The only halfway-decent treatment I’ve seen in Western media to date was the Cylon occupation of New Caprica in the 2004 Battlerstar Galactica TV series. It was basically the US occupation of Iraq, except the “us” were the occupied insurgents and the “them” were the occupiers.
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It depends on the community/instance for the most part. This is a great piece, but I almost didn’t click on it because of the shitty title.
More Perfect Union is great. Consumer Reports still does some good work; they used to be even better, but they don’t have the funding they used to.
Especially when the English-language corpora used to train LLMs are virtually exclusively anti-communist.
You fell for it again, I’m afraid. Previously:
The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate the people of Hong Kong ended, a lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed. It was the so-called “revolutionaries” who brought the brutality, by the way.
This happens time and again: The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
Deeply unserious people.
This meme is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. While 98% of self-described anarchists are LARPers, anarchists do exist.
their houses and businesses
Of course they worry about wealth redistribution, they’re wealthy. That’s why the capitalist class will do literally anything in their vast power to crush socialism.
Yes. I’m not disagreeing with you; I’m just highlighting what a unique moment it was, because most people think that was “normal,” and that we can get back to it, but we never can.
You seem very excited about this subject, maybe you should calm down.
“You are an emotional soyjack and I am a rational chad.”
Redditors, man.
I’ve never seen ambulances or fire trucks intentionally blocked, and I’ve often seen protest organizers plan ahead for ambulance & fire access.