Tankies simping for their favourite flavour of authoritarian extremism as usual.

It’s a way to tell if you’re living in some kind of extremism. Satire is meant to hyperbolize reality to highlight uncomfortable truths in a way you can vent about it through laughter (really struggling with my english here, but I hope you get what I mean). If it’s nearly impossible to do so anymore… you’re screwed.

Oh, right! They can just stop doing what they love! I’m sorry, my empathy-riddled ass didn’t think about this obvious solution.

Forcing a girl to play against boys and use their changing room is pretty fucked up dude. Don’t make yourself look even more like a dick.

And its uselessness has been proven for years now. But not like anyone cares, instead pupils now get awful laptops (that like to catch fire) full of surveillance software. Great times.

I think it’s a general issue of any community that’s organized around a belief and/or got ousted by society for too long I guess. Of course there’ll always be people who are like this from the beginning, perhaps due to trauma, bad upbringing, bad education or whatever.

Gotta imagine a militant vegan bible-belt Linux FOSS-Bro… oh my god…

You make it sound as if China did something good to other countries with their “help”. They showed their cards already too, offering money with no moral obligations attached (which pleased some regimes) but raging interest rates and untold actions (the new jobs weren’t for the locals, but chinese citizens send abroad). When the loan couldn’t be paid back China offered “deals” effectively annexing the shiny new harbour or whatever infrastructure there was. Many countries got fucked over that way by them as well, especially African ones. Some of them silently came back to European nations for their aid plans with those pesky human right requirements (and, of course, partial economical colonization). Meanwhile China got huge internal struggles, both financially and socially (they just suppress coverage about it).

Don’t underestimate India either. While they seem to not meddle as much in other countries, they too grow very strong very quickly, and they’re not very fond of either China or the US. And then there’s Europe with high amounts of soft power as well.

tl;dr Right now it’s hard to say how the future will look like. Our western media is just all about “China China China” right now.

Only a matter of time until the Trumpet is banning that again too because one of the christofascists whispering in his ear thinks society is crumbling.

It’s even hard to keep track. Just heard that Musk killed your free accessible way to file taxes online, then that Senators are denied access to government buildings under his orders. Yesterday it was something about concentration camps for immigrants and ICE. It’s like the speed the original nazis did it but doubled, you might just need 2 months for the complete collapse of democracy instead of around 4.

It’s hard to take action if you’re just one MAGA shithead with a gun (or oversized truck) away from either death or life-destroying debt. Even worse, your police force is badly trained and known to be full of shit. Civil disobedience blocking roads or doing similar, peaceful options come with an immediate threat to life and limb. And picking up a gun yourself to potentially defend yourself against the state is whole other caliber of action, you’re basically forced into an insurrection.

Without these fears I’m sure there would be more action. I’ve just witnessed my city of Hamburg, Germany, basically blocking the whole center with up to 80.000 people as a reaction to the so-called “christian democrats” and neolibs working together with the AfD nazis in Berlin (who failed). Because the only thing we have to fear are crazy truck drivers and another nazi regime. Hell, we can even blockade streets without previous permission without the police getting out guns or batons (they will use ‘pain compliance holds’ though; not everything is perfect).

I really hope that, after this deep dark nightmare you’re descending into, you’ll get better and go above and beyond with democracy and FAIR economics, learning from your past mistakes and enshrining safeguards into a newly reformed constitution. Like Germany did.

Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled, so the (non-tracked) suicide rate will already skyrocket. However right now the camps are only for “immigrants” and those who get caught by ICE as collateral damage of their hunt; trans people are in second place though. I assume first they’ll come for teenagers as well, ripping them out of their families who’ll get accused of child abuse (for trying to protect their trans kids), then the camps for everyone else will be build.

One fascism vs. the other fascism, and everyone loses.

Mmh, I see. This might be either a difference in language or culture then. 🤔 In german it would not just be very rude to call someone paranoid, it’s also definitely rhetorically linked to a state of mental illness (basically telling them they’re fucked in the head / crazy). At least where I’m coming from.

Please don’t misuse the term ‘paranoid’ like that. It’s a medical term for a serious condition and we really don’t need to start labeling ourselves like that, others already do that for us way too often.

Someone who even it broke couldn’t fix it because it’s an Apple.

This is just creepy, wtf…

No, it’s real. It was an art installation at the Tesla Factory Berlin.

Here you go.

Yes. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28836813

I subscribe to anything you said, except obviously the last sentence. 😅 If there is new information I’m always open to it, as long as it doesn’t come from obviously bad sources. I’m just fed up with people simping for the picture the chinese propaganda paints as they grow tired of the US propaganda. It’s so stupid and unnecessary, and I saw your post as one of those. Apologies if it wasn’t meant that way.

Chinese people do suffer from economical hardship as well, it’s just badly documented and the problems are different but comparably awful.