@georgegalloway Neither of these guys understands the full legal definition of genocide. It's not just about killing all members of a group. Read the fucking 1948 document for god's sake and educate yourself. It's not that long.
@CensoredHumans That fucking soft sensitive guy with his hand over his heart "They don't understaaaaand" is sickening. Typical Eurocentric racist - "these people" can't possibly understand the issue correctly, they're just dumb Asians.
@haugejostein Yes the cost is cheap when put into our currency, but it's not quite that cheap for a Chinese working class person. It's not prohibitively expensive like in the States, but it's not nothing either.
@aaronjmate@orbooks Wow the morons, trolls, brainwashed, and bots are out in full force in response to this one. Congrats Aaron! I will be buying a copy for sure as I appreciate your consistently calm, level, fair analysis of politics and world events.
@EnglerYves The other noticeable problem with the Palestine exhibit is that it glosses over a bunch of "post-Nakba" occurrences, including making specific detailed reference to the current day genocide (there are photos, but not enough facts about what is happening).
@EnglerYves I live in Winnipeg and just went to the Palestine exhibit the other day. The complaint that it ignores Jewish suffering is hilarious because there's an entire floor dedicated to the Holocaust, and the Palestine exhibit is tiny in comparison.
@XH_Lee23 I was on that train in its first summer! I went to Tibet by air through Chengdu because tickets going in were impossible to get, but on the way back to Beijing, I took the train. It was magnificent. The whole trip was unforgettable.
@RussianRoad_ You're comparing apples and oranges here. It's not "schools in Russia", it's "private schools in Russia for the children of elite families" - that's nowhere near the government run schools with 33 in the class described in Scotland.
@Parodyjeffx I think you're misinterpreting this. A lot of foreigners coming to China get stared at, and older Chinese people especially don't culturally understand that some consider it rude to be directly stared at for minutes on end. I've seen a lot of foreigners react in the same way.
@D162Michele The headline may be bullshit, but the story itself isn't. Football is hugely popular here in China, so why can't they get their national team in order well enough to even qualify for the Olympics? There are 1.4 billion people here. It's a question worth considering.
@Glenn_Diesen Politics and the English Language is a sadly much too under read essay. So ahead of its time, and so necessary for anyone who has read and enjoyed his other works. It puts them all into greater perspective.
@realstewpeters I'm really getting tired of the way people on this platform use quotation marks. Quotation marks are meant when you are using the exact words that the person spoke. You are paraphrasing what she said, so you must not use quotation marks since those are not her exact words.
@FurkanGozukara I never comment on X because I just like to read posts and keep up on the news, but I'm breaking that rule to beg you: please stop beginning your posts with "Absolute bombshell". It's annoying. If everything is an "absolute bombshell", then nothing is.