Wait politicians were telling people to take their phones and opt-in for fundraisers? I never saw this, what was the reasoning besides “give us money pls”???

You saw a report from SCMP on a different report from an Israeli Newspaper, in which the Chinese embassy within Israel denies the prior reporting with the statements

“The embassy finds the contents of the report to be incorrect. As a matter of principle, China firmly opposes the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, and continuously strengthens its enforcement capabilities regarding non-proliferation.”

The embassy further stressed that “China never exports weapons to countries engaged in warfare and maintains strict controls on the export of dual-use items. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China upholds a cautious and responsible approach to the export of military-related goods.”

Why is the reporting of Miriam Adelsons Israeli Newspaper more trustworthy to you than Middle East Eye?

"U.S. President George Bush today signed into law the American Servicemembers Protection Act of 2002, which is intended to intimidate countries that ratify the treaty for the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new law authorizes the use of military force to liberate any American or citizen of a U.S.-allied country being held by the court, which is located in The Hague. This provision, dubbed the “Hague invasion clause,” has caused a strong reaction from U.S. allies around the world, particularly in the Netherlands.

In addition, the law provides for the withdrawal of U.S. military assistance from countries ratifying the ICC treaty, and restricts U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping unless the United States obtains immunity from prosecution. At the same time, these provisions can be waived by the president on “national interest” grounds. "

https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law

It’s material support for a country under attack from the west and their genocidal puppet, when they could have just as easily refused them.

Idk why y’all never want to give China props unless they’re doing Trotskyist permanent revolution or whatever.

If they’ve already shot down F-35s with inferior/older equipment doesn’t that show that they already have the systems capable of effectively defeating F-35s?

The only thing I see in that article is that it wouldn’t be as effective as it could be due to their lack of their own fighters and an AEW&C, not that it wouldn’t be effective.

It’s never been “our republic”.

Pretends?

Comrade, abandon the alcohol, down cigs like a true based revolutionary.

It seems to be a play on “horseshoe theory” where libs always place themselves in the middle and leftist and right wingers are on the ends, closer together. With the implication that leftists have “circled back” to facsism.

There is also “Fishhook theory”, Where the same principle is true, but more in line with this “stick theory” where the Fishhook places the far right beside liberalism/centrism.

In this one, it’s a stick, facsism is at the bottom, Dems and Republicans are just barely above that and communism is at the top. The main difference between this and fish hook is that fish hook relies on the curve coming back to make them close, while stick theory says they are just close period.

Obama literally built them as and used them as concentration camps wtf are you talking about. They weren’t all encompassing resorts that Trump remodeled.

Trump also claims he’s only targeting criminals and human traffickers, the only difference is you rightfully don’t believe him, but wrongfully believe the Dems.

It’s not the same as always, it’s worse under Trump2 than it was under Biden, or even Trump1. If Kamala won, it would also be worse than Trump 1 or Biden, you just wouldn’t care. Just like you didn’t care when Biden was as bad as Trump1.

The point is not that things are always the same, the point is that both parties serve the same donors and core system and will ultimately do what the system demands of them. That’s why the Dems started pushing the same “immigration as a national security” issue, they were manufacturing consent.

The Democrats literally conceded immigration as a national security issue and changed the debate to who could solve it more efficiently in the 2024 elections.

Even before they publicly accepted the Republican framing, Obama built the concentration camps Trump was derided for during his first term.

I thought it might be interpreted as mean spirited which wasn’t the intention and assumed nobody had seen it yet anyway. I’ll bring it back just for you!

Did you miss the part where the US also revoked their visas? I didn’t see it in that specific article, but they were also cancelled from German appearances.

It’s not the case…it just happens sometimes? It doesn’t count when it does happen because it’s capitalism? We have to ignore when it happens because if people realized, they would be too distraught?

I genuinely don’t understand what’s doing on with this comment.

We won’t even stop destroying the thing we need to live and breathe in.

I took it as: The OP is about honking instantly.

The top of the thread is trying to justify impatiently honking immediately. “I’m impatient and why you aren’t moving immediately!”

Hence my response that they could just have a slower reaction time to the light turning.

So when you say “if the lights been green long enough”

I reply about how “green long enough” is subjective and the thread is biased towards the an Immediate honk.

It’s not changing the complete sentence, it’s recognizing context clues and patterns of language.

“This clearly has nothing to do with racial slurs or otaku culture” = the original intention wasn’t about a racial slur and the change isn’t about mocking Otaku culture. (This is supported when they go on to explain what the actual original intention would be)

“They probably changed it because “coon” is a slur for black people and they didn’t want to cause any misunderstandings” = upon realizing the relation to a slur they didn’t intend, they changed it.

No need for forgiveness, or for passive aggressive condescension.

The original discussion is specifically about people who honk instantly.

Obviously at a certain point it’s not only acceptable but necessary as parking at a green light is a road hazard itself.

You’re just accepting the altered framing from the original example to the counter example while I’m trying to keep it grounded on the original example.

Yeah, I get it Chet, you gotta get to the frat party and you’re all jacked up on stimulants so a second seems like forever .

For you specifically, maybe. Your experience is not universal and the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.