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  • The US is currently in a trade war with China, and Britain is still salty about their loss of their hong kong in 1997. So it's best to get a source from a neutral country, rather than one of their current enemies.

    For example, let's look at what the middle east (a region the US and Britain have also looted, colonized, and bombed for decades) has to say:

  • Recommendations for some easy to read 'feel good' fiction books?
  • Thx, I'm gonna download and listen to that.

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml Dessalines @lemmy.ml
    The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list | MR Online
    mronline.org The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list | MR Online

    The U.S. government has many political prisoners, including journalists; national security state whistleblowers; Black, Indigenous, and Latino revolutionaries; foreign diplomats; Muslims detained without trial; women who defended themselves from attacks; and environmental activists.

    The United States has many political prisoners. Here’s a list | MR Online
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  • Quora is not a source, it's a platform with people, like this one. All the person there is doing is correcting all the NYT mistranslations.

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  • Ah my bad, this thread got me on edge.

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  • Ask Snowden, Assange, or Manning what happens to ppl who expose US war crimes.

    Also the US has a ton of political prisoners: https://mronline.org/2022/08/11/the-united-states-has-many-political-prisoners-heres-a-list/

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  • Those were also debunked like 2 years ago.

    It's so exhausting when you white supremacists don't have to back up any racist thing you say, yet we do.

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  • You don't want to read those obviously, so I'll try to simplify it for you:

    An anti-semitic german evangelical that works for the US government, who doesn’t speak a word of mandarin and has never visited china, claims that China is committing genocide on an entire region that literally anyone can travel to. His evidence is a few pictures of buildings.

    Westerners feel in their gut, that every other country must be guilty of the same colonialism their countries have been carrying out for hundreds of years, and can't fathom a country not doing this. So to maintain their sense of self-worth and value, they push the same western-supremacy/chauvinism as their own country's colonial projects.

    The US (as the leader and main inheritor of the colonial tradition) doesn't allow peer competitors, and as the socialist model in China is proving superior to the capitalist one, westerners must either 1) deny reality, plug their ears, isolate themselves from the successes of socialism, believe every single thing their media says about China, and turn further inwards into western/white supremacists, or 2) try to look past the lies their media tells them, and accept that maybe other countries don't need to get rich using the colonialist model.

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  • Please list sources for any of these. Preferably not from US or british state media.

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  • If a serial murderer told you that their victims were actually much worse than they are, would you believe them?

    Yet the source of pretty much all anti-china atrocity propaganda is the US and its orgs like the victims of communism foundation. They want you to believe every single country they hate, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc... are guilty of the same crimes they are. Why do you believe them?

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  • China is responsible for most of the world's reduction in poverty in the 30 years. If you exclude China, world poverty is increasing.

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  • Yep they were, debunked going on 8x now below.

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  • Anyone can search for the june 4th incident there, its not censored. You've been eating up western propaganda for their failed color revolution.

  • An article so aggressively stereotypically lib that I'm having a hard time believing that it's not just HB bait
  • Millenials can't get past the first sentence without doing a harry potterism.

  • Americans Flood Chinese App RedNote, Discover Its Users Are Obsessed With Luigi Mangione
  • You've been hit by, you've been struck by....

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  • A corporate credit system that is defacto standard, is nothing short of a nightmare and an insult to a nation. Any credit system.

    Lol even most western countries have this, it's called regulation and prosecuting financial corruption.

    The US used to do it back in the 1950s too, but now it's considered authoritarian. Finance-capital just pretty much hand-picks the politicians nowadays, for example, citibank hand-picked Obama's cabinet.

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  • Yall ever seen the documentary series, keep sweet, pray, and obey? Pretty terrifying that the US allows these evangelical child sex cults to exist.

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  • Was probably in her past, ie not 17 anymore when they got together.

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  • Literally a study from harvard, because we know you western supremacists consider anything from a non-western source to be inferior.

  • Mao Zedong - On "Brainwashing"

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24853237

    > > Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades. > > > > What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education. > > - Mao Zedong

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    Mao Zedong - On "Brainwashing"

    > Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades. > > What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.

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    Mitt Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring the Palestinian Genocide.
    www.commondreams.org Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza | Common Dreams

    A conversation between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Republican senator offered an "incredible historical document" showing how the U.S. views its role in the Middle East.

    Romney Admits Push to Ban TikTok Is Aimed at Censoring News Out of Gaza | Common Dreams
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    Biden's new country-tier-based restrictions on Nvidia chip exports.

    !

    Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/technology/2025/01/08/biden-to-further-limit-nvidia-ai-chip-exports-in-final-push

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    California enslaves 400 prisoners to fight wildfires.
    www.theguardian.com ‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires

    The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR

    ‘Essential’: nearly 400 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
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    Capitalist "Democracy"

    Text:

    Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

    From the article, What kind of democracy does China have?

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    Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

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    I made a new app: Habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.
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    A reward-based habit tracker for android. Contribute to dessalines/habit-maker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    About Habit-Maker

    Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

    Features

    Rewards

    Habit-Maker game-ifies making habits by giving you rewards each time you check a habit. It shows the following progress metrics:

    • Streaks - The # of days you've completed your habit in a row.
    • Points - points for checking habits, with multipliers for continuing your streak.
    • % progress to your 66-day-ingrained habit.

    Encouragements

    Studies have found that encouragements are vital to building new habits. Habit-Maker takes advantage of this by allowing you to create your own custom encouragements.

    Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

    A good encouragement should have:

    • An initial congratulations for completing the habit.
    • A message tailored to you, about the benefits or reasons why you should continue.

    Some examples of good encouragements:

    | Activity | Encouragement | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Brushing your teeth | Great job! Your friends will like seeing your whiter teeth, and less coffee stains. | | Lifting weights for 10m | Nice job! People will notice your better physique. | | Cardio for 10m | Well done! Studies show you're going to live a lot longer! | | Working out for 10m | Excellent! You'll have more energy, and feel healthier by continuing! | | Meditating for 10m | Nice! You're on your way to bettering the lives of those around you, by developing your awareness. |

    Completing a habit

    Once a habit has been formed, its relatively easy to continue doing it, almost as if it were on auto-pilot. Research shows that ~40% of our daily activities are habits that don't require much (if any) willpower once they've been formed.

    Built With

    Installation / Releases

    Support / Donate

    Habit-Maker will always remain free, open-source software. We've seen many open-source projects go unmaintained after a few years. Recurring donations have proven to be the only way these projects can stay alive.

    Your donations directly support full-time development, and help keep this maintained. If you find yourself using habit-maker every day, consider donating:

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    I made a new app: Habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.
    github.com GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    A reward-based habit tracker for android. Contribute to dessalines/habit-maker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    About Habit-Maker

    Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

    Features

    Rewards

    Habit-Maker game-ifies making habits by giving you rewards each time you check a habit. It shows the following progress metrics:

    • Streaks - The # of days you've completed your habit in a row.
    • Points - points for checking habits, with multipliers for continuing your streak.
    • % progress to your 66-day-ingrained habit.

    Encouragements

    Studies have found that encouragements are vital to building new habits. Habit-Maker takes advantage of this by allowing you to create your own custom encouragements.

    Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

    A good encouragement should have:

    • An initial congratulations for completing the habit.
    • A message tailored to you, about the benefits or reasons why you should continue.

    Some examples of good encouragements:

    | Activity | Encouragement | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Brushing your teeth | Great job! Your friends will like seeing your whiter teeth, and less coffee stains. | | Lifting weights for 10m | Nice job! People will notice your better physique. | | Cardio for 10m | Well done! Studies show you're going to live a lot longer! | | Working out for 10m | Excellent! You'll have more energy, and feel healthier by continuing! | | Meditating for 10m | Nice! You're on your way to bettering the lives of those around you, by developing your awareness. |

    Completing a habit

    Once a habit has been formed, its relatively easy to continue doing it, almost as if it were on auto-pilot. Research shows that ~40% of our daily activities are habits that don't require much (if any) willpower once they've been formed.

    Built With

    Installation / Releases

    Support / Donate

    Habit-Maker will always remain free, open-source software. We've seen many open-source projects go unmaintained after a few years. Recurring donations have proven to be the only way these projects can stay alive.

    Your donations directly support full-time development, and help keep this maintained. If you find yourself using habit-maker every day, consider donating:

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    I made a new app: Habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.
    github.com GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    A reward-based habit tracker for android. Contribute to dessalines/habit-maker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    About Habit-Maker

    Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

    Features

    Rewards

    Habit-Maker game-ifies making habits by giving you rewards each time you check a habit. It shows the following progress metrics:

    • Streaks - The # of days you've completed your habit in a row.
    • Points - points for checking habits, with multipliers for continuing your streak.
    • % progress to your 66-day-ingrained habit.

    Encouragements

    Studies have found that encouragements are vital to building new habits. Habit-Maker takes advantage of this by allowing you to create your own custom encouragements.

    Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

    A good encouragement should have:

    • An initial congratulations for completing the habit.
    • A message tailored to you, about the benefits or reasons why you should continue.

    Some examples of good encouragements:

    | Activity | Encouragement | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Brushing your teeth | Great job! Your friends will like seeing your whiter teeth, and less coffee stains. | | Lifting weights for 10m | Nice job! People will notice your better physique. | | Cardio for 10m | Well done! Studies show you're going to live a lot longer! | | Working out for 10m | Excellent! You'll have more energy, and feel healthier by continuing! | | Meditating for 10m | Nice! You're on your way to bettering the lives of those around you, by developing your awareness. |

    Completing a habit

    Once a habit has been formed, its relatively easy to continue doing it, almost as if it were on auto-pilot. Research shows that ~40% of our daily activities are habits that don't require much (if any) willpower once they've been formed.

    Built With

    Installation / Releases

    Support / Donate

    Habit-Maker will always remain free, open-source software. We've seen many open-source projects go unmaintained after a few years. Recurring donations have proven to be the only way these projects can stay alive.

    Your donations directly support full-time development, and help keep this maintained. If you find yourself using habit-maker every day, consider donating:

    Crypto

    • bitcoin: 1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK
    • ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01
    • monero: 41taVyY6e1xApqKyMVDRVxJ76sPkfZhALLTjRvVKpaAh2pBd4wv9RgYj1tSPrx8wc6iE1uWUfjtQdTmTy2FGMeChGVKPQuV

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    I made a new app: Habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.
    github.com GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    A reward-based habit tracker for android. Contribute to dessalines/habit-maker development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - dessalines/habit-maker: A reward-based habit tracker for android.

    About Habit-Maker

    Have you found it difficult to build new habits? Habit-Maker uses rewards and encouragements to help get over initial willpower required to form new habits.

    Features

    Rewards

    Habit-Maker game-ifies making habits by giving you rewards each time you check a habit. It shows the following progress metrics:

    • Streaks - The # of days you've completed your habit in a row.
    • Points - points for checking habits, with multipliers for continuing your streak.
    • % progress to your 66-day-ingrained habit.

    Encouragements

    Studies have found that encouragements are vital to building new habits. Habit-Maker takes advantage of this by allowing you to create your own custom encouragements.

    Before creating a habit, take a few minutes and think about why you want to build this habit. What benefits will it bring you, and how your life will improve by doing it?

    A good encouragement should have:

    • An initial congratulations for completing the habit.
    • A message tailored to you, about the benefits or reasons why you should continue.

    Some examples of good encouragements:

    | Activity | Encouragement | | ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Brushing your teeth | Great job! Your friends will like seeing your whiter teeth, and less coffee stains. | | Lifting weights for 10m | Nice job! People will notice your better physique. | | Cardio for 10m | Well done! Studies show you're going to live a lot longer! | | Working out for 10m | Excellent! You'll have more energy, and feel healthier by continuing! | | Meditating for 10m | Nice! You're on your way to bettering the lives of those around you, by developing your awareness. |

    Completing a habit

    Once a habit has been formed, its relatively easy to continue doing it, almost as if it were on auto-pilot. Research shows that ~40% of our daily activities are habits that don't require much (if any) willpower once they've been formed.

    Built With

    Installation / Releases

    Support / Donate

    Habit-Maker will always remain free, open-source software. We've seen many open-source projects go unmaintained after a few years. Recurring donations have proven to be the only way these projects can stay alive.

    Your donations directly support full-time development, and help keep this maintained. If you find yourself using habit-maker every day, consider donating:

    Crypto

    • bitcoin: 1Hefs7miXS5ff5Ck5xvmjKjXf5242KzRtK
    • ethereum: 0x400c96c96acbC6E7B3B43B1dc1BB446540a88A01
    • monero: 41taVyY6e1xApqKyMVDRVxJ76sPkfZhALLTjRvVKpaAh2pBd4wv9RgYj1tSPrx8wc6iE1uWUfjtQdTmTy2FGMeChGVKPQuV

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    What's your favorite Christmas song?

    I've been listening to a ton of classic xmas albums lately, and want some more to add to my xmas playlist.

    Thx in advance.

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    Europe's economic engine is stalling: The deindustrialization of Germany – POLITICO
    www.politico.eu Europe’s economic engine is stalling: Germany deindustrializes

    The decline of the Continent’s largest economy will send shudders across the EU’s already polarized political landscape.

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