Even if China were capitalist the US would still hate them for being a check to US hegemony. No one thinks Russia is socialist (other than a few on the fringe).

Fair enough, my answer is sincere for that it’s worth.

You said that Wikipedia disagrees but Wikipedia clearly agrees. Yeah you didn’t bring up the term but it’s weird to bring up Wikipedia and obviously misrepresent it.

Is this still part of the bit?

A monosexual person may identify as heterosexual or homosexual.

It is sometimes considered derogatory or offensive by the people to whom it is applied, particularly gay men and lesbians.

I’m cis for the same reason someone would be binary trans, except I think the gender I was assigned happens to be correct.

EDIT: oh it’s a bit

To be honest I don’t think this is a very good metric. It’s a combination of something good (number of people insured) and something bad (debt per insured person).

As an example, if you increased the number of people with insurance, and reduced the debt per uninsured person, you’d expect this to happen.

Not to say that things have actually gotten better, just that we should use more meaningful metrics.

I always assumed that they aren’t, in the same easy that Australia is.

28, but 32 is also good

I can’t actually make it because I’m on mobile, so imagine a perfectly edited version of the “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

I was thinking Electronic Frontier Foundation and was really confused.

“inconvenient” is my biggest problem with it. Just use a single format for every work and add some html classes so I can scrape it easier.

It’s not. Works by various authors have different html formatting that make it very difficult to consistently scrape. Splitting works into several pages makes it impossible to send them to pocket (or FOSS equivalents). It sucks for anything other than reading in their website.

The unpleasant reality is, Russians, like the Chinese, have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. Their people are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

The libs are not ok.

At that point it’s not a re-education camp, it’s just an education camp.

I checked her Wikipedia, looks like she’s an Australian (blurb in China but eventually revoked her citizenship) journalist who reported on Xinjiang in early 2020. It cited this WaPo article, which has a couple bits I thought were pretty important:

“As someone who analyzes propaganda activities for a job I can see it’s clearly a coordinated attack,” she said. “At this point, the Chinese government has made it abundantly clear that if you want to keep talking about Xinjiang, the Chinese state would not treat you nicely.”

The online onslaught against Xu, named in countless headlines as the unexpected “black hand” behind the West’s anti-China campaign, has continued with tacit if not outright support from Chinese state media.

Not relevant but worth a laugh:

Jo Smith Finley, who researches Uyghur identity at Newcastle University in Britain, said the sanctions mean she cannot stay in touch with contacts in China, where she has been traveling for more than three decades.

“My friends in Beijing are some of my oldest and dearest soul mates,” she said, describing adrenaline-filled days after the suppression of pro-democracy protests in Beijing in 1989.

“The thought of no longer being able to sit in Beijing cafes and restaurants with them and set the world to rights is just unthinkable, surreal,” she said.

Transphobes get the wall, guys

Someone needs to sit them down and tell them, guys, your delusions of racial and cultural superiority are literally getting you killed.

No it’s getting Ukrainian soldiers killed. Journalists, politicians and military leaders are safe.

Do you think this is the type of idiot who doesn’t realize this includes Obama and Biden or the type of idiot who actually thinks they’re tankies?

No lore reasons, it was patched out for balance.

I picked this up, might go with Mao’s China and After for now but definitely looks like it’s worth reading. Thanks comrade!