I really like the idea that the tiktok thing was a purposeful and completely planned ahead stunt for trump because it implies biden was in on it too.

been doing some research on Lin Yinhe and it's interesting just how much her very existence clashes with popular narratives on china. consistently through her life Lin has been vocal about how she thinks china should legalize gay marriage, pornography, prostitution, and orgies, and has at various times petitioned the government on these issues. did the CPC execute her? arrest her? perhaps harass and torment her for criticizing them until she was bullied into silence?

no, she remained a member of the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1992 till her retirement in 2012, even becoming director of the Research Office of Family and Sexuality. certainly she attracted controversy and criticism, but at no point was her ability to voice her criticisms in real jeopardy- nor, indeed, was her job at a state-run research facility.

like it's just such a blatant demonstration that the narrative of china as a totalitarian dystopia where all dissent is brutally crushed isn't accurate, like very visibly you can spend your entire life criticizing the government's policies and be fine.

(note: nobody argue about pornography or sex work in the notes of this post, that's not what this post is about)

Pǔ yánměi voice: In China the gay for pay is the government making you be gay on social media so foreigners think being gay is okay in China. They make you do this on apps where only Chinese people are allowed to sign up.

Current progress: £1,335/£10,000

Edit: vetted on Sudan Funds site

Nader Sadaqa, the Samaritan Palestinian political prisoner, who got sentenced to 6 life sentences by Israeli authorities, is expected to be freed in the first phase of the hostage deal. it is said that he got harsher treatment in prison bc of his jewishness

Like, this attitude towards PRC as less friendly to LGBT+ people comes from the way that people only narrowly measure LGBT+ rights as that of marriage equality, and, not, like, how far the state will go to protect its LGBT+ people. A country where a president signed "Marginalize All Transgender Women" order will turn around and act like a country where there's over-the-counter estradiol and an anti-homophobia cybersquad is the country where LGBT+ people need to worry about their safety. As someone whose professional area is in sexual minorities (and folk religion but that's not relevant here), it's very odd to see. It's not just me, though. LGBT+ rights activists with a backbone in the USA has talked about the fact that marriage equality is nowhere near enough in the early years of the 2010s.

BOiNG

Pyongyang in winter my beloved

Zionists on here that are mad at Israel having to give up more hostages than Hamas are SO close to getting the point that it's actually sad.

Let's talk about why Israel has so many hostages ready to swap.

This 2023 article by Human Rights Watch talks about how of the 7000 hostages held by Israel, a majority of them have never been convicted of a crime. In fact 2000 of them were being held in administrative detention where this is no charge or trial at all. And these numbers are actually outdated.

This 2024 article by Save the Children says that number has increased from 7000 to 9000. Of those 9000 around 500 are minors who are held without charge or trial. And these numbers are still outdated because Israel has been increasingly more violent since the reports have come out.

"A Save the Children’s report in July 2023 showed that even prior to October 7, Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces faced immense emotional and physical abuse, with four out of five - 86% -  of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched. "

So yeah these Zionists are either intentionally trying to distort the facts or they're so close to understanding the truth which is:

Israel has 30x (or more) hostages than Hamas. And that Oct 7th is a result of this disproportionate violence Palestinians experience.

Don't let these modern day Nazis twist facts.

Today I learned about Khalida Jarrar who was part of the recent hostage exchange. Khalida is a Palestinian political leader (she's part of the PFLP and PLC) and human rights and feminist advocate has been held in administrative detention since December 2023 (without charge). She has reportedly spent the past six months in solitary confinement in a 2-by-1.5m cell.

The pics above show what she looked like when she was released vs what she looked like when she went in.

She's been arrested multiple times for things like participating in demonstrations on International Women's Day, advocating for Palestinian prisoners, attending the Human Rights Defender's Summit in Paris (if this doesn't sound absolutely crazy to you then you're a lost cause). Check out her Wiki page. Israel has continuously abused this woman for standing up for basic human rights.

Reading her wiki and all the articles I found about her made me so furious. It's disgusting how she has been abused by Israel.

There are THOUSANDS of cases like this where Israel will simply arrest Palestinians. Hold them hostage without trial. No charge no reason.

I cant believe some of you are supporting this.

As a Jew this sickens me. This is fascism. This is Nazi like behavior.

While the CCP may not personally vet individual cooking videos,

FACT CHECK: WRONG

In Communist China, not only are all cooking videos actually personally vetted by the CCP, but also every single stove in every single rural home must be personally vetted as sufficiently nutritious by Xi Jinping himself

POV you just started cooking dinner:

Even applies to foreign policy.

when i think about the might of proletarian revolution i recall how it forced the british aristocrat and the scion of long standing yankee bourgeois clan to treat the son of caucasian peasant as their equal.

Let's push ahead with reforestation as an all-Party and nationwide undertaking! (2025)

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vote blue no matter who guys love saying "trump would be even worse on palestine" but literally how could he possibly be worse than biden short of nuking the gaza strip. biden might be the single most zionist president in US history lol

amiguitas it does not appear that trump will be nuking the gaza strip

Guys i don’t want to optimize you if you still care about genocide in gaza .

But the news saying the ceasefire agreement is done and they will maybe tomorrow Announce it .

Best thing is the isareli army will withdraw from all Gaza Strip that’s mean the Rafah border crossing will back to work again so i need your support your help so I could take my brother Mohammed out to be with his Son Zayed and his wife.

And didn’t told you before my brother Omar engaged and His fiancee still in north gaza. He asked me alot to tel you about her so he can also be with the love of his life.

Don’t think your contribution is small even the one dollar helps . Sharing also helping.

After the ceasefire started just received 50$

I would remember you that’s the situation still very bad and my brother still living in tent

Idk, I have autism, most of my friends have autism, and none of us have ever done nazi shit. It's so bizarre when privileged white people with autism always have "being extremely racist" autism but no poc with autism ever seems to have that. I don't think it's your autism I think you're just a horrible racist.