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Trudge [Comrade]

@ Trudge @lemmygrad.ml

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  • By abandoning neutrality, Ukraine essentially violated the basis for its independence.

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  • If you think I’m being dramatic, maybe open your eyes to how your own communities operate.

    Through an iron fist that doesn't tolerate liberalism? Yes, it's not a secret that the mods censor western apologia and Z posting. We're aware of how this community operates and that's why like this place.

  • Priorities

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  • To be fair, books are rather ineffective at killing Palestinian children. We gave many chances to the New York Public Library, but they have failed to rectify this issue. Market efficiency says that Israel should receive those funds instead.

  • What's the current state of LGBT rights in China?

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  • Yes, the family involved in the situation is terrible and abusive

    Did you choose to just ignore this statement and others I wrote to make my position clear? I understand why you're angry, but you are completely misreading what I am saying to an absurd degree.

    I am clearly making an argument that Mei being questioned by the police for kidnapping is not indicative of systematic discrimination.

    You can choose to disagree with that statement, vehemently if you prefer. But you're arguing against a construct where I said that transphobia is a-okay and that Ying's treatment is acceptable. I didn't say that so there's not much for me to object.

    As you know, Lemmygrad is an instance where we see LGBT liberation as a core tenet, so I think you're misreading the room here. We are objecting to Western slander of gay and trans genocide in China. That's very different from thinking that the state of affairs in China's acceptable.

  • Just sayin

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  • No more landlords? That sounds like communism.

  • Korea unveils plan to build $471 billion mega chip cluster

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  • "We will make efforts to see outbound shipments of semiconductors, the country's No. 1 export, reach $120 billion this year," Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Ahn Duk-geun said. "The new mega cluster's success will further spread to other parts of the nation and become the world's leading chip hub."

    To whom can they sell? China was their biggest customer but now the USA is not letting South Korea sell to them. It's not like demand for raw chips magically spring up just because you make more of them.

  • Russian air passengers face peril as planes show strain of sanctions

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  • No need to panic - it's a Boeing. They're supposed to do that.

  • The Day Before still has one player logging in, a week before shutdown

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  • A contrarian or a true believer?

  • What's the current state of LGBT rights in China?

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  • Ying’s family – who are not supportive of her trans identity – had been keeping Ying, an adult over 18, under house arrest and cut off from the outside world. In August, they finally allowed her to leave to pursue her studies. She was now at school, but wanted to run away to be with her girlfriend in another city.

    Together, they hatched a plan. Mei would take Ying’s phone to prevent her family from tracking her location and try to persuade them not to call the police. But after a month of failed mediation, the family notified the authorities, who traced the phone to Mei’s apartment. The police came and arrested her for kidnapping.

    “It was my first time being arrested. They took me to the station and questioned me for 10 hours. They tried to make me confess, but I refused to say anything,” Mei tells the Guardian over an encrypted app. “Eventually, they let me go because there was no evidence.”

    In the end, the police found Ying and took her back to her family. The failed rescue attempt is one of more than 10 similar cases Mei knows of where advocates have been arrested and questioned by police since she joined an informal network providing support to the LGBTQ+ community some years ago.

    So this is the main anecdote in the article. The police and the family are rather understandable. The police has to respond to potential kidnappings, and the family couldn't contact their daughter for a month. The only objectionable thing I find is that the daughter was returned to the family without her consent, but the idea of child becoming an absolute adult at the age of 18 is an American idea so it's also understandable in cultural context to return a 19 year old.

    Yes, the family involved in the situation is terrible and abusive. Is it state repression by the Chinese government? No. Are the LGBT+ folks having difficulty surviving as the title says? Also no.

    Yes, China should improve on LGBT rights by legalizing gay marriage and allowing gay couples to adopt children. But it's kind of hard to claim that there is a crackdown on expressing queerness when there's gay weddings publicly happening across China right now.

  • Big protests break out in Yemen after U.S.-British attacks

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  • I thought that they were supposed to greet us as liberators.

  • Paying 3 figs for a zip tie

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  • SS zip tie

    I gotta be honest. Something about that name doesn't sit right with me.

  • Economist covers from 2013 and 2024, the common themes continue to be racism and xenophobia

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  • China can't win. Make crappy products and they laugh at you. Make middling products and they accuse you of copying. Make superior products and it's an onslaught.

  • Throughout history, Men were symbolized with Mars and Women were symbolized with Venus. What planet would symbolize Enbies, in that regard?

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  • Alpha Centauri maybe?

    Thought to be a single star by the Greeks, but are a collection of many different stars in reality.

  • Is the belief in a God and communist mutually exclusive?

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  • You can simply choose to be internally inconsistent like every other person in the world.

  • Why is every single game journalism article a FUCKING JOKE?

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  • There is no such thing as journalism in gaming unfortunately. There's only third-party marketing.But to further answer your question as to why the standards might have degraded even further, I blame the advent of internet. Whoever plays the least amount of time and writes fastest will have several hours of advantage in getting their article published. Back when gaming magazines were dominant, the dynamics were different because your article wasn't published faster because you wrote faster.Another part of the reason why internet degraded written articles is video reviews. Video reviews are a distinct format from written reviews, yet both tasks are given to the same writer in most publications. This will obviously result in decreased quality for both formats and pure writers who are not as good at editing/narrating videos might get pushed out.

  • Internet friends

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  • They're the same person

  • CD Projekt Red Not Interested in Being Acquired; Believes They'll Be Bigger and Stronger in a Few Years

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  • There are some exceptions like Naughty Dog (is there another one?) that kept their quality after getting acquired. But I agree in general with your thesis.

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    China deletes leaked stats showing plunging birth rate for 2023

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  • Chinese censors deleted an article on Wednesday that reportedly leaked full-year population figures for 2023, revealing a plummeting birth rate despite ongoing efforts by the ruling party to encourage people to have families.

    How would you have full population figures for 2023 before the end of the year? And if it's an estimate, why bother releasing it now instead of waiting a week for an accurate number?

    None of this makes sense. It's nonsense.

  • So sad 😭

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  • More funding please as always

  • Teen's death in Wisconsin sawmill highlights "21st century problem" across the U.S.

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  • In recent years, an influx of migrant children fleeing poverty and violence in Latin America has provided a pipeline of workers for employers willing to exploit them

    A white American child dies in a factory and it's still somehow those darn Mexicans.