Cowbee [he/him, they/them]

I try to keep my mouth shut in News threads unless I have a firm understanding of the events at hand, too often my knowledge is one-sided and not multi-sided and comprehensive, which is why I appreciate this thread so much.

It’s my main source of news gathering, these days.

Next week? Doubt it. This year, or early next? I’d bet on it.

100%, that’s exactly why this line of attack is so effective. Everything “clicks” into place after this.

Yep, this is an excellent excuse for the CPC to drive one of their stated goals.

Let’s fucking go! This is super cool, space is really huge and our little rock can have so many problems, but (almost) knowing that we aren’t all that’s there gives great comfort.

I wish I could do that, my go-to strat is just to say that if you focus on industrialization, it’s only a matter of time before you win against someone so heavily financialized. Breaking the “China is stupid/collapsing/inefficient” leg first lets you pivot to more positive areas like poverty reduction.

Works better IRL when you talk about the current tariffs and explain the purposes of Rare Earth restrictions, then show why that’s such a big deal for Trump in the Ukraine negotiations. People arguing online are already assuming debate for debate’s sake, but people IRL are normally more reasonable if you prove to be regularly on the correct side.

I’ve never seen a flip, but I have gotten people to see ending the war ASAP and not fighting to the last Ukrainian as the best option.

Incredible mind palace on that lib, but genuinely a positive sign. Even the libs are slowly making progress, though obviously imperfect.

Existing liberal lines on the PRC are shattering, and those antagonistic towards the PRC are increasingly being opposed. The time is good to be correcting misconceptions about the PRC and explaining the benefits of siding with it over the US.

I may have to hand it to the accelerationists, Trump may go down in history as one of the accidentally best presidents in USian history.

The Chinese Century is well upon us, as we already knew, but increasingly liberals are accepting this. The Paper Tiger is dissolving.

I do remember that!

Yep, I suggested it, so we’ll see. Still, large grain of salt.

There’s an unverified DPRK AMA going on over on Lemmy and .world

Edit: pretty nuanced and not a caricature of Yeonmi Park, so either a well-educated troll or real.

Edit 2: .world took theirs down, lol

Edit 3: it’s back. Decent but not verified info, interesting but take it with a large heaping of salt.