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  • Great way to beat the Islamophobia allegations

  • No, hate speech isn't okay. But your examples are not hate speech, so there's no problem.

  • Putin is not the richest man in the world. That would be Elon Musk.

  • Yes but Israel is a newer settler colony so the time-frames are different. Appropriation of the land is nearly complete in Turtle Island and Australia, but it's very much ongoing in Israel. Also apartheid is no longer law in the US, but the racist fundamentals and settler colonial nature of the state remain.

  • No, not to you. On an article about science in China, you have to make it about the government.

  • You're moving the goalposts. The famine happened far before North Korea had nuclear missiles, and rocket tests were far less common decades ago.

  • Your own source shows the USA using more CO2 per capita than China in 2018, and Wikipedia shows the USA using more electricity per capita in 2019/2021. Where are you getting these stats from? The vibes factory?

  • What? Are you talking about oil? We need to be doing less extraction of oil, not more.

  • Show me an example of US state authored or propagated propaganda.

    No. Neither of us were talking about this in the first place.

  • The US says it will not "under any circumstances" pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters.

    Climate envoy John Kerry made the remarks at a Congress hearing before flying to China to discuss the issue.

    The Biden administration really appointed not only a climate denier but also a colonialism denier as the climate envoy lmao. What next, John Kerry proclaims slavery never happened?

  • We're going to need a JDPON to get America to pay its tens of trillions of dollars reparations debt, huh?

  • Because among the countries that have greatly exceeded their fair share of CO2 emissions, the United States is the largest economy. Your link has some data relevant for future predictions and policy targets. However, when discussing climate reparations we must look elsewhere: cumulative CO2 emissions, technological and economic development, and vulnerability to climate change.

    Europe and its settler colonies went on a global rampage for centuries. They built the largest human trafficking operation in human history, enslaving tens of millions of Africans. Wherever they went, they stole people's land, killed them when they fought back, and then took all of their resources as well. This still exists to this day, but in a less overt manner. It is why we have "developed" countries and "underdeveloped" countries. In reality, we mostly have exploited and exploiter countries. The loot from Africa, Asia, and the Americas kickstarted capitalism in Europe and the settler-colonies, and industrialization via fossil fuel extraction followed thereafter. The cumulative CO2 produced by these countries is not consistent with 1.5°C of warming, yet they expect the countries that they destroyed and left poor to do better while barely helping at all. To make matters worse, the exploiter countries continue to pollute, locking in more global warming. This will inevitably hurt equatorial regions more than themselves.

    The US does have stacks of cash, and a decent industrial base as well. With a change of heart (lol), it could embark on a rapid renewable rollout as well as green, non-predatory international finance. Unfortunately, the only country doing something like this is China, which ironically has not wildly overshot its fair share nor engaged in colonialism. Still, China will probably exceed this fair share threshold. If the West was truly concerned about climate change, climate colonial reparations would have begun a couple of decades ago.

    https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/atmospheric-appropriation/

  • On July 7th, Biden said the US was running low on ammunition. Since they don't really care about civilian casualties, tapping into the cluster bomb stockpile was a no-brainer.

    This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it. And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not permanently – but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians.

    Pretty sad.