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loathsome dongeater
loathsome dongeater @ ksynwa @lemmygrad.ml
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  • Is there an RSS feed for this website?

  • China is bad

    Jump
  • There is a large country with a large population and a neoliberal order right next to China. We can see how that political arrangement works out in real time.

  • Well it would be a positive step forward if we could normalise sharing old shit like Frank Sinatra music without having to worry about drawing the ire of a publishing company exec about to buy his 10th yatch. Piracy is cool but it would be better to eliminate reasons which make piracy almost necessary in the first place.

  • Whatever prison he goes to wouldn't be as bad as the ones regular folks go to.

  • Yeah I made the mistake of assuming they read the article before sharing it

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    edit: It looks like federated emojis are missing the CSS classes "icon" and "icon-emoji" in the element.

  • You joke but there is a BBC article that literally claims that someone saw dead bodies of the protestors beinng churned and sent down the gutter or something like that.

  • Your own source contradicts your claims:

    Prior to the 2021 overthrow of the government by the Taliban, Afghanistan had been consistently ranked as a below-average democracy by U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House. According to their yearly survey Freedom in the World, Afghanistan scored only 27 points in 2019 to 2021 on a 100-point scale, falling in the category of "not free countries."

    In 2010, a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicated that bribery consumed approximately 23% of the GDP of Afghanistan.[8] This corruption was present in the highest levels of government, with the New Kabul Bank scandal in which a small number of political elites, including cabinet ministers, had embezzled nearly $1 billion through fraudulent loan schemes.[9][10]

    While the first presidential election of the republic in 2004 was relatively peaceful, the following 2009 presidential election was hampered by significant flaws, including a lack of security, low voter turnout, and widespread electoral fraud.[11]

    All this is after being chartiable and not including the 20% voter turnout in 2021 since that was the tail end of that epoch.

    But I bet you'll blame all these shortcomings on the Afghans.

  • Out of the numerous countries that the USA has invaded, couped, meddled in or intervened in, which ones have become free and democratic enough to your liking?

  • Isn’t it a little hypocritical to call us conspiracy theorists

    Radlibs and seeing irony are the bitterest of foes.

  • But there's no question many people were killed by the army that night around Tiananmen Square.

    The link 404s lol. No archives either from what I can find.