queermunist she/her

Sanctions are siege warfare.

And wartime is exactly when the government has to restrict some speech. I bet you have no problem with Ukraine doing it.

Yeah it turns out when your country is under siege war the government has to restrict some speech to keep the peace. That’s war.

The second part applies, to lesser degrees, to a large part of the world. Such as the USA.

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I’m pretty sure that falacy applies to events and improperly assigning cause i.e. if Y followed X, then X caused Y

I think you’re just using it wrong.

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i.e. Westerners portraying Xi as a yellow animal

Because liberals believe in supporting the lesser evil within their own nations. Am I wrong?

I’m just applying that same principle internationally.

A random Chinese entrepreneur isn’t really representative of China?

Maybe China will prove it’s just as evil as the West, but it hasn’t so far. Insisting it inevitably will is just speculation, because the Chinese development banks that loan to the third world are less evil than the IMF/World Bank, and the Belt and Road initiative is less evil than Western free trade agreements.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is an informal fallacy that states “Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X.”

What the hell does that have to do with China being the lesser evil?

Cool racist meme. DuckDuckGo okay?

https://imgur.com/a/A6KoO3y

That said, China’s firewall has been vindicated by the plague of fake news and propaganda that lead to the election of Trump. When you allow the internet to go unfiltered, corporate and far right interests will fucking destroy it and fill it with lies to manipulate the masses. Do I need to remind you of the time Facebook triggered an ethnic cleansing campaign?

And our media is still being censored! It’s just that our censorship is the market forces that promote certain messages and suppress other messages. So far right talk shows get promoted, while Colbert gets canceled.

Is google today after what the free market has done to it?

Literally Orientalism.

I’m in the belly of the beast.

Right where I need to be.

China is the lesser evil.

Don’t you liberals believe in supporting the lesser evil?

But it doesn’t fix anything.

A hypothetical time traveler needs to build organized resistance and implement a strategy to destroy the the Nazi Party, otherwise you just get WW2 and the Holocaust with a different guy in charge. You can’t even be sure it would be better if you replaced Hitler with a different Nazi. Remember, Hitler lost.

Lone wolf tactics and adventurism do not work and can not work.

Even if it would be really funny.

If you kill Hitler and aren’t organized enough to take advantage of the infighting (or assassinate the rest of Nazi leadership) then one of the other Nazis will just slide into his place. It’s not like there are a shortage of potential Hitlers around.

Assassination has to be part of a larger, more organized political project or it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Shooting Trump wouldn’t really help? He’d just become a martyr for MAGA and JD Vance would do all the shit Trump was going to do, but also use the assassination as an excuse to deport leftists.

I was just going to point out that deportations were higher under Biden.

Then I remembered who that guy in the picture is!

Hindenburg literally appointed Hitler chancellor, approved the Reichstag Fire Decree, and gave the Nazis emergency powers by singing the Enabling Act of 1933. Do you not even credit him slightly for the rise of Hitler and the Nazis?