ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]

My understanding (but happy for more information if anyone has it) on the oestrogen thing, is China in the last few years increased restrictions on pharmaceutical medications across the board. Previously you could buy most non addictive (opiates, benzos et) online without any prescription. Antibiotics. Blood pressure medication, whatever. This is included oestrogen. They would also ship these overseas.

Now it’s harder because you need a prescriptions and there’s other rules. So it wasn’t so much some officials saying “How do we make trans people’s lives harder” but more them bringing what had been a rather laissez-faire situation into regulations more in line with most other countries in the world (Europe, Asia etc). But it did materially affect trans people in China and globally.

I agree I do think Hamas has more respect for international law and the laws of war than Israel.

Like sure winning 2020? Okay, but there definitely needed to be an exit/succession plan straight away. And a better VP who can step up.

It’s wild how Dems/libs have let this happen. I don’t think Kamala Harris would be a good candidate or president necessarily. But Biden can only get worse with time. Harris could get better for them. The Democrats should have been coaching and grooming her for this election for 4 years, instead of her wandering around drugged out of her mind saying random things, they could have buffed and polished her.

I tend to feel fact the tanks are leaving doesn’t necessarily disprove a liberal anti-CPC protestor. People do nonsensical protest actions all the time.

But even if they were it does show the restraint and humanity of the tank drivers.

2 new friends in 4 years? That’s pretty great.

The full footage shows that the tanks were leaving the square, not entering. They stand in front of them, the driver tries to get around him, they climb on top and chat with the driver for a bit, then bystanders come and walk them away. They have never been identified, their motives never ascertained. It was a divisive time, they could have been stopping them for liberal anti-CPC reasons, they could have been a loyalist counter-protestor insisting they go back to remain in the square, they could have had undiagnosed mental illness and be having a breakdown at really inopportune time, etc

Can’t imagine how much bleaker things would be today if the PRC had collapsed alongside the USSR, Warsaw Pact, Yugoslavia etc.