robinnn

robinnn , 6 days ago

luigi-dance

robinnn , 6 days ago

And yet, still the largest source of methane emission.

They also have the largest population. Per-capita they are not the largest source. It’s ridiculous to evaluate countries’ outputs without regard for the size of their populations.

As a product they can sell. Let’s not pretend like this has some altruistic motivation.

That’s true, and yet they also chose to massively subsidize their solar industry in order to meet climate goals.

Where is “the bad shit that China has done?” You still haven’t said anything about this.

robinnn , 13 days ago

The UN can’t enforce anything unless it’s against a US enemy state.

robinnn , 19 days ago

Can you also see the bullet heading towards you?

robinnn , 21 days ago

In late October, Israel signed on to a joint statement of concern with more than 50 other governments about alleged Chinese crimes against humanity in its predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region.

LMAO

China is fundamentally opposed to any Israeli military operations, even in self-defense

No such thing?

robinnn , 23 days ago

:)

robinnn , 23 days ago

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robinnn , 23 days ago

He exposed the state by revealing info they covered it up.

robinnn , 23 days ago

He’s been outspokenly against the war against Afghanistan if you watch Boy Boy’s video and was simply opposing what he thought was the scapegoating of troops to hide the crimes of others. Maybe what you’re saying is hilarious because it’s not true.

robinnn , 24 days ago

This article is genuinely terrible. They knew they couldn’t put “In the South China Sea, China has begun to invade,” so they put “Xi” instead. China’s claims to the South China Sea have been shown to be evidentially indisputable (A.S. Wood (U.S. captain), https://media.defense.gov/2021/Mar/07/2002595023/-1/-1/1/22%20WOOD.PDF), internationally coming down to the semantics of description and politics. This is not to say China should have sole control over the South-China Sea, rather, China is not “encroaching” on land which is provably foreign in any way beyond political bias.

Just recently Beijing manoeuvred 12 ships (three of which were warships) to within four nautical miles of Taiwan. The United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has a clear list on what you can do inside someone else’s territorial waters (less than 12 nautical miles off the coast), and this isn’t on it.

Weird, I was under the impression that the United Nations "[considers] ‘Taiwan’ as a province of China with no separate status,” that they hold that “authorities in ‘Taipei’ are not considered to… enjoy any form of government status,” and that they “[consider] ‘Taiwan’ for all purposes to be an integral part of the People’s Republic of China.” (United Nations Judicial Yearbook, 2010, pages 516 & 540).

This most recent surge in activity is likely a show of force before Taiwan’s presidential inauguration on 20 May, but more broadly it achieves five things. It demonstrates ‘tough leadership’ to the people of China, something that is important to all dictatorships.

Taiwan’s presidential election? Do you mean the election of the President of the Republic of China? No, that would require reassessing this entire narrative spewn. And this idiot thinks that, since the PRC is a designated enemy, he can just say that it’s a dictatorship with no source or elaboration (he can, because The Telegraph publishes garbage).

In this regard, the annual Balikatan training exercise has come at a good time. This started as a small navy-to-navy drill during the Cold War but has gradually grown to become the premier military exercise between the US and the Philippines with 16,000 military participants in total, 11,000 from the US. Australia also contributed and this year, for the first time, so did France.

Lt. Gen. William Jurney, US Marine Corps Forces Pacific commander said: “Balikatan is a tangible demonstration of our shared commitment to each other. It matters for regional peace and stability. When we increase our mutual response and defense capabilities, we strengthen our ability to promote regional security and protect our shared interests”.

Finally, the US with military bases all over Asia, the US that orchestrated a coup and massacre in the mentioned non-aligned Indonesia to control its affairs, the US that carpet-bombed the mentioned Vietnam and killed millions in an attempt to exert control, this beacon of freedom and non-interference can stand up to China’s “aggression” out of the goodness of its heart. And Australia as well! The US’s little lapdog whose only leader that attempted to achieve independence from US control was couped so that they too can get a good taste of TSA patdowns.

robinnn , 25 days ago

Such a garbage propaganda article, and with multiple spelling and grammar mistakes. Zhang Zhan is an anti-CPC agitator who participated in the Hong Kong color revolution; during her 2020 COVID reporting, she got interviews from two overseas media outlets: Radio Free Asia (CIA mouthpiece for propaganda against China and the DPRK mainly) and The Epoch Times (far-right Falun Gong cult mouthpiece). Such an “independent citizen journalist”!

She reported misleading things about the pandemic (as proven in trial, contrary to claims by NGOs and the article you shared that she was sentenced to prison for nebulous reasons), and both argued that the pandemic was worse than the government had reported and that lockdown measures were too restrictive (obviously a very principled person and not just a contrarian hoping to squeeze into the cracks of any differences of opinion to oppose the Chinese govt.).

robinnn , 25 days ago

One of the first lines in Firstpost’s article is:

Zhan, who was convicted and sentenced in December 2020, will be released on Monday, according to The Guardian.

The article from says she’ll be released on May 13, and quotes HRW and Amnesty Int. directors. It was released about an hour and a half before Firstpost’s article, and the latter plagiarizes the misleading summary of her charge from them:

The Guardian:

Zhang was arrested in May 2020 and later sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a charge often used against activists.

Firstpost:

In December 2020, Zhan was sentenced to four years in jail for the offence of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. Activists in China are often convicted under this offence.

robinnn , 1 month ago

The same Palestinian Authority that arrests people for the Israeli government in the West Bank.

robinnn , 1 month ago

Death to America, Death to Israel

robinnn , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Not really lmao, you’re just a pathetic idiot

robinnn , 1 month ago

Democrats love Trump. Hillary Clinton and the DNC wanted him in power so they could have (what they thought was) an easier time winning, and instead of realizing this wasn’t a good plan after it didn’t work, Democrats have continued to fund Trump-supporters in elections.

The state is forcing someone to pick the regular boot or else they’ll get the poison-tipped spiked boot, one on each foot, while making the person think it’s their own idea to pick the normal one (so pragmatic!).

robinnn , 1 month ago

It literally is a fascist shithole. It’s littered with monuments to Nazis and Nazi collaborators, it’s armed forces are filled with Nazis, its leadership pays homage to Nazi collaborators, and the entire reason we’re in this situation is the US-backed coup in 2014 of which Nazis were the prime domestic force, and which led to the proliferation of Nazi gangs. Ukraine is not an independent nation.

You talk about Russia violating sovereignty, what about the Ukrainian bombing of the Donbas (illegal cluster munitions used) and repeated violations of ceasefires? Russia didn’t invade Ukraine out of the blue, they had specific demands for the end of far-right nationalism, repression of Russian speakers, and NATO expansion (NATO itself being a Nazi collaborationist institution).

robinnn , 1 month ago

I don’t care if my comment is “normal,” but it is “rational and source-supported.” You’re not “calling out hexbear users,” you’re flaunting your ignorance. Points sourced one by one:

It’s littered with monuments to Nazis and Nazi collaborators [*] [*]

its armed forces are filled with Nazis [*] [*] [*]

Tweet by the National Guard of Ukraine:

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/a5885c96-0493-4076-bb3d-d3122b8dfa5a.png

its leadership pays homage to Nazi collaborators [*] [*] [*]

and the entire reason we’re in this situation is the US-backed coup in 2014 of which Nazis were the prime domestic force [*] [*]

and which led to the proliferation of Nazi gangs [*] [*]

(illegal cluster munitions used) and repeated violations of ceasefires [*] [*]

they had specific demands for the end of far-right nationalism, repression of Russian speakers, and NATO expansion [*] [*]

NATO itself being a Nazi collaborationist institution [*] [*]

robinnn , 1 month ago

Sorry that opinions and facts exist outside of your instance’s echochamber.

robinnn , 1 month ago

Thought-terminating “you’re a Russian propaganda agent” cliche.

robinnn , 1 month ago

Of course there isn’t.

robinnn , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

@empireOfLove2 Your comment has been up for over four hours, so 0 for 1 on predictions. I gave you citations for what I said in my comment, things you would have known if you would’ve looked into the conflict at all. You were so concerned with “discourse based in logic” and “source-supported comments,” so what happened?

It’s extremely scummy to imply I’m a liar or making stuff up, then when I go and prove what I’ve said, you can’t even respond to apologize. If your comment was just a dishonest method of wasting my time, then you should be banned and have your comment removed.

robinnn , 1 month ago

Notice that point from “The Hill” has no examples or evidence. It’s not relevant; they were citing the examples given not the author’s out-of-the-blue conclusion (which can be chalked up to the counter-bias that was the reason it was cited). I have another comment on this post proving that the far-right is not “still on the fringe.”

Quoting Internationalist 360° as a reliable source isn’t going to win anyone over.

Oh, I see the issue: you don’t understand how sources work. They’re not citing Internationalist 360° as a reliable source by itself—if you would’ve read until the end of the article you would’ve seen that the author provided a list of sources used. The article is simply a summary of the history using those sources.

Please tell me about “Chinese imperialism.” I’d love to hear about how Chinese investment in Africa, the only FDI with a positive impact on development, is “imperialism.” I’d love to hear how the PRC’s claim to Taiwan, despite being accepted by nearly every country on earth and recognized by the UN (and favored upon by the majority of Taiwanese despite no clear support for total reunification, hence its not happening yet when China could conceivably force it upon the population), the US admitting that their cynical support for separatism is only to keep the PRC down, is “imperialism,” and in fact Taiwan is an independent state with no relation to China (despite its constitution being the Constitution of the Republic of China, and its president the president of the Republic of China, with the so-called ROC claiming sovereignty over all of the mainland of China, Outer Mongolia, and Russia—see the emblem of the ROC Marine Corps).

robinnn , 1 month ago

Rightfully so

robinnn , 1 month ago

Just sorting the comm by new, of the 18 posts on the first page (not counting the pin), 7 deal with Palestine, including both news of the situation and of protests against the genocide. The sub consistently features posts on the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and yet, you don’t care. You want anything other than Palestine spammed? Why? It’s an ongoing genocide and also the topic of mass protests in the US. If you don’t care about world news then block the comm.

robinnn , 1 month ago

grillman

robinnn , 1 month ago

www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/…/ch01.htm

robinnn , 1 month ago

malcolm-checks

robinnn , 1 month ago

Step 1: Support terrorism in China to provoke the government into an extreme military response that can be leaped on to delegitimize the PRC and their commitment to peace, as was done with the USSR and Mujahideen in Afghanistan

Step 2: When China doesn’t bomb anyone and handles the situation through education, claim they’re committing genocide anyways

robinnn , 1 month ago

I have bad news about the USA.