Not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s not like the west is doing well at following the promises and projections it planned in Paris to reduce its addiction to fossil fuels. Promises of something being done in the future are only useful or relevant when they actually occur. They are meaningless until then.

Something something let the invisible hand of the market decide.

The West really likes capitalism until they start losing at their own game. Truth is. They’ve always enjoyed stacking the deck of free trade in their own favor. “But China is subsidizing it’s industry and cheating!”. Uh, ok. So why can’t the west just do that? Oh, because we literally have been subsidizing industries all over the place for forever. The west has just not ever had to actually compete with a trade power of equal power.

They liked living in a monopolar world of western control. Too bad. Sucks to suck. Losing at trade in the neoliberal economic world order that they setup to benefit themselves. Getting absolutely outplayed and now taking their ball home.

None of this has to do with “moral actions” or stopping Russia. They literally buy Russian gas like it’s an addiction. This is literally all about the fact that the west is losing out to China’s trade dominance throughout the world.

Well, explain in what what way my analogy was bull shit then. Because it’s not perfect, but creating a hypothetical analogy based around America is sometimes the only way to get Westerners to understand something.

But, you, trying to equate the real bay of pigs invasion to an invasion of Taiwan that was dumb. It just showed you don’t know the history of the Chinese civil war (the entire point of my analogy in the first place) or the history of Cuba.

But, go ahead. I’m waiting for you to explain why my hypothetical analogy is bull shit. I explained why yours was.

And you still haven’t answered why you want the US involved with defending Taiwan. That really worked out well for Ukraine. Fighting for years so we could sell them weapons, get their men killed, and then abandon them once we found a new war to start.

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So a country halfway across the world supporting your “freedom” because they benefit from the manufacturing the country outputs is freedom. But a country that is your neighbor, like China, that has literally never invaded you and has normalized relations with you is “a threat”. The Allie is a country that literally just abandoned an allie in Ukraine when it became unprofitable to support them.

How many times does the US need to abandon an allie like this for people to understand that being an Allie of the US is not beneficial to the “freedom” of that state.

Russia invading Ukraine is unjustifiable. IF China invaded Taiwan it would also be unjustifiable. But, do you really think the US policy of “fighting to the last Ukrainian” and then abandoning them was good for Ukraine?

There is no benefit that comes from being an Allie of the US. If Taiwan wants to remain out of conflicts it’s best option is to distance itself from the US. The benefits only exist until the US decides it’s no longer as profitable to their weapons manufacturers. Then shift their focus to somewhere else (Venezuela for example).

Your analogy is completely off. Cuba wasn’t ever historically a part of the US. Did not participate in a civil war within the US.

I think you need to read up on your history before you try to make a “better analogy”. I used the American civil war as an example because Americans seem to be completely ignorant to the fact that Taiwan exists as separate from mainland China because of a civil war.

Cuba literally liberated itself from a US supported dictatorship. The US did invade Cuba during the bay of pigs though. China has literally never even attacked Taiwan though. So, it’s really not at all compareable. Taiwan exist today as separate from China because the losing side of a civil war retreated there.

China in the 1950s absolutely would have every right to invade Taiwan and overthrow the western supported dictatorship that existed there. It would literally be liberating it’s own people.

The issue is that they didn’t; the people there were forced for decades to live under a puppet dictatorship of the west due to US support.

But, again, we are in this situation in the first place because of US global interests. For some reason no one can answer why the best solution is not for the US to stop trying to control and maintain influence over countries half way across the world?

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“The Florida Keys were never under control of the United States”

That what you just said if we’re keeping the analogy true.

Then you essentially justified the arming and support of a slave owning state by “a foreign nation” if that slave owning state was being threatened. Which (clarifying the analogy) is the US supporting the very much fascist state of Taiwan in its inception and it’s authoritarian rule for over three decades.

And, again, literally zero responses on why the US needs to be involved in every single conflict across the world.

Like, I have the obvious answer to this. But, my comment was meant to make you actually think. Instead, you somehow justified defending a slave state in the analogy.

It’s just so odd to me. Like, the historical parallel here would be if during the US civil War the Confederate army retreated to the Florida Keys and the Union was never able to conquer them due to other international conflicts.

So for 30 years the Confederates rule there with slavery and a dictatorship over the people. All the while they keep calling themselves “The real America”

The “Keys” see progress eventually following a less hostile relationship with the Union and have their dictatorship replaced by a more liberal form. A normalizing could occur and diplomatic relations between the Keys and the rest of America could occur peacefully and under the wishes of the existing people of the Keys.

BUT, for some reason some other country on the other side of the world has been establishing military alliances and bases near the Keys. They are “allies” with the Keys but on paper acknowledge the Union as the “real America”.

Say what you want about China today. But, what the fuck is America even doing here? They don’t reduce tensions with Taiwan or “protect it”. They don’t care about democracy. They literally supported its fascist leaders for decades. America’s hostile invasion of Korea to support fascist over communist is the entire reason that Taiwan was never captured by mainland China during their civil war. They did not want to risk conflict with the Western state that was doing everything to install loyal dictators in Korea and their neighbors.

China can have bad intentions and not give the people of Taiwan their now rightful self determination. I’m not saying that isn’t true. But, holy shit, Americans just eat up the “we have to be a part of ever conflict ever”. Like, can we just let that play out? We’re clearly not interested in Taiwan because we care about “freedom”. Did we learn nothing from the middle east?

That is not why the US cares about it. The US will abandon them (or bomb them) if it’s beneficial to US oligarchs to do so. Can we get some healthcare and stop worrying about what China does in its own backyard?

To be an enemy of the US is dangerous. To be an ally of the US is fatal.

A lot of the difference between this administration and previous ones is how much they don’t care about hiding their crimes. It’s gotta be surreal for Chelsea Manning to see the president post the same type of video bombing civilians that she went to federal prison for leaking.

We have been treating non American lives as subhuman for a long time.

You’re not wrong. But what is missing is all the cult building that he did since them. He built his entire political career on mentioning things other politicians refused to mention and then gaining loyalty for it. While, at the same time, literally doing nothing about any of the popular ideas he mentioned.

I have set places I’ll put things for this reason. But my brain still fucks it up. Put my phone on the shelf between my folded shirts while I get dressed. Will remember to pick it up there if I do.

But if I put it ON TOP of the folded shirts instead of between the two piles. Well. Fuck me. That’s invisible. And I won’t remember I didn’t pick it up until 20 minutes later.

I’m pretty certain I read before that Dyslexia and ADHD are highly coronated.

I don’t disagree in general. However, my mom has been running Linux with a Windows XP skin for almost 8 years now without knowing she’s using Linux. Literally just keeps her from running a random .exe and she does everything on a browser anyway.

Welp, something I’ve been doing without thinking since I was a teenager working as a dish washer. I’ve had back problems since puberty. Stretch marks on my back to this day from growing too quickly.

The “exercise” part for most of the world just comes from the fact that every trip isn’t just a walk to your mobile couch that takes you to another place with static couches.

I swear to god though. I’m not “weak” everywhere. The small muscles I use to move the mouse on my computer, shake my leg all day sitting because I don’t want to sit, move my foot to drive, they are all MASSIVE for their size.

I’m so exhausted from trying to NOT move my body all day that I’m way too tired to do actual healthy exercise. Yoga, helps but it’s just a means of keeping things from getting worse. If I could avoid all those awful things I’m sure yoga would improve things over time. But 90% of waking hours are forcing me to hurt my body.

For every 1 time I remember to squat instead of bend my back there are 100 times I’m too focused to get distracted for 30 minutes at how I need to do better.

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Pro tip. Study in 50 or 55 minute increments. Start at 5:05/5:00 and end at 5:55. Makes the time you dedicate feel significantly shorter (I mean it is by 5/10 minutes but you get my point) as it’s in the same hour. It also fits the college class schedule style. Those 60 minute class timeslots always feel so much better than the 90 minute ones do.

I don’t actually ever stop at the correct time. But actually starting it is the hardest part. Treating it like a quick class period helps me.

The group resisting genocide is popular? /shocked