Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.

Not true, Chinese people on Weibo are allowed to say things against the government and talk politics.

Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.

Also not true, and you are completely full of shit. The Iranian government hates America not anyone I’ve ever met or the people. Our cultures are actually pretty similar in a lot of ways as are the governments in structure and behavior.

What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.

They also had a woman’s only vote and voted to keep it

Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.

No one asked you to

And now… Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.

Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about just repeating government propaganda. No as a foreigner you probably wouldn’t be allowed to go there and talk shit about everyone but everyday Iranians can. Americans disappear for protest too but you never hear about it. In America they keep almost 2 million people in prison and assassinate any political opposition (Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Malcom X, Martin Luthor King Jr just to name people off the top of my head)

Look I get it, you hate China and are steeped in propaganda and won’t listen. I’ve been to China multiple times, people there can talk about politics all they want

Go to Belgium2 subreddit

American corporate social media that Chinese people don’t want to use.

Talking to you is mind numbing. You are so steeped in lies and repeat them without any knowledge of what you are talking about.

All the countries you mentioned have large English speaking populations. America, Australia are both primary English speaking, Japan was occupied by the US, One of Singapore’s official languages is English. Indonesia while not colonized directly by the US has been in its sphere since the cold war and the end of the direct Dutch colonialization. China not so much. They don’t really speak English there so they don’t really participate in the English internet. Same with my home country, Iran isn’t as controlled as Americans think either and lots of people are extremely vocal. But they also do not tend to speak English unless they have family that live in the US. When people in Iran learn a second language they tend to learn French. So the effect is despite the fact they are able to they don’t participate on the English internet either.

Yes they can. They don’t do it in English. They also don’t share it on international social media. There is not much of a difference between the day to day life of someone in the US and China and everything they know about each other is propaganda.

The voting in the US is literally predetermined during redistricting and as real as the outcome of Wrestlemania so not sure what you’re talking about

Good thing I don’t live in the US

TFS actually moved its core version control to Git in 2013 and was later was rebranded as Azure DevOps a few years ago

I actually like the heat and live in a desert lol, but I still complain about it

Blah blah blah blah blah lib. Fuck your property. I don’t think you know what the left is or how the working class are going to take back what belongs to us.

No you don’t understand, it wasn’t 80 years of fascist power consolidation and continual capitalist cannibalization since the 70s, It is all Putin manipulating social media causing the material conditions in the Global North. One thing is for sure, no one wrote a book in the nineteenth century describing this exactly.

Nah, they have the texture of fruit leather and completely dissolve in water. A few brands make them like Seventh Generation, Earth Breeze and Ecos

It is a mastodon server with the soapbox front end and federation disabled.

https://help.truthsocial.com/legal/open-source/

https://github.com/justjosias/truth-social

https://soapbox.pub/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump/

With all the hand wringing about Threads, Truth Social has to be the worst mastodon server by far. Good thing federation is turned off lol.

I personally would feel weird collecting rent money from my girlfriend that provides me equity. Did you ask her what she thinks?

I really like these too, I bought like a multi years supply of them and they fit in a pocket I hang on my laundry door and haven’t fucked with liquid detergent or bottles since 2022

Thankfully you left me this message so I can block you and never hear from you ever again.

You are forgetting about South America and Africa with billions of people. We still need to get materials to and from there. It is actually shorter to ship thru the Panama Canal from China to West Africa than around Eurasia

Good video, bias confirming for me about what I thought was going on with the US eschewing soft power for military might. Their intent is to become the preeminent bully in the multipolar world. They will do everything in their power to prevent other poles from rising without paying tribute.

Yes and no, they had contingency. It’s primary focus was getting into the middle east as fast as possible to try and secure the unipolar world but even in 2003 they knew that China was going to be a threat to imperial interests and they would have to contend for the power. If you read through the white papers this really isn’t a departure though, they wanted to get rid on all non military spending and use the military to run the empire instead of the business empire of the past. Considering they want to wrap up Ukraine as fast as possible and close the Russian front so they can focus on Taiwan and China is a last gasp of the PNAC plan to prevent true multipolarism from starting. Listen to their language about BRICs to get a hint of their plans, they want to nip it in the blood. It is just that they’re too late.

This has been their plan since PNAC (Project for a New American Century) to secure America’s place in a multi polar war as the preeminent bully. They are rolling back the projects of American “soft power” to focus on the military. They knew the days of the unipolar world was limited in the early 2000s so they drafted an entire plan for refocusing the US global hegemony to operate in different conditions. Part of it has always been a controlled contraction of non military spending.

Everything you tell a doctor is public record to be used against you. I don’t want this to sound like I am anti medicine or don’t think people should be able to receive treatment, this is just a fact of life if you live in an authoritarian society like the USA. All the stuff about doctor patient confidentiality is total bullshit and they have a legal requirement to report you in many cases which can be expanded at any time. I’d never tell a doctor I used drugs, I smoked, I had any unhealthy habits, or had any sort of forbidden thoughts. Treat doctors like cops and only tell them what you’d be comfortable with the police knowing. You have a right (for now) to remain silent.