Its a fucking nightmare over there. Left reddit because of this shit sad to see the other instances turning into reddit.

The moon landing is funny, so many of my family members under 30 in China believe it was fake, not because they think we can't or couldn't but more because the US lies about everything so it makes sense they'd lie about the moon landing.

Once the western narrative is apparent everything becomes so blatant it's exhausting

The guy is an ex member of the Communist party, communism = Russia

Source since it wasnt provided, from the Australian Communist Party:

https://www.auscp.org.au/...

This indeed, being bisexual and traveling to and having family in China, I dont talk about it with anyone aside from people I know are cool, but it is changing culturally, I liken China to the 80s in the USA, lot of bigots,but shifting opinion is on the wind, eventually it will get better and one day it'll be fine and normal. Similar to Cuba imo.

Im Chinese and live in Vietnam sometimes for work, i used to be there full time in HCMC but am not now. I had a few friends who are mostly leftists but it was sad how few even knew anything about the history or about Uncle Ho

I practice a weird amalgamation of Christianity, Chinese Folk Religion and Buddhism. From my experience many pagans are not right wing at all, but most pagans are quiet and don't rant and rave like the loser nazis do. They quietly practice their beliefs, maybe with a small group and mind their own fucking business.

That's why this is super familiar

Truly the best of the worst lmaooo

But fuck the people of the Donbas being shelled endlessly and starved for the better part of a decade by the Ukrainians amiright.

There are definitely some false equivalencies in this group/list, some of these folks are very good entertainment and everything we consoom doesnt need to be advanced intellectual theory and hardcore conversations about intense topics. We need to have fun and pleasure too, and hbomberguy 3 hour long videos on deus ex are precisely the kind of thing i find great to relax to.

Hia video on JK Rowling and Harry Pottwr was great and he did a lot of public work on trans issues in general in the UK ao hes fine in my book

Italy is basically like a liberal fascist hybrid already

France is weird with Unions because they don't have a massive technical membership, but a lot of supporters and people outside of unions members get the union wages and such if I am remembering correctly

Edit: This is long and the first time ive put these ideas on "paper" so please bare with me if things arent well explained.

No matter how much we advocate for a return of land for the Palestinian people and the dissolution of the nation of Israel, the pragmatic answer is this is likely never to happen, at least how many of us see it. This isnt to be negative or liberal or pro Israel, just to accept that the world will not support the dissolution of the so-called Jewish Homeland, at least not to be replaced solely by Palestine. I think the long term solution here starts with a two state first step. Here is my ideas that i have thought of.

Stage 1, this stage is hard asf and has the highest likelihood of failing, the first step for the Palestinian people is to end the immediate situation which is untenable and will lead to a long term and drawn out genocide. This starts with firm borders being drawn, Israel recognizes the state of Palestine and its sovereignty over territories which are agreed upon together, preferably with a southern land corridor to Gaza. Palestine is given full control and rights and is a voting member of the UN.

China then invites Palestine to join the BRI under zero interest loans and helps Palestine build its infrastructure, green energy, clean water, airport, trains whatever. Lifting Palestinians out of poverty, breathing life and dignity into the people.

Stage 2, the middle period, this is a time of growth, which will involved pains, this is hard for both sides, there needs to be some form of reconciliation, not forgetting of crimes, but forgiveness, Israelis and Palestinians learn to live as neighbors, interlocking trade, devlopment, knowledge. This is a long process, likely generations, i wouldnt be surprised if there is war during this period. Will take literal generations to accomplish this.

Stage 3, end period, unification. Long term goal, time frame is like a 100 years, so not soon. Palestine and Israel are dissolved into one state. Palestinians and Israelis become one people, loving and proud of their unified homeland. The interesting thing i realized when talking to Israeli and Palestinian people is how similar they are, ferociously proud, kind, accepting people, and not to sound too much like a feel good liberal, but sometimes we have to put aside our differences, no matter how entrenched, and find common ground, or be doomed to the cyclical nature of hate.

To summarise, if the process keeps at what it is currently, fuel for the Islamists and Ethnonationalist will continue to grow, both sides will move further apart and more people will die. I also want to emphasize this is not to state that the situation is equal on both sides, Israel is the agressor, they are primarily the ones instigating and are the reason this situation is the way it is. But as i mentioned on the outset and something my now dead grandfather used to say all the time, "The pragmatic approach is the best approach"

If you study Chinese culture and history these become much less weird, they are the 12 pillars of historical, cultural, political and ideological narrative currents popular in China for thousands of years, some new and modern, others ancient. China Today has an excellent write up on the topic I think and suggests a great book on the topic that deep dives into why these words we chosen:

http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/...

As for why it is plastered everywhere, that's how propaganda works, in every country of every ideology in the history of the world. Especially now, with so many different interconnected methods of information dissemination its crucial to be spreading a unified message about the goals, dreams, and aspirations of the national peoples.

The increase in economic hardship as a result of NATO's war is a main cause I think, western Europe in particular is experiencing a lot of this and it's feeding into right-wing talking points. It's rough and likely is only going to get worse. Social democracy is rotting in real time.

The supposed lore is that 196 was a sequal sub to 195 which was closed because the community was wack, the name 195 came from the founders apartment number. The name has no meaning its just a stupid name for a shitposting community.

Thats a lot of words.