They could have made a peace settlement a month in to the war in March 2022, given the DPR and LPR independence and not had to deal with anymore Russian invasions. But instead they listened to people like Boris Johnson enthusiastically telling them to fight to the last Ukrainian because we’ll keep giving you weapons.

Every insanely hot summer over the last 5 years has been compared to the summer of 76, almost like 5 years of extreme heat is different to 1.

Fastest way to work out someone hasn’t even bothered reading Capital Vol 1 is calling it “Das Kapital” when referring to the English translation.

Read it, it’s well worth it.

Don’t look up how South Korea formed and how for nearly the majority of its existence it was a military junta that the capitalist world pretended barely even existed until money was poured into it during the 90s at the end of the Cold War.

Better one-to-one work with autistic people who lack certain social skills that helps them engage with other people, autistic or otherwise, specifically using their special interest (if they have one) as a hook would be far more beneficial for human contact for that section of the autistic population. They’re still human and deserve human-to-human contact, especially to talk about things they derive intense pleasure from.

Platner is an unashamed imperialist and by personal accounts loved being a mercenary in Iraq. He doesn’t seem regretful at all and made no real attempt at asking for forgiveness.

China is still a developing nation, and its countryside is still being modernised and connected into the wider infrastructure framework of the urban centres. This requires constant expansion of the electricity grid and output. It is not a mature, developed nation with little need to expand energy production like vast chunks of Europe and the US.

How soon do we get the liberal regret of “how could we have known we were funding neonazis in Ukraine?”

Before or after 9/11 2 electric boogaloo because the nazis are pissed that they’ve been abandoned by the west?

Liberalism: A Counter History, by Domenico Losurdo. Mostly so far looking at how all the liberal revolutions and theorists ended up being at least lukewarm to slavery.

You are treating one side differently from the rest because one side is in a dramatically different situation to the other side and you are acting as if they are the same. Slaves and masters, oppressed and oppressor, treated with the “same” moral and ethical rigour despite one side actively trying to exploit the other.

It’s not about politeness, it’s that the crown have now firmly established themselves as part of the capitalist class, and expropriating them would be the same as expropriating any old capitalist. They have class solidarity and won’t allow that to happen baring outbreaks of war with foreign adversaries.

The DPRK is more democratic than the UK and you have no idea how its democratic and political system functions, and are invoking it as an anti-communist canard.

The UK is a democracy for the rich, where any wins that are forced out of them by the working class are slowly reversed back to the status quo.

She had the audacity to go on one of the flotilla to Palestine and get tortured by Israelis.

You are illiterate.

The Russian Federation is not an ethnostate lmao

The article is complete garbage, picked apart well by the other reply you had.

Not least because it spouted off the Uyghur genocide bullshit to smear China.

“Like it’s the bible.” You are a fucking idiot. Trotskyists call shit imperialist then when you point out that they are wrong and don’t even understand the book that they pulled the term from you get accused of quote mining. Get a grip.

Trotskyists failing to understand Lenin’s Imperialism for the 1000th time.

Imperialism is the stage of Capitalism where a militaristic foreign policy is developed and employed as a continuation of economic policy.

China is not doing imperialism because it trades with other nations and helps them build infrastructure and factories in win-win negotiations. When was the last time China got a trade deal or negotiated settlement because it pointed a load of guns and missiles at its potential trade partner?

Just childish and pathetic both sides-ism of the social fascists.

You are suggesting that there is no truth, that attempting to grasp at truth is pointless and to do so is simply picking sides.

The US propaganda against China is wrong. The overwhelming evidence against the US is true.

The idea that there is no truth to look for, to grasp towards is fascist logic.

Those citations from that page come back to a book written by Jasper Becker, a right-wing journalist expelled from Hong Kong in the 90s and who became a Tory Councillor in the 2010s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Ghosts:_Mao's_Secret_Famine

His book plays fast and loose with statistics, and the margins of error are huge - somewhere between 15 and 55 million people died in the famine but this citation seemingly suggests 65 million died, above that even cited in the books Wikipedia article. Reading the citations in the book’s article leads you to a number of American (and American Chinese) authored articles that all pluck various numbers from this vast range.

Even a cursory amount of research and poking around links those various citations led to makes the presented state of affairs that seemed so ironclad and clear cut almost melt into meaningless. What else can be expected from anti-communist hit pieces so readily shared by idiots hoping to spread atrocity propaganda.

And when the EU kills thousands and thousands of people in the Mediterranean for trying to enter, that’s just the cost of doing business I suppose. Dinghys full of people that EU coast guards could rescue but don’t, for fear of the influx of refugees and immigrants into the EU. Left to die, drowning in the sea.

But China is evil because it controls the internal movement of its 1.4 billion population?

Tell me again the population of the EU. Of the population of the USA.

China is a developing country, it has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty by its policy decisions. It put an end to the famines that you attribute to malice as opposed to the costs of decades of civil war and invasion by fascist forces.