Infamousblt [any]

Can’t have babies anymore with balls full of micro plastics!

Probably because Israel won’t stop doing a fucking genocide.

AI is surely weeks away from taking our jobs

The Biden admin allowing the absolute destruction of abortion laws in the US isn’t going to help improve this number either

Oh yes, regular folks in the Imperium are absolutely forbidden from knowing anything about or even talking about chaos at all. The guard may even be sent to fight chaos directly without being told what they’re fighting or why, just that they are fighting heretics. And if they ask for more information they will be made an example of so nobody else thinks it’s a good idea.

The Imperium is not a nice place to be, mostly

Also the US just put massive import taxes on solar panels and EVs, two technologies that could really make an impact on slowing down the problem.

Also the US exports more methane gas than any country on earth. Methane is 30x more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2. CO2 only tells part of the story

And why is that do you think?

Honestly, good. Fuck every single capitalist piece of shit who has gone out of their way to accelerate global warming at every turn. They have they most to lose

More of that capitalist innovation I keep hearing about huh. Finding innovative new ways to stop new technology that threatens their business from reaching a broader market! Great job

You’re pointing out the crimes of the victims rather than the oppressors. That’s defense of the oppressors no matter how many mental backflips you do to pretend it’s not

You: actively defending genocide

Also you: PLZ NO PERSONAL ATTACKS CIVILITY IS IMPORTANT

Israelis are willingly targeting civilians. Where is your hand wringing about that?

So what free alternative would you suggest?

This is why diversity without intersectionality is literally meaningless

You shouldn’t

They probably are. They probably aren’t covering them in English though, it’s not for English speaking audiences. China, as an example, has very publicly chastised the US for its countless human rights violations over the years. Many non-Western countries have.

You’re talking about my case here, but your case basically boils down to “I don’t see countries reporting on Western crimes in English, so it must not be happening” which…is certainly an argument you could make. Western countries have a horrible track record of reporting on their own crimes, and non Western countries probably aren’t writing lots of English articles for English speaking audiences because that isn’t who their readership is. I guess if you’re fluent in some other languages and spend a lot of time reading non Western media in non-English languages then you’d have a stronger argument here. I kinda doubt that though. And I bet if I did start pulling out less Western media sources that do report in English like Al Jazeera or RT I would be immediately called out for parroting anti-Western propaganda. It’s a real catch 22.

My argument is “Western governments fund propaganda efforts against their perceived competition, so stop parroting it as if it’s objective fact.” They don’t even hide that they’re doing it, it’s not like this is some nutter conspiracy theory. There is plenty to be critical of China for, but “Chinese Embassy Doing Embassy Things” isn’t one of them and only serves to fuel anti Asian racism and propaganda.

That’s my point, said article doesn’t exist, because mundane shit like “embassy does its job” is only “news” when “non white bad people country does things.” It’s only news when it feeds the racist propaganda machine.

Abducting someone is only “abhorrent” without the context. It’s only bad if you assume they don’t have a good reason for it. And you can only assume they don’t have a good reason for it if you buy into the propaganda that the Chinese government is some entity made of pure evil.

Maybe these folks were past their visa, or were being extradited for some crime. Who knows. There are lots of super valid reasons for an embassy to “abduct” someone. World governments do that kind of shit all of the time for totally normal reasons. And yet where’s the article about “German Embassy KIDNAPS man who was staying in the US on an expired visa.” They don’t exist because people naturally assume that white governments have a good reason for doing something and non white governments don’t. It just racism plain and simple.

Sure maybe the Chinese government is just going around risking international incidents because some random dude is doing thought crime. Or maybe they’re just getting them out of the country because they’re not supposed to be there anymore. One of those is significantly more likely than the other.