Exit polls run by US actors and by the opposition

Ah yes, my favourite. It’s been a while since we had a good old colour revolution. The CIA’s getting their mojo back.

Lmao citing MBFC when the NYT is actively trying to unseat the sitting head of the Democratic Party

It’s a concern because Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Kim… They’re all well-spoken. They’re all quick-witted.

What kind of message does that send would-be American allies in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, in South America?

Have you ever tried starting up a car that’s been sitting for a year?

That should tell you all you need to know about the reliability of digger man

Nobody commenting on this has ever visited Xinjiang. Nobody writing these articles has ever visited Xinjiang. Can you blame people for listening to the media they have access to?

There’s a funny thing about the notion of media literacy in China vs. the US: in China, media literacy is mostly “what is the media not telling me?” while in the US, media literacy is mostly “which media source is telling me the right thing?”

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You know what the biggest cities in Xinjiang are? Urumqi, Korla, Aksu, Karamay. Those are some Chinese sounding names /s

Note that some towns have been switched to a Mandarin standard. This is especially true when Han populations dominate a particular city (e.g., Shihezi, set up by a Chinese general in 1951), or when a city relies on tourism from other provinces (e.g., Beitun, a ski towm). But… That’s not what the article is discussing, really. The article is much more interested in Romanization of these names.

Officially, the Uyghur name shares equal right as the Chinese one, however, sometimes the Uyghur Romanization is a pain in the ass to pronounce while the Chinese one is far easier (Ürümqi vs. Wulumuqi). This is as true in Xizang as it is in Xinjiang (the name བོད་ is still used to refer to Xizang by official Chinese standards, but that doesn’t phonetically map to Tibet). Of course, people are forgetting that English is neither the first nor second most common language in Xinjiang… In fact, given the number of ethnic minorities I doubt it’s even on the list. The English name is selected for convenience rather than anything else because nobody except Western tourists will ever use it.

There’s an interesting debate happening today in Canada as to whether this Romanization makes sense: while First Nations names like Squamish and Tsawwassen have been Romanized and are used colloquially, First Nations groups oppose Romanization because of its association with colonialism and instead would prefer names like “šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl’e7énḵ”. The question is, which do you keep as the English public-facing name?

Of course, this is coming from the same The Guardian that reported that “the last major mosque in China lost its domes and minarets” when the Afaq Khoja and Id Kah exist and are widely known as holy sites in Uyghur Islam. The Guardian’s reporting on China has consistently been sloppy because they don’t have a correspondent in Xinjiang and their editorial teams don’t speak Chinese or Uyghur.

and you’re complaining about the batteries lmfao

And the Cybertruck was…

It’s an EV problem, not a China problem… Unfortunately

lmao you don’t even want to know about Tesla battery fires I take it?

Do you think this is a Ford Pinto?

Edit: given that you mention crumple zones… A Tesla Cybertruck?

Lmao there’s a guy who usually posts a long response to these “subsidies” claims bullshit, but I think they got into a pissing match with a mod in the comments and got banned lmao.

Jist of it is: China’s subsidies are negligible compared to the US, and what they’ve actually done is created a competitive domestic market with a large number of players. Unless you think Chinese people are all puppets, even if China (as a country) owns the industry it would not prevent internal competition that drives down prices. Moreover, China does not offer per-unit subsidies on export. In fact, Chinese EVs exported to Europe are something like 40% more expensive than domestically for the same model.

Ireland once again showing they’re one of the only humane countries in the EU

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Again, you’re attempting to conflate different aspects of Hitler’s ideology. Hitler had different opinions of different Untermensch… Because to him, although they were all subhuman, some were less human than others. The fact that your grandmother was not Jewish does not change the fact that Hitler’s solution to the Slavic problem was resolved before his solution to the Jewish problem.

You’re being disingenuous in your claim. The argument is that Zionists and Hitler cooperated in establishing a Jewish state (which is true: Hitler started out wanting to “just” ethnically cleanse Jews, not exterminate them). Conflating Zionists with Jews is wrong, but that’s where the claim that “Jews were responsible for the Holocaust” comes from. Similarly, the claim that “Slavs were the true victims of the Holocaust” comes from numbers: more Slavs were murdered in the Holocaust than Jews. It’s pretty silly to play “who’s the greater victim” in a genocide, but…

Your grandmother is an incredible person. Don’t let her forget that.

As a population, Romani were hit harder. In terms of numbers, the Slavs (and communists in particular) were hit harder. Hitler considered both groups (Slavs and Romani) to be Untermensch. We haven’t forgotten them; it was caused by a policy of propaganda that also caused this change of opinion in France:

Romani today are still considered an underclass. There is still a blatant disregard for Slavic lives in the West. The change in public opinion for the Jewish people was never about being a victim of Axis imperialism in the Second World War.

It’s always the same map. It’s a reflection of the spread of British (pre-WW2) and later American (post-WW2) ideas around the world, which explains the relative geographic outliers of Japan and South Korea as well as Australia.

Doesn’t really need much lobbying wrt Xinjiang given that no Muslim country opposes China’s actions.

Map of countries opposing China’s actions (in blue)

Oddly enough, the map is rather similar to this one showing which countries do not recognize Palestine (in grey)

I’d imagine the lobbying is towards key European powers who have shown recent support for Palestine to be more consistent on the issue, which would also explain why the diplomats went to Reuters to report it.