Media and politicians: “Israel is America, they ARE us”

Oh THIS blockade they want to do something about; not the sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, etc or the embargo on Cuba, or the blockade on Gaza, no THIS is the blockade they want to do something about.

Asleep for decades, awake only long enough to be worse than useless, and then back to sleep again. Utterly worthless, useless countries. Trump was literally making fools of you only a month or two ago, and now it’s back to being America’s vassals, and to the regime that was just talking about whether you should be allowed to be a country.

Cool, Iran’s getting a fertilizer donation!

Eh, I don’t know, I feel given the context that he only just recently considered taking Greenland, NATO may be thinking just give him what he wants; none of them (except maybe Turkey) like brown people anyway.

I wonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA

Far, FAR from it; China is gigantic with many different cultures and ethnicities, much like the Soviet Union was. One of the reasons why they both made it work easily is because they focused on what made them the same rather than capitalism melting their brains and telling them to be as divided as possible. We have a huge cultural problem where people are beginning to fall for this stupidity about ethnic and cultural homogeneity being cornerstones in a peaceful society, forgetting entirely that WW2 is what happens when the only ethnicity and culture is white and some imagined white culture.

Different regions in China have their own cultural differences but you don’t have a Chen Xiaopiro or similar crying about how this region or that celebrates that festival while most of China celebrates this other festival. I think even the government itself doesn’t allow divisive rhetoric in the first place, which, you know, good; freedom of speech shouldn’t be allowed to be a double edged sword.

Heck, Xinjiang maintains their own Uyghur language which is not only protected, but exists in their signs and apparently even the currency they use there has their (Arabic?) text on it as well. Tibet suffered unfortunately from some horrific cultural genocide during Mao’s time, wherein slaves were given their freedom and slave owners were made to be equal to everyone else, and unfortunately modern day Tibetans no longer recall or value the glory days of slavery, but their unique Tibetic languages are still alive and spoken there, and there hasn’t been this cultural erasure (short of ending slavery) that you got with Native Americans. I recall a discussion between a Uyghur and a guy in the states where he pointed out that Native American languages, many of them, were killed off and official institutions in regions where Native Americans live operate in English, whereas in the many different regions of China their unique dialects and languages are still alive and well.

Like I mentioned, the Chinese government itself also does what it can to stamp out divisive rhetoric, and honestly good; if we went a year with divisive rhetoric being stamped out, the division in our country would disintegrate. No more divisive rhetoric in the news, no more bigoted losers on youtube, straight up bans on all social media of people trying to divide the country, and the people grow closer again. The division that does exist however is entirely artificial; literally what cultural differences exist that would cause hostility? One group celebrates Christmas while another doesn’t? One group likes mostly Mexican food while the other doesn’t? The news and social media losers literally keep harping on and on and on about this nonsense and dividing people entirely artificially for political purposes, and they convince you that you came to your conclusions entirely on your own when in reality they never stop going on and on and on about this nonsense and trying to make you think this way of thinking is normal.

I used to work with a lib and I remember trying to explain to him just why people in China revolted, just how bad, just how dire their circumstances were; he never did seem to understand why workers should exist as a unified party or why all workers should have solidarity with one another

I have a theory they’re being conservative in how they handle this because they don’t want to give other Western powers justification for joining the war (justification, not reason); America and Israel are extremely unpopular right now, and joining a war of aggression on their side (one with zero plausibly deniable excuses) is the end of your political career. They’re trying to normalize the idea that they may have to join the army and fight Russia and that’s already unpopular enough, this has zero chance of being widely accepted.

I still remember the deep confusion a lib I know got when I told him Taiwan supports Israel, lol

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Sure, and both parties in the war between America and Afghanistan don’t deserve support and yet only one side lost hundreds of thousands if not a million people

And both parties in the war between America and Iraq don’t deserve support and yet only one side lost hundreds of thousands if not a million people (on top of the million murdered via sanctions)

And both parties in the government overthrow of Libya by America don’t deserve support and yet only one side had their infrastructure bombed, and went from being the most successful country in their continent to a failed state

I’m about forty and have no idea if you’re older than me but clearly age doesn’t guarantee wisdom

Also the people the Iranian government killed were literally armed, there’s literally footage of them shooting people; I have zero faith in the sources claiming those numbers and the Iranian government is 100% justified in taking out violent, armed traitors, which even our own government said had mossad embedded between them

I’ll absolutely talk smack about the Iranian government when their country is safe, like I would with comprador states, but in a time when Iran is fighting for its life I’ll offer critical (only slightly critical) support; even the anti-government Iranians began seeking national unity after Israel literally bombed five hospitals and apartment buildings in the 12 day war; they’re not stupid, they know what their enemies are going to do to them. You AREN’T supporting the Iranian people if you aren’t supporting the ones fighting back and keeping the country safe; if not the Iranian government, who else in Iran is fighting Israel and America?

Go to hell

Me in Qatar, hearing the missiles and knowing the troops can hear it a lot louder but for a lot shorter of a period

In all honesty, neither party deserves any good luck.

The Iranian government during the 12 day war focused on military targets, and when they struck targets in other countries in the Middle East they also focused on military targets, and this is why the civilian casualty rate was either nothing or next to nothing (not Iran’s fault Israel stuck their military headquarters in cities to use their people as human shields), Israel struck at least five hospitals in Iran and apartment buildings, the literal only defense of the Iranian people is their government, the literal only body able to render help and protection is their own government

To echo avatar of vengeance, Fuck you

One thing I find concerning for this sudden hostility is that the Taliban recently announced that if America goes to war with Iran they’ll join in on Iran’s side

and something like this should never have happened to them.”

Indeed, America is a thing that should never have happened to anyone

even if though the foreign state has never contemplated this potential advantage

So any time your imagination runs away with you, you need to treat others as your enemies?

So just clarify, Russia, which we were all promised would drop a nuke on Ukraine, still hasn’t (and won’t, let’s be real; this is Russia, not America), while America is most likely about to conduct their second (third if you count Hiroshima and Nagasaki as separate incidents) nuclear attack?

And you just know the news is gonna whitewash this

This should be horrifying people worldwide a lot more than it barely currently does

They don’t see Palestinians as humans but they see them as human enough to steal their organs for themselves

(CW: a scene mentioned in one of Ursula Le Guin’s book that talks about SV)

Ah, thanks

What does wumao mean? I’ve read twitter posts by Chinese users who use it against…I think anti-China Asian Americans?