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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I shouldn't have to arm myself with a deadly weapon to avoid being raped, and doing so significantly increases my chances of being killed.

Why don't you go advise men not to rape instead of telling women how not to get raped? Statistically, some of your male friends and family are rapists or will be.

Also killing people -especially up close like that- is really traumatic no matter how much of a tough guy persona you put on. As someone who has PTSD from sexual violence, I would not press a button that would go back in time and let me shoot my attacker while he was on top of me as he started to escalate, entirely removed from the inherent value of human life argument.

I cannot stress enough how incredibly performatively callous and how out of touch with the experiences of women and the reality of killing this meme is. Get a fucking grip.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Cowbee already answered your question but I'd like to point out that as a German you really need to be careful about what propaganda you believe about the Soviet Union and Stalin. Keep in mind that Germans killed 26 million soviet citizens less than a hundred years ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (33 children)

Oh look holocaust trivialization

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No country is an angel though, at the same time Britain was intentionally starving Indians and the US had Japanese American citizens (including children) in concentration camps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I dont know when but within the context of conversations it was before they left China

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've talked to Chinese foreign exchange students who learned about it in school

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

How has China been picking up the slack? Who have they couped or invaded? Who have they sanctioned?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Hey, just so you know for when you make decisions in the future, calling socialist states fascists is rooted in double genocide theory.

This Wikipedia article has a good list of sources about double genocide theory and how it serves to trivialize and obscure the holocaust: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love it when people call a transitional economy state capitalist because it betrays a lack of understanding of actually existing capitalism and the role the state plays in it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I am however saying that regardless of the facts

That's nice, have a good day!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Huh, TIL. The main point still stands that the soviet union actually made a lot of progress on human rights, even compared to imperialist countries with more accumulated capital.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Because immigrants are already biased due to having to leave, and they're still generally normal about China.

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