Ok, but which ones.

(Go ahead, comb your sources to find the ones that are 1. In a position to actually know what they’re talking about with authority, like the IAGS, and 2. Not also calling out China for its policies in Xinjiang.)

You’re throwing around the word genocide like it’s candy to the point where you’re conflating genocide with imperialism and terrorism. Sit down.

Is there a genocide happening in Gaza? And if your answer is yes, on what basis are you saying that?

Wasn’t there a way to effectively impose term limits by placing judges on a backup list where they stay for life after they have done a fixed number of years?

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has condemned the Chinese policies in Xinjiang as genocide.

One can’t in good conscience cite the IAGS as an authority when they condemn the genocide in Gaza and then ignore them when they condemn the genocide in Xinjiang.

Omg some of the responses here are so disregulated. Guys, it’s not that difficult, two things are true at once:

1. The Iranian regime is horrible, it violates human rights, it stifles the legitimate aspirations for freedom and democracy of progressive Iranian people using brutal methods. The people at the business end of Iranian state violence deserve our sympathy and solidarity.

2. The US and Israel should be defeated out of their illegal murderous war against Iran, and should be made to pay reparations for the horrible crimes they inflicted on the country.

In fact, motherfucker, the US and Israel are strengthening the Iranian regime’s political position. They are literally making it impossible for Iranian patriotic progressives to fight for a better Iran.

So yea, if we’re talking about the Iranian army kicking American and Israeli asses? Good on them. If we’re talking about the Iranian police and guard busting Iranian skulls? Fuck them to hell.

Don’t be campists kids, just don’t.

Tiocfaidh ár lá motherfuckers.

👐the best state👐

How about instead of Cuba you invade Israel Mr President? Now that would be something no president world ever have done. You would surely go down in history! I’m sure we can also come up with some kind of biggest penis peace prize for you.

Orphan crushing machine vibes.

OK, look buddy, I’m really not a fan of genocidal anti-democratic autocracies, but with your silly arguments you’re making me argue for them. Yes, it’s good for the average Chinese person. The average Chinese person gets a fucking national heavy industry, with millions of jobs in manufacturing, R&D, services etc. Are we really going to pretend here that does not benefit Chinese workers?

And are we really going to be shedding crocodile tears that it’s somehow unfair to us in the West when we have been glazing billionnaire’s dicks for the last 40 years of the neoliberal era? We have built an economy on neoliberal fantasies of trickle down economics, we empowered money hoarders to do financial speculation and all it got us is the 2008 meltdown when even fucking Ayn-Rand-fuckboy Alan Greenspan admitted he had the model wrong.

And since 2008, we have concentrated insane wealth in fucking insane billionnaire hoards while our societies suffer under austerity, with no investments in actually meaningful education, in industry, in research beyond bullshit bubble schemes like AI. And now we cry for “colonialism”? Give me a break. Give me a fucking break. We cut our own dicks with fifteen years of austerity and under-investment. And now that the Chinese learned our game and are beating us in our own fucking game, we cry “colonialism”? Colonialism doesn’t get anywhere near to what they’re doing. Colonialism is what we’ve been fucking doing for 200 years to the entire Western Hemisphere and Africa. Now we cry “colonialism” when we don’t have the fucking balls to build an economy that’s not predicated on sucking capitalist dick? Give me a break.

Yes absolutely.

It is however not always clear-cut that “A is B” maps to A–>B as opposed to A<–>B. We do say “the square root of nine is three”, “a widow is a woman whose husband died” and “the current prime minister of Canada is Mark Carney”.

Good point. Let’s go again. If money is speech, then why isn’t the US Federal Reserve considered to be the most prolific writer/speaker of all time? And if money is legal tender, does that mean that some kinds of speech have within them the obligation of others to listen?

If money is speech why can’t you pay rent with poem?

So you’re saying that neoliberal “free market” economics doesn’t work and that state intervention in the economy is actually superior. Maybe we should try that whole “socialism” thing in the West too. Let’s even call it “socialism with Western characteristics”.

Well maybe neoliberalism was a bullshit economic theory all along and state intervention is actually superior.

You mean China has a comparative advantage? Maybe the West should make more port instead.

What a profoundly American way of seeing things.

The American far right making sure America’s little settler outpost in the middle east can continue to do genocide unimpeded by domestic opposition.

There is only one guarantee for Israeli security and that’s peace, deradicalization/dezionization (in the Matzpen sense, not in the ridiculous Yemelyanov sense), reparations, truth and reconciliation.