Whoa, you should preface your posts with a warning, lest anyone cut themselves on all that edge.

I don’t even care at this point. Anybody still actively using that shithole website is complicit.

This is probably the only watch douchier than a Hublot. Even Richard Mille can’t hope to match this.

GabeN will name twelve disciples who will spread His word and continue His work.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the pro-Stein disinfo increases too. It wouldn’t be a coincidence…

The question is not whether their use is automatically a war crime, but whether the UAF would potentially use them as a war crime. Would you give them their nukes back?

The British Parliamentary Ministerial system combines the Legislative and Executive branches.

What leads you to believe this is accurate?

Yes, but Lemmy is probably the least islamophobic platform out there, short of anything explicitly islamic.

The supreme court is an altogether different branch of government so that comparison isn’t accurate at all, especially since commonwealth countries also have supreme courts.

Agreed. Ukraine’s thermite-launcher drones are terrifying enough. I’m not sure they have the restraint to avoid going too far with something like WP. Give them more F-16s instead.

That’s true, but I don’t know of a comparable position in the US. Perhaps a “cabinet” member, like the Secretary of State?

As to your point about favour-trading, that’s absolutely accurate, but I consider that more of an indictment of peerage in general. Within the bounds of the current system, for all its flaws, they are effectively colleagues, no?

Seriously, was blackface such a rampant thing in the aughts? It seems like everyone was doing it, but I wasn’t aware of it at the time.

Weeeeellll he borrowed it from a peer, so this isn’t as overtly bad as it may seem with that rather buried lede. For our American friends, this is as though the President’s son used an apartment lent to him by a Senator (of the same party as the President, no less). That’s arguably more of a co-worker relationship than anything, so I can absolutely see why they wouldn’t have though it improper. I myself am not sure that it is.

Ah yes, Lemmy, noted bastion of Republicans.

Expect an immediate and massive wave of disinformation targeted to Muslim voters.

You have clearly never been to China. Bye.

Perhaps I should have used the term “sealioning” instead of bad-faith pedantry. When you come at people with trite gems like this one,

abolition of term limits, but you don’t explain how you think that goes against democratic control and operation

you make it very difficult for others to believe you’re interested in a genuine conversation rather that endlessly bogging down your interlocutor with minutiae and winning a war of attrition. Here’s a hard source for you. Enjoy, because I’ve finished wasting my time here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. […] It has been described as “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”.

I have asked, repeatedly, for mechanical analysis. Any change in structure, drop in approval rates, anything.

This is rapidly devolving into bad-faith pedantry, but fine. I would point to the horrifically botched early response to COVID; ongoing suppression of protests on June 4th of every year; the crushing of dissent in Hong Kong; Xi’s very public sidelining of Hu; the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang; mass surveillance; Xi’s undoing of term limits; and the list goes on, but that should be enough to tide you over for now.

Then I suggest you explain why.

Because they are profoundly authoritarian, and become more so over time. You’re posting in a thread about China’s leader erasing a contrary voice from existence. I’m not sure how much clearer this could all be.

If you truly believe they are “working towards communism”, I don’t think any amount of evidence or differing interpretations of the data will sway your faith.