NeilBrü

Guillotine

Get mad.

We’re just one smarmy internet comment away from your proletarian utopia, comrade, I promise.

Serfdom

Hard disagree. Not believing first-hand accounts from survivors is looney tunes shit. Or are they just an imperialist plant as well?

No, I pressed the wrong button by accident and “undeleted” it. I stand by what I said. China and average Chinese people are not bad. The CCP is bad.

EDIT: Pressed the wrong button and accidentally deleted this comment. Fortunately, Lemmy let’s you “undelete”.

Also, the unsurprising “whataboutism” from CCP apologists notwithstanding, it’s important for other folks to see that, despite “the west” being the techno-feudalist monsters they are, the CCP, the Iranian theocracy, the DPRK, and Putin’s russian imperial revivalist government are not the “noble opposition” that the perpetually butt-hurt temporarily-inconvenienced-dictators-in-waiting will make them out to be. Anyone who says “I’m/We’re in charge forever,” should be ridiculed and held in the utmost contempt for being the asshole bullies they are.

Here are the sources from the author (and I suspect this won’t convince you; it’s clear your mind is already made up):

• https://archive.ph/o/7Oj0e/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/china-cables-more-than-a-million-people-detained-against-their-will-in-chinese-province-1.4092052
• https://archive.ph/o/7Oj0e/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/china-cables-the-surveillance-system-behind-the-repression-1.4091861
• https://archive.ph/o/7Oj0e/https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/04/28/how-china-secretly-exerts-control-in-ireland-from-a-nondescript-office-on-capel-street-in-dublin/

This excerpt on Tiananmen Square tells one exactly why the CCP are authoritarians who should never be trusted:

Everyone (at least in the West) seems to know about tank man, but there’s another story that’s not as widely known and I never understood why. It shines a whole new light on this and explains why the Chinese government is so heavy handed when it comes to this subject. It was more than just another autocratic crackdown on protestors, which, while terrible, are par for the course.

A good chunk of military units sent in to squash the protestors refused to carry out their orders, refused to brutalize and kill their countrymen. Some actively joined in on the protests, then units sent in to put a stop it joined in as well. This terrified the Chinese leadership so they sent in the 27th army group, largely comprised of illiterate peasant farmers with no connection to Beijing or its people,  headed by a politically reliable officer. The 27th army group then proceeded to massacre everyone, not ‘just’ students and protestors, but their own comrades in arms, other PLA soldiers.

Read the British embassy report and tell me it doesn’t completely change your perspective. The CCP wants everyone to think this was just another protest, no big deal. It wasn’t, it was the time they almost lost control, and they know it. It’s why they’re so fearful.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UK_cable_on_Tiananmen_Square_Massacre

edit: another user recommended a PBS documentary The Tank Man

Fuck the CCP.

400 grand seems cheap to me for 2kg of uranium.

I did. I was born in Chicago. I fucked off to Europe a couple years ago, to the Netherlands.

In many ways superior to the US, no doubt.

But if I’m being honest? Same-ish problems. Perhaps, a smaller scale. I’ve been fortunate to see much of the world, at least far more than the average natural-born US citizen. I speak 4 languages. 2 of them fluently. The same societal sicknesses in America pervade the globe.

Certainly, the US is a dumpster-fire, but it’s not the only trash receptacle that’s ablaze at the moment, and it definitely didn’t start there, historically.

Good. Well, bad, long-term, but the Gaming Journalism industry deserves it for their unabashed corporate glazing for favors.

P.S. Downvotes don’t change reality.

As I said, the benefit is an altered consciousness and/or perception to provide new insight and avenues of introspection on one’s being, life path, and composition of their ontology.

Alcoholism causes cancer, alcohol is the most easily abused drug, and the heavy legislation was even heavier in times past (it was banned outright during the prohibition era in the US) and had disastrous consequences for the public.

And I’m not even trying to argue to ban alcohol; statistically it is the “worst” societally by many metrics.

Your banal puritanism has been tried before.

Crack is not the only “drug” in the world.

And by the way, if we’re going to make drugs illegal in the way you want it, let’s start with alcohol and nicotine, the worst of them all.

That’s been tried before, by the way. It didn’t go very well.

One can alter their consciousness or perception thereof. That doesn’t release them from their responsibilities.

You’re flailing.

To start, a state of altered consciousness to help consider different viewpoints when reflecting about the choices one has made in life and the how that affects the constitution of one’s personality.

Solar-system-wide, picometer-deep reasoning there, ace.

Also, “mamoth” is spelled with 3 m’s (“mammoth”).

Do you believe it’s fine for you to decide who gets to “live with drugs”? If the state says it’s okay to “live with drugs”, do you believe that you should be able to supersede the mandate of the state?

lemmy.ml

Yep.

Very.

Sophistry.