

Hey this is the guy who said that all Russian citizens living abroad should be surveiled and cited Japanese internment camps as precedent.

“I can be sorry for these people, but at the same time when we look back, when the Second World War started, all the Japanese population living in the United States were under a strict monitoring regime as well,” said the Czech president. “That’s simply a cost of war.”

He's probably not doing this in the interests of peace, he's probably doing it because he wants to launch a race war against the Mongolian horde and the US won't play ball.

Well for one, China and much of the global south have been struggling against the political, economic, and cultural hegemony of the West for centuries now and there's a pretty visceral aversion to doing whatever the west is perceived to be telling us to do. Especially so on a cultural and societal level where Westerners have zero idea of who we are and how we do things but just constantly tell us how we should think and behave.

In this specific context, there well recognized scholars who posit that homophobia was spread in China by Westerners during the late Qing and Republican era. In addition to being rightfully wary of Western social and cultural meddling, there is also a strong rejection of the hypocrisy of the West causing this problem in the first place and now judging us for not immediately following their model in solving it.

For another, Western media just recently demonstrated how willing it is to politicize Disney movies by accusing China and Occupied Korea of being racist because of poor ticket sales of The Little Mermaid. If Westoid media makes a big song and dance about how a billion and a half Chinese people are homophobes because we didn't turn up to see a Disney movie, that's going to taint the whole movement with an association to hysterical Western political media.

why is inclusion in an often patriarchal/misogynistic and conservative institution as marriage the end-all-be-all of queer rights?

Kind of reminds me of the space race and how the USSR had all these amazing achievements but America decided that the winner was the first one to land people on the moon.

Because giving the impressing that LGBT issues are an imposition on Chinese society by the West in general and America specifically is going to distort the issue at best and at worst give the conservatives ammo to say that LGBT is an American plot to blah blah blah. Especially in the context of a Disney movie, aimed at kids, which adds in a "they're coming for our children" factor.

It would do incalculable damage to the advancement of LGBT rights in China for such rights to be tied to America or the West, so on balance the censors probably did the LGBT community a solid here.

Plus, that's assuming that this is the censors in China and not Disney self censoring because Disney thinks the Chinese censors care.

Can gay people exist in America without their sexual identities being the subject of endless culture war bullshit?

I'm all for China legalizing gay marriage and full protections for LGBT people. That process requires Chinese society to have its own conversation, which is what's happening right now. Copy pasting American culture war bullshit verbatim isn't going to do gay people any good, and a gay character in a kids movie certainly isn't going to do jack shit.

"We, the enlightened and human rights respecting West, did an about face on LGBT people having rights about 10 years ago after many centuries of violent persecution and suppression.

Now you, the country who's main ethnic group derives it's demonym from a dynast of bisexual emperors, and which has never had large scale and systematic persecution or suppression of gay people, must depict gay people in media exactly as we do.

If you do not, we will call you barbarians."

There's so many parallels between the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the Germans at the Battle of Kursk that I can't believe the Ukrainian senior staff, who would have been trained in Soviet officer schools, don't see the similarities.

Outwardly they're putting on a brave face but inwardly the must know.

Wtf based FIFA.

It's like people have already forgotten about the COVID microchip shortages.

In 150 years historians will be lamenting that we recorded everything we did and now they have to sift through terrabytes of memes, pointless arguments, and outright misdirection to get at anything resembling truth.

Intrigued Modi noises

Somewhere on Reddit there is a secret sub of forgotten Chapo posters. They have heard of the pig poop balls but never had the chance to see it. They can only use AI to render what they think it looks like.

Levity aside, fuck the KMT and their American masters. The CPC tried more than once to work with them and every fucking time the blues stabbed the reds in the back.

Greek story about the king who locked a rich man in a room with all his gold and told him to eat it.

Babe wake up, new old ironic punishment for finance bros after the revolution just dropped.

Autumn is the rainy season in Ukraine/Russia and it's even called Rasputitsa - Season of Bad Roads because of all the ground turning into mud. Better to attack across hard ice than soft mud.

Better mega projects than bombing Yemenis and feuding pointlessly with Iran.