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Eldritch

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  • China is Systematically Dismantling Tibetan Monastic Traditions

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  • Nice strawman you got there. This has nothing to do with what I believe or don't believe Beyond I believe people should have a right to self-determination. I realize that childish leninists are so cock sure and think they know better. Wanting to force their own backward beliefs on everyone else. As much as these Tibetan Monks do. Two wrongs don't make a right.

    And I mean as someone coming from a leninist instance it's extremely hilarious that you act as if not having political representation is a bad thing. Political representation actual political representation is denied to wide swaths of people under a Vanguard.

    Regarding your laughable whataboutism. I absolutely believe that Guam should be given the right to vote for president if they desire and that the United States should recognize them. Hey quick question when is China going to give the Uyghurs the right to self-determination and to vote? Oh oh that's right, China gave up the right to vote for president completely.

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  • Not at all. The fact of the matter is many of the people in that region and culture View things differently than you and I do. If they gave people the option to relocate and escape the reach of this monastery. You honestly wouldn't see many people take it. Which is more or less the point. All this may sound horrific to you and i. As does tribal body mutilation etc. But to those tribes and cultures it is part of their culture.

  • Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care

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  • You literally implied that women fighting for the right to be included everywhere. Was about supremacy. That feminism is about supremacy. Your own words. Read your previous post. Perhaps you misspoke. But I don't think so. And neither did most of the other people reading.

  • China is Systematically Dismantling Tibetan Monastic Traditions

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  • If China actually cared about the people. Rather than forcing the monastery closed and them to abandon their religion/culture. They would simply offer to relocate them away from the monastery if they feared for their children.

    Without children and followers to harness. The religion would die on its own. Even as the general culture would endure. China explicitly does not want that. China specifically is trying to oppress and eradicate cultural differences.

    People are 100% Justified to call China out on this. And in doing so are not defending all of tibet's actions. Two things can be wrong at the same time. All sides can be wrong at the same time. This is one of those cases. There is no defense of China or Tibet here. China is not doing this out of some goodness of their heart or humanitarian need. Simply their own selfish goals.

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  • So colonialism/imperialism is okay? Either it is or it isn't. All I'm asking for is consistency.

    It's 100% possible to find beliefs and practices of cults and cultures to be abhorrent. But also acknowledge that trying to forcefully change things. Almost invariably backfires. As well as undermining any moral stance you may have once had.

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  • Or other "western" nations. I've never knowingly met someone staunchly ml. That was from an area formerly or currently ml.

    Talking to someone from China etc you generally will not hear them specifically shit on their government. Mostly because the government will come knocking and threatening violence as they did with Naomi. But you will catch them nervously deflecting to justifying it. Acknowledging it without speaking of it. Though even that could not save Naomi.

    Hilariously Lemmy.ml is blocked in China. Where a lot of other Lemmy instances aren't strictly.

  • Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor

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  • Huh, I genuinely consume more British TV than I do US TV. And I'm well aware and familiar with someone getting "shot dead". That's clear. But putting the subject after the description just sorry of jackknifes the temporal understanding. Mayor shot dead. "Oh they were killed" Vs shot dead mayor "why are they shooting a corpse".

    I mean, I guess dead is an adjective. Which is often used before a subject to describe it. So grammatically it's "correct". If obtuse. But then I'm sure there are phrasings Americans use like that.

  • Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor

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  • The headline gore is real.

  • The Tyrant Test | A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.

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  • Ought, but when someone has a monopoly on violence. Whose going to enforce it against the person with the monopoly?

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    The US House of representatives is preparing to vote next week on a resolution that would deem “Free Palestine” to be “an antisemitic slogan.”

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  • XMPP vs everything else

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  • It's not the reason, but it certainly is a reason.

    Another reason is. That it is an old protocol from the late 90s. And there isn't a lot of Buzz about it these days. A lot of the problematic centralization we all now recognize was just becoming the norm.

    Feature parity at the time is also another big hurdle. Things we all take for granted especially in this day and age Avatar profile pictures etc. Jabber/xmpp did not have that for years. It may be a useless feature in terms of sending messages. people still like personalization etc. And it's hard to convince people to switch if they have to give it up.

    Jump to today. And arguably services like Twitter Mastodon Facebook Etc all sort of fill that Niche to an extent. Maybe not as well. But enough again that it's going to be hard to get people to switch to yet another system

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  • How is that not taking away autonomy? That's kind of literally the definition of. They aren't appealing for them to close the monastery on their own. They are forcing it.

    You and I can both state plainly that the practices are harmful. And even justify the assertion. We would never subject ourselves to it by choice. But that's the thing it has to be a choice. Give them other choices other opportunities. That is absolutely fine.

    But the moment you enact your beliefs upon others through violence. It doesn't matter if you are factually correct. You are no longer the "good guy". You've lost the argument. If you cannot make the case for it on merits alone.

    There is a very good reason concepts of imperialism and colonization are frowned upon these days. Why you don't see many groups talking about going out and civilizing savages. These are the so-called "good intentions" that the proverbial road to Hell is paved with. The same sort of justification that they used to separate my grandmother from her family. And sent her to special schools. The kind that in many places often ended up with mass Graves of children.

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  • Would that be worth taking away his autonomy and will without consent?

    Make all the misguided excuses you want for what China is doing. It won't make it right. It was wrong when the United States did it to my family. And it is wrong when China is doing it now.

    If China wants to help them. Then offer them opportunity and choice. If the opportunities and choice are better. Their culture will adapt and change to it. Forcing eradication of their culture through violence will only breed resentment and grievance.

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  • One China and all. Oh other people exist? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one China!

  • A project for the community.

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  • That's definitely a much harder thing to find. Though worth a try. I will have to dive into my collection. I think there may be some among the synthwave/darkwave. VNV and Apop seem like descent candidates

  • A project for the community.

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  • The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

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  • Heh, I'm aware of DT but know nothing of a gun video. But he certainly gave a vibe like the 8 bit guy. So not surprised.

  • The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

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  • Yeah I think Brody was spot on with his assessment that this is exactly what a fork should be for. And people who want it will be able to use the fork Etc and X work will have its stability for now.

    I only have a general perception of what happened with Lunduke. But I don't know the specifics about what happened etc. Who was 2.0? Lol I wasn't even aware of that necessarily for there to be a 3.0

  • The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

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  • Very likely.

    Both sides however have behaved badly and both have valid points. Brodie had a decent video on it. Though for me the BS DEI claims are beyond the pale.

    The Dev in question was pushing a number of breaking changes. Which yeah, if you're pulling from git you're gonna git bugs every once in a while. The problem is releases are so infrequent. People are pulling from the git and trying to use it for daily use. In order to get more up to date features. Some of the free desktop guys got a little too harsh with him. But then he sort of let loose with this whole Dei Etc psychosis. Which did him no favors.