I don’t know how to tell you this so I’ll just rip the bandaid off: the same amendment that outlawed slavery in the US opened up a pathway for legal slavery if the enslaved person was convicted of a crime. This led to uneven enforcement of the laws targeting black people to fill the prisons with cheap labor. Additional laws were passed denying those convicted of felonies that right to vote which helped keep black people from alleviating their bondage at the ballot box. And that’s all setting aside that most newly freed people spent generations living in absolute poverty as sharecroppers and any black communities that actually managed to do well for themselves were targeted by whites like in the Tulsa race massacre or simply had their communities bulldozed during the construction of the interstates in the 50s and 60s. Did black people trade one master for another? The Black Panthers might agree.

Back to the analogy, both former slaves and former slave owners from Tibet cry about their plight but the plight former slaves cry about is the conquest and domination of their country by China and the use of the education system and large scale settlement of Han Chinese to destroy Tibetan language and culture while making them second class citizens in the land of their ancestors. I’ll oppose that like I oppose all Imperialism.

Came to the comments expecting Imperialists simping for China with whatever straws they could grasp at and it was exactly that. Yall bootlickers piss off.

Why all the smoke for China when it’s obvious the US is much more so?

Some of us have heaps of criticism for both

The confederacy has essentially seized power in the US.

We’re suggesting they traded one master for another.

Tibet wasn’t a region of China and even if it was, overthrowing the existing oppressors to take their place as Tibets new oppressors isn’t really an improvement.

Enforcing a hierarchy on the instance kinda goes against the idea of opposing hierarchy

“The Second World was one of the “Three Worlds” formed by the global political landscape of the Cold War, as it grouped together those countries that were aligned with the Eastern Bloc of the Soviet Union and allies in Warsaw Pact.” I’d say No.

lemmy.ml in a nutshell

Defense dollars stretch farther in Russia and way farther in China than in the US or Europe. By purchasing power China is at least on Par with the US.

Hiring across the Venezuelan government and nationalized industries became based on Loyalty to Chavez rather than competence which fucked them over big time. Watching Trump do the same to the US has been difficult.

Simple and to the point is not Lazy. No need to use paragraphs when 8 words will suffice.

A big part of them Probelm

I mean he IS stupid but he’s also corrupt and that’s what is going on here. He pay a bribe, either in cash or in stroking his Ego and then he does something unethical, immoral, and/or illegal in exchange.

“Exactly” says a Russia leader who has zero interest in representing his country’s people

This is the first I’ve heard of this which tells me they REALLY wanna keep working class discontent out of the news

I mean, people aren’t really thrilled about Microsoft’s non-AI products either. They spend money to churn out new versions of programs that are worse than the old ones. It’s baffling to me. Just don’t spend the money and don’t make you’re existing products worse.

One of the reasons they have so much money is the financial trickery that private equity employs