SnAgCu [he/him, any]

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on the topic of pandas everyone look at this one

under evil communist rule developers are banned from embedding javascript

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i eat so much frickingf bread smh

i will give up every scrap of my human dignity before i allow the flow of funko pops to be interrupted

If you’re vaccinated, you can take off your mask

Nope too bad, I’m putting on even more mask than before mother fucker

prehognition

Blinken USES MCDONALD’S WASHROOM for Ukraine visit photo op

Putin says if NATO doesn’t back off from Russia’s borders, they’ll retaliate. “Of course we didn’t sign that.” ()

NATO doesn’t back off. Russia retaliates.

NATO boasts about how they’re doing even more not-backing-off by admitting more of Russia’s neighbours.

it’s just categorically lame, even if it’s not the end of the world

I hate that this even exists, that there’s infrastructure for manufacturing and distributing it, that people spend time working on it. it just sucks, it’s just food that is not good on purpose

It’s irreplaceable for me

Show me another shooter with mid-air pogo sticky jumping or :bird-heavy:

Your understanding of Chinese infrastructure isn’t rigorous if it’s entirely based on some sensationalist viral videos of some places which look bad. Yeah, it’s a massive country with a billion people, some of those places look bad in a video. I’m not happy about the bad construction you see there, nor the real estate speculation causing some of it (which isn’t a communist feature).

You can find lots of videos of places in the US and Canada looking bad too, only it’s like cops destroying the tents and property of unhoused people in the streets. But in response to those we might say “oh that’s terrible, they should fix that” and not the “we gotta overthrow the authoritarian government” when it’s about China.

Ah but they posted the Reuters article maliciously. In a scheming, tankie sort of way.

The US bombed and firebombed until there were “no more targets in Korea.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea Examine the primary sources if you like, they’re decent. It was comparable to genocide.

And now we point and laugh at the DPRK for being less developed than the US-backed South?

Nearly half (46%) globally said that the European Union, United States and Nato were doing too little to assist Ukraine, while 11% said they are doing too much

I do think the paper is flawed but not useless. I wasn’t really the one who posted it though, it’s the primary source for this claim in the other article.

On the face of it it’s so bloody unimportant - you can’t post a picture of winnie the pooh? That is truly the most oppressed anyone has ever been in history.

And then you actually examine all of the articles they have - every single citation is just “reportedly” “allegedly” “this happened to one student” ass primary sources. I’ve never actually looked into this in depth until now (because I actually lived in China and of course saw the fucking bear everywhere), in my mind they had more convincing propaganda than that.

E.g.

“He’s propagating the issue, and frankly, I think he’s humiliated himself by being so childish about it,” says Deb Hoffmann, who holds the world record for the largest collection of Winnie the Pooh memorabilia. “If he would’ve just let it go, it would have died down by now. Plus, if the idiot knew anything, he would be delighted to be compared to Winnie the Pooh. After all, Winnie the Pooh is a very good-hearted, wonderful, thoughtful person. Being compared to Winnie the Pooh is actually quite the compliment!”

This may be the most shit, how they invent reality and then react to what they imagined. The making up a guy to get mad at model of journalism. Also, this person quoted is literally just a collector of marketable slop? Why would I care what they think?

Sure, for what it’s worth I could concede that a global majority might approve of support for Ukraine according to this data. Looking at raw data from: https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/initiatives/the-copenhagen-democracy-summit/dpi-2023/

That figure may not be accurate however, especially because I can’t see that they computed a weighted global total by population. They extrapolate to obtain each “nationally representative result” by taking into account the respondents’ age, gender and education to mitigate selection bias. I have my doubts about extrapolating like that, but okay. The main problem is when you check the global total, it’s just an unweighted average of all nations. Highlighted in orange: Top - unweighted average of all nations, Bottom - reported figure from the author

Each country has ~1000 respondents, so there isn’t a proportional representation of each country based on its population - small countries (mostly imperial core, as it happens) have an outsized effect on the average.

damn JT’s a tankie ??? now i have to forget everything he just said, it’s all evil nooooooooo