loathesome dongeater

In India there wouldn’t even be a case for a lawsuit in the first place.

Can’t believe Xi Ping would do this

Why is Europe suddenly pretending that subsidizing critical industries is a Chinese invention?

"We were concerned from the beginning that [the apes] might be seen as discriminatory expression, but we had no intention of likening apes to humans.

That sounds like “we are sorry for insulting apes” lmao

Guilt over WW2 is a farce.

For this particular occasion, the engagement aspect is less important. The more interesting thing to look at is whether BJP pressure on Meta was the reason that these ads were given the greenlight. Twitter’s offices were raided in the past for some petty BS so it is not out of the question.

I hate Indian news so much.

I can guarantee you that Hindi news TV channels are by far the absolute worst in the world. My Hindu fascist boomer parents are addicted to that shit so I am exposed to them at times. I doubt the people here can imagine the level of sensationalism that is rife in them. They look and sound exactly like what parodies of them looked like 15 years ago.

I hate America though

Russo and sinophobia is something I’ve sadly gotten used to seeing but this level of ghoulishness where you are straight up shilling for IMF is new to me.

Here’s how Ukraine can still win

Jesus Christ that first punch came out so fast

“Convince their detractors” of what?

Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1773158918086070339.html

This has nothing to do with religion. Israeli settler colonialism is all about the land for the settlers and how Israel is strategically important proxy for the US in the middle east.

The crazy thing is that most people are not aware of this slump. Local news outlets don’t report on it and the government organises “investor summits” which create the illusion of steady incoming foreign investment.

India should learn a thing or two from its neighbor.

Not gonna happen in my lifetime. Most people I see still have negative racist notions about China like apparently how they make low quality products. They do not know or care that tier 3 cities in China are cleaner and more beautiful than New Delhi and don’t have children begging in the streets. It’s an attitude that sort of reflects the government’s foreign policy where there is zero sense of solidarity despite both countries emerging out of formal colonialism at around the same point in history.

Wow I can’t believe this. No one could have seen this coming.

Ah shit the goddamned Pope is a Russian troll

Lots of people understandably jump to the idea of “free healthcare” when trying to understand this phenomenon. While that is somewhat correct, there is lot more that needs to be done to achieve what Cuba has in terms of public health. The mode and amount of payment by patients is just one aspect of it. They also have train doctors of the appropriate quality and in the adquate quantity. Then they have to invest in the infrastructure and products that the health system needs which they manage despite crippling sanctions. There are a ton of other things as well, like ensuring that the rural areas have access to clinics and doctors which is one of the biggest of the countless failings of the Indian medical system.

I guess that the point I am trying to make is that you need a government that gives a shit about the people and considers them people rather than expendable workhorses for the owning class. Cuba, emerging out of a people’s revolution, had this checked off. I bring this up because I feel even if Bernie had won the nomination and presidency he would have been able to only make marginal improvements to the American condition with his promise of a single-payer healthcare system which tackles only one small aspect of a deeply rotten healthcare system that the USA has. If he was somehow able to make any noticeable improvement without getting assassinated, they would be rolled back by whatever administration followed his kinda like how UK’s NSA is slowly being strangulated as we speak.

You cannot have “free as in free speech” healthcare when the reigns of power are held by a wealthy minority.

Don’t live. Problem solved.