Critiquing China from the left is ok. And what that looks like is acknowledging that there is racism present in China and there are marginalized groups who aren’t being treated fairly. That needs to change, just like it needs to change in nearly every other country in the world. Marginalization of minorities remains a global problem, and China could be doing more.

BUT, there is little credible evidence to suggest that minorities in China are worse off than minorities in the US, or Scandinavia, or Japan, or Isreal, etc etc etc. In some respects, they may even be better off.

So yeah, it would be totally reasonable to take, say, an anarchist perspective, and criticize China as part of a broader concern about power structures. Criticism that paints China as “evil” is not criticism from the left and is, intentionally or otherwise, buying into Western anti-China propaganda.

The National Owners Association said franchisees, suppliers and McDonald’s “must engage to support our California McFamily”

TotK is so damn good

Reposting this because it’s still my favorite article this year. If people could just realize this (obviously comrades already know), I feel like we’d immediately be 20% closer to communism.

CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salary

lot of mix and mingle events and stuff. they do all hang out together. sounds like maybe McEnroe had it first, and he interviewed and talked to a bunch of them face to face.

it’s also a boat! https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/teslas-mythical-cybertruck-will-also-be-a-temporary-boat-because-why-not/

this is the car Homer designed in that Simpsons episode. Musk is literally as smart as Homer Simpson.

throw him in the ocean

Arguing for an hour with liberals on about climate change and now I hate myself and everyone else. why do I do this?

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remember when the US let over 2 million people die from covid because the only thing they did in the face of a pandemic was lower interest rates? I’m so ready to talk domestic issues, haha.

Just discovered the song I’d Love To Change The World by Ten Years After and it’s kind of a banger, but it also unfortunately features the worst lyric I’ve ever heard immediately before the best lyric?

“Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more”

What a bizarre twist.

post better bait next time. this is way too obvious.

c/chat is also not a shitposting comm, just FYI. i think we said that somewhere on there.

Attention. Class is now in session. Professor Dirt Owl presiding

Sure. but that’s a lot of dead people to defend the principle of not letting Russia get what they want. We could have said “fine, we won’t expand NATO” and either Russia would have backed down or been forced to abandon that “pretense”. But we didn’t. We got into this dick measuring contest of “Ukraine can join if they want to 😤” and provoked a war. Which we wanted, in order to fight Russia without using American troops. But it’s completely to the detriment of citizens in both Ukraine and Russia.

bless up

shouts out to everyone who stayed with us through bunker mode. that was certainly something.