Historically, reaction to queerness in the Global South has been relative to the imperial core’s stance on it.

Homophobia is largely (though not always) a colonial legacy. Many premodern nations, to different extents, were either accepting or tolerant of queer relationships. The colonial authorities criminalized same-sex relationships (e.g. British Raj, French African colonies, etc.). Some postcolonial nations after they achieved their independence, retracted these laws, but the majority didn’t. So for a certain period in the 20th century, queerness was a symbol of anticolonial struggle, because it meant defying the West.

However, as the imperial core and its neoliberal institutions absorbed queer activism into their agenda of foreign affairs, queerness began to be depicted as the face of imperialism.

Last time I used it was three years ago.

You can download and remove the DRM from the borrowed book following this tutorial.

He massacred and tortured members of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Don’t love your job, job your love.

People ignore the global impact the dissolution had. Socialist parties everywhere either rebranded to a neoliberalized form of social democracy or lost their traction. Entire labor movements collapsed and capitalist governments backpedaled on lots of welfare reforms that the working classes fought for with their blood, because there was no more a socialist global power to compete with.

I dislike it because of my metaphysical fear of transcending my human condition.

I guess I’m an orientalist now

I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries

I got my answer, thank you very much.

Naturally? God forbid a country considers the welfare of its workers.

The rule of law isn’t an exclusively Western concept. But since you’re speaking so confidently you must be an expert in the Chinese legal system.

This is tantamount to victim blaming and only serves (regardless of intentionss) to justify settler colonialism. Anticolonial resistance is what has been keeping the south of Lebanon safe from occupation, unlike the Syrian Golan Heights. I recommend you read about Israel’s puppet state in southern Lebanon back in the eighties.

Not even that. They evacuated their posts a week before the Israeli invasion and left the villagers to defend themselves on their own.

Meanwhile the Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon is harboring Mossad spies.

Max Blumenthal’s “Killing Gaza” film documentary was recorded before the Gaza genocide, in 2014, when the IDF had been sieging the strip. It’s a foreshadowing of what was to come a few years later.

If only these westerners knew that those muslims are japanese themselves. Thet are so oblivious and like to dictate on other societies how they should operate.

“Le evil CCP didn’t let me be a nepo baby”

All of a sudden, Europe now cares about international law?

Again, you’re ignoring the fact that socialism is not a defined set of policies that gets to be uniformly applied in a vaccum. The trajectory even has historically varied from one socialist state to another. To attribute the accomplishments of the PRC to “capitalism” is inaccurate. What there is in China is a market economy that is predominated by public ownership and state-owned enterprises, which is nowhere close to capitalism.

You condemn the consequences of the early Maoist policies, and then equally condemn Dengist reforms. What’s the point of critiquing for the sake of critiquing, whem there is no constructive effort on your part to properly assess and understand the material and historical circumstances that have led to China’s development into what it is now, only being guided by emotions and a confident lack of theory. One recent book on the matter that I recommend is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer.

China has always and will always be imperialist

This is ahistorical and untheoretical thinking on your part. Imperialism is an advanced form of capitalism. An imperialist state is one that has saturated its domestic markets and as a consequence seeks to expand its markets and the reproduction of private capital overseas, by all means possible and most notably by force. China simply does not possess the features of imperialism. Prolewiki has a very informative article that explains the concept.

Until now, you’ve only indiscriminately sprinkled terms like imperialism and capitalism and fascism without much thought in the process, and so we’ve reached an impasse.

As to the Xinjiang matter, your views reflect those of the western propaganda machine. I’ve already mentioned above a FAQ compiled by Dessalines (yes, Lemmy’s lead dev) which contains many articles and documents that may at the very least give a different perspective on this matter.

Yeah… I have to keep reminding myself not to get baited by bulshittery. Best thing to do is disengage and especially not reply back on a forum that is owned by google and tracks every activity and search you do. Not having a google account and using a third party client like invidious or newpipe definitely helped.