• ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Actually no because Frankenstein's monster was not evil, just misunderstood, meanwhile, NATO isn't not evil, just misunderstood (by liberals).

    • Florn [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Frankenstein's monster did in fact make a conscious decision to be evil

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        Eh, it just wanted to ruin some terrible dude’s life and get revenge. Critical support for a nonbinary icon.

        • Florn [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          He could have done that by following Frankenstein and scaring people away instead of killing

    • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      It's not misunderstood either. It's evil and understood. They know what side their bread is buttered, it's the imperialism side. It's just that their narcissism won't allow them to openly admit it.

  • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for sharing this.

    NATO in reality is far weaker than the SCO in all direct military comparisons. Apart from the already weakened, debt-burdened and militarily wildly overstretched US, the only significant land military power NATO has is medium-sized Turkiye. The SCO, in contrast, can boast of four major thermonuclear military powers all of which have formidable land armies — China, Russia, India and Iran. Turkiye itself, as I have noted, now appears happier associating with the SCO than with NATO.

    That's a very interesting perspective; not considered a comparison of the SCO with NATO before, with that framing.

    If one hasn't seen it already, Vijay Prashad on Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage is a good watch:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJDxxkVhlJM

    The full article can be found at:

    https://thetricontinental.org/studies-on-contemporary-dilemmas-4-hyper-imperialism/

  • Saff@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Well, thanks china daily for what I’m sure is a totally unbiased serious news piece!

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      In Communist Badcountry, the citizens are trained to immediately, aggressively dismiss any information or point of view from Beyond the Border that runs counter to what their ruling class tells them about the rest of the world yeonmi-park

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      there is no such thing as an unbiased news piece. that you believe otherwise is honestly embarrassing assuming you're not a child

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, how dare non-western countries have their own perspective on things! Rude!

    • qwename@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      While this isn't really important, but the author of this piece is Martin Sieff, who I did not know until you made this comment. Here's are short bios of him:

      • https://www.theglobalist.com/contributors/martin-sieff/
      • https://www.thenation.com/authors/martin-sieff/
      • https://globalpi.org/expert/martin-sieff/

      Basically he is from Northern Ireland, studied in British universities, worked in US media, connected to Russia, contributes to Chinese media. I think all this background information is too much for some to process.