Rockhill is really on point from the interviews I have seen and snipits I have read. I should probably read his books.

Alternatively: “When you tell white imperialists to get the fuck out of your country”

China doesn’t even stand up against imperialism in other nations and they still get called authoritarian.

I’m sure it might be ok on less contentious subjects but most of the time I end up on quora it is a dead end of reactionary garbage. Lots of the answers are conspiratorial, ahistorical, or just a twisted version of truth. Maybe 10% of the time I end up on quora I find an answer that is reasonable.

But that doesn’t stop me from looking.

Exactly, I prefer outright fascists to crypto-fascists too. The only thing worse than a bad person is a bad person who can convince people they are good.

and anarchists have been so successful. Name one successful anarchist revolution.

This is the most ignorant thing I have read all day. What part of revolutionary socialism screams “use the state” to you?

But that’s fine because it is done by Capitalists who are helping poor children afford food while teaching them a trade.

Yeah. I wish so much there was something more I could do to make a difference. It feels like keeping hope is the only act of defiance I have left.

Accusations of forced labor in Xinjiang have never been substantiated in the decades they have been floating around. Yet companies are still being sanctioned even after extensive investigations. The entire “genocide” in Xinjiang was concocted by a nazi apologist and there is no evidence to back it up.

Publishing a story about a bunch of ngo grifters crying because they think maybe some solar panels might have been made in a place that they heard has slaves with no evidence of any of it is just pathetic. That isn’t journalism.

What ever happened to proving a crime before punishing the accused?

My lady and I have 3 different shows to watch. Our slop trough runneth over.

You know there is a silver lining to not knowing what is wrong. When you figure out what is wrong it may be fixable!

I know its not much but I want you to know there is a random commie out there who hopes you stumble your way into being healthy again.

The Soviets were Historical Materialists. Why would they be worried that China’s nationalists party and communist party would side with the nation colonizing them? There was never any chance that China would alienate Russians (Who had been a historical rival of japan) in order to make Japan and germany feel more comfortable.

Only the idealistic hubris of a fascist could come up with plan to try and convince a nation to side with the people genociding them against the genocider’s biggest and closest rival.

Even if the Soviets and CPC didn’t exist Chinese nationalists would have demanded the japanese leave China. The only way the Chinese would have sided against the USSR is if they were willing to be subjugated by Japan. The KMT were primarily an anti-colonialists movement (until the civil war) so they were never going to agree to anything less than the expulsion of all foreign powers. Imperial japan was economically and industrially dependant on the colonial exploitation of Manchuria. There’s no room for compromise there.

The only way any of this makes sense is if you completely discount China’s will for self determination. You would have to believe that Chinese people are genetically predisposed to wanting a boot on their neck.

Absolute bullshit. The Japanese already had colonial holdings in China in 1911 before the USSR even existed. The national struggle against the japanese was already on the rise in Manchuria well before the Marco Polo Bridge incident. The KMT had all but declared war on the Japanese as part of the war for reunification.

Nobody was looking at China in the late 1930s like a eminent threat. Especially not the USSR who were supportive of the Chinese revolution. There was no risk of China going to war with Russia. They were in the middle of reunifying the country after a revolution against imperialism and there were clear signs of the coming civil war between the KMT and CPC.

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday are hacks. Even Kissinger thought they over demonized Mao.

I think there needs to be a concerted effort to call into question the legitimacy of governments that are failing to uphold treaties that have been ratified by their predecessors.

Australia has ratified the genocide prevention convention enshrining it in Australian law and our government is directly in contravention of that law. That makes the entire government a farce.

Every politician should be asked if they would arrest bibi and send him to the Hague. Anyone who says no has no respect for existing laws and that fact should be put on blast.

Every spring since I started gardening the right time to plant veggies changes drastically. I have to do a vibe check and even then it’s a crap shoot on whether I got it in too early or too late. If my potatoes don’t get flooded my late crop of beets gets blasted by a heatwave just as they sprout. Every year I either get more water storage for the garden or I plant less to make the water go farther but its never enough.

I don’t think this is the correct way of framing this idea. Using the words “People who are descended from people…” makes it sound like eugenics.

Generational trauma is a shorthand explanation of the flow on effects of trauma and the feedback loops it can cause. If you have trauma to your arm you can’t use it properly. Mental and emotional trauma impedes people from thinking and acting rationally. Generational trauma is when truma isn’t mentally and emotionally healed properly and then the trauma prevents the protection of the next generation. Each generation using coping mechanisms that inflicti the same wounds their parents inflicted on them.

Having your worldview shaped by oppressors can warp one’s morality but it doesn’t impede one’s ability to think critically and act rationally. People born to horrible people do have a higher chance of turning out horrible. The inherent irrational immorality of racial supremacy leads to its decay but improved material wealth because of said racial supremacy can tip the scales. Throw some trauma in there and the immorality becomes acceptable to the emotionally crippled individual even without any material benefits.

The western world is founded on slavery, colonialism and genocide. All its institutions are founded in white supremacy and chattel slavery. Yet, the majority of western white people are only passively in support of white supremacy as far as it is material beneficial to them. They don’t mind the treats but they want to have plausible deniability. They want their government to act like it is addressing racism as long as their standard of living isn’t threatened.

The ones who are frothing for the blood of POC are the Rich who benefit the most from the oppression and exploitation and… The poorest white people. Their trauma (often generational from substance abuse or physical or sexual abuse) and their constant stresses obtaining the minimums of food and shelter make them less rationally and emotionally equipped to correctly apply morality and ethics.

Nope they will just continue killing us all faster and faster as more of us become “useless.” “Voluntary” assisted dying for the white people who are depressed because they are poor or disabled because they hurt themselves doing one of the unautomated jobs. Pogroms and prisons for the non white western populations. Climate change and War for the global south.

If they have their way eventually all of humanity will be descendants of musk, bezos, gates, zuckerberg and a few other white billionaires and even then they will still try to fight and enslave each other.

I think https://vocaroo.com/ is the one you want.

Never been to europe is it really 65% uglier than I imagine?