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They lose out in that any time you refer to something that can be counted, you have an irregular counting word before it. Each word doesn't get its own counting word though, and there's a generic, ge you can always use if you have the vocabulary of a 3 year old, so it's not that bad, but it's still completely unnecessary memorization.

Chinese is even cooler in that they don't need different, often irregular versions of the same word for tense and plural either.

Every dollar the working class has is a dollar they don't have to sell their labor to get.

No, you see we need to fight Russia to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. Every Ukrainian man, woman, and child must be sacrificed and the whole of Ukraine sold for scrap then reduced to toxic, landmine-ridden wastes, unfit for human habitation.

It's good when we do it. It's bad when fascists do it.

These attempts to humiliate often just lend more power to the victims anyway.

Nah, nazis depend on the appearance of strength, publicly humiliating them is very effective.

Because calling anyone else an American is insulting.

Piquing a demigods's curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it's been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.

It's not that deep, we don't need a rigorous philosophically consistent way to measure allyship.

No, indirect action is a form of action, stopping a transphobe from being transphobic is a form of allyship, because presumably, you've saved a trans person from feeling unsafe around that person.

The real answer is measured in how your actions have affected the lives of the people you claim to be an ally of.

No, this isn't always practical to measure, but if someone is saying "I'm an ally because I identify as an ally", I'm certain they have done absolutely nothing to protect/advance the rights of LGBT+ people.

OK, that person is on their way to becoming an ally.

There is still no physical difference in the world brought on by thoughts that exist only in their head. Theory without practice.

Posting is not praxis. You have affected nobody's lives or material conditions through posting.

I should have been more clear, I meant it's irrelevant to whether one is an ally or not, because that is determined by practice.

Or they can just be boring and do "Huh, we have an array of telescopes, it's very large." OK, what do we call the small one?

We've increase the frequency for radio, lets call it High Frequency. We've increased it further, what do we call it? Even further. Surely it can't get faster than this. God dammit. Fuck it, just use numbers.

It's kinda crazy how supporting war isn't seen as a betrayal of veterans.

Russian influence is on the rise and surprisingly effective.

...Do you think Russia is communist?

Going full fascist to enforce austerity.

Declaring martial law at 19% popularity and accusing anyone right of Mussolini of being communists, just classical South Korean things.

If you're not actually doing any allyship, in what sense are you an ally?

Theoretical allyship is irrelevant.

That article isn't great in the way that it considers GaAs wafers separately, as if Chinese export controls won't touch GaAs wafers, whereas the Chinese announcement specifies anything that might be used by the US military industrial complex containing Ga may be targeted.