https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1045415401616805889?s=21
The first link leads, through twitter, to a Gizmodo strobe group article. I am fucking sick of Gizmodo, and of their use of so many domain names which I mayn’t recognize and can’t all block at once.
The story of a party is the makeup of their constituents, chosen by the party elders when they ask themselves the question, “what sort of donors do we want?”
A few, yes. There are always a few idiots which can be marveled at and ignored unless they happen to think anyone gives a shit about their views.
Yes, the reduction of Chinese poverty is the result of the country recovering from imperialism, occupation and civil war. The achievement of the Dengists is that they allowed it to happen without fucking it up. That’s rare.
I’m never entirely sure what you mean by “team sports”. Team China? Team socialist? Team not-America? Team statist?
To be clear: I think that the rulers of the Chinese state are bastards. Their methods are not mine, and China does not reflect how I would arrange the world if I had my choice.
But I talk about China for much the same reason as I talk about Iran or North Korea, despite being neither Shia nor a follower of Juche. They are an obvious target of Western aggression, they are heavily propagandised against in the West, and it is really obvious that very many Americans have a severely distorted image of China in their heads.
There is a new anti-China thread on BB almost every week. All of those threads uncritically accept the Western propaganda image of China, and the level of Sinophobia displayed in the comments is increasing.
That is dangerous, and I’m interested in pushing back on it. So I talk about China here, in order to get my thoughts together before talking about it there.
Citations Needed does The West Wing:
The LMPD officers who arrived asked the perpetrators who were left to leave but told our manager they did not have probable cause to search the perpetrators - despite a whole group having been pepper sprayed. I was advised at least one officer was seen laughing and joking around with the white nationalist group before letting them go with no repercussion.
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https://twitter.com/armystrang/status/1045710982528593922?s=21
https://twitter.com/armystrang/status/1045711309680062464?s=21
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the watermain
Listen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the ground
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
And it’s plain to see
Evil inside of me
Is on the rise