NoneOfUrBusiness

I know they’re doing this to protect their corporate overlords, but have they always been this blatant?

I mean generally the central administration of a state getting weaker is not a good sign.

I mean the CCP isn’t an oligarchy; it’s an old school dictatorship.

We need to push for police reform,

Police reform would inevitably mean replacing a significant fraction of the police, because most police officers aren’t qualified to do their supposed jobs.

I mean of course. Iran and Russia are this close today specifically because Trump showed Iran that the American-led West can’t be trusted by unilaterally reinstating sanctions, and that same Trump will become president in three days.

Obligatory Iran and Russia aren’t good guys either disclaimer.

Russia supporting the RSF? Russia is supporting the Sudanese military; it’s Wagner that’s supporting the RSF. Definitely true about Assad though.

I mean you definitely hear more about it. And by the way didn’t they just recently get permission to use Western weapons to attack Russian territory? I’d say that’s escalating (but not an escalation of the conflict as a whole as you pointed out).

Is it a generalization if it’s something that (under different terms) is considered normal or even celebrated in the target culture? What I’m trying to say is that this is mostly attributable to different in the Overton window between the two cultures at hand; her idea of Americans being “slutty and perverted” is probably very close to what Americans themselves call sexual liberation and actively celebrate as an ideal of a free and tolerant society. I don’t know much about China so to use a (to me) more familiar example, if someone said “Muslims are prudes” I wouldn’t say “no you’re racist”; I’d say “yes and we don’t consider that a bad thing”. Of course I can’t enter the mind of this person so I can’t tell you what exactly she intended or thought when she posted the quote in the parent comment, but I’d bet it’s something along the lines of “I’ve seen the shit y’all post and I don’t want that here” and whether or not you agree with that evaluation aside I wouldn’t call it racism.

Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.

Okay what? Did Biden’s senility infect Blinken too? He knows he’s the secretary of state of America right?

killing a man is deplorable

Killing a cold blooded murderer is… well, even if you don’t believe it’s justice it’s definitely not something to cry about.

It wouldn’t be antiquity if the 7 anything were actually 7 would it?

I mean I wouldn’t say racism. To a more conservative society (which China is), this literally is what it feels like looking at Western society. Source: Am from another conservative society, for better or worse I know exactly what she’s talking about.

Many universities in the EU have programs in English. I mean I personally believe that if you’re going to a foreign country you should learn the/a language spoken there, if only to not be frustrated by language barriers, but you don’t need to do that if your only goal is to get into university in a foreign country.

As everyone else said, the most viable paths into a developed country are work and studying, so you’ll need to find one of those. You’ll later need to go through (as I have heard) grueling visa procedures, but before any of that you have to get a job or get into university in the country you wanna go to.

By the way this is complete conjecture on my side and I’m only putting it out there so someone who knows more about these things can confirm or deny it, but maybe it’d help if you knew the language of the country you’re trying to get into?

Many countries in Europe have straight up free universities for everyone, but yeah that’s something to keep in mind.

Twelve soldiers were convicted of various charges relating to the incidents, with all of the convictions including the charge of dereliction of duty. Most soldiers only received minor sentences. Three other soldiers were either cleared of charges or were not charged. No one was convicted for the murders of the detainees.

From the Wikipedia article on Abu Gharib. If this counts as prosecution then the IDF also “prosecutes” its war criminals. Where’s the punishment for the systematic rape, torture and murder? These aren’t crimes that should be settled by twelve rank and file soldiers getting a slap on the wrist. By the way, we know about these war crimes because newspapers reported on them and publicized them, and that’s why the US army “prosecuted” them. Your knowledge of US violations of international law seems to be very whitewashed.

They kind of are, at least in my country, but these things take time.

Well admittedly I don’t know much about this summit so I couldn’t tell you much about who is attending from where, but as far as I know in most of the Arab world (can’t speak for Southeast Asia or the Indian Peninsula) educational opportunities aren’t distinguished by gender. Now there are cultural issues that depending on household can cause girls to have fewer opportunities than boys, but it’s nowhere near what one would imagine seeing what the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan. The Taliban are, by all means, the weird ones for messing around with girls’ education.