sicklemode

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Here is a small catalog of content to help you compare the Xinjiang in your mind with the Xinjiang in the real world.

  1. Western Media's Baseless Xinjiang Claims 外媒的涉疆谎言 Xinjiang Cotton 🇨🇳 Unseen China
  2. Western Media's Xinjiang Lies Exposed 外媒新疆谎言大揭露 🇨🇳 Unseen China
  3. The Xinjiang they don't want you to see... (CW:Meat {for the vegans})

Should you choose to engage in good faith, further discussion is welcomed once you have reviewed the content.

 

The fear in his eyes and words is revitalizing. All of a sudden they're literate and aware of working class people's interests and livelihoods, now that they're staring down the barrel of a gun.

They are now aware they have thrown the country's working class into the arms of the Chinese, and that we're in the endgame now for class conflict.

Everything has exploded in their faces and all the kings horses and all the kings men won't be able to put the empire of lies back together again. It will be buried, in pieces.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

I shall remember this going forward fidel-salute

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oof, that's an L for me walter-breakdown

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Perhaps they should move to Mastodon instead. CIA regulated social media is impossible to use on the right side of history reliably.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The fuck is it with liberals finding the aesthetic of oppression sexy? If you die without fighting your oppressors, you're a sexy hero. If you fight back and attempt to liberate yourself from your oppressors all of a sudden you're a hideous beast and suddenly it's your oppressors who need all the backup in the universe to protect them from your "unprovoked" attacks.

It's literally an ideology to disarm the oppressed and protect the function and integrity of oppressors (justifying mythos). These people want DSA type shit where they believe bringing a bunch of flowers to your own fucking funeral is somehow noble praxis. Surrendering yourself to the enemy is how we're supposed to win struggles... Well, why aren't they suggesting such shit for the Ukrainians? They conveniently support force only when it's the worst people imaginable perpetrating it.

Liberalism and the justifying mythos they leverage must be destroyed. Force works. Fuck these people who try to keep the oppressed docile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, I literally just found them a few days ago after rabbit-holing on Invidious from Mildreda (still not terribly familiar with this one, also a rabbit-hole find).

I'm going through shit right now with all the bullshit happening in the world (aren't we all), and this just scratches the itch to have something comforting that's not breakneck fast, gives good ear-sex, and has themes relevant to my struggles.

If you know other bands like this, I'd love to know.

Edit: I'm also surprised someone else knew about Morne. It's so out of the way and just obscure. I like to hunt for such music, though. Never used Spotify or anything of the sort. Always rabbit holes.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

See, this is the kind of shit that radicalizes young people. Older generations just nonchalantly gambling their children and grandchildren's futures and losing it, and then what? Often the responsibility is shifted to the ones who lost everything due to their greed and negligence.

stonks-down - "Like, sorry, no college fund for you, but I heard bootstraps work just as well" shrug-outta-hecks

Well, I bet their son will eventually be interested in a copy of Das Kaptial very-smart

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Gruesome Newsom on quite the streak. Still, one has to wonder if these bills only ever made it to his desk on the condition he would veto them, to tease people into vote harder football-lucy mentality.

Maybe I'm wrong about that, but it does seem awfully convenient to legitimize a system that a passive observer would consider "working, but just one person ruined it" (if one person can fuck the whole thing, how is that viable?)

 

I can't even lay down for a 3 hour nap without having nightmares about this. In them I help do things like increase stockpiles of clean water for rationing since Isn'treal keeps blowing up Palestinian water treatment facilities, try and help resolve storage of energy since they also attack energy generation projects, and simply try to stay alive.

There's also the terror of being caught in a warzone and knowing that the settler colonizers are out for blood, and who knows what the fuck they're gonna do if they catch you now that they've been given a special level of permission (I was trying to avoid them in the nightmare, but unfortunately got caught and had to disclose the nature of my Western citizenship which is the only thing that saved my life, which made me feel even worse). I take this as a sign I've been traumatized, which I know is absolutely nothing compared to what the Palestinians living in occupied territory and Gaza have been and will be going through.

I'm genuinely afraid for these people, and I'm struggling to process everything right now. These people stand to be wiped off the face of the Earth by Western-backed and sourced colonialism, just like the Native Americans of North America, but as a speedrun against the surrounded open air prison they've been forcibly concentrated into.

Will Lebanon and Egypt intervene to save these people? I have no idea, but they desperately need all the help they can get. What are the chances Isn'treal threatens nuclear war if so? Again, no clue.

I've known about the general situation in occupied Palestine for a while, but reading some of the intimate details of apartheid has twisted my stomach so much that I don't even want to eat, not to mention just seeing the plain reality of armed conflict on the ground.

I haven't felt this shitty and stressed since Russia was forced to launch the special military operation in Ukraine to save ethnic Russians from ongoing genocide at the hands of neo-nazis (that was when I found everything out about the history of what had been happening since 2014). Since NATO stockpiles of weapons are so depleted and their military machine stretched too thin to take on the world, I expect we're headed for a wider set of conflicts, potentially.

I know this needs to happen to buck the yoke of the colonial order, but it's still quite stressful, especially with the threat of nuclear war. War is fucking hell, and we should expect revolution in the West to be just as ugly as what we're seeing and will continue to see in occupied Palestine. In order for the world we want to come into existence, the current world order must be torn asunder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If what we do and who we are in someone else's home is really a fuckin' issue, then give us our own houses and we'll do whatever the fuck we want in the privacy of them.

Nobody wants to live with strangers anyways, and we've got shit we wanna finally be able to do without having to answer to "daddy".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We leftists don't have time, resources, or largely even the desire to have children in such a shithole. We're also way more literate than the right and have a sense of forward thinking and planning, so we understand what parenthood requires.

We have a revolution to build, and simply don't want to be tied up in parenthood and join the ranks of the rest of the miserable, dysfunctional families capitalism has forcefully cultivated. Not only that, we're always considering what our theoretical children would want, since bringing them into this world isn't just about us. Don't forget, we were/are someone's kid. What did we get out of the arrangement? A front row seat to the end of a viable future. This is what we're supposed to reproduce? This is the burden we're supposed to force on someone else who didn't consent to being born in these conditions? Fuck. That.

The only way I'd have kids is if China or the DPRK guaranteed my theoretical partner and I a secure existence will full citizen rights, that way we'd have piece of mind we couldn't be rug pulled and sent back West to fucking die. The West cannot have my children, ever.

As for your question about being worried reactionaries are having many more kids, I honestly don't worry all that much. Those type of parents tend to be abusive and sabotage their children's interests, development and aspirations, or fight against them. How many of us are products of abusive reactionary families? Don't Elon Musk's kids hate him? Proletarianization is inevitable, and history always has a Marxist bias.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Car is the hill westerners really are going to die on. As the rising cost of energy crimps our access to treats, the ability to just do donuts in a parking lot for hours on end will become the gold standard for American success. Westerners fucking worship the damned things.

Well, that and fireworks. China has moved onto drone light shows and displays to curb unnecessary emissions and pollution, but I can't see grillman parting with their damn "patriotic" explosives/explosions.

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