If the Chinese authorities are persecuting him you know what I have to say to that? Good.
Christian missionaries all deserve Sentinel Island treatment. Wherever there were colonizers they were a step ahead of or just behind them.
YES
I had family who was involved in being Christian "missionaries" in Uganda, they successfully got the death penalty instituted for gay people. they would always complain about how they couldn't get away with shit in China, to which I say, thank goodness.
also if that person is involved in human trafficking, why on earth would I care what happens to him. the survivors of trafficking will have to live with that damage the rest of their lives, if they even survive. so who cares about him
I honestly can't tell about the stuff regarding trump and wanting to formalise like the fascist state and whatever like "threaten democracy" thing the libs say.
it's very hard to know imo what actual threat exists there. like I mean I guess the guy could try to stay in power too long, but I'm not really sure what materially that would do? I think the people who are really gonna pay the cost for this stuff are immigrants and I think they'll pay the cost regardless of who's in power based on bidens very open insane shift to the right on that. obviously like foreign policy is shit anyways, the palestinians are gonna pay the price no matter what.
in terms of issues like LGBTQ rights, women's rights, other minority rights, that's all measurably worse across the country than it was in 2020, and I honestly think the public is tired of hearing about it. Americans "across the aisle" seem to have plenty of anti immigrant sentiment tho.
I guess what I mean is that like, if trump stays in power for a decade, we're all still gonna go to our wage worker jobs, struggle to afford housing and healthcare, immigrants will be locked up and the cops will be racist murderers so, like what does it even matter.
I do kinda hope that getting rid of the illusion of choice might help radicalise people idk. I usually do vote in some elections especially locally but tbh after the genocide and all this shit I just threw the thing away this year, I'm done with all of it
I can take it a step further and make a coherent argument for why a second trump term would've been better for leftist organising in the US. It's a bit of a speculative hot take, but there's some evidence to it.
If you look at the state of mainstream liberal discourse in the United States prior to the 2020 election, we had a fairly mainstream movement that had formed challenging the police state, we had constant admonitions of the states inhumane migrant policies ("kids in cages"), we had daily critiques from the liberal media of the state's actions against protestors, and the second biden won, it all disappeared.
Immigrants didn't stop being in cages, in fact a bunch of them are trapped without food, water, or bathrooms between the border fences right now, nobody cares. The entire state has shifted further right than ever before on immigration, abortion is gone, LGBTQ stuff isn't doing well, the country is supporting a genocide, and the "defund the police" thing is long dead and buried.
Meanwhile, the familes in my city that lost their loved ones to the cops are still standing their with their brother's face on a shirt wondering where all the #BLM people went.
So I think there is an argument that can be made that everybody goes out to brunch during the democrats turn, and it leads to more and more atrocities occuring and just never being challenged, whereas at least under trump, these things were called out and at least in the public conscience.
wow that's at least nice the wages are tied to inflation. I think the average raise among my friends was around 2% lol