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  • The Democrats are far less evil than Republicans.

    You keep saying that but you never provide any evidence that they are. You just take it on blind faith that they are and speak like it’s an obvious and unquestionable fact when it isn’t. Pretty much every single messed up the Republicans did, from kinds in cages and the wall to war, the Democrats have most often followed right in their footsteps and pilled on.

    How are they “far less evil” exactly? According to who? To what?

    You need a new government, wholesale, and I’ve said as much.

    That’s the only point on which we agree.

    But if you are going to pick the lesser of two evils, you ha e failed greatly at that task. You picked the most evil of all evils, and you are paying the price, as are the Palestinians.

    Again, this is contingent on your blind faith belief that there is a lesser evil of the two, with which I do not agree.

    From before the previous elections, I’ve been of the opinion that Trump wouldn’t be able to do worse to the Palestinian than the Democrats did even if he wanted to for the simple reason that the Democrats were already doing the worst that America could afford to do under the current circumstances.

    And I’ve been vindicated in that belief, because like it or not, the fact is that the Republicans haven’t done anything to Gaza that the Democrats weren’t already doing or weren’t planning to do. Even the Trump real estate in Gaza bullshit isn’t fundamentally different from what was already planned to be done with the region under the Democrats.

    Point is, your narrative that the Democrats did the the Palestinian genocide “less hard” than the Republicans would is objectively false. They have demonstrated themselves to be rabid Zionists and it is extremely naive to believe they wouldn’t do the genocide as hard as they possibly can.

    Again, you can’t just claim that they are less evil, you have to show that they are. You haven’t, and you never do.

    Who is deflecting? You won’t admit the Republicans are more in the wrong. You just point out shit Dems do as if the other party isn’t doing it ten times harder.

    Where’s the “ten times” comes from Alex? Can you explain that to me? By what metric are they doing these things “ten times harder” Alex?

    Again, same thing I keep pointing out in this comment. You keep saying but you never show. You never propose examples. Why? Because you don’t know that the Dems are the lesser evil, you just believe it. That’s why I keep saying that you’re taking it on blind faith, because you are.


  • Not only are you trying to deflect criticism but you are doing so with a straw-man, pathetic.

    The point isn’t any illusion that the Reps aren’t doing those things, the point is that the fact the Dems are doing the same thing shows that they aren’t any better or any less evil than the Reps.


  • Actually, they were very much planning on and doing mass murders in the streets and abductions to black sites, they just were doing it 1000s of kms away in Palestine instead of doing it at home.

    Genocide and mass murder in the streets are Genocide and mass murder in the streets even when they’re not happening at home, the fact that you think who it’s being done to makes one instance “less evil” than the other is just chauvinism and white supremacy.


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    democratic lawmakers are demanding ICE reform.

    Aka they are okay with violent forced deportations as long as it’s done ✨ legaly ✨.

    Why do you assume the Democrats wouldn’t build concentration camps as well btw? No, because last I checked, the Dems didn’t do shit about kids in cages, forced prison labor or the US’s torture prisons like Guantanamo and gave more budget than Trump to the Trump border wall not to mention their support and funding of literal concentration camps in Israel. Does that sound like the actions of a party that wouldn’t build concentration in the US to you? Because it sure as heck doesn’t to me.

    In my opinion, if the Dems had been elected they would have done it and justified it with their classic pr technique of letting the Reps vote whatever they want in congress while they stand by and pretend like they couldn’t do anything about it despite their candidate being in office and go “well, the law is in the book now so we have to play along” like they did with Roe v Wade.


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    “LiFe iS fUll Of chOOsIng tHe lEsSer oF twO eVilS.”

    Do you have any actual arguments or just instant noodle armchair truisms?

    “Lesser evils” are only worth choosing if the difference between the 2 evils is big enough to have an impact. In this case it isn’t, both parties are genocidal gangs with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The only difference between the 2 is what they say when they know the public can hear them (and even then their rhetoric is getting more and more similar) and what the corporate owned media says about them, but in practice, when it comes to quality of life, repression, violence, wages, legislation, etc… aka metrics that actually matters, there is virtually no difference between the 2.


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    It’s so funny how even in analogies you’re reduced to splitting hair and grasping at straws desperately trying to find any meaningful difference between the Dems and Reps that isn’t easily debunk-able because as the Dems go increasingly mask-off you have less and less to work with to make your “vote blue no matter who” spiel.

    Like, you do realize how utterly negligible a difference what you just said “adds” to the metaphor right?



  • There’s something kinda ironic I realized.

    You see, the funny thing about being as focused on the lies about China as you are is that you end up not noticing the actual problems China has.

    And it shows here when you think about it: how else would you conclude that rejecting those lies is equivalent to saying China is perfect, than if you’re not aware of any other problems China could have beyond what propagandists told you? Assuming you are arguing in good faith that is, which you making straw-mans don’t exactly corroborate ngl.


  • Of course! That’s totally what the meme say as we can all see and definitely not a straw-man you made up in your head. Clearly the peoples saying that think that China is perfect and can do no wrong as you can see from… erm… from… From somewhere, I don’t have example but I’m sure you can definitely totally undoubtedly find an example somewhere.

    It’s so funny how the only way you can think of to defend your ridiculous 1984 tech-dystopia narrative about China from criticism is to make a straw-man so you can pretend that our criticism of your narrative is the more ridiculous and over-the-top of the two.



  • Redsails is also not a good source, it’s openly from an ML perspective, so it’s not neutral, which you absolutely have to be when discussing history. It’s also under no pretence to be academic or accurate either, Redsails is ideologically driven rather than factually driven - so it won’t ever be critical of the ML perspective. You can use redsails to talk theory, absolutely, but not as a historical or factual source, it’s dishonest.

    There is no such thing as a neutral historian. Every human has things they know and things they don’t even on topics they are experts in, every human has opinions on the things they know (or think they know) that will unavoidably taint what they say, even unconsciously, and therefore, everything written or said by a human is necessarily biased. And that’s saying nothing of financial interests, politics and other things that bias things even further.

    This is not avoidable, the most you can do is be aware of biases and work with/around them.

    If an historian or a journalist tell you that their work is “neutral” or “unbiased”, they are either lying to you or don’t know how biases work, and in either case you should be very skeptical of them because they are clearly not doing their job correctly.



  • Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things.

    If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes.

    So your “evidence” for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you’re not just making shit (it’s not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of “probing questions” your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward?

    Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best.

    We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates.

    Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn’t notice or won’t do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro!

    If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical.

    Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship.

    No one said anything about China being “a utopia” and you know it.

    You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can’t really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China “a utopia” when none of what we have said points to that at all.

    I see it, and anyone who isn’t already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too.

    It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there.

    “If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane.” A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument.

    A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here.

    That, my friend, is what we call an “irrefutable argument”, and it’s a fallacy. “Chinese peoples aren’t happy with their government, and if they say they are it’s because the government forces them to.” It’s a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn’t agree with your narrative.

    You’re not refuting our point, you’re just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can’t, and until you do I’ll continue to affirm that you can’t).



  • As a European, I can promise you the the EU isn’t good.

    It’s a neoliberal cult that purposefully keep its poor eastern members down for the benefit of its wealthy western members; continues to meddle in and exploit Africa by any means at their disposal, including coups, invasions, funding and arming of death-squads and assassinations, even decades after so called “decolonization”; cultivate an attitude of horrific and bloodthirsty racism among their population, especially against migrants despite being the cause of most mass migrations in the first place, in order to keep migrants miserable and their labor cheap; fund and arms a genocide as we speak; has purposefully let overt and covert neo-Nazi factions gain power in every of its member states; stabbed their own economy for the benefit of the US, multiple times; and so on and so forth.

    On the scale of “badness” the EU is right behind the US, they’re just more subtle and quiet about their evil than the US is.



  • Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power.

    No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn’t gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn’t a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that’s not how international relations work.



  • No sources for that claim of course, as usual.

    To my knowledge the only military base China has in Africa is the one in Djibouti, and literally every country who can afford to have a base there has a base there.

    If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

    Indeed, you don’t have a clue what it is. Try looking up “unequal exchange”, or better yet reading a book on the subject. Lenin’s Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism and Fanon’s How Europe underdeveloped Africa are good reads on the subject.


  • Every death by Dutch capitalism (death from the slave trade, Colonialism/Colonial wars (Oceania, Africa, …), …)

    plus

    Every death by British empire’s capitalism (Irish genocide, Bengal famine, Slave trade, Colonialism/Colonial wars (India, Africa, North America, South east Asia, Oceania, Middle east, …) , Opium wars, Massacres against independence movements (India, …), …)

    plus

    Every death by French capitalism (Colonialism/colonial wars (North America, Caribbeans, Africa, South east Asia, …), Slave trade, Massacres against independence movements (Algeria, Haiti, …), …)

    plus

    Every death by Belgian capitalism (Colonialism/Colonial wars (Congo, …), Slave trade, Massacres against independence movements, …)

    plus

    Every death by United States’ capitalism (Colonialism/Colonial wars (Cuba, Hawaii, Philipines, North America, …), Massacres against independence movements (South east Asia, Oceania, Cuba, …), Slave trade, …)

    plus

    Every death by German capitalism (Nama and Herero genocide, Holocaust, Slave trade, …)

    plus

    Every death caused by preventable starvation, lack of access to water, healthcare.

    List very much non-exhaustive.

    If you add it all up you easily get over 1 Billion.