The most interesting part of this is that Musk allowed it to happen. Either he genuinely did not realize he had been working with and supporting other foreign actors attempting to destabilize the US, or some X dev is about to get fired/disappear/“fall” out of a window. There’s no way Musk knew these accounts were dishonest foreign astroturfers and permitted this feature go live.
You’re saying Marx while advocating for a Stalin-style dictatorship. Any proletariat uprising that depends on a separate class to perform in any position of dictatorship is a fascist - as was the case with Russia - or capitalist - as in China - regime in disguise.
I have never claimed to support any form of liberalism. That was a stance you imposed on me when I attacked your politics.
But, I digress, you kept it civil, I’ll take the opportunity to flip my attitude and do the same. While I still do not respect your politics, everyone deserves proper care, and everyone deserves to rest. I genuinely do hope you heal well.
So you agree? Xi Jiping is a dictator?
My friend, if you think dictatorship is a progressive step towards communism, I have a bridge you can hand ownership of to the state.
For someone who wants to try and play semantics, you’re quite quick to throw yourself, and your argument, under the bus. Perhaps pick a game you’re good at. You’re embarrassing your glorious leader over here.
Of course I’m angry. Tankies defending a state-capitalist autocracy pisses me off, as it should any rational, progressive human being. The “Internet tough-guy calling people angry” schtick doesn’t dissuade china’s aggression to the sovereign nation of Taiwan, un-genocide any Ugyhur lives, or free China’s “totally not homeless” population out of the concentration camps the state uses to hold up their economy. My anger is well directed, and your attempt to belittle that isn’t the “own” that you and your fascist ilk seem to believe it is.
Fuck the States. This thread isn’t about them, their history of racism, or their rapid descent into fascism. This thread is about China disappearing a dissenter for “reeducation,” and this conversation is about how you’re a fresh account, happy to dismiss any criticism of your glorious fascist state as “American propaganda” with no logic other than “they said stuff I don’t like so it must be an American psyop.” No amount of whataboutism will change that you’re a dishonest actor, openly mocking one imperialist nation, while shilling for another.
Account created one week ago and has literally only ever bothered to post in a thread that calls out fascist China for doing horrible fascist things?
Which one of you hexbear, .ml fake-ass leftist nutjobs is hiding behind this account?
“You can have peace. Just surrender to our rule!”
Reminder that bullying exists from the school yard all the way to international politics.
The guy’s raped kids, perved on teens, creeped on his daughter, banged a porn star while his wife was pregnant, sees women as things,
Right. And these are things his voting base quietly views as a plus. But taking another man’s member into his mouth? That’s a bad image among his voter base.
To us, it’s not the blowjob. To them, it genuinely is.
Millionaire’s are incompatible with communism. Billionaire’s are incompatible with socialism.
.ml says a lot of shit whenever they pry Winnie the Pooh’s cock from their mouths long enough to speak.
“Communist.”
Obligatory fuck China.
What the actual fuck is this article, lmfao. They act like they’ve cracked the code of what a “gooner” is, and likened it to this almost religious state of being. It’s slang for someone who unapologetically gives their time and energy to one of more targets of their sexual fantasy. That’s it. They’re not trying to ascend to a state of goonvana, or whatever the fuck this article is trying to paint it as. It’s literally just a culturally accepted way of referencing obsession with sexual fantasy.
So fucking weird, dude.
Reading it back over, I did get that fact backwards. Students at UK owned universities that are in China, as opposed to UK students in Chinese universities, so, you’re right.
Though the core of what I am saying here remains. They’re not the same thing, and both remain fucked.
It’s pretty clear given China’s massive successes in elevating people out of poverty, solving homelessness
If you call herding the homeless population into camps and abusing them for their labour, “elevating” them, and “solving homelessness,” I have a bridge to sell you.
I’ll be the first to say aloud that a forced pledge to the nation and flag in a school is a fucked up concept, but the whataboutism’s in this thread are insane. Equating natural born children in a state funded school singing the national anthem to foreign university students, paying their own way, being gathered in a sports arena to attend a pro-nation pledge of alliegence, complete with military personnel and armed guards, is not an honest comparison.
Both are questionable. The latter is clearly far worse. And more importantly, the former being bad doesn’t shield the latter from criticism. China can go fuck itself at LEAST as hard as American-brand nationalism.
Edit: Struck out my mistaken initial misread of OP. Point remains.
A thread about the BBC, Netflix and the Israel government. Goes into a feverish tirade about American genocide.
How’s that whole “destabilizing the west” op going? They paying you well over there? Or is this like a “they have my family” situation?
Bless.
Fairly confident I wound up with some malware from a “GOG” download from one of the sites in the megathread. I’ve already formatted and the files are long gone but I’ll tuck this link away for the future.
Hey, I also had immediately reacted to the graph and headline without reading, and came back to do the edit afterwards. I’m right here with you, fam. It was just an interesting topic point for me, so I dug in a little more.
In Canada, we are contracted to be in the building for ~6 hours of work a day, but for employment insurance purposes, it is considered an 8 hour day. The expectation is that every 6 hour in-building day has about 2 hours of work at home. Obviously, this is largely untrue: there are weeks where I work exactly 30 hours, and weeks where I work 60 hours dealing with every assignment, test and paper all coming in at the same time. But, in the surface, it is legally recorded to be a 40 hour work week even though those are not the hours I am required to work.
No idea how, exactly, this relates to Japan’s situation, but I thought it could be interesting for context.
Edit: Okay, I actually read the article, and it does talk about this.
The results showed that Japanese teachers were largely preoccupied with out-of-classroom activities.
They spent 17.8 hours a week on teaching, which is shorter than the international average of 22.7 hours.
However, lesson preparation in Japan took 8.2 hours a week (international average 7.4 hours); extracurricular activities, such as supervising clubs, consumed 5.6 hours (international average 1.7 hours); and administrative tasks, such as paperwork, took 5.2 hours (international average 3 hours).
Where a Japanese teacher spends 17.8 hours a week on teaching, I spend ~22 hours (trying my best to omit in-school prep time, which is not uniform week-to-week).
For further comparison, I definitely spend far fewer hours on lesson preparation, as we tend to share a lot of our lesson plans across teachers, probably spend close to the international average on administrative tasks, and spend like… maaybe 1.2 hours pre week on extracirriculuars. And those extracurricular hours are also pure optional: I can simply just say no and not do it.
I think is is fascinating how much time Japanese teachers spendon extracurriculars and administrative tasks, in particular. I find myself cursing the inefficiencies that lead to a lot of that administration time, as I often feel we could save a lot of time in that space. I wonder if Japanese teachers have similiar issues.
But, the Democrats are the ones responsible for genocide in Ukraine! /s
What? China acting like an Imperialist Dictstorship? But that’s only something that happens in disgusting capitalist Western nations, never in glorious, Communist China!
/s, before I’m mistaken for one of the Tankies that are, I am sure, about to blow up this thread.