The person you are replying to has obviously never suffered a real loss, and probably needs to go touch grass.

I sympathize with you. Sounds like you and your family are doing the best they can given an extremely shitty hand dealt to you.

So your argument is that nothing that China does is good because China bad? Not a lot of room for nuance in that worldview.

Agreed, the Iranian oil angle is a good analysis of a material reason for China to support Palestine.

When I say clout, I mean clout as a good actor on the world stage. China has to overcome decades of negative propaganda (some of which is based in truth, most is exaggerated or taken out of context, and some is outright fabricated). Actions like this promote China as an arbiter of peace and as a humane alternative to the naked barbarity of US/Western imperialism.

I don’t see why altruism can’t be a core motive for this move in addition to the strategic value. They are people, after all, who surely suffer as we do in the face of murdered Palestinian children.

How are you going to prevent billionaires from giving money under the table? Seems simpler to me to just not have billionaires.

Well yeah, every state action done by every country is for political/strategic reasons. I think their motives are clear: 1) Help Palestine achieve liberation through passive aid; and 2) increase China’s clout on the world stage.

Yeah TubularTittyFrog is a pretty notorious misanthrope on this site.

If Trump had gotten his way the first time, we’d be in a fascist dictatorship that is 9 years old now instead of one.

This is just so dismissive of the ugly history behind ICE that I’m actually slightly disgusted.

How about the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar, or any of the other countless places where US capitalism has incited genocide, murder, rape, and torture. Or is it only fascism when it happens inside our borders to white people?

I think it’s more likely that they are trying to break through the walls of capitalist propaganda and make people realize that the USA has always been fascist-oriented and that getting rid of this latest symptom (Trump) will not fix that. After all, fascism is imperialism turned inward. We desperately need a wholesale movement away from capitalism and towards socialism to actually ensure that fascism cannot rise again.

Previously, ICE was only set loose to terrorize, incite, and murder the brown population. So yeah, this is pretty much business as usual.

Shit, at least you’re not dating a Zionist anymore though, right? I’d consider that a bullet dodged.

Fascist tankies? Tell me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda without telling me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda. Y’all are miseducated af

I am an ML as are most communists.

I’ve been accused of being a tankie, and I think he’s great. But obviously the McCarthyites of Lemmy would rather create a straw man than listen to anything a red has to say.

I would work literally any job if I knew I was genuinely helping my community become healthier, safer, and better able to enjoy life instead of the current system, where my labor only serves to put more money in the pockets of oligarchs.

You should report your store to your local health agency.

Personally, I prefer sickles and hammers, and at this point I no longer want to compromise with the billionaires.

https://www.mlreadinghub.org/study-materials/reading-list

Well, Google is an evil megacorp, so not really surprising.