panopticon

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[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

forbade schools generally accessible to the vast majority of public school children from teaching the language of the country they are from, would you consider that 'erasing languages'?

Where is your evidence that China is doing this? I've read that it's teaching Mandarin in schools alongside the local language. It's more like, you know, schools in the EU teaching English while also teaching German or French, etc

Ukraine...still have self determination. They can elect leaders, vote, blah blah liberal democracy, but the self determination does functionally exist.

Damn that's crazy cuz I heard Ukraine cancelled its election, banned opposition parties, and keeps a kill list of foreign and domestic journalists, is this the new model of liberal democracy?

Edit: also is self determination when your new government is chosen by Victoria Nuland, then a few years later you elect some literal joker to put an end to the civil war, then he fucks around with multiple treaties and ceasefires, then finds out, then gives a standing ovation to an Original Vintage Nazi, lol lmao

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Hrm, I'm sorry you

smuglord

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Trotsky has sent in a cringe word. We shall neither print it, nor reply.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why yes I do enjoy trying to convince my Stanford-educated therapist that capitalism is not the end of history

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Wish I'd saved that one GI Joe PSA with the Wu-Tang torture skit, it disappeared from the Internet and now life will never be the same

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Also climate change at this point is sort of like the first volley of nukes already went off in slow motion, and even more are still being launched with no immediate end in sight while a significant portion of people are still arguing about whether nukes are real or a Chinese hoax

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unlimited regicide on the first world

Unlimited regime change on the first world

Unlimited coups d'etat on the first world

I kind of agree with you actually, trying to choose different words opens the door for more creative ways to describe beheading the leviathan.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I guess, but when I hear integrity it doesn't just conjure institutional/societal norms like don't steal from a supermarket or don't lie on government forms (EDIT: or don't ever lie to your boss), it also implies don't lie to individual people. Lying to your SO reflects on integrity, unless we're going off different definitions.

I agree that "integrity" as in being an honest leader reflects differently if the system is inherently corrupt though, versus like a country in a higher level of socialist development, if that's what you mean.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Integrity in the face of great hardship, being a lying cheating bastard,

Aren't those at odds with each other?

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

fantastic, we accidentally bought two giant bags of onions at my house so now I know what to do with them!

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