Ranked higher than a country where many believe there to only be one valid party and that if the other party gains power that the entire democratic system will collapse and bring Armageddon?

That’s who you’re comparing against?

Saudi Arabia doesn’t have the power to dick around with human rights halfway across the globe.

I too enjoy reading Western media instead of experiencing things first-hand.

You do realize that Tibetan independence was never recognized by any country, right? Not even the British.

Do you understand Tibetan history up to that point? At least it’s no longer a serfdom system (which Tibetan advocates will say was equal because of the one-in-a-million chance that one of the peasants can become the Dalai Lama and that everyone was totally happy because everyone was working towards bettering Buddhism). How many Tibetan refugees do you know who experienced serfdom?

Why would Ford care when it can just petition the US government to block the sale of Chinese cars? It’s the same thing Boeing did to block Bombardier sales in the US.

So… What leverage does Ukraine have to make that happen?

Speaking at a news conference at the United Nations on Saturday, the minister called a 10-point peace blueprint promoted by Kyiv “completely not feasible”.

Kyiv’s plan:

Energy security, with a focus on price restrictions on Russian energy resources

Restoring Ukraine’s territorial integrity and Russia reaffirming it according to the UN Charter

Withdrawal of Russian troops and the cessation of hostilities, the restoration of Ukraine’s state borders with Russia

Justice, including the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes

building security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic space, including guarantees for Ukraine.

What leverage does Ukraine think they have to institute such a blatantly pro-Ukraine peace resolution? Based on Ukraine’s proposed plan, you’d think they were at the sea of Azov and halfway to Moscow, rather than stuck in a few salients along the same frontline they were at a year ago.

He’s wanted in India.

Ah yes, because Tibet before the CCP was a bastion of human rights protection. Who do you think you’re convincing?

Still, clearly never been to China 🤷‍♀️

Foundations of geopolitics? Fuck that, more war. More Ukrainians will die, and that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

Exactly why the choice is so easy for you.

With what military do you plan on using to support this?

Have you ever been to China? Ever talked to a person from a Chinese minority? Clearly not.

By and large their complaints are about a lack of economic opportunity (because, y’know, Inner Mongolia isn’t exactly the most hospitable climate) and that the government affirmative action isn’t enough to address the gap in resources. That’s what you’ll hear on the ground… And that’s an absolutely fair concern.

Who would the US have bombed? Canada? Mexico?

The US didn’t have the logistics to project power globally like they can today. What exactly would you propose they drop a bomb on? Moscow?

People love to criticize famines in China and Russia as being mismanagement by government (and they are), but they’re missing the forest for the trees. Prior to the communist governments, famines were a common occurrence in China and Russia.

The Sichuan famine in 1936 killed 5 million. The famine in 1928 killed 6 million. The Chinese famine in 1906 killed 20 million. The Chinese famine in 1876 killed 10 million.

Yet, since the Great Leap Forward? China has not experienced a single famine. Similarly, the last famine in Russia was in 1947. People sit in their ivory towers where food can be imported from around the world and 40% of food is wasted and wonder why so many people died trying to get something so accessible. Meanwhile, places in Africa are still experiencing mass famine and nobody cares.

Most people from hexbear provide sources, which is better than can be said for all the tankie hate.

I mean, you were never blocked from replacing ICs. Most people just didn’t have the capability to solder. Today, IC replacement is blocked by hardware DRM.

This isn’t unique to the far-left, though. It’s a problem throughout the entire political spectrum.

It’s rather dangerous to be creating echo chambers in a democracy, though. Democracy lives off of discourse between opposing views.

Gender pronouns exist mostly because our society ties so many societal norms to gender. If people weren’t sexist animals, it wouldn’t really be a problem.

Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.

You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.