been feeling like shit last few days. anyone have any reasons not to be fully doomer? (preferably important stuff and not individual level things like "my cat is pretty") (though by all means do share cat pics as well)

  • KiaKaha [he/him]
    2·
    4 years ago

    Uighur camps

    Pragmatic and relatively humane approach to counterterrorism, at least compared to alternatives.

    Mass censorship

    See how Glastnost turned out for the USSR? See how, after colour revolutions, life has gotten qualitatively worse? That’s why.

    drug penalties

    Mostly a cultural hold over from the opium wars.

    • wackpatrol [none/use name]
      7·
      4 years ago

      so when trump snatched people off the streets months ago and we were all pissed and etc, it was a pragmatic and relatively humane approach to counter terrorism?

      so the censorship is cool and justified because its some other countries fault?

      and harsh death penalties is cool because a ancient opium war?

      im just saying like if this was a thing here, which some of it is, and is getting worse which we always hate on, why is that cool and a justification for things that literally we accept no justification for here

      • Awoo [she/her]
        2·
        4 years ago

        and harsh death penalties is cool because a ancient opium war?

        Harsh death penalties? Uighurs? You are misinformed.

        • wackpatrol [none/use name]
          4·
          4 years ago

          ok do you live under a rock or are you just such a tankie that you literally cannot process reality

          just curious do you like Israel? why / why not

          • Awoo [she/her]
            1·
            4 years ago

            Re-education is a process of raising their skill sets so they can work better jobs and thus improve their material conditions. This then results in the dropping of the extreme ideology because they actually have good lives to live.

            There is absolutely no death-penalty involved in the RE EDUCATION of a small number of the at-risk population there. You are horribly informed, I can only assume you've gotten your information from reddit comment sections in liberal communities and never taken any time to verify it among socialist spaces, even /r/socialism, a radlib/socdem space, will take you to task on how badly informed you are .

            Get informed. It's incredibly embarrassing that even the libs over there are better informed that you are.

            • wackpatrol [none/use name]
              4·
              4 years ago

              actually no, i literally have chinese friends living there that actually are stuck dealing with these problems, but hey you wouldnt know that while youre busy talking shit right?

              but hey keep talking shit and whatever

              • Awoo [she/her]
                1·
                4 years ago

                You're being a reactionary.

                That was not even enough time to glance over what was sent to you, let alone enough time to watch or engage with it.

                If you won't actually take ANY time to learn what we have all taken the time to learn then you are a reactionary. Pure and simple. Either take the time to get properly informed and learn or get out of leftist spaces because you're not a leftist. We don't take positions and then endlessly defend them without actually doing the homework, do the homework, then we'll talk further. Stop being such a massive child. Take the 20-30minutes you need to actually learn the leftist side of this topic.

              • MaoStan420 [none/use name]
                ·
                4 years ago

                i literally have chinese friends

                Oh yeah? What are their names? ch*ng chong? Ling ling? yeah right, lib ass mf