Hong Kong was seeking independence after the treaty that ceded it to Britain expired. China occupied the island and violently put down resistance.

Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Djibouti, Bangladesh, and Cambodia have all had valuable trade capability strong-armed away from them by China, who exploited financial instability to establish century-long leases on all maritime activity from their premiere port cities. This is in service to their “String of Pearls” geopolitical strategy to expand their naval trade and military power projection.

The Belt and Road initiative is part free economic zone, part debt-trap, as it forces low-income nations such as Tanzania, Pakistan, and the DRC into loan schemes that will take generations to repay, offering the ceding of key natural resources as a quick and easy out.

They have claimed the entire South China Sea as natural maritime territory without the consent or agreement of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, or Taiwan. This is speculated to be a move against Taiwan, specifically. But the outcome is the same: Heightened tensions between neighbors and the claiming of sea lanes that are not theirs.

Amnesia moment

If someone explains something you disagree with, you have to actually explain why you think they’re wrong. Conversely, if you just say ‘nuh uh’, then ‘nuh uh’ is enough to prove you completely wrong.

Actually, if you want a real answer, that which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

So, wrong.

That

You are incorrect

Individually, they’re dumb, out of shape, and, if you’ve been paying much attention, pretty cowardly. So yes, a single cop is fucking joke. But as a group they’re better-armed than many militaries, are legally protected from the VAST majority of their own crimes, and have an insane culture of solidarity not only internally, but with the moneyed class.

You fuck with that loser once and you’re inviting a team of violent idiots and a judge to legally fuck with you the rest of your life. You actively defend yourself from that team of violent idiots and a judge in turn, and I am not exaggerating when I say you’re inviting a militarized response. There’s a reason that so many of our cops can get away with being so mean, dumb, and weak.

Yeah so the issue is that our police have been militarizing and their unions have been persistently dismantling accountability laws since the 80’s, using racist propaganda as cover for their actions. Now that it’s fully mask-off, it’s less, “what’s the community going to think about this” and more “what can the community even do about it?”

The white population of this country has not only allowed, but quietly encouraged, the stripping away of every safeguard we have against our police because they never thought it would be used against them. They were told that racial minorities were going to pillage and rape their uncanny white picket suburbs and remote podunk towns any day now, and that the only law enforcement could save them. But only if it was unchained from any sort of safeguards previously installed on it and given the proper tools of pillage.

So, like, we’re fucked I think. We have a VERY long and painful road ahead of us if we’re going to dismantle all these violent gangs we’ve embedded in our government.

This is exactly what happened to be. I tried Mastodon for a bit but it was kinda boring? So now I’m here.