Europe can save Ukraine by disbanding NATO

I just don’t think the Ds actually do harm reduction. Biden and his DOJ had the Epstein files and they did literally nothing with them. And that’s just the clearest example of the enabling they do. Obama and Biden expanded ICE into what it is today and created the policy framework that Trump is using, but Biden did nothing to address it when he was president. He just opted not to use it, knowing full well what the Republicans would do because they were literally publishing treatises on what they would do. The Democrats are harm reduction like the Good Cop has your best interests at heart.

TLDR: democratic socialism is possible

That is not at all the TLDR. Your entire argument is that outside the US voting can influence policy. No one is arguing against that, but that in no way supports the thesis that democratic socialism is possible. All of history shows that democratic socialism has never happened. There is no known path to democratic socialism at all.

You can do harm reduction in voting for the least-worst feasible candidate

The research does not support this thesis. Policy is largely independent of popularity.

LOL says the country responsible for the mass murder of 100 million people in India alone, developed systematized mass murder programs for all the people they subjugated, developed massive worldwide human trafficking networks primarily for sex and profit, and subjugated close to 80% of the world’s population.

Enemy within what? It has always been the case that the US will destroy its proxies, whether they win or lose the objective they were manipulated for

Genuinely LOLed when I saw Bashir

It’s an attempt to break through the bullshit narrative that America and Europe are somehow separate historical processes.

You don’t need feelings. You have evidence. The Bolsheviks thought they should abolish religion to free the masses. It was an error and did not properly match reality. Religious repression as a blanket policy had to get walked back in the first ever communist experiment. We learn from history.

That’s also a fantasy. There is absolutely no evidence that the masses can starve out the ruling class. It has never been done. Boycotts do not work because they starve the rulers, they work because they quantify the ability to organize quickly and thoroughly. A single boycott in a single city of a single store is enough to demonstrate the ability to organize and the ruling class will react not because they get starved out but because they know the real threat is an organized working class.

Not buying coffee will do about as much as voting will.

As if nobody knew that already.

Are you serious right now? Are you aware of just how many people on the Lemmyverse have been arguing that lesser evil voting is not only the only moral choice but a moral choice that has a real impact?

There are so many people who are not actually aware that the system is beyond repair, that believe voting is somehow outside the system that is broken and can be used to repair it.

We need to break the fantasy that keeps people pacified and trapped. We need people to stop fighting about electoralism all together because they have realized it is fundamentally incapable of solving any of the problems they see.

They were never equals. The US project in Israel is several decades older than the US project in Ukraine, and the Western European Empire’s relationship with Israel is much older than with Ukraine. Ukraine was just a short fling. Israel is for life

Your understanding of politics is about what one expect from an American high schooler. The UN resolution recognizing One China is very clear. The article about current day censorship in Taiwan is also very clear. The fact that it provides historical context does not mean Taiwan does not continue to do censorship.

Back when [Hong Kong] was cool

Was that before or after the British realized they had to develop an anti-communist movement in their, now former, colony. Presumably after. If you had family that had to flee, they were either European colonizers or they were working for the Europeans, either way, not exactly winning any points with anyone who understands history.

Yes, trauma is so poorly understood that what you are describing is what mostly everyone with trauma-induced pathologies is experiencing right now. If it doesn’t fit a DSM diagnosis perfectly, or the literature doesn’t have a clear prescription for addressing it, you’re bounced out of systems so that they can save money.

China doesn’t have a veto on recognizing countries because it’s not a function of the Security Council. You really should read about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_2758_(XXVI)

More importantly Taiwan is de facto a country

I am very tired of this specious debate. No it’s not. There is no “facto” of being a country. There is only “jure”. Countries are fictions that are constructed socially by agreement, and the social agreements of the world are such that Taiwan is not a country. Hell, the social agreements of Taiwan itself throughout its entire history is that it is not a country. The only people who make the argument that Taiwan is “de facto” a country are anti-comnunists who believe it’s perfectly just to purge tens of thousands of political dissidents for 3 generations and then claim that public opinion is a valid and untainted method of determining correctness.

Your initial post was a bad attempt at propaganda, hilarious you accuse me of the same thing.

Oh. My. God. Are you actually that daft? Hotz posted an article. My original post, which was a comment, was a link to Wikipedia page and nothing else. Holy fucking shit. Journalism is what happens when a journalist writes an article describing something about the world. Propaganda is when that journalism commits hypocrisy via lies of ommission. Providing context for that hypocrisy, peer reviewed and sourced, is not a form of bad propaganda. It’s literally anti-propaganda.

Censorship in both countries, as well as personal freedoms are not the same. I would happily move to and live in Taiwan, I would never live in China for that reason.

No one gives a shit where you would choose to live. You don’t live in either of those places. Your entire basis for your supposed “preference” is narrative, not lived experience. Your preference is meaningless.

I sleep well at night knowing after Russia’s clusterfuck of an invasion of Ukraine, China would never be stupid enough to attempt the same in Taiwan.

I have been sleeping well at night for decades on this topic because China’s position on Taiwan has literally been the same for 50 fucking years - they will never invade Taiwan to force integration militarily. They will only invade Taiwan on two conditions that constitute a national security threat to China: 1) the advancement of foreign kill chains that leverage the province and 2) the political declaration of secession by the provincial government of Taiwan because that would trigger foreign powers to deploy their militaries at a scale which would threaten national security.

They have said this for literal decades. The policy has never changed. The preparations have never stopped. The vigilance against the US and UK military presence in the region has been unending. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not changed China’s position at all.

How many horrible acts does it take for a wonderful person to no longer be a wonderful person? Is it a point system? Is the curve linear or logarithmic?

You think we don’t understand that babies are born innocent? You think we believe these people commiting atrocities are all evil grade school bullies without any humanity?

Sorry but Taiwan has never been a country. The UN has recognized Taiwan as a province of China for over 50 years and it was a province of China for a couple centuries before that. There was a brief period of Japanese occupation, but never has it ever been a separate country. The reason Taiwan would censor things from the CPC are the exact same reasons the CPC would censor things from Taiwan. They are literally congruent and the only reason to focus on the censorship of one side over the other is if you believe one side to be the “good guys” and one side to be the “bad guys” which means you’re not doing journalism or even promoting journalism, you’re just assuming your preconceived notions and then spreading propaganda to support your position, which is something Hotznplotz is very well known for in the fediverse.

It’s called hypocrisy. Taiwan ALSO censors free speech today, blocking apps, blocking DeepSeek, preventing digital commerce, etc. Pretending that censorship ended after the fascists dropped martial law in 1987, or even after the first ever presidential election in 1996, is disingenuous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Taiwan