I'm crying. Guys, we must spend a few more trillion on the troops. We simply must.

As a kid I didn't even know where my friends lived. They materialized in the morning at school and then vanished afterwards. I wasn't allowed alone outside until I was a teenager but by then, anywhere worth going was miles away and I didn't have a car so...

Same. He looks nothing like I remember him

Did you know the US never ended the Korean War? It's still officially ongoing. Everything you've ever heard from Americans and their allies about North Korea is quite literally war propaganda. And it's not a cold war either since the US annually partners with South Korea to practice invading them.

Seriously! Imagine worshiping the guy who half assed abolishing slavery AFTER he won a civil war about it. It's just like how modern Democrats can run on a campaign of social justice but lose trans and abortion rights anyway. Despite being in control of basically the entire fuckin government

Yeah I've noticed that here too. It seems like the final stage of disinfo is for people to repeat the lie on their own without any outside influence. It's the same deal with the Uyghur thing - official government sources dropped the narrative ages ago, but you'll still hear it repeated as if it were historical fact from journalists, influencers, redditors, etc.

I translated this clip to English so here you go guys:

With everything that we can help the people of Cuba with, we will so that there's no more doubt anymore (including oil) because they're a people who are suffering an inhumane, unjust blockade and we cannot turn our back on the people of Cuba. And we don't have to ask permission to any foreign government because we are a free, independent, and sovereign country.

Then with everything we can help them with... If they tell us "Sell us oil because we can't get any" then of course we will! When we ask them "Help us because we don't have medical specialists" including during the pandemic, medics came! And Cuban medical specialists are working in our country and we're very grateful to them. And we're part of the universal fraternity.

That makes us different too and really, truly, it fills me with pride that we're different from the conservatives - we cannot be the same. I respect those that think differently, we came here with a movement in favor of justice and humanism. Those that were here, not everyone of course, but the bossy ones, they were always looking for profit, personal benefit, they were interested in money. Their real god is money. What we want is fraternity, we want justice and we're in solidarity with all peoples. And if that means being a communist, populist, then put me on the list.

I was unequivocally taught that it happened, white colonists were responsible, and that it was genocide. It came up a few times over the years in age-appropriate lessons (they don't go into detail when teaching third graders ofc) and every time the narrative was about the same.

HOWEVER our classes never dwelled on it much. It was taught with as much gravitas as any other random lesson, i.e. I was bombarded with a litany of names and dates to memorize for a standardized test which I promptly forgot in order to prepare for the next one, and the next one, and the next one...

My classes didn't distinguish between the indigenous peoples and I never learned about the native tribes that belong to my area. My teachers taught only what colonizers did to them, not who they were and are. And crucially, I was taught that this was all history and not that it is an ongoing genocide. And that the colonizers of the past are, somehow, disconnected from our government of the present.

Also we never made a connection between the Nazis and the colonists, or talked about class and capitalism at all, really.

I've already seen they say. To any lazy libs out there here are some canned responses

The genocide is real but:

• the US doesn't want to hinder trade relations with China
• it's happening all across China so it's less of a targeted thing and more of a general oppression thing
• China is super duper sneaky about it so we can't gather enough substantive evidence to bring to court
• there's some technicality that precludes it from being legally official even though it fits the common definition (that's the argument your link is going with)

One thing that often gets uncritically accepted is that school sports are about competition. Remember: these are children we're talking about here. Kids play sports for community, to have fun and be part of a team.

All this fearmongering about potential advantages and statistical differences in anatomy is missing the forest for the trees. These laws are about discriminating against trans people, not about athletic fairness.

Also yeah boy/girl segregation in sports isn't scientific and largely exists for misogyny reasons (either to give women a space to compete away from men or to remove women from competition because men got butthurt about losing to them)

Adding onto what WhatWouldKarlDo said, the situation in China is what it is because of the aftermath of a civil war. After China was colonized by the West + Japan for a hundred years, the Chinese people overthrew them all along with the Qing dynasty. But there was fighting over who should replace them: the Kuomintang or the Communist Party of China. The CPC eventually won, but the KMT refused defeat and retreated to Taiwan, where they still claim to be the legitimate government of all of China and have never signed any peace treaties to end the war (it's technically still ongoing).

To make another USA analogy, it'd be as if the Confederates fled to Puerto Rico after the American civil war and never gave up hope for ruling over the whole country.

(ofc this is a simplification; there are other parties besides these two and a lot more happened that I didn't mention like how the KMT ruled over China for a little while. This is just the gist of it)

I didn't even realize they defederated from us already. All because we're NATOphobic 😔