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2 days ago@njm1314@lemmy.world Oh look, we were just talking about this kind of issue! It’s a damn shame how all these military people started gleefully firing on all the protestors, which always happens.
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Yeah. I mean it’s not a competition. They can both be horrifying things that need to be stopped.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
I wasn’t talking about CECOT exclusively. The Gulag was a whole nationwide archipelago of various small-scale detention facilities, which parallels what Trump is doing more or less to a T.
Every so often, something hits me that makes me think I need to get the fuck out of here. Not just because of the political situation (although that is a factor, I think that “stay and fight” is probably the right answer there). But it just seems like overall the culture and the people and the nature of the place is setting itself up for a massive collapse which there is not a lot of way to prevent… even in times of no real external threats, and right now there are some big ones of those looming.
I honestly have no idea why anyone here on a visa would still be here at this point. I get that it’s not easy to uproot your life on a dime, but also, it’s not that easy to go to a modern Gulag with no hope of release or due process, either.
It’s a wild indication of how far things have fallen apart that for so many decades, “the US isn’t going to do any crazy fuckery and it’s safe to host this vital transnational infrastructure there” was working fine.
Also, completely agree. IDK where the UN should be hosted going forward, but it sure as shit should not be the US.
Again, none of this means China’s appeal has increased
It’s more America losing than China winning.
Sounds great! For the nth time, it sounds like we agree on pretty much everything you just said. I think your extensive lectures need to be directed at the person I replied to, not at me.
So you stopped reading at “Trumpian Fascism,” 4 words into the message, and decided to miss “will make China look good” and all the other stuff that I was disagreeing with? Glad we got that sorted out lol.
I agree with what you’re saying now, still just not sure what it has to do with public opinion polls in Korea or “make China look good.”
See that all makes sense. What the other guy said was what I was pushing back on.
Oh, I can certainly believe that Hyundai would do this. My thought process actually went something along the lines of:
- Oh that’s pretty fascinating
- Wait, I feel like this is exactly the type of propaganda that would get spread on social media, I think this person should dig into the source of their story and make sure it wasn’t some kind of lying that they had believed
- Oh they said it was firsthand knowledge never mind
- Wait WTF I’m on social media right now
- Also their explanation for “Hyandai” makes literally 0 sense
- Ooooohhhh… yeah.
I think if the explanation for “Hyandai” had been “oh my bad lol” then I wouldn’t have really felt any particular strong skepticism, but that aspect pushed it over the edge to me.
I am deeply skeptical of your story. This is the kind of thing that’s super-easy to prove, and I feel like if they were finding real immigration fraud at this plant, they would be half-likely to actually try to enforce against it since that was exactly what they did the raid for and it would have been detected in 2 seconds once they started checking IDs. And even if not, it would be half-likely that that aspect of the story would leak to the press in some form at some point.
The whole thing where your phone autocorrected a real word to a totally nonexistent word makes me further skeptical of the whole thing. I won’t say either is impossible, but they both seem unlikely.
I would be a little bit surprised if the people in charge of high-level trade are that simple-minded.
China was already a great reliable trade partner. They have other issues as does any nation, but attractiveness for trade wasn’t really one of them, they were already pretty bangin’ in that regard, and the US losing its status as a good investment doesn’t suddenly mean that Chinese markets will become always a safe investment by default. I feel like these narratives like “trade relations = loyalty and friendship, there can be only one favorite nation-crush” are sort of for public consumption.
They’re eating a hell of a lot more than the people in Gaza
For those who were curious, “home” means South Korea, not their homes they made in the US.
Also there’s this:
Lee’s government even promised at least $50bn of investments during his recent meeting with Trump, a gesture that resulted only in a “crackdown” against South Korean citizens.
CBS, are you paying attention? Probably not.
Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it’s very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.
Gaza’s Health Ministry is obligated to be conservative. The true death toll was almost certainly above 150,000 even before the starvation really started, and of course the number of people crippled. stunted, or otherwise ruined for life is much much greater.
Yeah. It’s a fucking disgrace.
Read “Sky Over Kharkiv” for some generally excellent picture of the war from the Ukraine perspective, with some occasional bitterness about the cowardice and apathy of all the Western allies about helping Ukraine to any pivotal extent.
Dan Ellsberg also had some great writing about how this all functions from the POV inside the Western military machine. He called it “the stalemate machine”: We’re motivated enough to help you not lose, but not motivated enough to let you win. And so, you just keep dying, month after month and year after year.
Yeah, I’m just coming in this thread and saying totally weird counterfactual nonsense, just kind of anything that serves the narrative I am trying to portray. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
This estimate is way out of date at this point. As of this April, it was probably around 600,000, most of them children. And then them completely shutting off food to the population came after that.