Israel is a relevant group employing terror. They generally don’t claim responsibility. Not advertising responsibility doesn’t stop something from being terrorist. Nowhere was it stated they were responsible.

Reading comprehension. Do you have it. It was an allusion to groups in power that use terror. Just because no one is claiming responsibility. Doesn’t mean it’s not terror.

Through it seems in this case it was likely a grudge.

Israelis blowing up another hospital? Must be a day ending in the letter Y. They don’t leave a Manifesto every time they commit an act of Terror. For some groups their agenda is so out in the open they don’t feel the need.

And there you go again deflecting. It was always going to be either a democrat or a republican that won. We would have had far more impact trying to negotiate with the Democrat than a Republican. Yes both candidates were bad. But one would have definitely been better. The one so many hyper focused on attacking. While not attacking the other in the slightest.

My position looks as good as it ever did. I was right before. I was right during the election. And I’ve been right since the election. All people like you can do is silently downvote pyrrhicly. Or delusionally you create scenarios in which there’s a magical world in which I was wrong.

You say that because you’re a rational person. The people he was replying to. Thought it was more important that Biden/Harris lose than trump. They ridiculed those calling for solidarity against trump. Screeching blue maga. Because they didn’t care if trump won.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

If China actually cared about the people. Rather than forcing the monastery closed and them to abandon their religion/culture. They would simply offer to relocate them away from the monastery if they feared for their children.

Without children and followers to harness. The religion would die on its own. Even as the general culture would endure. China explicitly does not want that. China specifically is trying to oppress and eradicate cultural differences.

People are 100% Justified to call China out on this. And in doing so are not defending all of tibet’s actions. Two things can be wrong at the same time. All sides can be wrong at the same time. This is one of those cases. There is no defense of China or Tibet here. China is not doing this out of some goodness of their heart or humanitarian need. Simply their own selfish goals.

So colonialism/imperialism is okay? Either it is or it isn’t. All I’m asking for is consistency.

It’s 100% possible to find beliefs and practices of cults and cultures to be abhorrent. But also acknowledge that trying to forcefully change things. Almost invariably backfires. As well as undermining any moral stance you may have once had.

Or other “western” nations. I’ve never knowingly met someone staunchly ml. That was from an area formerly or currently ml.

Talking to someone from China etc you generally will not hear them specifically shit on their government. Mostly because the government will come knocking and threatening violence as they did with Naomi. But you will catch them nervously deflecting to justifying it. Acknowledging it without speaking of it. Though even that could not save Naomi.

Hilariously Lemmy.ml is blocked in China. Where a lot of other Lemmy instances aren’t strictly.

Huh, I genuinely consume more British TV than I do US TV. And I’m well aware and familiar with someone getting “shot dead”. That’s clear. But putting the subject after the description just sorry of jackknifes the temporal understanding. Mayor shot dead. “Oh they were killed” Vs shot dead mayor “why are they shooting a corpse”.

I mean, I guess dead is an adjective. Which is often used before a subject to describe it. So grammatically it’s “correct”. If obtuse. But then I’m sure there are phrasings Americans use like that.

The headline gore is real.

It’s not the reason, but it certainly is a reason.

Another reason is. That it is an old protocol from the late 90s. And there isn’t a lot of Buzz about it these days. A lot of the problematic centralization we all now recognize was just becoming the norm.

Feature parity at the time is also another big hurdle. Things we all take for granted especially in this day and age Avatar profile pictures etc. Jabber/xmpp did not have that for years. It may be a useless feature in terms of sending messages. people still like personalization etc. And it’s hard to convince people to switch if they have to give it up.

Jump to today. And arguably services like Twitter Mastodon Facebook Etc all sort of fill that Niche to an extent. Maybe not as well. But enough again that it’s going to be hard to get people to switch to yet another system

How is that not taking away autonomy? That’s kind of literally the definition of. They aren’t appealing for them to close the monastery on their own. They are forcing it.

You and I can both state plainly that the practices are harmful. And even justify the assertion. We would never subject ourselves to it by choice. But that’s the thing it has to be a choice. Give them other choices other opportunities. That is absolutely fine.

But the moment you enact your beliefs upon others through violence. It doesn’t matter if you are factually correct. You are no longer the “good guy”. You’ve lost the argument. If you cannot make the case for it on merits alone.

There is a very good reason concepts of imperialism and colonization are frowned upon these days. Why you don’t see many groups talking about going out and civilizing savages. These are the so-called “good intentions” that the proverbial road to Hell is paved with. The same sort of justification that they used to separate my grandmother from her family. And sent her to special schools. The kind that in many places often ended up with mass Graves of children.

Would that be worth taking away his autonomy and will without consent?

Make all the misguided excuses you want for what China is doing. It won’t make it right. It was wrong when the United States did it to my family. And it is wrong when China is doing it now.

If China wants to help them. Then offer them opportunity and choice. If the opportunities and choice are better. Their culture will adapt and change to it. Forcing eradication of their culture through violence will only breed resentment and grievance.

One China and all. Oh other people exist? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee one China!

So many packs of lone wolves. If only there was something common among them to understand. /s

Truly a joke appropriate for the day

Rindeed raggy

Then they should go home

Damn these ICE agents are a threat to everyone.