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The point is that Democrats are trotting out a senile genocide-enabling old man to defend democracy, and then blaming everyone who asks why

Dwayne Johnson is an incredible trash talker by the same logic and would own his candy ass

Let's fucking go, Hawaii!

I appreciate this well thought out comment, it's frustrating to me that this is the way it is, but this helps me to understand.

Appreciate you, this is great

I just threw it into chatgpt, I think I understand now. It's basically saying that some level of authority is necessary for society to function (which I wouldn't have argued against otherwise).

Regardless, I admit my original comment was pretty ignorant as I assumed a majority of them were from Stalinist Russia and the dates are clearly after that. I can take my original comment down or just leave it up for posterity sake.

I don't think so? Maybe I'm off-base, but I was literally just trying (and failing) to understand the article yogthos had sent me.

Pretty cool, thanks for creating! I joined!

I'm probably just too smooth brained to understand, but is the argument that without authoritarianism we can't push back against capitalistic exploitation?

I can excuse authoritarianism, but I draw the line at sexism in my advertising!

Maraheel died from kidney failure and an inability to receive treatment due to the destruction of hospitals and medical centres by Israeli forces in the ongoing war in Gaza, Paltoday TV reported.

Terrible. Why is Biden not doing the moral and popular thing, and halting weapon shipments to Israel? Are they trying to lose the election?

It's pretty frustrating that they keep using this as a bargaining chip, we see how that worked in 2016.

Centrist Simulator is an all-time great name

Jason Mraz - I Feel Like Dancing

Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

I'm saying they both suck, if you want to argue that China is whipped cream on shit, I concede the point.

Looks like we're accepting The Guardian as a source:

China set to miss climate targets by 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/22/growth-in-co2-emissions-leaves-china-likely-to-miss-climate-targets

Here's China giving the death penalty to a pro-democracy blogger:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/australian-academic-yang-hengjun-given-suspended-death-sentence-by-chinese-court-writer-wong

A country who refuses to reveal how many people the execute but is estimated thousands per year per Amnesty International, a organization you assert to be biased with absolutely no proof whatsoever. If that number is false, why wouldn't China release the numbers?

Look, I'm not here just to pick on China, western governments suck too, especially the US. And China has done some good things to get more people out of poverty, and I applaud that. But to hold up China as a paragon of virtue, given their history of censorship, brutality, and lack of transparency seems particularly heinous to me.

It's Amnesty International, whatchu got besides a statement from the Chinese Minister of some shit?

I know, details details

The government continued to stifle criticism of its policies and actions and discussion of topics considered sensitive through increasingly pervasive online censorship. Government critics, human rights defenders, pro-democracy activists and religious leaders and practitioners were among those subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention. Systematic repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet continued. Authorities attempted to prevent the publication of an OHCHR report documenting potential crimes against humanity and other international crimes in Xinjiang... Despite some positive policy commitments, including to increased use of renewables, China’s CO2 reduction targets were rated as “highly insufficient” and coal production increased.

China remained the world’s leading executioner, although the government continued to classify statistics for executions and death sentences as “state secrets”. The death penalty remained applicable for 46 offences, including non-lethal offences that do not meet the threshold of the “most serious crimes” under international law and standards.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/east-asia/china/report-china/