Because they are the same thing

I don’t doubt any of these points but it’d be better to bring the receipts:

• China deal: https://www.reuters.com/world/chinas-foreign-ministry-says-xi-trump-did-not-have-call-recently-2025-04-28/
• India Pakistan cease fire: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-will-not-accept-third-party-mediation-relations-with-pakistan-modi-tells-2025-06-18/
• Phone call to Newsom: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/10/trump-gavin-newsom-call-protests-los-angeles-law-enforcement
• Iran call: couldn’t find a reliable news source about this in the past two weeks

Or you’re using some kind of proxy/vpn from a server that has been identified as malicious and their subnet is banned in some list. Pretty common and more likely.

I think you mean anecdotes my friend

This is what secnumcloud is in France, I hope Europe follows a similar approach.

That’s not entirely true, France is battling with very similar issues to the US. A rising far right power, media that are using the fox news playbook, t additional media that is playing catch-up and following the Overton window set by the previous point, similar blue collar struggles, a president that is appealing to the right while claiming the center despite a majority of constituents clearly signaling left in the last elections, etc. France is not far behind unfortunately.

That’s exactly how it works in China, the language is constantly evolving to go around censorship. It gets very creative actually, it’s fascinating.

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/chinese-take-creative-approach-internet-censorship

A new lexicon has emerged on the Chinese internet, consisting of code words, homonyms, and vocabulary laced with mockery, satire, or sarcasm. The words “empty chair” refer to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was barred by Chinese authorities from going to Oslo to accept it. Being “harmonized” means being censored, a reference to top leaders’ frequent calls for creating a harmonious society. Chinese netizens invented the “grass mud horse,” or “cao ni ma,” a mythical creature whose name sounds like a Chinese profanity. The alpaca-like creature emerged online as a symbol of resistance to censorship, setting blogs, and social sites abuzz with images, songs, and poems about it.

I’d point at his excellent interview with AOC not even a month ago: https://youtu.be/eeheoxWzf2o

Wasted time reading this thread, you write with the arrogance of the uninformed convinced it’s deep thinking.

She won’t

You’re not wrong but, thankfully, studying history and teaching the impact of things doesn’t require the things to physically be in the room.

I’d like for him to point at the western hemisphere on a globe.

In mainland China it’s called Douyin, exactly the same app, same company, not the same content of course. It’s separate because Beijing wants a tighter control on social media in mainland China.

Those are the discussions I’m interested in. YT music is making me cringe with ads between nearly every song.

Here’s a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn’t participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them