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That’s $50 before biohazard cleaning fees.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3b52695b-2cfe-4ddd-8291-be8bc87cd689.jpeg twitter.com/AmbassadeChine/…/1718984017570078814

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Oh my favorite: the political game of whether something is a dialect 🙄

Linguists generally take the position that Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian are partially mutually intelligible languages.

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You’ve been flagged as a sock puppet account for this by a conspiracy theorist.

Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

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I’ve got bad news for you, @gravitas_deficiency: I’m the mod who received your “spam or abuse” report.

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Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran has long been the desire of US foreign policy, ever since their puppet regime was overthrown.

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I remember when this bill was being worked through the system a decade ago, but I’m not sure how it turned out: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

I worry that these new kinds of investments are novel ways to scam “non-accredited investors” (i.e. normal people who have to work for a living) of their money.

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Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

But what if “whataboutism” isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term “whataboutism” has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

Ben Burgis @ Current Affairs: Is “Whataboutism” Always a Bad Thing?

Discussing the crimes of our own country as well as the crimes of others is not always an effort to downplay other countries’ crimes—it can be a test of whether we are serious about our principles.

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As both pieces explain, it has its uses and its abuses.

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@Hyperreality expanded their comment after i posted my mine, making it seem as if I tacitly accept that framing, which I do not.

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At 20 comments on this post, maybe that’s enough thread-sitting, @Haagel.

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Perhaps not a well-known term, which I believe originated at MetaFilter: faq.metafilter.com/…/threadshitting-and-threadsit…

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Someone take over your account there, buddy?

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I tried to apply Poe’s Law but couldn’t make it make sense, maybe because it’s past my bedtime.

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Fascist Japan never really ended. If you look at who the US allowed into positions of power after Japan’s unconditional surrender, you’ll see it was largely the same government, but as a US client state.

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All of Western Europe, really. Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

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You’re right, they had no uprising. The US wanted a client state in the region, so in the reconstruction it installed a bourgeois democracy that was and is subservient to it. We still have dozens of military bases there, despite the complaints & protests of Japanese residents.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooMCvGlbbc4

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Sounds like you’re very confident in your home team, which has brought home mostly Ls in the last 78 years.

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Reminds me of other fine euphemisms, such as ”mowing the grass.“

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They can’t even reliably see domains when you use HTTPS, because some IP addresses serve many domains.

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That’s a good point. Almost everyone uses their ISP’s DNS.

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You’re welcome to stick to !nonpolitical_memes.

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The Biden administration says it’s willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian, so you’re right: he DGAF about Ukranians, either.

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From the point of view of imperial core stans, shit gets stirred in this comm with great regularity.

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Unfortunately your country lacks the nerve to remain the a hegemonic power, and will suffer the consequences.

inshallah-script

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📽️

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The Dems and Dem-aligned corporate media have spent the last eight years pushing Russiagate conspiracy theories, and now they’re expanding BlueAnon to include China because the US is itching to ramp up Cold War II.

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Is this the same China that recently lifted over 800 million people out of extreme poverty? Please, enlighten us with your China expertise.

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That and “more jobs” are the only things both parties agree on.

They only agree on that in public, while in private (with a few exceptions) they are fine with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates to induce layoffs to ensure workers are too scared of losing their jobs to demand raises.

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This you?

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e1006376-23ec-463c-bfc0-b34d6c5adbb7.webp

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Based anti-imperalist, class traitor Neville Roy Singham is based.

I remember that garbage NYT hit piece from last year. Global North corporate media gotta push the new cold war. Before that article it was secret Chinese police stations in NYC, and before that it was Chinese spy balloons. Burgerlanders will believe anything.

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kbin.antisocial kelly

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Why do you think this is fake news when anyone can see the video for themselves?

The Hill | Rising: Go back to China’: Nancy Pelosi shames ceasefire protestors, suggests they’re foreign assets

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brainworms

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I don’t know what to tell you. To not be familiar with Chomsky’s or Parenti’s work is to lack basic media literacy, which, to be fair, is most people.

If you don’t want to read a book, you might start with the video documentary: Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media (Documentary) 1080p

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hitler-detector

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I usually refer Žižek appreciators to Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

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People organizing on Discord when Matrix exists 🙄

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Original article at Tricontinental.

Wiki article on Vijay Prashad & Tricontinental.

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You’re asking me to post the original article, which is precisely what I was doing and said as much confusion You’re confusing me with OP is all I can think of.

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No worries.

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Right, AFAIK the article you posted is a verbatim republication with permission, and I see no reason to change it.

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Are you kidding me? He can end it with a phone call to Bibi. In fact he can order his just-offshore aircraft carriers to enforce a no fly zone over Gaza.

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The firewall was & is meant to protect indigenous technological development from being overrun by Silicon Valley corporations.

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Li Jingjing: Why the US wants to separate from China? (cited 2003 report)

The Grayzone has been covering the story for about five years: thegrayzone.com/page/2/?s=xinjiang

ProleWiki: Uyghur genocide allegations

Critical Resist: The blueprint of regime change operations

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany (from the same town the CIA-owned Radio Free Europe operates). From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

But it fell on deaf ears. The sentiment at the time was that the Arab League wanted better relations with China and so they lied and said everything was fine.

Everything the target country does to prove its innocence is a lie. Only we profess the truth.

We suddenly stopped hearing about the ‘genocide’ as the world moved on to the war in Ukraine and now the October 7 operation in Palestine. These last two events were not controlled by Washington, and so they had to take precedence over the ‘genocide’. But it’s not over yet; they’ll find something else to pin on China eventually, and when they do, they’ll want you to remember all they’ve said about China in the past. They’ll want you to remember Tian’anmen (another mostly fabricated event), they’ll want you to remember the Uyghur ‘genocide’. They’ll want you to remember Tibet (for which they try to find stories, but they don’t tend to stick for very long).

All so that when they make up more ludicrous stories about China, you’ll think they’re true, because you’ve been conditioned to believe more and more outrageous stories with time.

When we finally declare war on China (if the NATO bloc ever gets to find a way to win that war), you’ll do the legwork of justifying this invasion yourself. We hope you’ll have been properly subdued by then and will happily cheer for the bombs. And if we install a US comprador government in China, we hope you won’t ask too many questions as it starts privatizing everything, reversing social welfare policies, jailing opponents, plummeting quality of life, destroying jobs and houses… and will just happily accept it as the right legitimate government — because it’s Western-backed.

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