I worked in grocery for nearly 20 years and I feel for you lol.

So they are rebuilding in the area the Ukraine govt has been shelling civilians for over 8 years?

I fail to see the comparison to Palestine here. Also Crimea literally voted to join the RF and Donbas region was prevented from holding such a vote by the Ukraine govt.

The war in Ukraine has zero to do with settler colonialism and framing it that way is frankly disgusting in the face of what is going on in Palestine or what has gone on in the US for hundreds of years.

putting the treat in treatment

Tailism it’s no good folks

Lmao this is a ridiculous strawman argument I literally said I support China over the US in my opening comment and here you are not understanding that there are things to criticize. Do you seriously not understand what critical support means?

Should China stop sending aid to Palestine?

No ffs obviously not this is dumbass centrist bullshit wrapped in Marxist aesthetic.

Nah dawg fuck you and your condescending tone about my “emotions”. Listen to what @woodenghost@hexbear.net said.

You do not actually need to support sending construction materials to build settlements for a fascist govt. There is absolutely no disadvantage from simply not doing that.

If anything it damages the image of the PRC on the world stage in a lesser but similar way as does every other nation that provides material aid to a genocidal settler colonial state.

You are way off the mark here and missing entirely the point of what “critical support” means.

I am not here to say I know better than the CPC leadership, rather that it looks pretty bad to some of those same nations you claim they are trying not to alienate. They simply have no choice but to choose the lesser evil in this case. (not calling the CPC actually evil just a turn of phrase).

There is literally only one time that topic has ever come up so how could I think it was anything but a reference to that specific event.

Okay but it still sucks no matter how you spin it.

Do you want China to be another USA?

obviously fucking not lmao

This is why we say “critical support”. China gets a lot of things right but this definitely is not one of them and they can and certainly should do better on this.

This is probably the biggest thing most of us who support AES states criticize constantly.

the person in the incident I can only assume they must be describing was most certainly not meaning in secret. They were banned over this.

Yeah, no. The only incident they could possibly be referring to was one user that explicitly tried to defend “looking at porn at work where others can see it” when called out on it being harassment and not assault.

Okay but the user and event I assumed they are talking about that actually did happen was people rightfully calling out a guy that admitted to looking at porn at work as doing sexual harassment not assault and so it came off as bad faith defense of that individual hence my knee-jerk response.

Yeah but it is definitely more than just “sexual harassment” so I don’t know how else to quantify it. Like literally exposing your coworkers to pornographic content is way more than just harassment I don’t know what to call it but we literally had some weirdo on here defending against people calling it harassment not assault so it seemed like you were defending that individual by bringing up what I can only assume is a reference to that guy. If anything you started with a strawman and I didn’t bother to correct you but now I am and I think your response to me is also indignant and suspect.

Uh it is. The fuck is wrong with you.

They literally pulled me aside at TSA to inspect the blunt stakes in my tent bag that I was taking as carry on because it was way smaller than my big duffel bag. Funnily enough they only did this on my way BACK from going to Pine Ridge to meet with a bunch of former AIM elders.

Well this is one of the most incredibly smug and confidently wrong things I have seen in a while and that is saying something.

But you’re right, it isn’t individual billionaires that are the problem, it isn’t the American people as a whole either though, as has been explained to you above. The problem is the system that allows billionaires to exist. The problem is capitalism and that the US is a genocidal colonizer state. There is no such thing as voting “right” in the US. Perhaps you should actually listen to the people that are explaining this to you who have spent our lives tirelessly studying and working on the ground to address this problem at its root while doing our best to treat the symptoms of this cancer on the earth we call the United States.

Quite the opposite actually. The white bison is a part of Lakota folklore, that a white bison would be born to a wild herd on tribal land that would signify the time to reclaim Turtle Island. I may be getting parts of this wrong so indigenous comrades forgive, going off memory of what folks on the rez and other Lakota friends told me about it.

“Kremlinese” oh come the fuck on