Liberals like you will condemn China for pursuing peaceful reunification and then cheer on Ukraine as it bombed civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk after they declared independence. Peace is war and war is peace I guess. You’re probably happy to admit that Russia violated Ukrainian sovereignty by intervening military in what was essentially a civil war. However when the US does the same exact thing you pretend it’s actually about protecting Taiwanese self determination? How gullible are you?

Why do you assume I think they’re being honest? I don’t spare China from critique. However, that critique has to be grounded in provable fact not hearsay. If you want to imagine a China that is capable of hiding atrocities that are in any way equivalent to the crimes against humanity committed by the US, then you’re just a conspiratorial nut job. Feel free to insinuate that TikTok or capture of Hollywood is part of some diabolical Chinese influence campaign. However that just means you’re as much of reactionary xenophobe as MAGA.

The problem US elite had with TikTok wasn’t that it was owned by Bytedance. It was that its moderation system didn’t censor discussions about Israeli’s ongoing genocide. However, thanks to gullible conspiracists like you, a Zionist billionaire has taken over. Now TikTok is actually being used to suppress information about crimes against humanity. However those crimes aren’t committed by China, but rather the US and Israel. The difference here is that I don’t have to rely on baseless lies and insinuation to justify my worldview.

You’re a fucking joke, a fascist repeating hasbara lies desperately trying to normalize genocide. You can pretend history began on October 7th all you want. Unfortunately for you, the days where you could whitewash Israel’s decades long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland are over. People see the vile shit you’re spewing for what it is.

Zionism is just 20th century ethnonationalism trying to disguise itself using the real trauma and oppression of Jewish people as a cloak to hide a holocaust of it’s own making. You alongside ever zionist antisemitic piece of shit including Biden and Harris can fuck right off. You are legitimately no better than Trump or any other white nationalist asshole. Your beliefs are identical and the world can see it even if you can’t.

If you legitimately think the two are indistinguishable you’ve abandoned nuance of any kind. Talk to me when China is bombing children in an illegal war of aggression so that their fascist vassal can continue a genocide unchallenged.

It would be a red flag if the law interfered with the many regional laws that mandate minority languages be taught in schools. This law does not do that at all. It explicitly guarantees the right to learn and use minority languages. To compare it to the cultural genocide of settler colonial countries that enforced language bans with violence and brutality is ridiculous.

Also don’t just apply whatever context you’re familiar with onto China. You’re severely underestimating the amount of cultural and lingual diversity in China. As I said before, Mandarin is a constructed language that was developed relatively recently, very unlike Russian. The vast majority of people in China do not learn Mandarin as their first language. That includes most of China’s political leaders. You’re basically trying to suggest that these people want to destroy their own regional languages and culture which is just absurd.

Do you really think that using an analogy is whataboutism?

The president of Taiwan was elected with a minority of votes because the two opposition parties that support closer relations with the PRC could not agree on a joint candidate to run. In the Taiwanese legislature the KMT actually holds more seats than the president’s party.

Also the PRC is not threatening Taiwan with annihilation. That’s just absurd. The PRC’s position is that it doesn’t want foreign countries interfering in Chinese political matters. If you didn’t know already, the US intervened in the Chinese civil war in order to defend a fascist dictator and has continued to give the RoC military support ever since. The PRC keeps the military option open as a deterrent against further US intervention not because it’s planning to invade.

If you’re so knowledgeable then why haven’t you shared any of that knowledge?

Do you know what “neoliberalism” is or even what the “global south” refers to? Because none of this makes any sense.

China famously rejected neoliberal economics when carrying out market reform. That’s why their economy skyrocketed instead of collapsing like many Eastern European countries. They are also considered part of the global south and are still a developing country in many respects.

Just read the actual law that Reuters is talking about. It explicitly guarantees minority language rights among a variety of other protections for ethnic minorities. Acting like teaching mandarin is imperialism is absurd. It’s a constructed language designed to be the lingua franca of China. Even most Han Chinese do not learn mandarin as their first language.

Both bad is still a black and white world view.

Totalitarianism is a term that was explicitly used to flatten any differences between socialist states and fascist ones. It’s not a particularly useful term if you want to actually interrogate how these states operated.

Most muslim majority countries do not accuse China of genocide. The states that do make this claim are the same ones that are actively supporting an ongoing genocide against Palestinians. Who should we choose to believe?

You are engaging. You’re just doing it in a way that makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Sure, the person who refuses to engage with any counter evidence and acts incredibly smug must be the credible one…

Automated defogging is already a thing in some cars.

Japanese companies cornered precision manufacturing which is really useful when producing reliable and efficient internal combustion engines. Electric cars are less dependent on precision manufacturing which is probably why Japanese companies failed to invest in them. They wouldn’t have any strategic advantages in the EV market. It was a total lack of foresight on their part. Chinese companies invested so much in battery and electric motor research and manufacturing that they now have a pretty sizable advantage over everyone else.

The problem for Trump is that he couldn’t continue escalating the war without causing a global recession. As much as his wealthy backers want to destroy Iran, they can’t stomach such a crisis. It would seriously hurt the US ability to project power and would fast track American decline. I agree that he’s crazy and stupid enough to still do it. However, he probably one of the dumbest people in the White House. Even his cabinet of sycophants has to know when to push back. If he went forward with his attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure it would have ruined them as well.

I’m not sure they really lost momentum. They are still exerting control of the straits by enacting a toll, something they had already begun doing. A two week ceasefire isn’t enough time for countries to replenish their oil reserves and secure alternative energy sources. What they probably need to do now is extract concessions that allow them to rebuild and become even more resilient against US intervention. If they get even half of the 10 demands they laid out as part of the ceasefire agreement they’ll be in a more advantageous position long term.

The question I have right now is, will they resume firing on Israel now that it’s clear Israel has rejected the terms of the ceasefire? Everyone knows negotiating further with the US and Israel is pointless. Iran needs to show that if their demands aren’t met there will be consequences. If they don’t aid Hezbollah, that would be a sign they’ve lost momentum. It could mean that they aren’t confident enough to include their allies as part of the tit for tat strategy they’ve followed throughout the entire war.

This is just capitalism. As profits fall due to competition between capitalists they seek new ways to profit. Monopolization, intensified exploitation, enshittification are one way to deal with this problem. However, if those aren’t working capitalists will try to fuse themselves to the state. They use state violence to pursue profits through hyperexploitation and imperialism. That’s what we call fascism. It’s not distinct from capitalism, just an extension of it.

AI companies are no different than any of the other companies that preceded it. They are so over leveraged it’s unlikely they can survive in the long run without the state. Thats why they are comfortable working with fascists. We could have computer scientists creating similar models that actually benefit humanity but it’s not going to happen under capitalism.