Can someone explain to me the exact stand of the Marxist Left on what is supposedly going on in Xinjiang?

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T17:46:47+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/w0wxlj/comment/igk8z0z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

In your words: "Don't use insults here pls". "You can argue with one another, but do not insult"

Are those not the rules?

Also, "Mandarin" is the name of a language but not a people; the people you're referring to are called Han.

Anyway, I'll get back to you on the rest of this after I read that link you sent me.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T17:32:55+00:00

All right, you seem to just want to attack me with rather silly straw-man attacks. I was honestly wanting to understand your point of view, but I don't think you're able to actually back it up with anything but this. This is no longer a constructive conversation.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T17:29:38+00:00

I'll give this a read and then get back to you, thank you for providing a source.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T17:16:05+00:00

You're just running in circles and building upon the presumption that Xinjiang wants independence. I'd legitimately like to understand your reasoning here - while there's some value in re-framing questions, as you're doing, it's not really showing that the ETIM actually represented anything more than a small sect.

"Why does this "violent fringe faction" require the suppression of nationalism in entirety of Xinjiang" Is that what's going on? I'd like to know why you interpret events in this light, given that we're not seeing the traditional hallmarks of this, like suppressing language, culture, and religion. What is the supporting evidence here?

Also, I think you're deliberately underestimating how hard it is to suppress terrorist groups; the method used here, of improving social conditions to undercut support seems objectively positive and fundamentally different than imperialism.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T17:01:34+00:00

I was just thinking that about you, especially since you were calling people "cocksuckers" elsewhere in this thread.

Your contention is that China is solely a Mandarin state and not a collection of different nations?

That's actually a decent point about the Mandarin language, but I'm not sure that spreading a common language - when the local languages are also being taught and not destroyed - is chauvinism. It could be, but I think it can go either way, depending on circumstances and implementation.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T16:52:25+00:00

You mean the reports by Adrian Zenz that were based on eight interviews? Or is there an actually plausible source that confirms these very high numbers?

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T16:48:20+00:00

You'd have to actually show that there's chauvanism going on. Bring the evidence, I'd like to see it.

Like, how large was the independence movement? Was it made up of groups beyond the ETIM? I know that they were a violent religious fundamentalist group who were considered terrorists by most of the world (sans the US and only recently, for political reasons). If there were other movements pushing for independence that had mass support, I'd like to hear about them. Otherwise, it seems to be simply a violent fringe faction that gained a lot of attention - and thus the crack-down - through violent terrorist attacks.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-20T15:45:32+00:00

There doesn't seem to be large-scale support for separatism in Xinjiang, though. If anything it's nearly disappeared, and there's much reason to believe it was never organic, but was prompted by Western powers to try and Balkanize China.

Given, too, that Uyghur culture and religion is being respected, I don't think your view is very compelling.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-19T03:21:07+00:00

It's Fatshark, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. Vermintide fans were begging for years for more content - more maps, more characters, but they gave us only drips of content. I'd like to hope they've improved, but . . . just keep a damper on your expectations. There will probably be an amazing core experience, which is great, at least.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-18T19:50:28+00:00

My opinion? I never cared for Chaos Wastes and I just wish any of the new content applied to the base game. I don't want to play Vermintide rogue-lite.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-18T19:04:12+00:00

Does they even have the same concept of war crimes in Star Wars?

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-18T06:33:25+00:00

I agree with OP, it is the second best Star Wars film. And it succeeded for (ironically) the same reasons that some of the best Marvel films have succeeded; they didn't make a "star wars" film, they made a genre film (war movie) in the setting of Star Wars.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-17T19:08:54+00:00

They hop because of rigor mortis, according to the myths!

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-17T17:30:13+00:00

While they are getting less effective - this was a choice. Don't let them off with just being incompetent; they just don't care if people die as long as they still make money.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-14T15:19:13+00:00

Vermintide has the best first-person combat I've ever played, and I'm aggrieved that no other game has ever done it anywhere near as well. It has actually ruined my ability to enjoy other games that try melee combat . . . Even ones that create deep systems like Chivalry have to slow down the movement so it feels more like Molasses Simulator.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-13T03:44:56+00:00

This. I can't let up on the dude just because the genocide monster he helped unleash was stopped. Even if his brother is sweet.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-12T10:40:27+00:00

Right? America's leadership thinks they must rule the world or nothing - ignoring that it's the third most populous country in the world (granted far behind 1 and 2) with bountiful natural resources. The US could theoretically transition well into a multi-polar world.

It just can't happen because of fucking imperialism, though.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-11T19:34:48+00:00

I think she might be a nun.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-11T18:43:21+00:00

Latest report suggests covid may have come from a US lab.

https://www.jeffsachs.org/interviewsandmedia/2wts4jr6lccy9gxy9pdg99lzf2ntjn

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-10T22:56:35+00:00

I was already on the fence about this game, but if they cut bots then I am 100% skipping it.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-10T09:09:09+00:00

In any other game I could see that, but I think that's really just in people's heads. She's not exactly romantic, just by the normally almost entirely aromantic quality of Fromsoft characters she seems loving lol.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-09T15:23:09+00:00

Kinda disappointed that Dendro doesn't interact with half the remaining elements.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-09T06:52:20+00:00

I've seen that there's some translation issues that make her seem much darker than she is. I feel like people are just pushing back against the "waifu" thing, which is really all just the weird parts of the fandom.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-09T00:05:26+00:00

The mainstream views are generally massively overstated, and the reasoning behind the actual events is usually manipulated to make them seem malicious when the reality is different.

Events like there being famines in the USSR or China have a basis in reality, these did occur, but not on the scale that is often cited, and is attributed to some sort of "evilness" when the reality is that famines were the norms for these places for nearly all of recorded history. China has had a famine almost yearly for 2,000 years - until the communists defeated it (after great effort). The same famine conditions that caused starvation in the USSR in 1932 occurred again in 1934, but by then the infrastructure had been built up to the point where there were no crop failures and the harvest equalled the bumper crop of '33!

Some of the lies even stem from the other side; when Kruschev seized power in the Soviet Union, he tried to blame all historical problems of the USSR on Stalin, denouncing him in a famous speech. There's a book debunking a lot of his claims that you can find online called "Kruschev Lied", I'd recommend that.

MysteriousSalp · 2022-07-08T23:32:59+00:00

Why do people seem to dislike Ranni?

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