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Fun fact: in 1950, there were only 500 million people in China. That means that Mao killed half the population of China. That’s a little less than the raw percentage of population loss from the native population of North America in the 19th century (~600k in 1800 to 250k in 1890). Funnily enough, in 1979, the population of China had nearly doubled from the 1950 figures.
I guess we’ll never know what happened in North America, but that Mao guy sure was evil.
Not an American, but have spent a lot of time there. They have two right wing liberal parties, and a political system that actively resists any changes to that setup. As a result, they think that those are the two political extremes, and everything between them is centrist. Anyone outside of that is an extremist and not worthy of consideration. So when you criticise their party of choice, you obviously must be on the “other” side of the political spectrum, which to them is the other US political party.
They just don’t know any better, it’s outside of their realm of experience.
I’d not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That’s not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn’t sustainable.
I know you can’t read my response, but thank you.
Lawn dart.
right here. Please repost for hexbear. They can’t see my posts in my own instance.
The problem with that question is that you get accusations of genocide. If you point out that it’s overblown and/or falsified to fit the narrative, it’s genocide denial. If you point out that the fine capitalist countries have done and are continuing to do worse than what they accuse communist countries of, it’s whattaboutism. If you continue to press, then the capitalist countries made a whoopsie, or it’s all the fault of one man, while communists are just bloodthirsty and evil. Evidenced by the genocide… And back to square one.
It matters to Canada because the US told them to care. I have absolutely no clue about the US. Presumably they spent a lot of money getting those judges appointed and don’t want to lose their investments?
For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico’s democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.
Americans dub English language TV shows. They yell at people speaking Spanish. It’s entirely unsurprising that they would find Chinese language ads offensive.
The last person, I was curious about WTF they were on about. It was wartime propaganda from WW2. They’re openly comparing the war to the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany.
To be fair, my history teachers taught me a lot of propaganda.
This Indian says he can fuck right off.
That’s another comparison I often make actually. Except not the Cuban missile crisis, but Cuba’s entire history after Castro took power. The difference is that Cuba was sought as an acquisition, while Canada’s relationship is more akin to Russia’s relationship with Ukraine. The US’s greatest ally and partner.
I had an American friend who at the start of the war made the comparison I often make myself. What would the US have done if Canada was in talks to join the Warsaw Pact? I was seriously impressed that he’d nearly figured it out.
A month later, he started yelling at me that Putin was only interested in conquering Ukraine and was trying to rebuild the USSR (this was seen as a bad thing). I was so disappointed. He’s not my friend anymore for many reasons. But that was the beginning of the end.
If you have someone on TV repeat something enough, I think people just start believing it to be true, despite all evidence and common sense. This guy’s analysis is just so completely obvious that I’m amazed his comment section isn’t filled with people accusing him of being a Russian bot.
I got yelled at to go home the other day. By a black guy. I’m somewhat used to it from white people, but I was shocked enough that I actually engaged with him, and told him that I was native.
He told me that everyone was native because of Pangea, and wouldn’t listen to me when I said Pangea was about 200 million years before people even existed (creationist I think). I disengaged very quickly at that point, but I was pretty unsettled by that event for a few days afterwards.
I still have no explanation. Or any idea of where he thought I should be going home to.
That’s the first time I’m hearing about Hitler being a saviour. God what a terrible time to be alive.
The falsification isn’t what bothers me most. It’s saying shit like that, while completely ignoring Dresden, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.
Completely agree. I haven’t worked up the courage, but it’s something I absolutely would like to do as a part time job. It’s a service like any other, and it should be treated as such.