Basketball is canceled

They aren’t:

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism
• Why can’t you acheive socialism through voting in our current democracies?

I’d be fine with that. Best way would just be to report posts that do, so we can ask their creators to use the xcancel links, and remove them if they don’t.

I’ve used ranger, but I’m not as big a fan of it as broot.

The US is currently in a trade war with China, and Britain is still salty about their loss of their hong kong in 1997. So it’s best to get a source from a neutral country, rather than one of their current enemies.

For example, let’s look at what the middle east (a region the US and Britain have also looted, colonized, and bombed for decades) has to say:

• A majority of Muslim countries support China’s policies in XinJiang, and don’t believe the western lies told about it.. 54 Countries in total. 2, 3, 4 Supporters: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Kuwait, Laos, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
• Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang
• A Pakistani Diplomat given full access to “re-education camps” and this is what she found.
  • Despite claims of “erasing Uyghur culture”, they stated: “I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. […]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age.”

Thx, I’m gonna download and listen to that.

Please list sources for any of these. Preferably not from US or british state media.

If a serial murderer told you that their victims were actually much worse than they are, would you believe them?

Yet the source of pretty much all anti-china atrocity propaganda is the US and its orgs like the victims of communism foundation. They want you to believe every single country they hate, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc… are guilty of the same crimes they are. Why do you believe them?

You’ve been hit by, you’ve been struck by…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMtopY3pcZs

Done, thx.

Link the video coward.

What about the Tiananmen square massacre?

• Notes for the 30th anniversary of the Tiannment incident.
• It wasn’t a massacre of peaceful students, but a skirmish between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the pro-capitalist / free market reform movement. The protest movement, as evidenced by their own accounts, called for market liberalisation, and free market reforms, rallying around a replica of the statue of liberty. After the movement had been building in the square for seven weeks, unarmed soldiers were sent in to disperse the protesters, after which many soldiers were beaten to death, torched, and lynched. The New York Times death count went from 2600, to many thousands, to 8000, to tens of thousands. In reality only around ~200 (including soldiers) were killed or trampled, in smaller clashes outside the square. The on-scene New York Times reporter disavowed the article, especially about machine-gunning of protesters. A wikileaks cable from a US ambassador to the US state department, confirmed that no killings or machine-gunnings took place in the square.
• Latin American diplomat eyewitness account of June 3-4 events on Tiananmen Square wikileaks (PDF)
• There was a Spanish television crew that covered the entire Tiananmen Square incident as it unfolded. Their footage showed that there was no massacre. A few things worthy of pointing out - Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian, both student leaders of the Tiananmen protests, have been recorded as saying that they never saw anyone killed at the protests.
• The protest movement followed the line of “color revolutions”, in which the US tried to destabilize and create counter-revolutions in eastern Europe and Latin America after the fall of the USSR. The strategy was to stir division within and without, by inundating the media with news of massacres of “peaceful”, pro-capitalist / market reformers.
• The defeat of a counter revolution in China.
• Interviews from some of the student leaders.
• An account from a resident.
• Tiananmen Square “Massacre”, A Propaganda Hoax.
• The truth about the Tiananmen square protests

Definitely, when the traveling time alone is anywhere from a week to a month or more, with lots of required stops, then it makes sense to spend a long time in a place.

Looks like it took Bertrand Russell 6 weeks to get from England to Shanghai in 1920.

It’s very similar to the “oh you have time to read books and educate yourself, you must be rich!” discourse. It’s very infantalizing.

I think Twain here is referring to travel less as tourism, ie short vacations, but more about spending time living in different countries and getting to know people and their culture, making friends, etc.

I love those episodes.

Nice, I’m gonna read that soon. I do know that Adam Smith explicitly agreed with the labor theory of value, which all the capitalist economics schools reject despite venerating him.

China, but also the PRC hasn’t been in a war in like 50+ years. Meanwhile the US killed a million innocent people in Iraq, and goes after whistleblowers like Assange, Snowden, and Manning for speaking out about its war crimes. And the Obama administration prosecuted a record number of whistleblowers, and had a zero tolerance policy towards them.

https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/