Israel is quite bad, yes, and the genocide is horrible, but I'd argue China is illustrative of what comes after democracy fails in a place and it has passed through the stage that Israel is currently in.

China is a totalitarian state where information is so tightly controlled and the people so thoroughly decieved (or enslaved) that industrialized genocide is carried out at a scale unseen since the Nazis without the general population knowing or even caring.

That kind of "civilized" totalitarianism in which dissent is quite literally not possible is the terminus of any form of facism. When Orwell talked about a boot stamping on a human face forever, that's what China is.

So no, as bad as Israel is and as much as they need to be confronted and are untrustworthy, China is far worse.

Only I get to look in the magic hat, sorry lol.

Because China is not a normal country and all of its industry is controlled by the state. It desperately wants the world to forget that its the kind of country that runs over its citizens with tanks, uses forced labor and has hundreds of concentration camps, but it would be kind of silly to go along with that when it has not changed from that course.

Their long-term plan is to slow boil global opinion through a mass social engineering projects and propaganda into accepting that it's ok and normal for a government to operate in the way that the CCP does.

As long as the CCP is in power anything it does should should be observed about with a healthy dose of suspicion.

"Taliban clowns attempt to transport a bribe."

All I can think of is how much energy trolls wasted talking about how the Taliban had cellphones now and were totally up to the task of ruling a country after the US left.

No...where did I say that?

Is there some other country that's dealing with a crackdown on student protests at the moment where referencing Kent State would be salient?

Zionism couldn't exist without antisemitism. It requires it in order to justify its colonial project. So yeah, nazis and zionists are pb&j. It's why they behave in an identical manner.

Unsure what the implication is. The Kent State shootings are common knowledge in the US, it's taught in schools, no one needs to be tricked into knowing it happened.

"Please allow our machine to upload your development work directly to our servers in Schenzhen."

The earth is not flat nor is it round, it's like Flappy Bird.

This is exactly how I imagine the demographic that buys Cybertrucks.

"Keep your democracy. I saw democracy failing somewhere and being displaced by authoritarianism so I'm just opting for going straight to authoritarianism. I am smort but, also, do not trust me with the ability to influence my own society. I also don't see the irony of expressing here how my society should be run (even though I'm anti-democracy)."

Well, the whole notion that things are on a spectrum is kind of false.

There are the people using what we know about the world right now to try to improve the conditions for all of us and who are willing to adjust course based on evidence and results, and then there are those clinging to failed notions of the past, whether it be an outdated philsophy from four hundred years ago or a failed theory from yesterday.

In that way it's more of a binary that does not care if you're anarchist, monarchist, communist, libertarian, democratic etc. If your ideas aren't working and you fail to admit they aren't working then you have become a conservative, regardless of how radical your idea was when it was concieved.