I’ve not seen inside one, so I can’t say. From the outside they do look a lot like prisons though.

But the word 学校 (school) is essentially a swear word in Xinjiang now and has an impact on the atmosphere. It irks me that pretty much all coverage and reporting is done for US benefits and as a stick to beat China with. Not actually out of care or respect for the ethnic groups going into them.

China isn’t a big, irrational, evil. It’s a big place led by people making decisions. You won’t find any nation-state, let alone a large powerful one acting in a moral way.

I hope you can find a chance to visit it for a time. It’s a cliche, but English teaching is an easy route to take to get in and have a chance to see China for yourself.

Can it be a police state dystopia if the people self censor to stay out of trouble, corruption, and racism run rampant?

That said, the PRC is a complicated place and the standard of living and health conditions of pretty much everyone have gone from mostly poor to generally good over a single generation. I think it’s fair, yet sad, to say that wouldn’t have happened any other way.

The public transport is amazing. And if you’re willing to conform, and be Han or a model minority in a traditionally Han dominant area, you’re living well. Purchasing power is generally high, and even the vast vast majority of the poorest people have houses and food.

Source: speak Mandarin and worked in China for a few years.

Obama? Billy C.? Though maybe that’s my feels from being younger and less media savvy.

Though if I’m honest I don’t think any US president has been progressive.

I’m intrigued.

What five policies of Biden make him the most progressive president of the last 50 years?

Exactly. And he didn’t. For whatever reasons he wasn’t able to do anything but allow, if not actively encourage, the actions of Netanyahu and the IDF that led to the deaths of dozens to hundreds of Israelis, and tens of thousands of Palestinians.

You seem to have mistaken not materially different to Palestinians as equal to equivalent.

And that I didn’t talk about the bad stuff done by Biden and Obama, and the Bushes, and (the) Clinton(s).

Maybe if the Democratic party was more willing to make more materialistic changes we wouldn’t’ve had first Trump, let alone Trump 2. It is naive to hope that, and things for American sexual and ethnic minorities would be, generally, better under democrats. But they’re a holding pattern until the Republicans get in, and Dems don’t have people’s backs.

But my original point was that if you’re so blinkered to not even be able to understand why progressives and anti-imperialist would sit out of the 2024 election, you’re not going to be able to talk them round to vote for Your Guy™ if there is an election again in the future.

Rather than understand a dissenting point of view, you dismiss and villify people you should be trying to work with and understand.

Get friendly with Black Bloc and maybe we can all make things better for everyone at home and in the Middle East.

And you’re too high on American exceptionalism to realise that the words coming out of the White House have zero impact on the experience of Palestians.

The war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and indeed genocide would be happening the same. The only difference is you need to make up for thinking it would be less horrific if you had a leader who’d wasn’t so mask off about it.

Biden wasn’t able to hold back the tide ethnic cleansing and war crimes the IDF has inflicted on the Palestinians. It is very unlikely that a Harris win would have reigned in the killings, bombings, and all that have taken place since the election.

If you can’t understand why people would abstain from supporting one of two genocide supporting candidates who had shown no interest in making things better, you’re just as much to blame for the current US admin as those who did not vote.

All of Europe? All EU leaders? Just the EU president, who has a mostly ceremonial role?

I’m being nitpicky, no state is anyone’s friend and no superpower (or wannabe) comes even half as close as a state to being on your side.

So since adjusting by PPP Russia has spent over a trillion in USD on the war, that makes Russia the aggressor?

No, being in London doesn’t mean you’re rich. But if you live in Greenwich you don’t get anywhere near the M25 to get to your state school.

They are by the law courts with sentences like these.

I chose that cartoon to show how a large portion of Americans saw MLK and the less innsurrectionist Civil Rights arm.

If their school journey required driving along the M25 their school, was, odds on, a posh twuntian egoscape. They’re from money and benefit hugely from the system, but don’t see it because of all that hard work they have done at some point sucking on their silver spoon.

Us British plebs don’t need to drive along the capital city’s outer ring road to get to the local state school.

Oh, I thought targeted at oil industry specifically was what you were asking for.

They also spent 3 days disrupting one of the largest petrol company sites in the UK a few years back. Very little media coverage, no care from the general public, no result.

The big march on Washington style disruptions at least gets something. Even if you complain.

We in Europe forget that you yanks can get fired for things like a car break down or a protest stopping you from getting to work on time.

You should probably get some workers rights protests. Consider strikes.

The blockade power stations and airfield quite often.

But those ones barely make news, let alone front page news.

Also major motorways outside a large city is much more like marching your protestors down main street in Birmingham, US or marching on a capital city, getting those city centre shut down for Blacks and Whites alike than sitting in a Blacks only eatery.

It would be amazing.

Fan edit, spoofs, redubs, fan commentary tracks, watch alongs.

It could be a cultural renaissance.

I’m fairly sure that at this point pirating has been shown to lead to increased sales, even of small scale productions.

Also, no one said that people can’t keep the rights for a while, just that if you don’t let people access those things you don’t get to prosecute them for making the art available.