People have different opinions on each of the listed substances, that’s fine by me. This is an anti-promotion rule that will definitely limit the discussion that people can have about them, including but not limited to:

• advocacy for these substances
• comparing pros and cons, then concluding that they’re a net good
• saying that they have little or no side effects in small doses

it really shouldn’t be controversial to be asked to keep those topics in other forums.

I’m not sure what you mean by this last sentence, are there some words missing?

It has been brought to my attention in the same private channel that some comrades have mentioned them casually in other communities, and I’m not going to wait for it to happen here before making up this new rule. The last rule I came up with was Rule 0 in reaction to someone who thought Taiwan was a country and not part of the People’s Republic of China.

I’d be warning them and then deleting their comments if necessary, not ban them, unless they double down. The ban is for people who come into this post and argue for substance abuse, I should probably make that clear.

Going to add that under inhalants, thanks.

It’s only a /c/China community rule, and only when I’m still mod.

Well I was thinking of a larger banner that is above or below the navigation bar that’s at the top of the page, so that it is seen immediately.

There’s nothing wrong with being proud of a specific province/city/community, but any differences in human society can be used for reactionary division. Flags can be used for other purposes than as a symbol of national sovereignty, but a flag is also probably the most identifiable symbol of independence or separatist movements precisely because it can be seen as a symbol of national sovereignty. I think the political significance of flags outweigh any other aspects, if any.

At the end of the day, there’s nothing inherently wrong with having regional flags, but I oppose it.

In China, only the Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of Hong Kong and Macau have regional flags. We’re not like the US where each state has their own state flag, and I do not appreciate the idea of each province of China having its own provincial flag. If there could be provincial flags, there could be flags for every city/town/district/village, for every administrative region at each level, and if we want to be extreme, there could be flags for each family and for each individual.

While I am using a slippery slope argument of extreme individualism to oppose provincial flags, you can probably understand why this “individuality” has to stop somewhere.

This is a repost of https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5038926, and I (fact check police) disapprove of videos from this channel. Previous comment in response to question from cross-post to other communities:

I’ve seen someone share a video from this “Top Wonder” channel before, all videos and no text or sources, will not recommend to anyone.

Chinese news article that includes pictures that are related to scenes in the video: http://nmg.news.cn/20240423/c1c752c63a124776b19a04ba6029721f/c.html, it’s about various machinery used to combat desertification. The one you asked about is actually the “Jumang 301” (句芒301):

Old 2021 article on “crosshatching with straw” or “checkerboard barrier” https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202102/05/WS601cb6d0a31024ad0baa781a.html

Chinese article on “checkerboard barrier”: https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1800622874211825823 Video: https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1794140909611479840

That’s interesting to know, which is why I posted these links in the first place, because the poster looks sensationalist and I couldn’t make a judgement on the accuracy of the claims, and I didn’t want to waste too much time looking up whether liberals are worse than they seem.

(My uninformed view is that this poster is making a bullshit claim)

That’s not what I got from reading these articles, I posted them so someone else could check if the sensationalist propaganda poster makes sense.

Now that you mentioned it, why do we on Lemmygrad need to be reminded that a specific liberal like Harris is garbage when all of them are? What kind of message is this kind of agitprop supposed to send, to vote for Trump/Republicans instead? Are we going to participate in electoralism in the US? Are we supposed to critically support the “lesser evil” like some US communist party claims?

In this comic, all the other balls are sovereign (or semi-sovereign in the case of Japan and ROK) states, so I don’t think there should be any other ball next to China. Israel massacred Palestinians, China did not kill people in Xinjiang.

My advice is to rethink how this comic should work, when Chinese people look at Israel and Palestine we are reminded of Japan and China during and before WW2, not the farce of “Uyghur genocide”.

Let me also remind people that Mao Zedong is accused of genocide at a much larger scale by western media, look at what they wrote here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity_under_communist_regimes#China . This is already very “tame” compared to more sensational claims elsewhere.

For people who don’t know the context (like me), here are some articles for reference. Though I’m the fact check police, I will not dive into this and leave it to other fact checkers:

2019-02-11 Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor

2019-08-01 Were Tulsi Gabbard’s attacks on Kamala Harris’ record as a California prosecutor on target?

2020-10-30 WOW! After Keeping HUNDREDS of Black Men in Prison Past Their Release Date for Their Cheap Labor — Kamala Harris to Host Black Male Get Out the Vote Rally in Miami

Thanks for cross-posting this, so that I could point this out to the original author, which I left as a comment there:

Is that the flag for the “East Turkestan independence movement” in the third panel? As a Chinese I’m asking you to not use the flag of a separatist movement as though it is legitimate, especially when you’re comparing it to Israel and Palestine, where Israel is a genocidal settler state and Palestine is a sovereign state.

Xinjiang (what the separatists claim to be “East Turkestan”) is a part of China, the ETIM flag does not represent the people of Xinjiang and thus should not be used in this context.

Is that the flag for the “East Turkestan independence movement” in the third panel? As a Chinese I’m asking you to not use the flag of a separatist movement as though it is legitimate, especially when you’re comparing it to Israel and Palestine, where Israel is a genocidal settler state and Palestine is a sovereign state.

Xinjiang (what the separatists claim to be “East Turkestan”) is a part of China, the ETIM flag does not represent the people of Xinjiang and thus should not be used in this context.

Your second link is to an old report in 2022, I have posted the link to the full text here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5158390

There seems to be debate around mutual aid and political power in the comments. Let us recall this famous quote from Mao Zedong: 枪杆子里面出政权 “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Other quotations that might be relevant can be found here: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm

Mutual aid must be sustained with resources, but more importantly it must be protected by an armed force. Do not forget the lessons paid in blood by revolutionaries throughout history. The history books are not even needed, because genocidal Zionists and their imperialist accomplices are reminding us continuously that one does not have to be communist to be a target for eradication.

PSA: Comrade Nguyễn Phú Trọng’s surname is Nguyễn, not “Trong”, his first name is Phú Trọng, not Trong.

NYT also made the same mistake, by referring to him as “Mr. Trong”: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/world/asia/nguyen-phu-trong-dead.html

This would be like referring to Mao Zedong as “Dong” or “Mr. Dong”.

I thought this was a mistake, but according to Vietnamese customs “Mr. Trong” or “Trong” is indeed a valid way to refer to Comrade Trong. This is a humiliating display in lack of investigation by myself.

The point about Mr. Dong still stands for Chinese names.