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  • They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly

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  • I plan to, actually. I don't support CCP at all - it's authoritarian as fuck, with the Great Firewall, the reeducation camps in Xinjiang and the annexation of Tibet - but it's fascinating to me that the country hasn't completely collapsed into corruption like so many autocracies, and that they do so much long-term planning.

    my impression is that China is a hybrid of state capitalism and central planning, with a lot of poor rural areas and a moderate oligarchy, but that they see billionaires as political rivals (e.g. Jack Ma) and Gilded Age economic inequality as a risk of social unrest and keep it from getting as out of hand as the US.

  • They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly

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  • I kinda get why tankies would defend China (CCP is still ostensibly Communist), but why Russia?? it's literally a kleptocratic oligarchy led by a billionaire dictator/mob boss. ain't nothing Soviet about it.

  • Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists

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  • probably a lot of business too. I doubt they're trading rubles and won (does NK use won?) as much as technical knowledge, commodities, electronics, gas and industrial equipment.

    it's probably a good way to connect Russian oligarchs and tycoons with NK elites and bureaucrats. take tours, schmooze, fall out of windows enjoy the fresh air of Mt. Paektu.

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    Some people simply are idiots: An illegal immigrant arrested in LA – this Iranian Maga mom still backs Trump

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  • South Sudan seems likely. maybe they'll try Libya again. or Saudi Arabia. all of those are back on the table after DHS v DVD.

  • Sometimes you just get it wong

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  • white people resist making puns off Chinese last names challenge (impossible)

  • When lunatics start talking about expelling all Israelis 'Back to Europe' instead of integrating them in a one-state solution

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  • specifically the stance of Likud.

  • Anyone who doesn't support the Trans Agenda(tm) is a fucking psychopath

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  • it's not 2014 anymore. we aren't canceling anyone. we're getting canceled. JKR is doing victory laps. NHS has banned HRT for minors, as have 27 states. we're kicked out of the military, and forbidden from security clearances. teachers in Florida can't even use their own pronouns. Medicaid/Medicare/ACA funding for HRT for adults is stripped now. we can't get passports with the correct gender marker. Sarah McBride has to use the men's bathroom in Congress. Newsom calls us freaks. conservative media is calling us groomers and every time there's a mass shooter they spread the rumor the shooter was trans. "gender ideology" is the new Satanic Panic. NYT keeps running op-eds on why Dems should throw us under the bus. Nancy Mace shouted "tr*nny" three times on the House floor and wasn't censured for it.

    you really think we're the ones holding the cards?

  • Anyone who doesn't support the Trans Agenda(tm) is a fucking psychopath

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  • hugs. hugs to all my trans sisters, brothers, siblings. we need each other now more than ever.

  • call your representatives now

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  • my partners got out of Georgia and they were both broke as fuck. it is possible.

  • call your representatives now

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  • it's fucked. I'm so sorry. I know it's a million times easier said than done, but I can't help myself to not give advice:

    join social media groups for the trans community in a blue state, look into the orgs there, see if there's a couch you could crash on. save up what you can for gas or a bus ticket. once you get there, plug into the community, connect with services, find work. it's risky but it's better to try than to give up and die.

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  • arguably ranked choice gave voters the confidence to pick the candidate that won an outright majority.

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  • third parties just can't win under the current system. we'd need ranked choice voting.

    the way forward is through the primaries. that's how we got Zohran.

  • Spot The Differences For A Free Stay!

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  • I'm sorry 🫂 there's not always a happy ending. the genocide of Native Americans, for example.

    take care of yourself, and take care of your trans and migrant siblings. that's all we can really do, but maybe it's enough. ❤️

  • Spot The Differences For A Free Stay!

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  • definitions:

    • prisons hold prisoners accused or convicted of crimes. the big difference between prisons and concentration camps is scale and homogeneity - camps are bigger and have one kind of prisoner.
    • gulags hold political prisoners but aren't as big as concentration camps. kinda Soviet-specific.
    • reeducation camps hold masses of political prisoners with the goal of indoctrinating them with some ideology. the Xinjiang camps for the Uighurs are an example.
    • concentration camps are mass prisons for political prisoners - usually prisoners of war or ethnic minorities. most Nazi camps, along with the Japanese internment camps, were concentration camps.
    • death camps are concentration camps used for mass murder/genocide. Auschwitz was the major Nazi death camp for the Holocaust, though there were a few others.
    • refugee camps are mass temporary shelters. you're allowed to leave. FEMA camps and various UN camps are good examples.

    Alligator Auschwitz is a concentration camp because it's 1) massive, 2) full of the same type of prisoner (ethnic minority migrants), 3) who can't leave. it's not yet a death camp, but most Nazi camps weren't death camps (they centralized that!)

  • Spot The Differences For A Free Stay!

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  • 💯%. the US was heavily isolationist at the start of WWII, and pretty anti-Semitic. for example, the St. Louis, a boat full of Jewish refugees, was turned away from the US and Canada in 1939 - and turned back to Europe, with many Jews eventually imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. there were also the blackshirts in the UK, who were pro-Nazi, and PM Chamberlain had a peace treaty drawn up with Hitler. and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviets, of course.

    so if the Nazis had been content to murder only German, Austrian and Czech Jews, they would have gotten away with it.

    on the other hand, Nazi ideology (e.g. "lebensraum" and their belief in the destiny of the Aryan race to conquer the "inferior" races) drove them to war, to invade Poland and to break their pact with the Soviets. and they also spent tons of resources on the Holocaust, at the expense of their military.

    so basically yeah, isolationist Nazis would have totally survived, but otoh Nazis aren't isolationists.

  • Trump Admin Appears to Defy Court Order Allowing Gender-Affirming Passports

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  • I voted for Harris. I'm trans. I can't get my passport updated. I live in a blue state, so my vote just didn't matter.

  • Oof some tough questions for them

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  • yeah, they could have been like Belarus!

  • Oof some tough questions for them

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  • I support NATO, in the sense that if NATO dissolved Europe would get eaten like a three-course meal by Russia. Ukraine shows that all too clearly. it has many problems, though.

  • Trump Says He’s Moving Forward With Ending Birthright Citizenship After Supreme Court Gives OK

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  • I'm looking forward to fucktons of individual suits absolutely slamming the courts every time an EO is issued. crowdfund the filing fees. turn petitions into copypasta. DDoS the Court system. they literally asked for this.