Your innocence is still maintained if you if you only know "TealDeer" as a silly little pun. There is something much worse behind the reference. Partly why I linked the video was because if I remember right, like me you despise pedants especially of the debatebro reddit new atheist antifeminist brand. Tl;dr was one of the worst and thats saying something.
LemmeAtEm
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If you change your mind, Shaun provides a great way to keep to a healthy, limited exposure to the reference.
Yeah, I also don't really understand what the OP is getting at with the age thing in the title. If anything, it would seem like the actual rulers (pictured) should be more likely to be ancient vampires than the the politicians chosen for the facade of democracy.
I'm guessing your autocorrect didn't like the word "defederated" and turned it into a word that's a slur if you don't include the 'd' at the end? lol
also I agree with your comment.
edit- Who wouldn't want to be called an outfox?
Sure, geopolitics doesn't exist, it's all just this craaaaaayzee guy twirling his evil mustache. It's not like the Russian government has any say, or that almost everyone in it not only support the SMO but many of them think Putin is too soft on Ukraine and should commit much more of their military to it. It's not like over 70% of the Russian public also supports the SMO and Putin's decisions, saying they should never make concessions to return the Donbas to Ukraine. I mean, it's not like most of the world aside from the propaganda-steeped NATO countries also side with Russia with respect to the conflict. Nope. None of that. Just that one maniacal power hungry madman!
https://www.eiu.com/n/russia-can-count-on-support-from-many-developing-countries/
lol. It's so funny these fucking dweebs who can't understand the world beyond a simplistic Saturday-morning-cartoon kind of analysis with Putin being this season's villain.
Ok here's what happened: Nazis made propaganda to discredit their enemies and you believed that propaganda. Then you went on a website and showed everyone there what an idiot you are, not just because you believe the propaganda and take it as the default, but also because what you're asking for someone else to explain to you has already been discussed at length in this same thread.
Willing to engage? wtf I never stopped engaging. And the sources I sent aren't from one country that's making claims about their enemy. In case you didn't notice, the Guardian and RollingStone are not from China. lol On top of that, they aren't "my" sources, I literally just showed you something you could have googled for yourself and found out from American sources.
What a disappointment. I thought you might be a reasonable person for a while there, but that last comment just shows how obtuse you're choosing to be, and how unwilling to recognize bias when it doesn't suit you to do so. Typical, but still disappointing. Whatever, enjoy whatever picture you have in your head for how the world is as told to you by the apparatus that has power over you, I won't try to challenge it. I'm going to bed anyway. bye.
I don't trust western sources on China because they have a very strong vested interest in demonizing China now. Some of the things I've seen come from the nytimes in particular is straight up lies. I also wouldn't trust Chinese state media reporting on how the US did everything it could to downplay Covid and get people back to work even as there were more waves of death from it. (I wouldn't trust China if they were the ones telling me that, but I know it's true because I lived through it.)
I would bet China does do some nefarious shit at times too, but they are open about it when they take down billionaires, which the US would never do in the first place. I flat do not believe anything the nytimes or the BBC says about China, though. I've seen too much unabashed propaganda from those outlets on things not even having to do with China. No way I'll believe they're telling the truth about their ideological and economic enemy.
To get down to the basis of what I think, yes, China probably does some pretty bad shit sometimes, but I don't think it does anywhere near as bad as what the largest global super power, the bully on the world stage, the US does all the damn time. I hands down believe the US does far far worse, even if there is no country in the world that doesn't have some blood on its own hands.
It was probably state or local cops who murdered the BLM founders, but it was clearly coordinated assassinations. But no offense, you're still being a bit naive if you think those kinds of targeted assassinations don't happen, sometimes (if not most of the time) with the go-ahead from the very top. Even when it's not from the top, it's still US government killings.
Fred Hampton's murder is common knowledge, you can just google it (and keep in mind the US propaganda machine bias with that, but it's even still not in question the cops just bust down the door and blew him away in bed). As for the BLM founders, a quick search also brought up https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/08/ferguson-protest-leader-darren-seals-shot-dead-burning-car and https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ferguson-death-mystery-black-lives-matter-michael-brown-809407/ There's also Obama setting the precedent for having US citizens accused of being terrorists murdered without trial in drone strikes. And consider whistleblowers like Snowden and Assange, the latter will almost certainly be killed if extradited back to the US and has already been tortured severely. Look into even just the stuff the CIA has itself admitted to, it's heinous.
Not according to the people I've known from China who have told me that the state almost never does anything like that to individuals (excepting billionaires who used their money to harm people) but will crack down on corporations, and that is just the opposite of what the US does. Look at the founding members of the BLM movement in Ferguson. Murdered. Wasn't one ruled a suicide who had two shots to the back of their skull with their car set on fire while they were in it? Or Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers who was shot to death in his hotel room bed by cops? I think you have it a little backwards. But yes, both countries are flawed (one much more than the other if you're just a regular person and not a billionaire).
As for your last question, that's easy. Cuba.
Waah, I'm too impatient for anything that might challenge my simple yet fragile good-guy/bad-guy worldview! ๐ญ