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One like=one prayer, reblogs cast, ignore for american supremacy

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everything that america believes in (war and greed) and/or has been trying to accomplish since its inception is being strengthened or perpetuated by this pandemic.

Black and indigenous people are disproportionately killed.

Tensions with China can be escalated from a trade war into a cold war into a world war.

Police are given unlimited power to harass, arrest, or shoot anyone that stands in their way.

Schools can be forcefully privatized, at the cost of again black and brown youth who can then be streamlined into America’s prisons.

The army reserve of labor, the unemployed, can be multiplied by economic collapse, and the carnage can be exploited by the bourgeoisie who can now buy not just stock but property and other assets on the cheap to further concentrate wealth.

Fascist politicians like Trump and Biden are handed electoral victories with greater ease.

China gets nothing from this pandemic.

But we’re expected to believe China did this to themselves? The American Viper has barely shed its skin, it has always been this treacherous, greedy, and violent predator:

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good evening fellow leftists, just taking a break from sticking it to The Man to let you know about the wily Chinese and their authoritarian ways. #freedom#liberty#F*CKTRUMP

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King of the Hill will always be relevant.

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Fidel Castro on capitalist ‘free speech’

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Americans celebrate the Boston Tea Party as a key point of origin in their national mythos, when a bunch of smugglers and slavers destroyed British property while disguised as indigenous to provoke conflict between them and carry out American plans to exterminate the indigenous and re-settle the land

If these were the actions of a nascent society committed to freedom and justice, what��s a mob of cowardly barbarians plotting to manipulate others into doing their dirty work for their own profit?

And these same animals gave the world eugenics, the concentration camp, the nuclear bomb, the “lone wolf” mass shooter. Americans are the world’s merchants of death, supplying arms to multiple sides of the same conflict.

And Americans even enjoy poisoning their own people (a charge they love making of other countries’ leaders when they want to justify some new atrocity), and Flint isn’t the only example, just the most publicized one; let’s not forget the various nuclear dumping Americans have done on Navajo land and in the Bikini islands.

What I’m saying is, is it really that farfetched that such a treacherous “people” that celebrate their own atrocities would start the coronavirus pandemic where Americans were already waging a trade war and have been escalating to provoke a hot war for years?

tl;dr - America did coronavirus, can’t convince me otherwise.

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A Java phone remake of the original ‘Streets Of Rage’ included a remade sprite of Blaze, using her ‘Streets Of Rage 2′ sprite as a base, but wearing clothes more in line with the original game.

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Taking cart of your Sega Megadrive cartridge, from Japanese manuals.

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“He who lives as a parasite does not belong to the people. Only the invalid, the sick, the old, and children are entitled to live without working and are entitled to have us work for them and to care for them, and from the work of everyone they can be benefited. For the children, the old, the invalid, and the sick, we have the duty to work, all of us. What no moral law will be able to justify ever is for the people to work for the parasites.”

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Fidel Castro,

May Day Celebration (1961): Cuba is a Socialist Nation, 1961

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remember when the soviet union wasn’t perfect, the US dumped billions of dollars into groups who weren’t happy with the soviet union, then used the existence of these groups as a pretext to support the dissolution of the soviet union? and then tens of millions of people died when living conditions collapsed as their country, which was deeply flawed but could have realised its potential to end suffering, was cut apart and privatised for the benefit of a handful of US-backed billionaires? anyway, just something that happened that i thought was worth remembering

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no offense but martin scorsese was right about those pentagon funded lens flare windows movie maker mkaultra brainwashing programs that you all call marvel superhero films

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"the fundamental nature of a protest that has welcomed fascists. is. fascist. There was no condemnation of the fascist groups joining the protests" sounds nice until you read anything by leftists in the actual movement and find that the people pushing for US intervention are a tiny minority or realize that in a movement with hundreds of thousands of people it's impossible to vet each individual person in a protest while being teargassed and shot.

who are these “leftists” in the actual movement that “wrote” things? If you are referring to the anarchist graffiti in HK such as this or trending hashtags of #antiELAB or #PoliceBrutality, you are clearly mistaken. 

Not even beginning to address the content of these graffiti and social media posts, why would they all be in English when English is Hong Kong’s third language with only 46% of the population speaking it? Hmm… it couldn’t be because they are meant for Westerners to see, and not the police! If you’re not convinced by that, you should know that in the context of a movement such as this one (proudly funded by the NED, supported by regime change NGOs, its website explicitly calling for intervention, the existence of a law passed by the US Congress to support protesters, Harvard bribing people to participate, protesters being trained by Western imperialists long before the protests, etc. all in exchange for bringing down PRC in the US-China trade war¹), regardless of the political tendency of the graffiti artist (in this case, anarchist), their graffiti and social media posts are engineered toward a specific audience, one that can take action and… indeed, intervene.

Second, do you not see the reactionary aspect of referring to China as “Chinazi?” Combined with the fact that this graffiti is for a Western audience, it’s a pretty bold-faced cry of support for white supremacy and its associated goals. Though of course, that’s much in line with the consistently racist, classist HK protesters who regularly assault mainland Chinese and working-class elderly people, and display white nationalist symbols² –and don’t care that they are–as well as imperialist flags³. The celebration of Japanese imperialist invasion of China is pretty telling, too. 

But the proportion of protesters that are racists and pro-intervention is actually a tiny non-influential minority, you say? The facts of the larger geopolitical backdrop against which these protests take place say otherwise. If the protesters were majority leftists like you say, why would the leader of the protests, Joshua Wong, be meeting with US political leaders and supporting the passage of the aforementioned US congressional act? Why would there be hundreds of thinkpieces from Western media defending the HK protesters usage of Pepe or American/British flags? If it really were a tiny minority of people in the protests holding up American/British flags, you would think that HK protest leaders would try their best to limit media circulation of this or at least condemn the pro-intervention protesters and disavow the US publically. But instead we have the leaders of the protest openly calling for US intervention. 

So no, it’s really not a problem of individuals entering the protests and there not being a framework to vet them. It’s the nature of the movement, from the protesters themselves to the consequences of their actions. Why would there be any need to vet people entering the protests when all of them, no matter their ideology, right wing or left wing, are in service of imperialism?

Also, it’s pretty funny that you mention being teargassed and shot, when the violence of the HK protesters exceeds that of the police by far (example). Even the editor of the South China Morning Post–who is by no means pro-Beijing–feels that the extreme violence of the HK protesters has endangered HK as a whole. Meanwhile, the police have shot exactly one person in all these months while being attacked from all sides by violent protesters (video footage), and possibly another such shooting in similar circumstances this week, though I haven’t been able to find sources for it happening. The infamous girl with a bandage on her eye? She refuses to cooperate with an investigation or release her medical records–it’s very likely that she was hit by a slingshot steel ball such as this that was aimed at the police but missed its target; they’ve hit civilians before. I don’t know how to make you understand the level of violence that’s being perpetuated by the HK protesters and the extreme restraint being exercised by the police, but open the links I provided for starters. If this was any Western country, let’s say the US, France, or Australia, all of these rioters would be dead for the violence they’re utilizing against police. 

It’s the working class of Hong Kong that has to clean up all this mess, at the end of the day. The system of HK has a very weak social safety net due to One Country Two Systems (and no, it isn’t PRC’s fault that this basic law acts in such ways. It is in the interest of HK businesspeople and colonial bourgeoisie to have a free market and that’s who will fight to maintain it, even by seceding from PRC because the limits placed upon HK capitalism obstruct accumulation of further capital).

So I find it even more interesting that you say this:

While at the same time the protesters you love so much claim that PRC is authoritarian and that’s why they don’t want the extradition law. Which one is it–is it PRC making the police do bad things to the poor leftist protesters or is it the Brits who love HK capitalism (and who support the protests)? And I don’t understand on what grounds you claim it is a holdover other than the beginning of the Wikipedia article on HK police.

The destruction of HK is unjustifiable at this point, no matter your views on the protests, because the level of violence has made it impossible for anyone to function normally. Beating up random civilians and destroying public property is no political goal, it’s gratuitous violence for the sake of it.

Footnotes

¹ This is addressed in the link “proudly funded by the NED”

² The article linked about white nationalist symbols is from SCMP which defends the usage of Pepe by saying that the protesters don’t know that Pepe is an alt-right symbol, but then they go on to say that protesters have discussed the use of Pepe online and don’t care about it being an alt-right symbol. This goes to show the level of explicit hypocrisy in propaganda in support of protesters

³ This is also an article from SCMP which defends the protesters, but this time from being called pro-US or pro-UK for displaying US and UK flags. But of course, they reveal the protesters’ true intentions inadvertently by saying that they see the US and UK as symbols of freedom and liberty.

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I don’t know who all you people are following that’re some kind of bloodthirsty antipode of Americanism but I’ve not seen a single person “celebrating” the Turkish invasion of ‘Rojava’ Syria, not a single one; I’ve only seen people pointing out that maybe those calling for the US to extend direct occupation of Syrian territory under the obviously false pretense of defending the Kurdish forces there are not being very anti-imperialist, actually, which is patently not the same thing. Turkey is acting as the proxy of the US (and also in its own interests, of course); the US always planned to do almost exactly this, because now instead of a loosely allied proxy force controlling large parts of Syria, it will be a major NATO military. The only failing is that the rest of Syria isn’t balkanised into a dozen Islamist statelets, as was the intention; if the YPG/J had agreed to cooperate with the SAA when it was offered, this never would have happened. In any case, it’s a disaster for the people on the ground.

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blizzard gave Gamers an excuse to be neoliberal US chauvinists and you bet your ass Gamers took it

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[…] there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

— Marx, Karl Heinrich. “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna.” New Rhenish Newspaper: Organ of Democracy. 1848.

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Hot girl summer is over, it’s now Christian girl autumn. here’s me trying out that aesthetic