sorry, but amateur funny man and professional sour grape haver virgil texas said 'biden-man bad,' and now i need to waste my time and energy talking about how my token protest vote is a morally necessary instrument of radical change
Biden is going to win either way. Trump dying has the advantage of potentially fracturing the right, and removes the libs short term cudgel(you must vote for us or trump will be back) against us.
my guy, i'm "enthusiastically" arguing the simple point that the PRC should be held to the same standard as the west.
I'm getting cutting rebuttals in this thread: that islam is an existential threat (and thus the west and PRC are justified in their actions) (lol); that the PRC's invasive approach is paternal and for the Uighers' benefit -- to provide jobs (uh, an empty justification that could be leveraged by any "imperial power"); that Xianjing is properly within Chinese/PRC's hegemonic sphere (complete question-begging nonsense).
feel free to give me better facts, showing that the PRC's alleged cruelties are fabrications (blobjim endeavored to so, respectfully), but please spare me your unearned, patronizing comments and these sorts of ludicrous, cringe-inducing arguments.
uh, physical/territorial proximity is definitely not why there is an obvious salient comparison between the two.
when france annexes/colonially appropriates algeria, algerian separatists come from "within" france. we're right to support the algerians, and condemn the french. not sure why Uigher separatists shouldn't be afforded the same solidarity and consideration as we would have with the algerians .
not as thought provoking as when you're first introduced to/exploring the discussed ideas. but it's an easy/fun/digestible foray into those ideas, and it's just like a pretty cool opus -- like, you can see the craft and love and thoughtfulness that went into it.
right imperialism and violence is what the west does, but when the "correct" chinese groups do it, it's proper assimilation or out of the movie "Hero" or something.
if you want to link me better facts (against the western narrative/propaganda), feel free, but i'm absolutely not sympathetic to this argument.
Yet you appear to live in this fantasy where Islamic fundamentalism & zealotry are only conceivable threats to “Western society”…
You think PRC deserves terrorist attacks, & that the global war on terror & gitmo & extrajudicial rendition by America are in this other category.
in no way am i saying that, bud. clearly islamic fundamentalism is not a serious threat to the west, it's a sad pretext for western hegemony and incursion. the capitalist west shouldn't do it; nor should the PRC.
omg some uyghurs are using knives? well that certainly justifies mass violence against an ethnic and religious minority.
(also, smiling at the though of McNamara explaining to American dissenters that Americans were bringing "domestic job opportunities" to the North Vietnamese )
Ice - Anna Kavan. Finally watched the new charlie kaufman, and there's a heavy reference to this book, and I dug the movie so I picked it up. Good vibe so far.
Goedel Escher Bach - Doug Hofstadter. Been meaning to finish this for years; hopefully I will soon.
sorry, but amateur funny man and professional sour grape haver virgil texas said 'biden-man bad,' and now i need to waste my time and energy talking about how my token protest vote is a morally necessary instrument of radical change