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Its quite sad to see that some terminally online leftist just automaticly replace siding with the imperialist systems that there born into

That's not what we’re doing; that’s what intellectually incurious imperial core labor aristocrats think we’re doing.

How about not bootlicking authoritarians?

We need to talk about “authoritarianism”

When an mod selects “Moderator view,” they will see all posts & comments in their communities regardless. But when they’re not in “Moderator view,” visibility works the same as for everyone else.

I can’t speak for all mods, but I almost never use “Moderator view,” and I just leave my language setting unset, so I see all languages. I also always set the language for every post & comment I make.

Some mods don’t “police” their communities, and just respond to reports, so this wouldn’t matter to them.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Annie_Hall#Alvy_Singer

There's an old joke: two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know, and such small portions."

Kamala was objectively the less genocidal option than Trump.

In my mind palace.

Were the “Uncommitted” Palestinians also white leftists?

I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist biting the Xinjiang bait

nice try citing a historical policy that is no longer in effect

It was still in effect when the bogus allegations were first raised.

Also, previously:

The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.

The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same map” imperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.

Almost no predominantly-Muslim country buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
https://twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578003299827171330 #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.

• The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
• Uyghur genocide allegations
• American Debunks All Major Western Propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
• US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
• The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

and previously:

Genocide is more than just killing, it’s the deliberate destruction of a people including its culture and institutions.

(a) Show me the Uyghur bodies

(b) Show me the serious bodily or mental harm

(c) Show me the conditions calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part

(d) Show me the measures intended to prevent births within the group

In accordance with China's affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups were subject to different laws and were usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.

(e) Show me the forcible transfer of children from one group to another group

violent incidents in East Turkestan

I wonder where those Salafi terrorists came from? Oh right: the US, UK, and Israel organized, funded, and trained them, as they did Al Qaeda and the various flavors of ISIS/ISIL, including the “moderate rebels” that just took over Syria. The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent.

My guy, Douglas Tottle’s central thesis wasn’t that the genocide didn’t happen, it was that it was unintentional.

My guy, every definition of genocide is predicated on intentionality. Look it up.

Also cool of you to insist that the EU somehow made Russia do this.

Cool straw man.

I bet you think Xinjiang is just suffering from “abnormally low birth rates” too.

Quite the opposite happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China#Affirmative_action_policies

In accordance with China’s affirmative action policies towards ethnic minorities, all non-Han ethnic groups were subject to different laws and were usually allowed to have two children in urban areas, and three or four in rural areas.

Literally no one thinks like your straw man.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. — Blaise Pascal

And might those ethnic Russians have been there due to a sustained campaign on the part of the Soviets to depopulate the region of ethnic Ukrainians and replace them with ethnic Russians as part of a plan to increase loyalty of the region to the central Soviet authority?

No, that narrative came from fascist Banderite propaganda. Relatedly, Nazis created the Ukrainian genocide myth in the 1930s, and Banderites coined the term “Holomodor” in the 1980s to evoke associations with the Holocaust.

it’s pretty easy to stop believing the framing of a dictator who only wants to justify his territorial ambitions

It ought to be very easy to stop believing something that isn’t true, but sadly it’s not so easy.

• Previously
• 📺 Political scientist and international relations scholar John J. Mearsheimer addresses the EU Parliament about the Ukraine war and its consequences

“projection”