Nicker on 4/12/2023 at 13:20
Anyone whom T***p identified as a good, strong, national leader needs to go. Donny can smell a fellow autocrat through an unsecured phoneline.
Starker on 4/12/2023 at 23:58
People have been disappeared for far less egregious stuff than "Xi has to go". Even if you managed to get someone in China to say it, all it would do is paint a fat target on them. They would be "interviewed", their families would be harrassed and shamed, and depending on how brazen or unlucky they are, they might face years of jail under the picking quarrels and provoking trouble law.
This is how things work in the autocracy -- you are under the mercy of the government all the time and you have no rights whatsoever. If the authorities want to arrest you, they can do so arbitrarily and without having to justify themselves or even tell your family where you are or what you're being "accused of".
And meanwhile, in Russia, LGBT people have been marked as extremists and basically banned from any kind of organising:
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-nightclub-raids-crackdown-33e1b9a0110bf22dc2ebc7c42efe6335)
demagogue on 5/12/2023 at 00:50
To put things into perspective, it's not messaging for people inside of China to begin with, but it's for the UPR process, which is all about external comments by democratic governments and NGOs.
The more central issue though is strategic. Right now the field of issues is very fragmented, so paying attention to one takes attention away from others. But in practice there really is just one connecting thread, which is Xi's personal bullshit "rule by law" doctrine, out of which the other problems flow in their current form.
Starker on 5/12/2023 at 23:40
Yeah, I guess I'm just extremely suspicious of anything coming out of OHCHR since I learned they were giving out the names of activists coming to speak in their sessions:
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https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1322928964273348610)
Anarchic Fox on 18/12/2023 at 13:33
I'm unhappy with China's overall depiction in this thread, so I will offer some praise. Its space program has surpassed that of the US. For example, their vibration isolation technology was an order of magnitude better than ours, as of half a decade ago. I had the honor of editing the paper explaining that technology to a Western audience.
A.Stahl on 26/1/2024 at 08:24
Well, A.Stahl has returned from the war. More grumpy(r)(c)(tm) than ever, but alive. Hope you're doing fine and keep taffing around.
lowenz on 26/1/2024 at 10:58
So, any stories to share? ;)
A.Stahl on 26/1/2024 at 11:04
Quote Posted by lowenz
So, any stories to share? ;)
We're losing this war. Our beloved and high-esteemed government has sold almost all heavy Soviet equipment (and we had a lot of that machinery) and USA/EU are not able or not willing to provide anything in significant quantities. So we just sit in the trenches, waiting for the shell to catch. At least this is this way in my (32nd) brigade.
Sorry, I don't have any fun or heroic stories to share.
DuatDweller on 26/1/2024 at 13:16
Now that's a war that shouldn't exist. Its like a family infighting.
lowenz on 26/1/2024 at 13:25
Quote Posted by DuatDweller
Now that's a war that shouldn't exist. Its like a family infighting.
"
it's the same family" notion IS the very same cause of the war (so if you move from that you'll never understand the war and you'll point to phantasmatic "enemies of both sides")
That's the over-nationalistic
ruski mir (the nationalistic version of the "american dream / market world" concept) concept that ukrainians nationalists do not accept (and did never accept in the past since cossacks times)
ruski mir:free market democracy = Russia:USA
The differences are that there's no "russian federation" like USA, there's only (ex imperial) Russia with federated
subjects and of course that
ruski mir rejects liberal views apart from economic one but implemented in a very classic fascist
dirigisme.
Ukraine just doesn't want to become a new subject.
The only way to destroy the
ruski mir concept died with Lenin (that's what modern ukrainians maybe don't understand because they're not too fond of communism times 'cause of Stalin and Holodomor and why Putin did say that Lenin is the root of the ukrainian problem.....Lenin created Ukraine as a republic in the URSS context to control communist nationalists of the Ukraine region.....today imperial revanchist/irredentist elites cultivated by the KGB-Kremlin - it's just the same thing now "thanks" to PCUS collapse - want Ukraine back as a simple geographic region under Moscow rule)
