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Based on how federation will work the news thread will show up on the front page of /all so having some sort of disclaimer included makes sense to me
Honestly I was hoping someone might have dropped some more Xinjiang info by now too because I do not have those resources on hand .
I just find it so incredibly hard to take seriously the idea that the global community can get worked up into such a froth over something like this after the prolonged occupation and genocidal war of the Middle East conducted by the U.S. Of which the Iraq war is only one of the most recent installment. That fact and the fact of nuclear war as a possibility makes it obvious to me that even in the worst case scenario and something awful is being done by China, IT SHOULD NOT BE U.S. THAT DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I mean fuck the Vietnamese stopped Pol Pot who knows what could happen.
Being bordered with Tibet raises questions to me. There are open questions about the compatibility of Abrahamic religions with a communist society IMO. I would say each one contains positive, revolutionary traits, and negative, reactionary traits. How those things are approached is absolutely a crucial open question and one that was a major stumbling block for the U.S.S.R too in terms of maintains internal coherency. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the Chinese have been much more accepting of religious diversity and it has clearly helped in maintaining a more coherent and durable state.
I don’t fucking know ultimately, it just smells like Taiwan and Tibet and Ukraine and myriad other state department conceived deliberate quagmires. I cannot in good conscience support the action of the U.S. military intervening in China because to me it spells the end of the fucking world. Sorry not sorry if that’s controversial to anyone reading.
I can't believe you would say these things
since you mentioned dropping Xinjiang info here's a p good summary
https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/
Here’s another good resource on Xinjiang in addition to what emizeko linked: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang
Makes sense to me. I think China will take some serious baiting to give the US what it wants in Asia (another (proxy) war). I don't think the US realises quite what democratic centralism means for it's ability to make this opponent act in a predictable way. Which is to say, I think we're safe from nuclear war for now, at least between China and the States.
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Fair, also that's gonna be wild, the first day of that is going create some incredible posting slop.