First as a tragedy, etc. etc.

Tbh knowing our dipshit government I wouldn’t be surprised if they thought they could fight on two fronts at once.

I know where it’s at. The deployment itself wasn’t want spurned my thoughts there; rather the recently defeated coup in Bolivia combined with the U.S. cozying up to Chile & Argentina, both of whom border Bolivia.

Shouldn’t clarified my though process, sorry.

That makes a bit more sense, yeah.

Wait, was Venezuela a red herring? Are they going to invade Bolivia instead?

Oh I wasn’t judging. I’d love to have a cushy job like being a reviewer/critic myself.

It just reminded me of that meme.

A person is only as great as the group of people standing with them.

Take Alexander - now remove his generals, his tutors, his retainers, his officials, his servants, his soldiers, his subjects, his slaves, and even his horse.

What is left? Just a man with a sword. Where is the greatness in that? Can he still build an empire from Egypt to India? Of course not.

History is written by collectives; change is brought about by collectives. There may be one name & face that stands out above others but this doesn’t mean it’s the only one that matters.

Lenin wasn’t alone. Stalin wasn’t alone. Mao wasn’t alone.

We are not alone and that’s exactly why we’re a threat to those in power.

“I review PC handhelds for a living” reminds me of that HGTV meme.

“I spit shine vacuum cleaners for mentally unstable circus clowns and my husband teaches rhesus monkeys to waltz. Our budget is 7 million snails and the President of Croatia. Help us build our dream home!”

“Local Nazi Hates Jews - News at 11”

My favorite color is blue.

Guess which political factions use that as their color. 🫠

General Kenobi.

chocolate, my girlfriend, vidya, and the Yoshi’s Island OST

CHINESE CENTURY 🥳

They’d have to arrest most of the country.

I can’t seem to find the raw image itself but here’s a video debunking the genocide that showcases it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6awogjkms&list=LL&index=132

The relevant part starts around the 5 minute mark where he showcases both images; the well-known one from the front and the lesser-known one from the back.

I readily believed in the Uyghur Genocide narrative until relatively recently. What ultimately changed my mind is actually hearing what Uyghurs living in Xinjiang have to say, which is a far cry from what we’ve been told is happening. The only response to their words is patronizing bullshit like “oh they’re afraid of the government” or “they’ve been brainwashed” and other things that remove their agency as human beings entirely. Because when the only Uyghurs claiming they’re facing persecution conveniently exist entirely outside the country the alleged genocide is occurring in while all the ones inside it say everything is fine at that point you simply have to stop and ask yourself if maybe the people actually living there have a better idea of what’s going on because even while being bombed, starved, and shot at in the ruins of their homes Palestinians have still been able to tell the world about the destruction they’re facing and unlike Uyghurs they’re facing a real genocide.

You can find no shortage of images & videos showing a Xinjiang that is flourishing with Uyghur culture but what you’ll never find is a single image of torture, detention centers, mass graves, or anything else that would indicate an actual genocide is going on despite it allegedly happening in a country where there are more smart phones than people and which receives hundreds of millions of tourists every year.

The fact that anyone believes this myth at all when it’s so easy to disprove just demonstrates how insulated Westerners are from the rest of the world. This isn’t like the Holodomor where there’s been several decades of pre-internet misinformation campaigns to build up a grand conspiracy theory that can actually convince people that some nefarious scheme was behind an ordinary tragedy; you can pull up Google Images and try to find any visual proof of the Uyghur Genocide only to get images of nothing but protests in foreign countries, with one sole image of men in jumpsuits surrounded by a fence by used as the consistent “smoking gun” that genocide is going on even though there is no immediate context to that image and it’s impossible to tell what is actually going on in it. The best part is that there is a second image taken from behind where it shows they’re in a drug rehabilitation center and watching a play that you’ll simply never see because it’s impossible to spin it as ‘proof’ of concentration camps.

We really have just been lied to about Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, etc.

Common Yankee L

Bluesky’s quality cratered after the liberal exodus from twitter.

The anarchists from before that time were way cooler and actually respectable. You could have intelligent conversations with them.

The ones riding the Rachel Maddow blue wave are just the typical liberal who calls themselves an “anarchist” because they think anarchism is when you scream “Fuck the government!” into a microphone.

I’d much rather be drafted into DoorDash than the U.S. Military tbh.

To play Devil’s Advocate nobody has tried to kill Xi Jinping even once; let alone three times.

But then again that just further drives the point home, doesn’t it?