Such a garbage propaganda article, and with multiple spelling and grammar mistakes. Zhang Zhan is an anti-CPC agitator who participated in the Hong Kong color revolution; during her 2020 COVID reporting, she got interviews from two overseas media outlets: Radio Free Asia (CIA mouthpiece for propaganda against China and the DPRK mainly) and The Epoch Times (far-right Falun Gong cult mouthpiece). Such an "independent citizen journalist"!
She reported misleading things about the pandemic (as proven in trial, contrary to claims by NGOs and the article you shared that she was sentenced to prison for nebulous reasons), and both argued that the pandemic was worse than the government had reported and that lockdown measures were too restrictive (obviously a very principled person and not just a contrarian hoping to squeeze into the cracks of any differences of opinion to oppose the Chinese govt.).
I may not like Biden, but he has done as best as he can to fix the steaming pile of shit Trump left after his administration
It's the Democrats propping up ultra-right Republicans with millions of dollars so that they can avoid change and blame it on the latter as well as have a propped up opposition to be the "lesser evil" against." You can't even show Biden advocating for the fixing of the system of student loans! Also do you think only Republicans are ruled by corporate interests?
I hope you're not talking about Trump's administration in general as well, because I could point to Biden's border wall and immigrant concentration camps among a slew of other things.
On top of that, he printed trillions of dollars in relief checks WITH HIS FUCKING NAME ON THEM! That has led to inflation and corporate price gouging!
It would take all day for me to explain to you how little you understand inflation, here's a start. ALSO WHO THE FUCK CARES THAT HIS NAME WAS ON THE CHECKS? MSNBC-brained nonsense genuinely. I guess you prefer Biden's strategy of telling cities to give all of their Covid relief funds to their police departments so they can more effectively brutalize the poor.
Trumps tax cuts are now starting to come into effect for the middle class and will continue into the next president’s term as they will continue to increase the deficit and raise taxes on the middle class. Meanwhile, the tax cuts to the wealthiest individuals and corporations are at an all time low, permanently.
If I hear the term "middle class" again the physical manifestation of my knowledge will pour out of my head. You don't even know what you're saying.
Laws come from the legislative branch, not the president!
According to the ideals of the system and the all-important "checks and balances," the president should be able to "check" the legislative branch, correct? The president can either directly veto legislation created by Congress or "pocket veto" legislation by simply neglecting to sign it into law.
This is the stupidest thing they could possibly do. How in the hell would Trump be any better on that one specific issue?
Step 1: vote for the "lesser evil" because you have to; Step 2: the "lesser evil" props up the "greater evil" [1] [2] so they can continue to be the "lesser evil" while getting increasingly worse; Step 3: see step 1
on every other issue he's going to be a demented (literally) nightmare tearing down the foundations of democracy in any way he can so he can keep power this time
The foundations of democracy? Then the corporations will have no say! He's too late to the game, genuinely. Besides, Biden's already building Trump's border wall and arresting peaceful protestors. The only thing Trump can do is make more sexist jokes instead of being like Biden and doing his SA in private.
Democrats love Trump. Hillary Clinton and the DNC wanted him in power so they could have (what they thought was) an easier time winning, and instead of realizing this wasn’t a good plan after it didn’t work, Democrats have continued to fund Trump-supporters in elections.
The state is forcing someone to pick the regular boot or else they’ll get the poison-tipped spiked boot, one on each foot, while making the person think it’s their own idea to pick the normal one (so pragmatic!).
Notice that point from "The Hill" has no examples or evidence. It's not relevant; they were citing the examples given not the author's out-of-the-blue conclusion (which can be chalked up to the counter-bias that was the reason it was cited). I have another comment on this post proving that the far-right is not "still on the fringe."
Quoting Internationalist 360° as a reliable source isn't going to win anyone over.
Oh, I see the issue: you don't understand how sources work. They're not citing Internationalist 360° as a reliable source by itself—if you would've read until the end of the article you would've seen that the author provided a list of sources used. The article is simply a summary of the history using those sources.
Please tell me about "Chinese imperialism." I'd love to hear about how Chinese investment in Africa, the only FDI with a positive impact on development, is "imperialism." I'd love to hear how the PRC's claim to Taiwan, despite being accepted by nearly every country on earth and recognized by the UN (and favored upon by the majority of Taiwanese despite no clear support for total reunification, hence its not happening yet when China could conceivably force it upon the population), the US admitting that their cynical support for separatism is only to keep the PRC down, is "imperialism," and in fact Taiwan is an independent state with no relation to China (despite its constitution being the Constitution of the Republic of China, and its president the president of the Republic of China, with the so-called ROC claiming sovereignty over all of the mainland of China, Outer Mongolia, and Russia—see the emblem of the ROC Marine Corps).
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com Your comment has been up for over four hours, so 0 for 1 on predictions. I gave you citations for what I said in my comment, things you would have known if you would've looked into the conflict at all. You were so concerned with "discourse based in logic" and "source-supported comments," so what happened?
It's extremely scummy to imply I'm a liar or making stuff up, then when I go and prove what I've said, you can't even respond to apologize. If your comment was just a dishonest method of wasting my time, then you should be banned and have your comment removed.
I don't care if my comment is "normal," but it is "rational and source-supported." You're not "calling out hexbear users," you're flaunting your ignorance. Points sourced one by one:
It’s littered with monuments to Nazis and Nazi collaborators [*] [*]
its armed forces are filled with Nazis [*] [*] [*]
Tweet by the National Guard of Ukraine:
its leadership pays homage to Nazi collaborators [*] [*] [*]
and the entire reason we’re in this situation is the US-backed coup in 2014 of which Nazis were the prime domestic force [*] [*]
and which led to the proliferation of Nazi gangs [*] [*]
(illegal cluster munitions used) and repeated violations of ceasefires [*] [*]
they had specific demands for the end of far-right nationalism, repression of Russian speakers, and NATO expansion [*] [*]
NATO itself being a Nazi collaborationist institution [*] [*]
It literally is a fascist shithole. It’s littered with monuments to Nazis and Nazi collaborators, it’s armed forces are filled with Nazis, its leadership pays homage to Nazi collaborators, and the entire reason we’re in this situation is the US-backed coup in 2014 of which Nazis were the prime domestic force, and which led to the proliferation of Nazi gangs. Ukraine is not an independent nation.
You talk about Russia violating sovereignty, what about the Ukrainian bombing of the Donbas (illegal cluster munitions used) and repeated violations of ceasefires? Russia didn’t invade Ukraine out of the blue, they had specific demands for the end of far-right nationalism, repression of Russian speakers, and NATO expansion (NATO itself being a Nazi collaborationist institution).
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Such a garbage propaganda article, and with multiple spelling and grammar mistakes. Zhang Zhan is an anti-CPC agitator who participated in the Hong Kong color revolution; during her 2020 COVID reporting, she got interviews from two overseas media outlets: Radio Free Asia (CIA mouthpiece for propaganda against China and the DPRK mainly) and The Epoch Times (far-right Falun Gong cult mouthpiece). Such an "independent citizen journalist"!
She reported misleading things about the pandemic (as proven in trial, contrary to claims by NGOs and the article you shared that she was sentenced to prison for nebulous reasons), and both argued that the pandemic was worse than the government had reported and that lockdown measures were too restrictive (obviously a very principled person and not just a contrarian hoping to squeeze into the cracks of any differences of opinion to oppose the Chinese govt.).