[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 month ago

Yes, obviously is it. The PRC has done, and continues to do, bad things. The racist imperialism in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, as well as Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi is bad and should be denounced.

Now, what's your actual point?

The actions of the PRC do not excuse, and are less genocidal than what is Israel is doing with US support in Palestine, or the attacks on indigenous people in South America and India, taking place due to capitalist expansion (Or indeed the killings and destruction brought about by capitalist expansion of the PRC in Myanmar and Laos).
Hell, if the state of the US keeps up the way LGBT people are treated in the US will become more genocidal than the PRC's treatment of ethnic minorities. The way the US has treated American Indians may not be quite as culturally corrosive right now, but that's because the destroy their culture and get rid of the intellectual who speak out part has thankfully, grown less severe over the last 80 years (in part because it had been felt a success by those who wanted to force Indians to integrate and assimilate (read: sinicise (read: be culturally destroyed)).

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 2 months ago

Everyone else seems to have covered the basics... But what's missing is The Suez Crisis.

France and Britain, the two preeminent colonial powers in Europe thought that they could use Israel to pressure Egypt into returning the Suez Canal to them (which Egypt had nationalised following Britain, France, and the USA reneging on their obligation to help build the Anwar Dam).

France and Britain coordinated with Israel for an Israeli invasion of Egypt, and then France and Britain would step in "as peacekeepers" and control the Seuz as a demilitarised zone. However, the US was having none of it, and went behind France and Britain's back to undermine them and coordinated with Israel and showed to the world it was a British and French plot, humiliating the two nations, cementing the US as Israel's main backer, and destroying what good will remained for France and Britain in the Middle East.

For the formerly top dogs of Europe, it was a rude awakening which showed them that the pre-Second World War order was truly gone and they could no longer make big geopolitical decisions without the US.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 5 months ago

Nah, posts like an American who started with good intentions but has taken America bad to mean that places that oppose the US therefore must be good/better.

The speech by the former US diplomat they like to post is worth a read, as despite some odd dubious or cherry picked data the conclusions are bang on the money, and it is right about it all being a very real politik, not actually good for Ukraine, approach by the US and NATO.

It also has the former diplomat state that Europe (that famously single and unanimous entity), as well as Zelensky (at least before 2024) and Ukraine want peace, and the US and Russia are both more involved in prolonging war to better their own outcomes.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And the fact that apparently IDF was ordered to Hannibal Protocol even civilians shortly after the attack began.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 6 months ago

Because it remained loyalist.

As for why... Probably due to more complex relations with American Indians and the French, and didn't have a new ruling elite in waiting to give it equal footing in an independent North America.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 9 months ago

You're not too wrong.

But despite all of the inexcusable ethnic cleansing shit of the PRC they have drastically raised the standards of living of the poorest.

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone (who isn't a member of a persecuted minority or political dissident) in conditions as bad as a Brazilian favella in the PRC. Let alone a favellasworth of them.

(And to preempt, bright spots of favella culture such as community centres, art, and people succeding are despite the conditions (even if in response to them), not a sign that they're "good actually".)

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 9 months ago

At least the Republican backed genocide will also be making life living hell for LGBTQI people, women, and migrants in the US as well.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 10 months ago

Yes but also most of those films were bad at the time too.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago

If you think Alien 3 is a worse film than Prometheus, I think your opinion on Alien films is invalid.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 year ago

The hungry little murder machine that murders my enemies is my friend.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't this fairly disproven by science now and sperm fertilising an egg is now seen as more of a group effort?

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year ago

Would anyone or anything in heaven eat? Hunger is but a manifesting of the unimmaculaticity of flesh.

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