The US government banning anything based on suspected use of forced labor is laughable. Pretty blatantly anti-China, and very hypocritical when a lot of US states use glorified slave labor. It is quicker to name the large US companies that don’t use prison labor than the ones that do.

That is a horrific endorsement and Dick Cheney is a monster.

I don’t think Israel’s government cares.

Classic playbook for him and his successive governments: constantly trading human lives for political power and votes.

“TikTok does what every social media company does but this time it’s Chinese so it’s bad” is what this headline should really say.

The US Army says tampons are fine for patching bullet wounds in an emergency.

This is exactly what I was thinking of. American liberals are almost entirely ignorant of how much violence their government exports – and especially how much of it is targeted specifically at leftists. Marxists haven’t gained power in the US because any time they started to build working-class support they got murdered.

Not really a surprise; the political establishment of even the Republican party got really sick of Trump during his time in office because of the chaos. He didn’t behave like the typical useful idiot President and torpedoed a couple of easy legislative victories by tweeting in rage when they were almost through Congress.

“Marxists have failed to gain power because they think too much” is one hell of a liberal elitist take from the author of this article.

When “we have a right to defend ourselves” is the excuse given for genocide it’s completely unreasonable

Isn’t this literally two days after she parroted the Zionist mantra “israel has a right to defend itself”?

I’m a Trump hater but this sounds like serious exaggeration

Every foreign government at this point knows Trump is really easy to bribe and influence, so they want him back in charge. Certainly not unique to China.

This is never a popular thing in any country when it’s attempted.

Why did the RNC invite a union president to speak in the first place? Seems very out-of-character especially considering what he said on stage

Looks like even Chinese citizens aren’t immune to “Murica best freedom” propaganda.

The Supreme Court idea of judicial review was, essentially, created by an early Chief Justice using the classic children’s excuse “the rules don’t say I can’t do this so therefore I’m doing it and you can’t stop me”

Edit: I had this somewhat wrong. After reading, it seems a lot of the people who wrote and debated on the Constitution wrote strongly in support of judicial review, and it was in fact voted on and approved by multiple state legislatures after the Constitution was adopted. It simply wasn’t worded explicitly into the Constitution. Chief Justice John Marshall did issue an official ruling that made it a standard practice but it was not a new concept.

I’m referring to this, in the article.

The conservative justices appointed by his rival, former President Donald Trump, are “already gutting voting rights, overturning Roe, decimating affirmative action, and so much more,” Biden said. “Are we going to let that happen? We can’t.”

The Democrats are, in fact, letting it happen.

Yet another blatant, pandering lie.

Remember: when China does it, it’s bad and evil. When the USA does it, it’s patriotic and courageous and fighting for world freedom.

Not once in that report did the UN refer to it as a genocide, as I stated

When it comes to Xinjiang, I trust the UN’s own report that there isn’t a genocide happening

The sourcing is nebulous by their own admission and the phrasing of the entire article is overtly negative and inflammatory. It could be entirely made up and we have no way to prove it true or false.

I don’t believe a single word the CIA says about China and neither should anyone who is interested in the truth.

Their sourcing is, by the article’s own admission, nebulous. Don’t trust a single word the CIA says about anything related to China.

Source: Radio Free Asia, aka the CIA, who have obvious material interest in smearing China as much as possible. China may have problems but the bias here is pretty overt.

“US government official agrees with position of US State Department propaganda, more news at 11”

Portable gaming died because of smartphone gaming, unfortunately

You have guessed right. The US government had a massive hand in the creation of modern social media, such as a significant amount of funding for Facebook during its startup phase. The intelligence agencies are mad that they can’t pull data from TikTok or influence its algorithms, on top of the American social media companies wanting to kill off their foreign competition as much as possible.

This bill has nothing to do with data privacy because if Congress cared about that they would’ve banned other platforms too. It’s about control and unfair competition.

The “data privacy” argument is bullshit and the people pushing for this law know it. That’s what is being sold to people but it is not why this TikTok ban got passed. It got passed because American social media companies are pissed that TikTok is outcompeting them for the attention of young people, and because the US government has a heavy hand in what algorithms are allowed to push on Facebook and Google and others. A good portion of Facebook’s initial funding came from government sources.

“Data privacy” is just an excuse. Lobbying from the intelligence agencies and social media companies is why it’s really being enacted.

The history speaks for itself. China is less of a threat to other countries in the world than the USA is. Your idea that they’re some international boogeyman that’s going to take over the entire world and doom humanity is just you repeating “China bad and scary” State Department propaganda.

Even with China’s human rights record being what it is, they don’t export war across the entire world.

This comment was brought to you by the US State Department.

Tell me, how many countries’ governments has China knocked over in the last century as compared to the US CIA?

How many countries did the US drop bombs on in the last decade, and how many did China?

It’s not even close. In terms of physical violence the US is the world’s #1 exporter.

Yep. The PS4 and Xbone are both very close to off-the-shelf AMD APU’s as far as I remember; you could buy very similar processors for desktop use. Emulation would require a ton more power than the original chips, and the original chips are so close to desktop processors that it’s more efficient and feasible to reverse-engineer the proprietary API’s those console chips use.

Agree, and its very start was as a government-sponsored hit squad extrajudicially murdering bank robbers under the direction of an extremely troubled man. It’s never strayed far from its roots.

There’s never been a day where I regretted deleting my Reddit account and removing that site from my life. It’s only gotten worse since I left.

Solidarity with workers everywhere. You love to see it.

Snap has always bothered me and this is another great reason why.

We absolutely can, but “organizing” doesn’t mean the same thing to a Democrat as it does to me.

The largest suggestion in this article is: “call out the people who suppress voting and call them vote suppressors”. Words have near-zero impact on the people passing these laws.

Peaceful methods simply will not work anymore. They’ve been tried for decades and the Republicans do not care. Their only goal is winning and in many states they have won in a semi-permanent way by redrawing districts and suppressing nonwhite votes.

Oh I see what you meant than. Older and cheaper would definitely fit your application better and all of Framework’s stuff is expensive. Repairable and upgradeable comes at a cost!

Depends. In some states it doesn’t matter at all.

The most important thing to know is our voting system is broken far beyond its original design and won’t get fixed any time soon.

As long as people keep getting paid to make predictions, they will keep making paid predictions