White people before they visit Tibet: “Oh, the government requires we have a guide with us? Ohoho, is that to stop us from seeing things we shouldn’t see? Is that to stop Tibetans from seeing how glorious and enlightened we are as we prance about with our unfettered freedom?”

White people coming back from Tibet: “It’s a good thing we had a guide with us. They don’t warn you about how thin the air is! [they do] We didn’t think we’d need any help with breathing [because we assume we’re better than everyone else]. Some of us would have literally died if our guide didn’t arrange for oxygen tanks for our hotel rooms.”

Yeah they did. Speculation: one of the videogame companies channeling funds into fusion reactor research may be the result of some bargaining over this.

Some of the sources I get news about China from are definitely not supporting China for any reason other than it’s not the US.

Is it that, or are they supporting China because it’s not the US and it’s playing an instrumental role in undermining US domination of global south countries?

What I mean to say is if those channels understand that the US is evil, then they have a commendable reason for supporting China.

Maybe, but there are better options now.

And if it was, it was framed as an example of how brainwashed we are.

When police do good cop/bad cop interrogations, they good cop and bad cop hang out together afterwards.

When governments manipulate you with a good party/bad party electoral circus, the good party and bad party also hang out with each other afterwards.

Of course they respect one another.

I’d suggest getting started by getting in touch with the prolewiki people. They might be able to help you get the ball rolling: they have established infrastructure, community and organisation.

Poor Stephen.

One of them thinks the US’s Xinjiang propaganda is real, one of them doesn’t.

I’ve met so many people who think that interacting with other humans online is dystopian and dehumanizing and nothing like ‘real’ interaction, while also thinking that to read a book is to experience a deeply intimate connection to the author on a spiritual and intellectual level.

David Rovics

Song for the Houthi Army: https://youtu.be/GJugXEu-nQ0

St. Patrick Battalion: https://youtu.be/XQ9_y3tyeFI (lots of covers of this one out there)

Commandante Fidel Alejandro Castro-Ruz: https://youtu.be/blIj9oeS-m0

What about the Walther PPK? I heard there was this guy in a bunker in Berlin who was about to be arrested by the evil communists, but he used a PPK to stop them and he only needed to use one shot to do it.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.

Like Homelander

Yes. But this white guy was telling me it’s because of the “CCP”

I got a new one yesterday. White guy in Hong Kong says to me “no you mustn’t eat pork when you go to the Mainland, that’s how they hide the bodies.” This was from someone who takes as a point of pride that they read the NYT cover-to-cover every day, but idk where they got this gem from.

So in case anyone’s wondering, according to this guy the “CCP” has been promoting pork as a major part of Chinese cuisine (Which Chinese cuisine you ask? All of them) because it tastes similar to human flesh. He says “you’ve got to tip your hat to them” because it’s evil genius: it lets them hide evidence of their crimes and it solves famine issues.

The best bit, he then says to me, dead serious: “how else do you think North Korea did so well in the Olympics?”

And more solid poops afterwards

How could you walk away with a different interpretation?

With a great deal of obstinance and a determination to reach the conclusion you intended to reach going in. Monolectical Idealism™.

They were really good at battlefield coordination because they shared the one butt sponge and wore no pants.

They all had identical gut biomes, and that allowed them to coordinate. If one soldier on the front line got scared or killed he’d shit himself, and that would alert the gut biome of every soldier who smelled it. It meant that their instincts were intensely accurate.

The term ‘ass kisser’ actually originated from Gaius Julius Caesar’s senior officers while he was on campaign. Every officer observed the practice which ensured that any soldiers close enough to smell his breath would know that he spoke with Caesar’s authority.