Guy yelled at me that it "wasn't the time" when I defended looting gonna ping him with this.

History is a necessary part of education and forgetting any part of our past no matter how dark would have a negative impact.

Like they probably don't need to learn the individual presidents but Leon_Grotsky is right like learning how evil what came before was would be a good thing.

My condolences

This headline is another "Biden is really not that different from Trump" moment because shit like this was coming out about Trump like on a weekly basis.

Unfortuantely him being out of the news likely does not mean he has stopped making Florida increasingly hellish for marginalized people.

Hasn't it been said repeatedly that Bibi likes it when antisemetic violence happens to the diaspora though? Because it means more Jews will want to come to Israel?

three times now ive gone to my facebook to post the first thing ive posted there in 5 years with this, then decided not to because someone would probably say something racist, or try to both sides it, or ask if i condemn hamas, or something. i cant even post about a child being killed without worrying that someone's going to say something to make it worse.

I'm not a Christian, but one of the things I've always felt Jesus was really on point on was when he said "take the beam out of your own eye before taking the speck of dust from your neighbors".

I think this can be applied to geopolitics very well, even if you think the other country has the beam and you have the speck of dust, its still advisable to focus on your own countries problems. Its hypocritical not on a personal level, but on a national level. To use a non Christian phrase, its throwing stones in a glass house. Idk what specific country you're from, but unless its China you can't do much about China's issues with queer rights, so why focus on them? Focus on wherever you're from.

Like literally the only thing a Westerner can "do about" Chinese queer rights issues is encourage war/regime change, which you should know does not have a good record of working out for the effected country. And thats the problem we communists have when people start talking about China's problem. We know our countries want regime change in China, so we see this shit as supporting of that. Its basically a threat.

Have you ever criticized someone for looking at the issue through a very eastern lense or is that reserved for people you deem as western-enough?

No, I haven't, because I'm a westerner lol. Like I said, I focus my criticisms at home.

They didn't get explicit permission, but they also didnt get shut down.

Also, the "filmed without permission" is weird phrasing anyway. Does every indy movie in other countries get explicit permission from the government to be filmed? A Wiki article for, say, an Australian indy movie about queer people that covers Australian oppression of the indigenous wouldn't go out of its way to mention "the government didn't give permission for it to be filmed" because why would it? The government doesn't need to approve such project. Including the "government didnt give permission" feels like editorializing to make things sound more sinister then they are.

Why would i not be mad at that just as I am at how corporate bailouts didnt help anyone except the top .01% of society?

Scale. The amount that the capitalists steal from you is orders of magnitude larger than whatever infinitesimal amount of tax dollars (well, more accurately, cents) you lose because an unhoused person used a loophole to buy drugs. Personally I can't even imagine being angry at the two people you mentioned. Nor is there a realistic way to prevent those things that wouldn't punish the 99% of people who just use EBT to buy food like its intended.

(I also really don't care if people find a way to use EBT money to buy something else in general. Like I can't think of a single reason to be bothered by that. And I life off EBT and only ever use it the "correct" way.)

Y'all will take the most lukewarm, neutral, fair takes on topics related to this issue and call it "support for Russia" is incredible. |

Nowhere, anywhere in op's comment did she say that she supports Russia.