They should do a follow-up "analysis" where

(1) Capitalism is more advanced in isn'trael compared to West Bank or Gaza

(2) The isntreal working class is therefore more advanced than the Palestinian masses

(3) The hope therefore rests in the mass proletarian uprising of the isntreal working class, which we are sure is happening any day now.

(4) Hamas attack hinders isntreal working class from achieving this consciousness.

(5) Hamas bad. We condemn Hamas. Q.E.D.

now whenever I see footages like this I CANNOT HELP BUT ASK: what's gonna happen to their sperm?!

Dealing with Newsom probably does not involve having to witness elderly abuse …

The collapse of the Qing Empire - it is because of the gold mines of San Francisco that in Chinese it is called Jiu Jinshan 旧金山 - Old Gold Mountains.

Where is the supposed hint? This lump of words is not even a full sentence lmao … Is the idea that the old gold mountains caused the Qing’s collapse?

Bernie: CIVILITY!! NORM!!

When will anglophone news sources learn not to refer to Chinese persons by their given names lmao. It’s so flirtatiously endearing to refer to Wang Yi as Yi — or to Xi as Jinping ~~~~~

Wait so … this is literally G7 minus Japan, who apparently can’t be included in the Zionism support fest?

What kind of white power meeting is this lmao.

And sucdems say I’m too cynical in thinking that most first world “progressives” just want more shares of the imperial spoil.

OMG FINALLY. Have been meaning to offload this re AC Odyssey. Less problematic than the awful treatment of slavery, but equally to-your-face-annoying, the whole main story — to the extent there is one — is basically ORANGE MAN BAD (Kleon was literally orange haired lmao) POPULISM BAD (I’d be mad if war and hunger going on but Perikles keep jerking off to his temples) BUT WE MUST DEFEND DEMOCRACY TOGETHER WITH, hold on … SOCRATES?! Like it’s so nauseatingly CIVILITY liberalism it made me stop half way in my ng+ play through after I so painfully fine tuned all my gears and engravings /rant

my conspiracy brain tells me it's not actually aimed at average western readers. During this round of real estate downturn (which started in 2020) there's been some concerted effort both inside and outside china in the business/finance journalism to force the gov to pump out massive amounts of cash and bail out those loser-financiers (perhaps à la USA in oct 2008?). Instead, not only is the gov reluctant to do so, but they've also done the appallingly unthinkable of jailing many CEOs and board members (the gov has also, to my limited understanding of macroeconomics, refused to let those real estate firms declare bankruptcy before they actually finish those construction projects for which people have already paid the deposits and taken on loans). Anyway, there's probably a rather materially cynical reason for all this clamor of "Xi's intentionally letting the economy go bust"

Grew up in China and did college in US. First time I read about “mandate of Heaven” in English-language histories of China I had to look it up cuz I had no idea what they were talking about, even with guess work