CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]

it was only a few months ago that people downloaded redbook, a chinese social media app filled with gay people kissing each other in the frontpage

i don’t disbelieve that there’s a blanket ban on lgbtq issues in China, in the same sense that anti porn laws are applied selectively in Japan and that a similar social conservative streak dominates in India. but given that the main source for this issue is RFA then i’m gonna err on the side of caution. which is to not assume that there’s a repeat of the chechnya concentration camps situation

i can assure you that after we lost world war 7 the earth doesn’t even have oceans any more (we had to pay reparations in water), so there’s no merchant marine at all. this is stolen valor

To be honest I just think that in the short history of US hegemony there’s been a massive political hazard when engaging in consumption led growth. The moment your country is unable to finance itself the US swoops in and seizes everything like a vulture. Sure, with export oriented growth means you’re dependent on the US for its financial system and debt driven consumption. The hazard isn’t gone there either. But go back 40-50 years in time and every peripheric developmentist country was permanently crippled by the US Fed. As bad as things have gotten for the likes of Japan and South Korea, they haven’t devolved into Brazil or Turkey - which, for that matter, are two best case scenarios.

China at one point looked up towards the developmentist third world. It is now looking down on them and asking what went wrong.

The double circulation strategy is something the chinese government has talked about directly. So it is something that they are doing. But, medium term, they also have to slowly wean themselves off a western led finance, banking and trade system first. With the way things are set up now, the US gets the short end of the stick of any trade war against China. If things are progressing further, why rock the boat and risk changing that calculus?

the antisemitism awareness act is about raising awareness of antisemitism and everyone already knows that the evangelical christian nationalists are antisemitic so of course there’s an exception just for them. checkmate empathy sinners

almoravid hackers are about to invade east portugal and you’re resorting to ad hominems

the last person to talk to trump is in full control of the united states until the next last person to talk to trump gets their turn

Most gazans are minors and Lancet estimates of the famines/killings we saw put total deaths at close to 200k. That was in Oct 2023 EDIT: 2024, thanks for the correction truthcarp.

I close the tab on my computer by accident rendering me unable to get my password back due to forgetting my login details, mainly my password!

many such cases

jackson hinckle is an asset of jason hinckle. it is known

In all seriousness occam’s razor applies here. Ansarallah is not interested in who’s a MAGA communist and who is a Twitter Liberal. All they care about is this guy is putting them on a good spotlight. That’s all they need concern themselves with.

I think the best way to describe it is a security competition between Israel and Turkey. Israel keeps boosting the kurds and portraying itself as a defender of minorities, looking for whoever they can in the south that would support their occupation. Erdogan has to respond to the nationalist and religious demand inside Turkey for reprisals against Israel so he talks as big game as well. They still do business behind closed doors without really trusting one another.

Basically, between Israel’s landgrab and Turkey’s support for the new government in Damascus you have two frenemies of convenience who are united in their relationship with the US and in shutting out Iran but otherwise angling to see the final shape of that sudden victory against Assad’s government. Hence all the ‘will they or won’t they’ in regards to Russia keeping their bases in Syria, which is suddenly supported by Israel just as counterbalance to Turkey.