Kasama ☭

That’s true. There’s also the fact that by not responding with military force, China just kinda lets the US destroy its own reputation.

I feel like people such as Hasan and Badempanada forget that China’s foreign policy has its limitations. I have disagreements with some of their decisions, like trading with the Zionist entity, but at the same time I understand it’s part of a long-term goal of integrating itself fully into the global economy and eliminating the primary contradiction of Imperialism (if that makes sense).

I think China also recognizes that if they intervene militarily, the US will use that as a pretext of starting a war with China. So by pursuing win-win cooperation and non-interference, they hold off imperialist aggression much longer.

beautiful song!

You have an excellent week, Oppo!

What did I just read?

Yes I did. It’s nice to see people boycotting and ruining movies that include Zionists.

You Too!

Thank you for sharing this!

you too oppo!

If other approaches aren’t going to get through to them, I get trying something else, but this doesn’t sound like it’ll work either. If you’re no longer trying to reach them, this might feel good a little in the moment, but it’s going to stress out you and the family more on your side pretty soon.

It’s definitely something I don’t want to happen at all. I’m generally pretty patient with people but I’m also not great at talking with family members about these things. I think it’s more of a last resort than anything else. What I usually do is ask them to not have the conversation when I’m stressed out and come back when I’m ready. I’m open to having these conversations with them, but it takes a lot out of me pushing back against their racist talking points and encouraging them to educate themselves.

Four months ago I had an awful argument with my great-grandfather about Islam, and he’s a HUGE Islamophobe. I’ve known this for years and I knew he would go full mask-off about it. He’s MAGA and so are some others, sadly. They all watch US state media and I get frustrated everytime I hear it.

I won’t repeat what he said but I kept telling him I didn’t want to hear his bullshit about how MuSliMs aRe TeRRoRiSts.

Then after I got home, I decided that if anyone in my family tries to have these kinds of conversations with me, there’s no point in trying to stay calm, I’ll just start screaming and swearing at these people if they want to start shit with me. I have boundaries and principles, if you want to overstep my boundaries, well, fuck you then.

So far no one has tried to have political discussions with me. I told my mom that I was done with being nice if anyone wanted to share their reactionary talking points and she agreed with me.

What do you mean by that? India’s government is very fascistic. Modi is a member of a hindu-supremacist group.

Do you know about a pogrom in 2002 that massacred over 1,000 muslims in Gujarat? Modi led the state of Gujarat at the time, and he encouraged the pogrom, the glorification of nazism in state textbooks.

What else do I need to say?

This will be a week full of celebrations. hitler’s death, the liberation of Vietnam, etc.

Thanks for being here with us comrade. 🫂

Yeah. As an Autistic person, I feel a lot safer on lemmy than on reddit. I agree with you.

You’re on Lemmygrad, a community for communists.

In the meantime, define “tankies”, because you don’t seem to know what that word means.

Thank you! How about a great week for you.

You know the comments section will be great when you see libs getting dunked on and hopelessly trying to go thermonuclear.