Yeah, they pretty much are constantly disrupting gatherings at Al Aqsa. Wasn’t that long ago they went in with flashbangs and were beating old men and women with batons to drive them out.
All because some kids in the area threw rocks at the IDF.
Yeah, they pretty much are constantly disrupting gatherings at Al Aqsa. Wasn’t that long ago they went in with flashbangs and were beating old men and women with batons to drive them out.
All because some kids in the area threw rocks at the IDF.
Good I guess. TikTok is CCP malware for all I’m concerned.
Debt colonialism doesn’t equate to the kind of cross bonding and trust that leads to actual solid alliances.
China’s naked imperial ambition gets in the way of it ever actually establishing meaningful, trust-based ties with other nations.
These countries take advantage of infrastructure loans, but the reality of what China is actually doing (screwing these countries with debt they can’t pay then taking back the infrastructure in order to establish a foothold globally) is sinking in with these countries.
Belt and Road is simply a way of using debt to sieze land that China can’t take through brute force. Has absolutely nothing to do with “western chauvinism”, the CCP is toxic to geopolitical progress, especially if you are actually concerned with helping developing countries grow into independent, stable and self-sufficiency.
It’s nice to see at least a few engineers have a moral compass and a spine. There seems to be a culture among engineers that you only build, not ask yourself questions about the morality and ethics of what you’re building.
Being one step removed from the consequences doesn’t absolve a person of their culpability, especially when they are the ones who are necessary to actually make that project into a reality. No one has the power they have regarding tech.
Belt and Road is just debt colonialism. They’re screwing the countries that they push their debt into. No, the CCP is bad for the world and for China and are the reason they are isolated geopolitically.
China isn’t the world though. The CCP has isolated China more than they’ve done anything else. No real allies, no geopolitical trust etc.
The living memory of the war is close to gone at this point, it’s only something most of us understand through reading and media.
It’s kind of a sad reality that some people can only understand a thing after they experienced it. Fascism is one of those things that cycles up again and again and needs to be defeated and restrained in perpetuity.
I was in a similar position to you in my twenties, I spent a lot of that time working in bars and restaurants simply because it was what I knew and because I was totally uncertain about the future and felt adrift.
By my mid twenties I was just really tired and soul sick, so I saved up a bit of cash and then hitch-hiked around the US for two years, living out of a pack, mostly outside. It’s an extreme course that I don’t necessarily recommend for everyone, but I think I needed to get outside it all so I could really assess what was important, what I was willing or not willing to deal with etc.
When I finally came back, I went back to restaurants, but with a new sense of scale and possibility about life. A friend I worked with moved to an IT job, and suggested I should apply. Before my period of wandering, I would’ve probably passed the opportunity up feeling like it was too unfamiliar, but my mindset about risk had changed completely by that point and taking the job was a no brainer.
That job led to a different career trajectory, it’s not my dream career but it made it possible to afford a modest home with my sister and to create a lot of security. Goals that seemed out of reach became more realistic, and as I seize on those goals the opportunities tend to compound and it gets easier to plan the future.
The thing to understand about your twenties is you’re afforded the ability to make mistakes and experiment, to take risks. Some people know what they want right out of high school (or it’s decided for them) and sometimes those people do have a very clear course laid out and the means to achieve it. That’s not the case for everyone, and it’s ok to tackle life at a pace that makes sense to you in your context.
The only suggestions I would give is to use your twenties to just take sensible risks and do stuff, even if something seems too big to tackle take a run at it anyway. Pursue opportunities actively and eventually one will stick. You’ll meet a lot of failure or dead ends but that’s perfectly ok and normal because you’ll be learning something each time and honing your life saaviness. Failure can be painful, but it’s good, particularly in your twenties when you’ve got so much time ahead of you. Just be careful of accruing debt, that’s sort of the main thing that can screw you a bit.
You need to learn to take responsibility for the things you say.
Nothing made up, you joined into a conversation that starts with someone claiming the Taliban is “stabilizing” for Afghanistan. Someone listed many egregious atrocities committed by the Taliban that highlight how absurd that claim is. Your response then implied the Taliban was the same as the US and pretended you couldn’t tell the difference.
So you’re either claiming the US was the same as the Taliban, thus also a “stabalizing force”. Or you’re claiming the US committed mass rapes and executions.
Or, you know, the third option of you don’t actually give a shit about Afghanistan and just saw an opportunity to try and vaguely disparage the US.
But let me guess “nO.”
Ok, so just “US bad”, got it.
So is your argument here then that the US was a stabilizing force? Or that the US military was undertaking mass rape campaigns?
So does that make TikTok a power grab then?
Why should anyone want the CCP, with their concentration camps, next level surveillance state, and long history of violent crackdowns on political dissent, to have more power and influence?