Most countries are assisting Ukraine where they can.

Always the same map

I find it weird that the former liberal consensus was that Wagner was effectively a Nazi PMC group but now I guess it isn't?

Yeah, looking busy is way more important than being productive a lot of the time. You always need to be doing something, so you just go through the motions of doing things because otherwise you'll get shit from your employers. Waiting in good faith for more real tasks to emerge isn't enough, so you must invent chores.

At least, that was very consistently my experience in retail.

while we are out there actually making the incremental changes to try to bring it about.

lmao most of the activism by liberals here is voting every 2 - 4 years and posting, don't kid yourself. Just keep carrying water for an unrepentant segregationist and telling yourself that the incremental steps you are supporting are towards progress and not a third world war.

I think you are underestimating the desperation of the very poor in austerity states like the US, but you are 100% right that sexpats are scum

imagine i vandalize jewish graveyard, put swastikas all over the place and my defense is "man, swastikas were used all around the word through history, they don't just belong to nazi germany, you know?"

This is a bizarre and perhaps manipulative comparison. What is the Jewish graveyard in this context? Because the vandalizing a Jewish graveyard part does a lot to provide context to the action in your hypothetical where you provide no such context for the hammer and sickle's use.

Furthermore, it's a bizarre comparison because most of us are white or Hispanic rather than Indian (being a mostly American website), which means that we generally have no connection to the swastika in its original use but some connection to the Nazi use, whereas the uses of the hammer and sickle by other parties in Europe, Latin America, tbe US, and elsewhere are ones that we could plausibly have actual connections to.

Mind you, I disagree with the equating of the hammer and sickle to the swastika to start with, I think it's a disgusting "both sides"-ing that Nazi sympathizers love to promote. I just also dislike faulty arguments.

It's a one-party state with all candidates chosen by the party.

I much prefer all those two or three party states where the candidates are chosen by their respective parties on the marching orders of the capitalist class

What mask? I'm an ML and have never claimed otherwise on this account or its alts on any instance.

And being an ML isn't against the rules, so don't bog down our dear admins with superfluous reports.

"I only want a government that doesn't do good things for me!"

The British morons who coined "tankie" were wrong then and their ideological successors are wrong now

And I'm calling them fascist because of how they treat political dissidents and minorities.

"In my true socialist state, Qigong cults can operate with impunity as they scam people and push racist cosmological myths"

And for the second part you're just drinking neoliberal koolaid published by the people who are the most prolific killers of racial others in human history.

The PRC wants a peaceful reunification, which would not be aided by them continuously flying military jets over the island. I, too, would prefer peaceful reunification, which means some level of cooperation and tolerance is necessary.