I think most people don't understand that "genocide" has a very specific legal definition and just use it to denote whatever sort of bad thing they don't like.
I've also noticed that some are starting to pivot to "cultural genocide" because they know that what they're peddling cannot meet the definition of actual genocide. Cultural genocide was never really defined and is to genocide what "Apple-Style Fruit Drink" is to Apple Juice.
The Genocide Convention was signed in 1948, before most of the global south even achieved independence as a part of decolonization. The very countries who were subject to brutal mass murder by the imperial powers never got a say in what constitutes genocide.
Funny that.
Yeah, I don't think it's that they designed the definition to weasel around it. I think they were just like "yeah but we're the ones in charge, so you're not gonna be able to get us under 'international law'"
It was done by multiple countries in order to get whatever they were doing (or wanted to do) not counted as genocide. For instance the USSRs opposition to having political killings included was joined by right wing governments who didn't want killing left wing groups counted as genocide.
I’ve also noticed that some are starting to pivot to “cultural genocide” because they know that what they’re peddling cannot meet the definition of actual genocide.
Ending white supremacy is cultural genocide
“genocide” has a very specific legal definition
it has multiple specific legal definitions depending on which international body is ruling
Is it weird that I believe the genocide narrative MORE now that the state department says it's not a genocide?
That's part of the point of this, or at least of this headline. Now all the chuds and liberal idiots will be like "why is no one talking about this (not that this stopped them before)! How dare the State Department retreat from helping the UIghurs 😭" Still just as made up as before.
Dem foreign policy is more concerned about Russia and hegemony over Europe
Republican foreign policy doent care about Europe ( Or rather, thinks they'll remain loyal vassal states come what may) and wanted to smash China like they smashed Japan in the 80s and sent their economy into a death spiral
This is an attempt to de-escalate what 4 years of Repub foreign policy as an actual war with China US would probably lose and revolutions tend to happen in imperial power when they lose a war
Did make me laugh how the Western Left fell for blatant CIA shit yet again though
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The US gov has done studies and found that if as few as 9 of the 55k grid substations are taken down, the entire grid (most of which is largely 20 years past EOL) will go down for at least a year and a half. A different Defense Dept study found that without the grid as much as 90% of the population may die.
But yeah push for war with an ICBM-equipped power sure.
I feel like 9 substations could be taken out over a weekend solely on accident by drunk drivers across the midwest. This country is such a fucking sham
This is an attempt to de-escalate what 4 years of Repub foreign policy as an actual war with China US would probably lose and revolutions tend to happen in imperial power when they lose a war
It's an effort to realign the foreign policy, as Clinton/Biden neoliberals still think Beijing can be "fixed" in the same way Afghanistan or Iran or Cuba policy could be "fixed" with a neoliberal market-based McKinsey approved solution.
It's also - I suspect - a natural "if you're for it then I'm against it" dividing line between the parties. Even setting aside the cost-benefit of butting heads with world's newest superpower, the very fact that guys like Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw are getting on the white nationalist anti-China warpath gives Dems an incentive to choose a different lane. I can absolutely see the DNC adopting "Do you want us to get into a war with China?!?!" language, in the same way LBJ moved to call Goldwater a warmonger on the eve of Vietnam.
Did make me laugh how the Western Left fell for blatant CIA shit yet again though
American leftists are quick to adopt the same reflexive "Government Bad" narrative that American libertarians love. This is more an indication of the weakness of ML media penetration than an indictment of Western Leftism (which can only really work with the information they've got).
I can't really blame people who grew up in the United States during the 80s/90s and watched us commit atrocity after atrocity, then conclude "All governments are like this". I also can't blame them for consuming news from ostensibly leftist media sources - like The Daily Show and The Pod Johns and the periodic Breadtube hot take - and taking the information at face value. At some point you need to trust someone, or you're just blackpilled into nihilism.
Folks in the thick of the Chapo-verse need to understand that not everyone is listening to TrueAnon and taking history classes from Russ Baker. Praxis is pointing the contradictions out and flagging them as sus. Not yelling at left-liberals and uninformed comrades for being duped.
If the CIA shit didn't work, the world wouldn't be such a clusterfuck.
