Actual Chinese leftists are mad at Hasan Piker for strongly defending and praising China, calling out the clear contradictions in his position.
Labor activist Kevin Lin says the Chinese economy combines state, private, and foreign capital in ways that exploit workers, with zero independent trade unions and workers having minimal influence on their workplaces.
Lin sees this as fundamentally "exploitative" and therefore, capitalist. He can't fathom why Piker would object to this kind of "capitalistic exploitation" in the US but condones it in China, all in the name of anti-imperialism.
Taiwan-based progressive Brian Hioe calls it Orientalism at its finest because to Piker, the Chinese people are just props in his personal anti-West crusade.
Piker is quite honestly the worst kind of leftist because he's a total hypocrite. He doesn't champion the values he claims, all the while, he enjoys the freedom and privileges of the West.
@bidonica1 i’ve never understood this desire to have ao3 as an app. the mobile site is basically perfect in every way and downloading fics allows people to read what they want offline!!
The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.
They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.
Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.
Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.
We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.
all anyone involved in production can say is how close they are. like what are h and c solos not getting. they love each other and would hate to see anyone talking badly about the other. lick rust pls.
what makes all of this stuff so stupid is connor would fucking hate yall for talkin about hudson like this. he’s said multiple times that he considers hudson one of his soulmates, he flew up to vancouver multiple times to hang out with him even though he hates flying,
it’s not abt the race but how they carry themselves. connor does things in a tasteful manner, in the right amount, and appropriate place and time. yall dont see him moaning on the red carpet, flipping the cameras off, talking abt sex in every interview, smoke where it is illegal.
It’s important that you understand what happened last night.
Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.
In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.
CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”
In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.
But censorship always backfires.
Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.
the trauma of reading about characters choosing a safe word…and they’re doing light spanking like pls. safe words exist when no doesn��t mean no otherwise there’s literally no point in having one. i’m so tired
if you have never read a fic where the author kind of breaks the fourth wall by making the characters have an odd explicit moment in a convo where they confirm to the reader they're both sober now and ready to give their enthusiastic consent you're the luckiest mf on the planet😭
when the conservatives control the conversation it becomes very difficult to effectively run any sort of candidate that isn’t perfect. harris had a decent campaign, but more than that she was far more qualified than trump could ever hope to be. believing otherwise is idiotic.
Kamala Harris had 107 Days. You can only do so much in that short amount of time, & she did a wonderful job. She got the third most votes in our History.
“Why did she run a fucking atrocious campaign?” You tell me since that seems to be your issue. A literal non issue I might add. Y’all so worried about how her campaign was running that you completely missed the point as to why she ran in the first place.
It wasn’t hard to look & read about Project 2025, y’all were warned of it years in advance. Y’all had access to it on the internet. It wasn’t hard to listen to what came out of her mouth. It wasn’t hard to look up her policies & read up on them. It wasn’t hard to listen to what came out of Trumps mouth, he literally said he would do it.
Some reminders:
1. If you don't vote Dem, you help the GOP.
2. If you spread anti-Dem propaganda, you help the GOP.
3. If you hear others spreading anti-Dem propaganda and you say nothing, you help the GOP.
4. If you hang out with people who don't vote Dem, you help the GOP.
As a victim of abuse may I politely say that the term ‘believe victims’ is absolutely terrible & it led to lots of bad actors hijacking various movements. People lie. The phrasing always should have been ‘listen to victims’, & then from that you determine if everything lines up.
@codeverity oh yeah for sure. the book def fails in some ways to justify shane’s fears and i hope jacob is able to translate those in an impactful way. i also think those people are the same people that view shane as an antagonist so i don’t really take their opinions into account lmao
i don’t understand this thinking??? like the outing and the way that it happened is so important to shane’s arc in the book. it legitimized shane’s fears and forced him into a situation where he had to choose bw hockey and ilya which he hadn’t really had to b4. make it make sense
is it too early for me to say I really, really, really hope they deviate majorly from tlg in S2-3 and change their outing… please let the main conflict be them navigating their relationship + ilya’s depression + shane’s ed NOT BEING ACCIDENTALLY OUTED!!!
@diazettes i def think it can be more thoughtfully done. ig i just don’t see how they would justify getting shane to ottowa w/o something like that. montreal being horrible, jj being horrible, and all of the fallout from it is so important to him making that choice…if that makes sense