The only ones not doing the “unequivocal” China support at this point are the literal handful of pro-China nationalists and chauvinists users here and that other instance. Most of the site already turned because while earlier last year it was just me and a couple of others, by now its completely undeniable, China not only does nothing but is an active collaborator period. There is no win-win support both sides shit, there never was, only now its undeniable, for most anyway.

I can speak to it, I was just as dissapointed as you even 12 months ago, strategic diplomacy, “smol bean China can’t look at Israel funny otherwise its WW3 within 15 minutes”(some still believe this shit sadly) etc meanwhile Xi emote shit 24/7 about Chinese superweapons, hypersonic missiles, stealth figthers, biggest navy etc.

Sadly the trend is eventualy the genocide may well succeed and then we will witness as some people say, some of the worst chapters in these modern “socialist” countries. As always its not like these leaderships give a damn. China only ever demanded a seat at the table, the only thing they ever demand from the US is “respect”.

Don’t ever look at how they(China, Russia) treated the DPRK 10 years ago either, sanctioning them literaly at the behest of the US, we memory holed that disgraceful shit. I hope we wont memory hole this too, but its also 2025 and we’re already years past that 2020 era of Chinese optimism resisting the US etc…

Ending the genocide right now? My honest opinion a pause is possible if the US were made to choose between supporting Israel and fighting another war.

We saw some glimpses of this over their choice between Ukraine and Israel, they were able to support Israel because the pro-Ukraine/Nuland camp etc had already accepted defeat in early 2023 and you know that whole “we’re killing Russians for free this is the best deal ever” quote from an US politician. We saw the US wasn’t willing to give precious modern equipment to Ukraine, none of the real NATO inventory, Ukraine got literaly nothing more modern than garbage cold war museum history cobbled together on the last minute. You can go back and see those Ukrainian offensives shit for yourself.

So the point then is if a bigger war or threat than Israel appears then I expect the US would tell Israel to hold back, the US can’t deal with a possible war with Iran and Yemen at the same time either.

But the point then is what is this bigger war, what is this bigger threat? There is none. The US is successfully building up for war with China in a few years time while China themselves are busy patting themselves on a job well done simply saying “US bad” every 2 weeks.

Israel will continue to get a free reign because Ukraine’s only purpose now is to make EU libs shit themselves and pay more for NATO which btw Trump also already succeeding making EU members will pay 5% of their GDP.

There could be hope, but it requires actual will to fight the US directly.

The other option would rely the key Israeli trading partners to actualy grow a backbone, Israel still relies on a few key imports e.g coal. But I’m not sure this would stop it even if it happened.

People saying Trump is killing the economy and the #1 proof is… the stock market going down.

After years of “Bernie bros” and even some Dem playing with the idea that billionaires and Wall St are bad or at least deserve to pay more taxes etc, the first proof that Trump is bad is the damn line going down.

They say this unironically and expected this to resonate with the same people that voted from Trump when the line was also going up and the Biden team celebrated it. Bidenomics shit and liberal news asking themselves why people hate them when the “economy is doing so great”. Go to reddit during the tariff crash, it was literaly this leopardatemyface shit but all stock market line go down pearl clutching shit.

And now that the market did the 180 all those dems look like clowns as expected. They have no message, even when they try its blatant stupidity and hipocrisy. The economy is only crashing when the line goes down, tell that to the Trump voter that suffered years of Bidenomics inflation shit “everything is great” lol.

It’s Bill Maher, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, etc. They’re just on cable TV which nobody under 50 watches anymore. Not to mention, they’re insufferable to everyone except establishment dems.

When I was back watching some Hasan streams last year I think IIRC even at the height of that mini donor revolt and Biden dropout, the problem was that these are not even all that bad, there was some good reaction from both Hasan and his type of viewers(chat) to that stuff when they were(I think John was best?) consistently shitting on both candidates but specialy Biden.

I’m going from memory but from the clip segments Hasan would watch on stream, it didn’t even look that bad if they had all kept that consistent at least appearance of indignation and revolt towards the situation. They could have managed to pull some younger viewers through that sort of pipeline, even if just temporarily. But once Kamala’s campaign got underway and that brief moment she was up in the polls etc it was all back to normal then it was realy over.

So I’d even argue the issue is not necessarily just its old cable shit since you know you can find these clips on YT later etc. It realy is more of the shit content. They’re so old and disconnected etc. But if they all even tried to shift there is already a sort of pipeline ready for them.

You’re not wrong perhaps fundamentally as yes MGS itself got some very messy writing, retcons and shit, but I also feel like “movie standards” seems like a strawmen at this point after about 15 years of capeshit, disney shit, sequels and reboots most of which are still extremely profitable and somewhat successful have just lowered those standards significantly.

People like Nolan have achieved legendary success with barely above average quality overall so I’d put him a possibly like a Nolan tier below at the start, definitely above with experience. If the average person can say the love Nolan shit then Kojima would be more than fine. Standards are just as much about what the audience is willing to call good or bad.

Sure I’d agree the best movies in history are on a completely different level of what he could possibly achieve, this is undeniable but you don’t need to reach that level.

Time is on the side of the Russians in Ukraine and the Chinese on pretty much anything else when it comes to confronting the US empire.

I’m sorry but this is just wrong, I mean believe what you want but this is not rational take unless you’re discounting climate change.

I’ve maintained for months now, China is obsessed with the status quo just as much as western neoliberalism. The best time for China to fight would be today not 10 or 20 years from now. China’s dengism model is absolutely committed and reliant on the global economy remaining stable and open, in their own words they love “globalization”. Yet climate change is absolutely surely going to destroy this facade of normalcy, we already saw this during COVID. The only way “time is on their side” is if you bet on this staying exactly as they are which to me is just antithetical to a “communist” party.

You’re seeing exactly the reason why and exactly the reason why I’ve become so disillusioned and sad about China in the past year or 2, the rest of the world wont survive that long. Palestine is already destroyed, but who else is going to be China’s or Russia’s ally? Please don’t say BRICS lest Xi himself will tell you how much he doesn’t want BRICS to be a bloc or to revive east vs west mentality.

We’re definitely going beyond 2 and then 2.5, probably 4 degrees warming before 2060-80.

At that point its game over for everyone, period. I joke actualy, personaly I think realisticaly its already over, at least in terms of mitigating it entirely, the best we can hope for is… well avoiding extinction.

There is no such thing as “time is on their/our side”. it is quite literally the opposite IMO. Unless the CPC is planning to relocate 1 billion people to live on some grandiose underground communist paradise, its more than over, period.

We should be fighting the hardest now when we can still afford to organize and benefit from normal capitalism. Waiting untill the end of the world, when countries and populations are left scrambling for survival only means humanity will turn towards eco-fascism.

What pisses me off is exactly this shit, billions of people will die so only then will these piece of shit garbage “communists” realize they shouldn’t have abandoned internationalism? That maybe they should have fought Biden and not shaken hands with him during the genocide of the 2020’s?

Its maddening and frustrating yes, I’m telling you and you should already know, when we cross 2 and 2.5 the feedback loops etc are unstoppable. At that point its just survival or whatever your best way to cope with nihilism.

Palestine is the tip of the iceberg in terms of how much the world doesn’t give a shit, including China. For me the real test was already back during COVID too, there are millions dead and even more suffering Long COVID and who gives a shit? Business as usual 5 years later.

The doing crime here is dog whistle for being/associating with POC so even Gamers will say this unironicaly and then turn around “so anyway” and proceed to buy and play the game.

Actual TIL.

Comparing mild personality cult of DPRK to South Korea and Samsung, almost the entire country one a damn 1920’s company town.

Joke’s on you I’m here for YURI