TimothyOilpants

CDDA is full of real world brands…

Bullshit. What do you play, Pitfall?

Advertising (which includes product placement) is so ubiquitous there’s essentially zero chance you’re avoiding it, you just don’t notice it…

There are so many places people can turn to for journalism, opinions, and first hand accounts about day-to-day life in China. Why does everyone continue to swallow the propaganda explicitly delivered by eurocentric, western corporate media outlets?

No nation in the entirety of human history has provided a higher standard of living to a larger population than China. Why is it so hard for people to believe that the majority of people might actually appreciate and choose the structures and systems managed by the CCP?

Do people really believe that if any meaningful proportion of the more than 1,400,000,000 Chinese citizens (~40% of whom have received formal military training) had significant objections to their way of life that they wouldn’t be able to facilitate change or make more noise? It seems phenomenally disrespectful and beggars belief to imply that such a large number of people are either too stupid/immoral to care, or too cowardly to act. Is it not possible that they simply have a different set of values?

There are more people making independent video games today than at any point in history.

I just don’t understand the all-or-nothing perspective that video game social media pundits have.

Personally, I absolutely prefer indie art films generally, but my preference doesn’t mean that Michael Bay blockbusters shouldn’t exist, or that Universal Pictures should go out of business…

Not everything needs to be for everyone, and most things created aren’t created for ME.

Yeah… Everyone on social media thinks they are some kind of philosopher… we’re all just assholes with smartphones.

No one cares about the numbers… but they reflect how well you are getting your point across and whether people find your ideas compelling. If you don’t care about effectively communicating ideas then you are nothing but a psych patient barking from atop a soap box…

It’s your who needs works

Case in point. 😂

Clearly your communication needs work based on how you’re getting ratioed…

…I’m not sure how you got sycophantic behavior being insinuated but I’m sorry if that’s how it came off.

By you suggesting that he and Trump are like minds or would be comfortable bedfellows…

What is happening in Xinjiang is not genocide.

Hundreds of Han Chinese have been killed and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure and private property have been destroyed by religious extremists in Xinjiang. At the radical end, the beliefs of an element of that society are incompatible with the stable, secular humanist

You can believe whatever you want, but once your beliefs motivate, and allow you to morally justify, the murder of your neighbors, you have broken the social contract of peaceful society and are no longer entitled to its protections.

Honestly, I think the tactic of isolation, re-education, and rehabilitation is REMARKABLY reserved and humane given the already unacceptable loss of human life.

Keep in mind that while the Uhygurs today represent an ethnic minority in the region, that is only after a centuries long history of organized military oppression and violence against the Han Chinese at their hands.

So none then?

Ukraine would be the Uyghurs if we want to compare because they’re the minority.

If you believe that then you have a poor understanding of both situations.

This isn’t petty street violence, it’s a targeted, ideologically motivated campaign that has armed, foreign funded militants targeting a civilian population.

Should Ukraine have simply acquiesced to the Donbas Peoples Militia and Russia?

If America starts arming Alberta separatists, should we just give them what they want?

Because the Uhygurs aren’t killing other Uhygurs, they’re killing Han Chinese.

How many Quebecois have been killed by anglophones opposing Bill 101?

So how many lives are a reasonable cost while we wait for these people to get their shit together?

Estimates put the Han Chinese civilian death toll at 1000.

China has invested >8,300,000,000,000 yuan into improving material conditions in Xinjiang in the last 15 years and they are still dealing with racially motivated attacks against ethnic Han Chinese and extensive infrastructure damage caused by domestic terror attacks.

And if they won’t participate in that secular education consensually? Our public education system has become consistently more inclusive and progressive decade by decade, so in responses, christian fundamentalists are trying to dismantle it and/or homeschooling their children in record numbers.

How do you prevent those who hold the beliefs from insulating their children from alternate perspectives? How do you prevent the negativity from festering and growing? How do you break the cycle?

This isn’t a uniquely Chinese question. In fact, take China out of the equation, how do we prevent the spread of white Christian nationalism in North America?