im still suspicious of that one. it’s a continuation of the black=bad paradigm. there is a traditional view of black sheep being undesirable bc u can’t dye black wool (at least before bleaching agents were discovered). but the modern connotation of “black sheep” comes from early chattel slavery
npr loves their not-so-subtle subtle racism
based 
oppression is when ur treats are made more appealing to the general public instead of the vilest incels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/
it has its origin in anti-labor actions taken during the first stages of chattel slavery. terms like black sheep and black market are similarly racially charged. black eye is just abt the color of the injury tho. and the “brown” in brown nose is abt getting shit on ur nose from ass kissing im p sure.
i aced my blood test! 3 months into hrt and my trough levels are 260 pg/mL for E2 and 30 ng/dL for T! i can def afford to down titrate, my T might be too low at my peak since it’s already rlly low at the trough. but i feel good! diy is so easy, who needs a doctor?
this is a very disgusting thing to say. the current struggle session is to purge misogyny. you can simultaneously be against misogyny and genocide. and what you are doing— using genocide cynically as an excuse to dismiss misogyny— has no place here
i want to go to there
common USSR W
u are sentenced to teaching and researching 
“stop othering the bourgeoisie it really hurts their feelings!”
they are at the top of our current social formation. they are the ultimate in-group. what is “othering” going to do to them?
also gotta love the classic “human nature” argument. libs once again do a fantastic mental gymnastics routine to arrive at a conclusion adjacent to fascists. transphobia being tied to “human nature” is sickening. as they love to do, they are justifying colonial methods of control (the official imperial version of gender) implicitly by uncritically mentioning its practice within the imperial core
edit: it is uncritical analysis to say “transphobes are just scared of big bad transes, they would understand them if only they weren’t so scared.” no, they are influenced by the capitalist superstructure to protect against the threat trans people pose to gender. this is most directly seen in the manosphere where the entire aim is to unite men in violently enforcing gender
as soon as they stopped being marginalized, my trade unions formed the first fascist party. there's already a social democratic party led by the rural folk (that used to include the petite bourgeoisie) and a communist party led by the armed forces.
its especially weird considering the ideologies my the trade unions IG are proletarian, egalitarian, populist, anti-slavery, and socialist. how do they go fascist w that set of ideologies?!
oh well, they have half the clout of the communist party, and a quarter of the clout of the socdem party
i feel like i could have done a lot better if i didnt get lazy during the last 20 years and just let the automated private construction build whatever it wanted-- big mistake, it caused my GDP to plateau for the rest of the game.
other than that my game went very well, population was 200 million! literacy was lower than i wanted bc i constantly procrastinated university building. my population was overwhelmingly loyal and my taxes were at the lowest setting with zero consumption taxes and i still had 2.5M budget surplus. 1B in gold reserves and 2B in the investment pool. i couldnt find enough shit to spend money on lol
as you can see, i went heavy expansionist, leaving Mexico w like 4 states, taking most of central america, half of Colombia, and most of the Congo. call me a colonizer, but my standard of living is #1 in the world, and check out how drastic the SoL difference is between my African states and the rest of Africa
even the lower strata is "prosperous"!
the laws are cool too except i was in the process of enacting collectivized agriculture when the game ended. i ended slavery super early, like 1850 or smth
lol at the intelligentsia who are still clinging onto liberalism in a socialist state
doesnt matter since trade unions have 50% of the political clout. im pretty mad at the trade unions tho bc they wont join the Communist Party 
https://hexbear.net/comment/3938581
“im so magnanimous for having scab nurses pay my mortgage. i swear im losing money on this, im totally not getting my property paid for by someone else”
this asshole thinks “traveling nurses” is a good cause when they mostly exist so hospitals don’t have to pay local nurses as much
principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes
by “Chinese ruling class” you mean capital owners and not the CPC right?
youre talking abt the billionaires right?
link bc im not a 
this is Rena! shes the best puppy ever :) my gf and i adopted her a bit over a month ago and she has been such a wonderful part of our lives from the moment we met her! the humane society guessed that shes a shepherd/lab mix, but my gf thinks shes german shepherd/great dane mix. shes only 4 months old but shes doing great with house training! i love her so much 🥰
heres her a few minutes ago with a toy and a treat
Some Western media outlets have recently hyped up the so-called "debt trap" theory once again, attempting to shift the blame for some developing countries’ debt problems onto China.
This is a blatant lie and another attempt to smear China.
In the past 10 years since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed, fruitful cooperation has been carried out in various fields, bringing tangible benefits to the people of participating countries.
Africa's Macro-Economic Performance and Outlook, a report released by the African Development Bank in January 2023, showed that the total debt service payments suspended by China under the G20's Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) have exceeded the total amount from G7 countries.
it doesnt take long to search the internet for many instances of debt forgiveness of structural loans from China. when has the IMF done this?
Research results released by the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. indicated that China contributed 63 percent of debt service suspensions.
thats quite a lot of debt suspension for a country that makes up less than 20% of the worlds GDP (adjusted).
In fact, the debt issues of developing countries are closely related to Western countries, especially the U.S.
World Bank statistics showed that multilateral financial institutions and commercial creditors account for nearly three-quarters of Africa's total external debt.
The U.S. is the largest shareholder of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), while American and European financial institutions serve as the dominant commercial creditors to African nations.
oof. and to make things worse, western loans that go toward extractive and manufacturing industries give way to horrible working conditions while superprofits are whisked away to the imperial core. otoh, loans from China go toward a more balanced development plan including schools, hospitals, and infrastructure as well as industries (where a significant smaller portion of the profits go to China, and only to pay back the loan)
It is evident to the international community who are the reliable partners of developing countries and who are the instigators of their financial issues.
damn right!
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called on China and South Africa to strengthen their partnerships in four dimensions during his state visit to the African nation.
Ahead of his arrival, Xi said in his signed article published in South African media that the blossoming China-South Africa relationship "has entered a 'golden era,' enjoying broad prospects and a promising future."
While meeting with Ramaphosa, the Chinese leader called on both sides to be strategic partners of high-level mutual trust, adding that "camaraderie and brotherhood" are the true quality of bilateral ties.
The two sides should strengthen exchanges and cooperation between their legislatures, political parties, militaries and localities, and continue to support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns, said Xi.
The Chinese side is willing to strengthen inter-party exchanges and training cooperation with South Africa, and help the African National Congress (ANC) with building the African Leadership Institute, he added.
critical support to ANC in their struggle against western empire! they might be a socdem party, but they are fighting imperialism and this continued cooperation with China bodes well
China and South Africa, said Xi, should be development partners for common progress.
He described mutual benefit and win-win results as the hallmark of China-South Africa cooperation, saying that the two sides should focus on advancing the Belt and Road Initiative, implementing the nine programs on China-Africa cooperation, as well as the 10-Year Strategic Programme on Cooperation between the two countries, consolidating cooperation in areas of strength and fostering new growth points for cooperation.
BRI talk! imo this is the most important project in opposing imperialism. keeping the IMF out of Africa will be integral to starving international capital. the extraction industries of Africa will either go toward enriching the international bourgeoisie and crushing their opponents preventing them from dominating the world, or they can go toward efforts to stop the forces of capital. China isnt perfect but they are currently the only hope for overcoming amerika’s empire
Official statistics showed that bilateral trade in 2022 reached 56.74 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 20.1 percent of China-Africa trade. And in the first half of the year, bilateral trade topped 28.25 billion dollars, up 11.7 percent year-on-year.
China has remained South Africa's largest trading partner for 14 consecutive years, while South Africa has been China's biggest trading partner in Africa for 13 years in a row.
Meanwhile, South Africa has been one of the African countries with the largest stock of Chinese investment, which has risen to 10 billion dollars. More than 200 Chinese companies in South Africa have created over 400,000 local jobs and South African companies are also racing to invest in the Chinese market to seize its abundant business opportunities.
Notably, South Africa was the first African country to join the Belt and Road cooperation. The pie of bilateral cooperation is getting bigger as South Africa's wines, rooibos tea, and aloe vera gels are trending in the Chinese market while automobiles and home appliances with Chinese brands gain increasing popularity among South African households.
And in a joint statement between the two countries issued on Tuesday after the meeting of the two presidents, both sides will consider working towards bilateral cooperation and synergy within the Belt and Road Initiative and the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan frameworks.
Both sides also pledged to continue to seek the strengthening of cooperation in key areas such as infrastructure and logistics, trade and investment, manufacturing, agro-processing, energy and resources, the financial sector, the digital economy, science and technology, and green development, according to the statement.
During the talks, Xi said China will expand imports of South African products and encourage more Chinese enterprises to invest in South Africa.
China’s mutual prosperity vs the west’s neocolonial exploitation and expropriation
Noting that poverty reduction, agricultural development programs and rural revitalization are important components of Chinese modernization, he said Beijing is willing to strengthen experience exchange with South Africa and help the country carry out the poverty reduction demonstration village project.
China is lifting South Africans out of poverty. western China Experts say this is actually a ploy to bring South Africa in its sphere of influence, bringing them one step closer to forming the Legion of Doom
i feel South African student riots are in the works. these will, of course, be totally grassroots and there wont be any western intelligence agencies involved /s
Xi also elaborated on the necessity for the two countries to be friendly partners of deep mutual understanding and goodwill, saying that closer people-to-people bonds can best testify to the friendship between the two countries.
China is ready to make good use of such mechanisms as the China-South Africa vocational education alliance to strengthen vocational education of the two countries, promote exchanges and cooperation in youth employment, and help South Africa train more talents urgently needed for economic and social development, he said.
The two sides should strengthen tourism cooperation, and support scientific research institutions and enterprises to step up technological cooperation and joint research, so as to bring more benefits to the two peoples, Xi added.
South Africa in the joint statement further welcomed the identification of South Africa amongst the top 20 countries for group tourism promotion by Chinese tourists. The African country supports the increase in the frequency of direct flights between South Africa and China.
wholesome 
The fourth partnership the Chinese leader called on the two sides to enhance concerns global peace and stability.
LETS FUCKING GO BABY 
This year's BRICS summit comes at a time when the world is facing rising uncertainties and accelerating changes unseen in a century.
Xi urged China and South Africa to be global partners that uphold justice, saying that independence is a principle both sides adhere to.
The Chinese side, Xi said, supports South Africa in playing a bigger role in international and regional affairs, and stands ready to work with South Africa and other developing countries to implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative.
this is great considering South Africa has been very resistant to NATO propaganda and views the Ukraine conflict as one against western imperialism (at least officially, idk how it is on the ground there)
He also said that Beijing is also ready to join the developing world in practicing true multilateralism, increasing the representation and voice of the Global South countries in global governance, and strengthening collaboration on issues such as climate change, food security and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, so as to safeguard the common interests and development space of developing countries, Xi added.
China and Africa, in the eyes of Xi, have always belonged to a community with a shared future. He told Ramaphosa that in a world which is undergoing transformation and turbulence, both sides need more than ever stronger solidarity and cooperation.
And in their joint statement, the two sides reiterated their resolve to further strengthen cooperation in terms of African affairs and to support the African Union in resolving African conflicts peacefully.
China expressed in the document its support for the efforts of African countries and regional organizations under the auspices of the African Union (AU) to provide African solutions to African problems, including to support the AU's early accession to membership of the Group of 20.
this partnership is so powerful. watch as country by country in Africa partners with China, slowly destroying the IMF and starving western capital of its neocolonial spoils
Ramaphosa described China as a sincere brother, friend and partner of his country, saying that China has provided valuable support to South Africa in its struggle for national independence and liberation as well as its national development. He also mentioned China's timely support for his country during the COVID pandemic.
Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 25 years ago, South Africa has firmly adhered to the one-China principle, he said, adding that both nations share the same or similar positions on many major international affairs.
Ramaphosa also said that in today's world that is facing multiple severe and complex challenges, South Africa and other Global South countries hope to strengthen unity and cooperation with China, so as to better meet challenges together, and push for a more equal, just and rational international order.
In South Africa, Xi will also attend the BRICS summit scheduled from Tuesday to Thursday, and co-chair with Ramaphosa the China-Africa Leaders' Dialogue on the sidelines of the summit.
can’t wait to hear more abt the BRICS summit! im sure it will bring many exciting developments of global importance!
i call it “the tendency for the rate of tits to rise”