niph

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[–] niph@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cravenly abandoning their own people when they were the aggressors in the first place

[–] niph@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Really ratio’d the interceptors

[–] niph@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Random Israeli map-based self-owns are all the rage these days

[–] niph@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree but it feels like we are still somehow hoping it works with Bolsanaro

[–] niph@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

There’s no way to maintain fascist control while also gutting institutions. In the material world you need systems and a ton of people on the payroll to impose fascism for any period of time.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I tried to read his autobiography and oh boy was the writing crap.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

The idea of time running out is an illusion to keep us in the state of despair. There is no countdown to doomsday.

Even as the climate catastrophe hits it won’t be all at once. It’ll be a slow decline and there will be many opportunities to make a difference at a local level for all of us.

Look for what we can do, even if it’s small, even if it seems hopeless. Revolution doesn’t necessarily produce results immediately. It may take a generation or five. But we do it because we hope that someone will be able to benefit, even if it’s not ourselves.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the helpful response. I was probably a bit too quick to jump on the bandwagon this time I think

[–] niph@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Didn’t they literally murder a Sikh activist in Vancouver a year or two ago?

[–] niph@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I take your point that nothing in the paper provides compelling evidence for the origin being from the US, but you originally said there was no reason to believe it didn’t cross over to humans in Southern China, based on circumstantial speculation.

The evidence does make a case for there being a) no COVID in Wuhan prior to Dec 2019 and b) the circulation of COVID in the US around Dec 2019. The position is therefore that COVID was contemporaneously in the US and China, which substantially weakens the case for a Chinese human crossover.

As for your assertion that China is home to larger populations of the kinds of animals that carry coronavirus, the document also presents negative testing results in bats and deer of the region as part of the origin tracing research.

In any case the authors of the paper don’t actually assert that it came from the US, but rightly point out that China has co-operated with the WHO in allowing and carrying out studies to trace the origins while the US has refused to even entertain the idea.

[–] niph@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Did you actually read the document? There’s plenty of reason to doubt

[–] niph@hexbear.net 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

However, some US politicians showed no appreciation for China’s magnanimity and generosity. Since they could not conceal China’s aid to the world – including their own country – they smeared it as “mask diplomacy” aimed at influencing the international community. The US was unwilling to assume its responsibility to help other countries, yet it was opposed to China stepping up with such initiatives. Its approach was neither serious nor dignified.

lmaooo China literally calling burgerland deeply unserious

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