WildWeezing420 [he/him]

the anti-medicine crowd, who are largely composed of people with fried up brains from years of drug overconsumption, like to latch onto specific “cure-alls”. This is the same as it’s ever been, from snake-oil salesmen to apothecaries of old. The greeks had something called a “tetrapharmacum” which was a mixture of resin, tar, pitch and fat that would be applied topically to cure anything and everything (it did nothing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmacum

Basically, the reality of modern medicines’ complexity is too much for them to keep within their mind at once. It feels fake to them because it’s so overly complex, specific and material and out of their understanding. It’s a lot easier to reject it all and latch onto a couple miracle cures within an idealist mode of thought.

Ivermectin seems to be the one they’ve settled on recently.

No I think it’s just xbox sales being down

whenever libs blame us for stuff like this, lean into it. Yes, we are extremely powerful. You will need to compromise with our demands!

More appeals to authority. They have to be diplomatic in public, and China is the only path for them to develop and advance diplomatically if somehow a Palestinian state is ever achieved so they need to keep that option on the table. But that’s pure cold calculation, not anything to do with their stances on China’s current actions. They cannot publicly attack China without becoming totally isolated, it’s pragmatic not ideological.

We don’t have those same diplomatic restraints. We can talk plainly and clearly, and it’s very obvious what’s happening here. China is valuing money and status quo diplomacy with the USA over ending a genocide. That’s really the brute truth where the rubber meets the road, and you cannot respond to it except with personal attacks against me and appeals to authority like I said.

dancing dancing dancing to avoid the indisputable fact that aiding israel materially is zionism, and indefensible for a socialist project. I’m not interested in your excuses for why Zionism is acceptable under certain conditions. Not at all. They amount to personal attacks against me and appeals to authority, there’s nothing rational about your apologetics.

turning this into an identity thing isn’t going to work. You can’t deal with my arguments so you resort to name-calling

Keep coping with the Zionist excuses. Every time you make these Zionist argument you are driving people into the arms of your enemies. How hard is it to just have principles?

You know why it’s right-leaning and theocratic groups like Hamas leading the resistance? Because the leftists of the PLO failed, they sold out, they became defeatist Zionists filled with excuses and they drove everyone into the arms of groups like Hamas. Why are you justifying China repeating the same mistakes on a wider scale? China is acting more like the PA than they are anything liberatory, and they will be judged as such by history.

I think he was born Catholic and converted evangelical. Hegseth is the inverse. Any type of Christian-to-Christian convert cannot be trusted

Both Catholics.

We need to put a hold on these papists until we can figure out what the hell is going on

All the Generals quiet quitting smdh

Meanwhile, why you are trying to parse their hidden power levels through reading tea leaves billions in the global south are learning that communists cannot be trusted to join in the struggle for their liberation and will make up excuses. Russia and Iran are doing more than China by orders of magnitude to oppose the imperialists and decolonize the world. The lesson being learned by the world is that the path to liberation is right-wing, theocratic and nationalist.

China is failing communism and sullying its name by participating in this genocide publicly. When communists online make up apologetics and excuses instead of demanding principles, you are reinforcing this failure in the eyes of the world.

Defeatism. This is the logic of scabs who cross the lines. fascist led Italy is actually doing more than China here! Why is this acceptable? Just because you aren’t guaranteed victory isn’t any reason not to try and chip in however you can. Yeah, Palestine Action on their own isn’t gonna stop the genocide either. These are drops in a bucket. Stop being a leak.

“Video game logic”

I just want them to fucking oppose genocidal fascists in a material way. What is your deal? I’m not making purity demands of them this is the lowest possible bar. Like what is the resistance here to agreeing with the criticisms of China in regards to their active trade and involvement with Israel?

Sanctions against the Zionist entity won’t do much since the US will simply foot the bill.

Carl Zha is that you?

By this logic Apartheid South Africa would never have been isolated and boycotted. Why bother with BDS or anything if America will just “foot the bill”? Oh yeah opposing a genocide is just “morality purity testing” right?

I don’t buy it, reeks of Liberal Zionism and convenient excuses.

Well it’s interesting that he is actually capable of centralizing power, just not when it’s against Blairites and neoliberals apparently

It really separated the wheat from the chaff. Loved seeing all the Ukraine-flag NATO-loving western “leftists” getting their pants pulled down in front of the whole world. It gave us a landmark to orient ourselves, as we were totally lost in a sea of mud.

The quick ceasefire happened because the Iranian state is so rotten it could have not formed a cohesive front to actually fight a war.

Well, they were our one realistic hope and so if this is the case then it’s pretty fucking grim

Do you have westoid brain where democracy is when there’s a bunch of divided parties, and the more parties there are and they more divided they are the more democracy there is?

A nation that has moved sufficiently towards socialism would not have divided priorities. Once they have suppressed the different classes out of existence and only the proletariat remain, all that’s left is to pass and enact policies that benefit the proletariat as a whole. There is no more major class antagonisms, so there is no more need for a bitterly divided class war to be played out on stage.

In almost all socialist nations we see this trend towards super-majority and unanimity. In China, there is also only one significant party and it has extremely high support - and they aren’t even that far along their socialist path to eradicate the other classes. You would expect these features to be even more pronounced in a more progressed and advanced socialist state that has less class antagonisms to deal with.

How is an elected assembly of workers voting in their own intersts not democratic?

I would say people posting online are probably closer to unprincipled cowards than the communists running the largest nation on earth and prioritizing their own people’s welfare

Hmmm you’re only posting online so therefore you’re incorrect. This shit is so bad faith and you know it

Yeah but libs are fine with hypocrisy if it’s in their interests. None of those global south libs would balk or blink an eye at sanctions against Israel.

The real insidious part of American sanctions are that they involve secondary sanctions. They don’t just go after their target, they go after anyone who trades with the target. China could do sanctions without any secondary sanctions and the global south wouldn’t mind at all since that’s the part that’s actually really oppressive to them.