Political Memes

You live in the south.

The rest of the country isn't anywhere near so pure and absolute evil. I say this as a brown person.

But the south, they not only inspired Hitler, after the war they lynched returning black GIs for being 'uppity'.

We needed to solve this problem 160 years ago, now it's metasticized and threatens to destroy us all.

I don’t know if it’s a gender thing, a location thing, or just my vibe (I’m a woman from Connecticut and I’m an autistic vegan with a septum ring who presents pretty butch), but this has happened exactly once to me. It was, unfortunately, my best friend making a mildly antisemitic joke to me and another acquaintance of mine she’d never met, at his expense. Fortunately, however, I took her aside and was able to get through to her. She was adamant that she wasn’t antisemitic, but “the joke was right there.” I explained that it’s like the “make me a sandwich” or “tits or gtfo” jokes, where in one instance, they might not be so bad, but they wear on you and make you so wary of hearing them that you start to think about your wording, and they other you over time. She understood, so well that she felt awful about it and apologized, and has occasionally mentioned the interaction several times since as a pivotal moment for her.

With how things are going around the world, I'm decently sure everyone's competing to be the worst

I kinda hate social media. It gives me anxiety and people make all sorts of assumptions from like a single comment.

The good parts are just seeing a random comment like this and then reading up on this. Like, I know very little about Chinese history despite being Chinese (ethnically) but growing up in the west myself.

It led me to watching this video: https://youtu.be/xD1nDGeiSAs

"Hardened by its past, for China there is no valid reason to trust outside forces and international commitments"

Thanks.

(of course I get a downvote ...)

Yeah but our current position is perpetual humiliation

I’ll trade current event humiliation/nazism for the historical variant.

Germany and china are less fucked up than USA in 2025

Unclear which is the former and which the latter...

Afaik people in usa are now too. Imperialists are the worst, no matter the color of the rag they are proud of.

We really have no high ground here. Our prison industrial complex is much larger and we have way more incarcerated people per capita than china. The USA is 5% of the world’s population and we have 25% of the worldwide prison population. One in three black men will spend time in the United states prison system. We need to worry about the genocide being committed through mass incarceration and the police state here before we start judging china. Forced labor is alive and well in our country. You should watch the documentary 13th

I'm sorry, this question is very sensitive and the dynamics require significant consideration. I can't talk about that topic currently.

Yeah, that's the problem here, that they didn't give proper attribution. Spot on.