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    420blazeit69 ,

    Which politicians, and what is your source for popular opinions in Hong Kong?

    420blazeit69 ,

    It's laughable to cry "whataboutism" when discussing international politics. Comparing how countries act in similar situations is one of the foundations of international law.

    420blazeit69 ,

    Retaliation is the opposite of hawkish? Are you listening to yourself?

    420blazeit69 ,

    See also:

    A new book by Kristen Ghodsee, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, argues that women have better sex under socialism.

    If that sounds strange to you, consider this: A survey of East and West Germans after reunification in 1990 found that Eastern women (the socialist side of Germany during the Cold War) had twice as many orgasms as Western women.

    What in the world accounts for such a wide gap?

    According to Ghodsee, it’s about social safety nets. If, she argues, you build a society that supports women and doesn’t punish them for having children or devalue their labor, it turns out they’ll be happier and have better sex.

    But it doesn't matter how many studies or surveys or policy differences you point to -- some guy always has an old relative whose story outweighs everything.

    420blazeit69 ,

    Love how you counter concrete, material facts like "guaranteed housing, employment, and childcare" with fact-free scare mongering like "political pressure" and "control over the media."

    There's never any analysis about what this shit really means. "The fucking stasi" gets thrown out there like "the boogeyman" without even a thought towards how the U.S. security state violently repressed a nationwide movement against police violence in 2020, or how right now that same security state is violently repressing people protesting the genocide we're supplying. You're supposed to belive the stasi is the worst thing possible without ever digging into how it functioned, and certainly without asking how it compared to other states.

    420blazeit69 ,

    The U.S. is the one footing the bill

    China abducted its own citizens on EU territory, report finds (www.euronews.com)

    For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds....

    420blazeit69 ,

    China's abhorrent behavior

    What is abhorrent here? The article you linked to has the report's author saying that telling a citizen to return = kidnapping. It's trumped-up bullshit.

    420blazeit69 ,

    What you're describing is not kidnapping. The article implies China is threatening family members, but it provides no examples, and I have no reason to trust people who deliberately mischaracterize the facts.

    If China, for example, was arresting family members of people for no other reason besides being related to a citizen China wants to return home, the authors would probably have just said that.

    420blazeit69 ,

    Pg. 18:

    Ye is the former mayor of Chuanliao Town Government in Qingtian County, Zhejiang. Accused of bribery, he fled to Milan, Italy, in July 2001.

    In December 2014, the Zhejiang Public Security Department and the Protectorate sent a joint working group to Italy and Spain to carry out persuade to return operations of fugitives from the Lishui and Wenzhou areas.

    After being persuaded face-to-face by the working group, Ye flew back to China with the working group to surrender himself on December 23, 2014.

    Nothing alleged here is remotely objectionable.

    420blazeit69 ,

    ...what?

    I'm referencing the actual report you just linked to. I quoted a section of the report that provides an example of the conduct it criticizes. It's nothing; the report is bullshit.

    420blazeit69 ,

    And? A footnote does not change the fact that the report is bullshit.

    420blazeit69 ,

    grow up, get a job, buy a calculator

    "The only people who struggle with housing costs are stupid children"

    very-intelligent

    420blazeit69 ,

    You got bodied and took it like a piss baby

    420blazeit69 ,

    same-picture

    420blazeit69 ,

    If all you did was drop a wiki link that's a pretty worthless comment. Do you think China is the only country where dissidents get in trouble with the government? Do you think the U.S. doesn't harass (or worse) dissidents?

    Who knows, use your words

    420blazeit69 ,

    If you can take a moment to move your massive, fragile ego out of the way

    Lmao do you think of yourself as a professional?

    420blazeit69 ,

    massive fragile ego, frankly horrible, acting shitty, basic fucking table stakes

    you come across as hostile

    Go back to reddit

    420blazeit69 ,

    This is both not enough and better than nothing.

    420blazeit69 ,

    Socialism took the USSR from a late-feudal backwater that just lost the most destructive war in history (to that point) to the first man in space, and it did so in one generation and in spite of two subsequent invasions.

    Socialism took China from a bunch of squabbling warlords dominated by foreign empires, where famines were regular and severe enough that people regularly sold their own children to survive, to a modern economic powerhouse, lifting a billion people out of poverty along the way.

    Socialism took Cuba from a plantation run by foreign gangsters to cutting-edge medicine and higher life expectancy than the U.S., all while fending off a low-intensity war the most powerful empire in the world has waged against it for the entirety of its existence.

    420blazeit69 ,

    "Why do people want to talk about stuff that affects their daily lives so damn much???"

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