sicklemode

Thank you, and you're welcome.

If you ever come across this problem again, this is how you can attempt to resolve it:

Open the image in GIMP > Click "Colors" tab > Click "Color to Alpha" > Choose the color you need to get rid of (in this case, black) > Manipulate the "Opacity threshold" slider until you get the desired effect > Post your newly edited image :)

Here is a small catalog of content to help you compare the Xinjiang in your mind with the Xinjiang in the real world.

1. Western Media's Baseless Xinjiang Claims 外媒的涉疆谎言 Xinjiang Cotton 🇨🇳 Unseen China
2. Western Media's Xinjiang Lies Exposed 外媒新疆谎言大揭露 🇨🇳 Unseen China
3. The Xinjiang they don't want you to see... (CW:Meat {for the vegans})

Should you choose to engage in good faith, further discussion is welcomed once you have reviewed the content.

Living in China is always my go-to, especially for showing liberals the big bad bogeyman they're so afraid of.

Personally what intrigues me the most about breadtubers is how they become mild and inoffensive versions of themselves after becoming popular/well-off. Like, what causes that? Is it that the societal problems they criticized no longer applies to them? Is it the allure of advertising money? Is it secret CIA threats? I really do wonder.

The same exact cause for hungry as fuck "progressives" like AOC to settle and water down and tiptoe away from their original mission: They've switched classes and, therefore, their new class interests are in conflict with their original mission. What's there to be hungry about anymore when you start being fed really well? Why continue trying to destroy the status quo when it's benefiting you materially? This is why it's important to maintain loyalties to class interests (in this case, the interests of the proletariat), instead of individuals who are susceptible to corruption. China does this very well and provides the blueprint.

how would you oppose both Dems and GOPs without just handing control over to the Right?

Hold on a second, what do you mean here? The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both right-wing parties. The US has always been a far-right country. When, exactly, was it not?

It's immaterial which party is in power, they are all funded by the capitalist class and the work of the capitalist class is carried on regardless.

I think they share the anxiety tone of this article's author by worrying about leftists being on the rise.

Exactly. Leftists being on the rise in stable spaces where the state cannot easily intervene or back them up (liberal hegemony in crisis).

The creation cannot be stopped!

Censoring leftist ~~opinions~~ interests will be much harder.

We're way too dependent on words like "opinions" and "disagreements" which are much, much better replaced with words like "interests" and "disputes". This way, we can further eliminate the cultural phenomenon of debatebros talking people in circles.

Good take, though.

Most people wouldn't let the first person they stop on the street sift through their camera roll. They want their achievements, failures, and little life moments to be kept sacred. So after a decade of airing our most intimate moments in public, the pendulum is shifting back. People are more selective with their communities and are reverting back to an old-school way of interacting. It's hard to know how the change will affect the online atmosphere over the long term — some evidence suggests the shift will create a healthier digital experience, but it also risks further dividing people into like-minded echo chambers.

The collapsing of US state-affiliated social media platforms' hegemony is finally upon us. They use these platforms for war (psychological warfare more than anything) and cheating, just like every other channel of influence, and working class people have had enough of being fucked over and manipulated, as well as being enslaved to doom scrolling. I've been patiently waiting for over a decade for this. Now, finally, people are pivoting back to high quality discourse and relationship building. We're also increasingly seizing the means of communication (think Lemmy and other equivalents under the AGPLv3 license), which puts the control of culture firmly in our own hands.

He's gone sickle mode