zephyreks

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

The US is increasing it's primary energy production from fossil fuel sources (by 40% since 2010) and they're decreasing total emissions? Sure...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wok, vegetable cleaver, bidet. The world is your oyster.

 

Propaganda is flying around like crazy in this conflict and I think it's time for our community to come together and try to separate the truth from misinformation and chaff. Similar to my last post on the al-Ahli Hospital Massacre, we're going to go with the following format:

For top-level comments, post the claim being made as well as who made the claim (please cite as close to the original source as possible) and, if possible, the date/time that claim was made.

For other comments, please try to either prove or debunk claims using multiple sources and verifiable information.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Literally the US Army has published videos that claim they were involved in the Tiananmen protests.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Not sure why $oro$ is marked as racism when it specifically refers to one person and has "nothing to do" with that person's race.

Really makes you think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Get an Android tablet lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Two party state baby

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (22 children)

By the winter of 1941, Barbarossa had failed. By the time the Western Front was opened in 1944, Army Group South had collapsed, Army Group North was failing, and Army Group Center was in the process of being encircled. Germany had lost, it was just a question of when. In the meantime, the entire North African campaign cost the Germans less resources than the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive.

Friendly reminder that prior to Pearl Harbour, the US was sponsoring Japan's war crimes in China. The US made up the bulk of Japan's iron, copper, oil, steel, and wheat supply... Essentials for industrializing and waging war. Even with this massive economic power backing them, Japan had been fought to a standstill by 1940. By 1944, the Nationalists were more concerned with containing the Communists than they were with containing the Japanese.

In the case of both Germany and Japan, powerhouses at the peak of their power were ground down to a stalemate against a rapidly industrializing nation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Have you picked up a history book? Taiwan literally still claims mainland China and the South China Sea as ROC territory. Maybe read Taiwan's Constitution instead of the American media interpretation of it? It's not my fault that you seem happier to spread ideology with American interpretations than deal with actual facts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Encroaching on Taiwan's sovereignty by flying in international airspace over international waters?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

And yet, under the KMT government relations were normalizing. In the past, mainland China had extremely positive rhetoric towards Taiwan (and Taiwan towards mainland China). Even today, trade grows and cultural coupling grows.

Frankly, claiming that China violates Taiwan's airspace shows a gross misunderstanding of international aviation law. American FONOPs in the area since 2016 have broken the status quo that the Chinese and Taiwanese governments were using to split the strait: if the strait is international waters outside of the 12km limit, then the air above it is international airspace by definition.

Oddly enough, that timeline also coincides with Taiwan's government flipping from KMT rule to DPP rule.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

China's... not so wrong with this one. Under the previous KMT government, Taiwan-China relations were normalizing (not to the degree of reunification, but to the degree that conflict wasn't really on the horizon anymore because of the economic harm it would cause). The DPP has taken a strongly anti-China stance and the result has been escalating tensions... All while bilateral trade across the strait continues to grow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"democracy is good because it allows for freedom of speech"

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