Tianmen square (sic)
Never been. US News and World Report rates it as the #6 thing to do in Beijing, so I will defer to their take on it. Apparently, the square itself is just a big concrete area but it's nearby some other tourist attractions.
Uyghurs
Never met one.
On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya
Literally the first sentence lmao.
Why don't you tell the Libyans about how "defensive" of an organization NATO is? It's "defensive" in the same way the US department of "defense" has led invasions of countless countries and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even if that were true, the US is an extremely belligerent and aggressive country, so giving it cover only enables it to act aggressively without fear of repercussions or backlash.
Hell, I had a few members tell me that I was part of the evil capitalist elite because I had a job.
Anytime a person claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link to it, they are lying or misrepresenting what happened literally 100% of the time.
TIL 32% of Democrats are pushing conservative propaganda to discourage people from voting Democrat.
The "everyone who disagrees with me is a bad actor" conspiracy theories keep getting less and less plausible.
Just curious, what percentage of Americans do you think are under the influence of Russian bots? Because roughly a third voted for Trump and roughly a third didn't vote, add in third party voters and I'm pretty sure that would mean a supermajority of Americans are Russian assets, which is a fascinating perspective.
Specifically, he was appointed chancellor by the guy the SDP backed. How anyone can look at that and blame the KPD for running the only anti-Hitler candidate is baffling.
China is bad about LGBT rights.
There has been some progress, but it's mostly driven (as it has been in other countries) from the bottom up, from grassroots changes in attitude, and not from the central government. While China doesn't have the tradition of conservative Christian beliefs that fuel hatred in the US, there's other beliefs that fuel prejudice and discrimination, especially among older generations.
Many Western sources do try to leverage LGBT issues for geopolitical agendas, as they do with Palestine, for example. But that doesn't mean that what they say is false. I believe cross-referencing between Western sources and pro-LGBT Chinese sources such as Sixth Tone gives the most accurate picture of the state of things on the ground. Personally, I found Naomi Wu's perspective to be an invaluable case study, before she unfortunately ran afoul of censors on a different issue.
Hopefully the situation improves for queer people in China, but I fear that increasing global tensions will only slow down progress on that front.
People disagreeing with this meme is a prime example of why you do not allow your entire worldview to be defined by bourgeois elections.
Liberals weaponizing LGBT rights to justify atrocities harms LGBT movements around the globe. We do not need, for example, companies like Raytheon or the Pinkertons appropriating our symbols. Every time someone uses queer right to justify colonialism, it gives reactionaries ground to paint legitimate queer movements as agents of the West. And I'm not just talking about Russia or China, but non-aligned countries across Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, of course, queer rights are under attack in many Western countries.
It's the same shit as when the "New Atheist" and Bill Maher types started justifying the Iraq War on the basis of feminism or whatever. Firmly rejecting that mentality and distinguishing ourselves from it is more important than worrying about which imperialist gets elected.
Lmao is that context supposed to change the meaning of the quote somehow? How?
You haven't provided any reason why the situations aren't comparable. If you introduce more parties, it doesn't change the dynamics of the situation.
If they were optional, your boss would fire you for taking one.