This has got to be satire

I’ve been playing a lot of geoguessr lately and whenever it’s India you can always tell when it’s Kerala because the roads are so much wider and well-maintained compared to the other states

Excellent idea thank you

Giving them cover stories as Jews fleeing the holocaust?

I noticed on google flight search the other day that it had a warning level saying how likely chemtrails were for each flight. The mind rot is real

I’m not disagreeing but Falun Gong is more than just a dissenting church, it’s a death cult funded by the CIA

Yeah all that secret Chinese police stations stuff was fucking gross. It is really funny though how there was a real secret Chinese rideshare app that was in Vancouver ages before they legally allowed Uber and such to operate

It’s less effort and they think they’ve already won

Absolutely. People will not stand with you unless they see you are willing to stand with them, fight for them, deliver for them even when it’s not about furthering your cause.

Fucking hell

Someone has to ask the hard questions

How is this being attributed to any kind of Gen Z protest? It’s clearly just your bog-standard military coup?

Studying human rights in Tel Aviv is a great bit tbh

That makes sense. I use this weird visualisation technique for PTSD, where I imagine the scene as a movie set and everything in it is a cardboard cutout, and I just walk off the set and see that it’s all fake

I studied law and became a lawyer for a bit and let me tell you. Nothing disillusions you from rules-based morality faster than that lol

I think it helps to realise that all rules are fallible. They were all made up by humans, who are muddling along, who have vested interests, who make mistakes. No human is inherently born above or better than any other human. You have the same status in the universe as the rule-maker.

It can be tiring to always question everything, but after a while it gets easier to spot the patterns. ‘What does this rule actually achieve in material terms, regardless of its stated intentions?’ is a good place to start.

I think it’s definitely redemptive in the sense that he slowly starts to see other humans as people, not subjects. To me the biggest takeaway was that communist re-education, combined with a fair society, is effective: if it can work on him it can work on anyone

Definitely yes - physical cruelty towards servants, misogyny, Japanese imperialist aggression and the horrors of their colonial oppression of China are the major ones I can think of. The book details his whole life from unfathomable wealth to puppet of the Manchurian regime to re-education under communism and out the other side. It’s fascinating.

I’ve just remembered a third book that was a translation of the autobiography of one of China’s last palace eunuchs, he worked for Puyi. That was a really good read. Sorry I can’t remember the title off the top of my head

His autobiography is well worth a read. I got it out of the library. It’s called From Emperor to Citizen. There’s another book about him by his English tutor who was a massive fetishist about imperial China

So it’s just there to stand by, watch, and count the bodies. A perfect microcosm of the “civilised” West’s approach to Gaza

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