Gov Hooka

"US airbases in the UK" But dw Europe is a not vassal state of the US

Oh lord here come the conspiracy theorists and fearmongers.

Whole lotta blue tsunami dem voters about to be taught about or reminded of this party's complicity in keeping the system running as intended or as their apologists still like to call it, "incompetence."

The annoying thing about liberals and their utter lack of political understanding through the lens of historical materialism is their underlying belief that history started "just yesterday" and that there weren't literal CENTURIES of systemic consequences continuing to this day.

The U.S. Navy spends approximately $30 million to $32.5 million per day to enforce the blockade and escort commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. This daily operational cost includes the deployment of roughly 22 ships, representing over 30% of the U.S. Navy's warship fleet, alongside extensive air support and logistical support. The thing is would any war powers resolution end the expensive military blockade or just halt airstrikes? I just don't see this properly ending (the language used is "end hostilities against Iran") because the strategic defeat the Us (and Israel) would suffer is too great.

Emma Vigeland's understanding for why AOC/Mamdani endorsed Jeffries as speaker. She's saying that They have political leverage over him and can endorse a challenger to him if he doesn't comply or smth I don't agree and I think they're just proving themselves to be the social climbers in the Dem party rather than committed to ideological principles. They're not going to get any concessions out of this corporate Zionist ghoul

so a beneficiary of the authoritarian Canadian government's brutal dispossession of indigenous land and violent arrests of land protectors seriously believes that they can "critique" a country its own media has been maligning for decades on the other side of the world? Free your own country from its own authoritarianism before you think you need to "free China" just because the media farmed an outrage story to redirect your attention to its largest geopolitical adversary.

Hong Kong was a British colonial outpost. It will always be part of China.

Canada's "past" genocide of its First Nations people, as with the US, is it's present reality. You were saying I was shifting a goal post but my point was that you can't argue that the two aren't the same. This whole Western "you can criticize both" excuse just masks selective outrage stemming from news stories like this that are specifically targeted to reinforce the narrative of a "better, more democratic West." Hence why I take issue when it comes to the whole "China deserves democracy and human rights" coming from people in countries wholeheartedly endorsing a Holocaust and silencing the dissent against it. There's no shifting the conversation and "whataboutism" when the whole Hong Kong "pro-democracy" protests had ties to Western think tanks. This point is directly linked to why this particular case is even being reported on in Western media at the expense of so many others on imprisonment of protestors against police brutality, ecocide, genocide, etc. If Westerners want to ostensibly "criticize" the actions of the Chinese government, then the expectation is that they hold the same standards for their own governments. In the case of any American (represented by the liberal circlejerk users above this post lolol) celebrating the "blue wave" for instance, which elected the first black female governor of Georgia who was responsible for brutally suppressing the Stop Cop City protests during her time as mayor of Atlanta, which resulted in the murder of one activist, Tortuguita, they clearly don't hold these same standards for their own actual government.

Canada's "past" is not a past with First Nations. My first comment points out how indigenous land protectors are routinely arrested and sentenced in the country in the present (for actions FAR LESS VIOLENT and seditious than what this activist was doing). Westerners will do this thing where they downplay their own country's violations of their so called democratic norms (especially outside of their borders) while believing themselves to be the true arbiters of what constitutes "freedom, basic rights, and democracy." The West has built this entire global legal paradigm after subjugating/robbing the entire global south (including China) which uses human rights discourse to one sidedly punish and admonish its geopolitical adversaries while avoiding all accountability itself. You can't have whataboutism when the standard for "democracy" is set by an entity/population who routinely violates it.

There is no "whataboutism" to point out the hypocrisy of Westerners seriously maligning any nation for "totalitarianism" when the PRESENT reality (no it's not their "past") of their countries is to engage in blatant militarism and corporate neocolonialism around the world. They don't apply the same language and critiques to their own so called "democratic" countries aka that user's hilarious George Bush esque comment about wanting to bring "freedom and democracy" to China lmfao

You're so close... There are no "democracies." What matters is control of wealth/resources and the general population's relationship to their access to that. What good has the so called world's largest "democracy," from which you come, done for its own people when "totalitarian" China has delivered for its own netizens to the point of them believing themselves to be living in an economic "democracy."