You used the Taliban’s miserable treatment of women to justify a 23 year holocaust in Afghanistan.

It’s cringe that you have to lie to make your point.

Now you’re calling a Chinese campaign to educate and elevate women living right next door to Afghanistan a genocide.

What an absolutely horrific and disgusting thing to say about what’s happening to the Uyghurs. Your support for Muslims is purely performative if that’s truly your opinion. You only care for them when it suits your anti-western agenda and not because it’s the right thing to care for.

This makes you no better than the Magtards in support of the Iran war, no better than the Israeli Nazis supporting the Gaza genocide, no better than the Russian fascists in support of their war.

Oh well another one for the tankie block list.

If a person denies what’s happening to the Uyghurs, they’re no better than the People denying the genocide in Gaza and shilling for Israel. But I’m sure that’s not you, right?

The magic rock apparently also makes people blind and naive towards chinese repression, what a world!

I’m not sure what else they’d need to do to qualify, shy of actually building out a global network of military bases. In that case, sure. If they start acting like the US, then they’re no better than the US.

Yes, and what I’m saying is that the only reason they haven’t done that yet is because the US hasn’t let them. But I suppose that is something we can only speculate about until the time comes. And again, I think we only need to look at how they are treating Uyghurs and their aggressive/imperialistic local geopolitics to be able to guess how they would act if they were in the position the US is/was. And that’s not touching on their surveillance state which is unrivalled in the world.

To date, I’ve seen a lot of Chinese Hospitals (and factories and ports and colleges) opening up across the world. Meanwhile, the only thing guys like Trump and Starmer seem to want to contribute are frowns, finger wags, and 500 lb bunker busters onto wedding parties.

That’s the same type of Neo-colonialism the French have been up to for the last 100 years. Definitely not something positive for these African countries. There’s a reason it’s called debt trap diplomacy.

I just don’t see why we should hope for the benevolence of the upcoming authoritarian super-power when there’s ample evidence they are no better and just haven’t had the freedom to be as bad scope-wise as the current super-power.

I mean sure, but I don’t see China behaving much better if they ever become a super-power the way the US was for the last hundred years. Especially considering their treatment of Uyghurs.

I would argue a large part of China not trying to militarily expand their Power was US dominance and their global policing.

You are saying that like the US and Russia weren’t in way better positions before their respective wars.

What the commenter you’re replying to is saying, is that we can’t trust dumbfuck dictators to not make the stupid decision of invading someone else, no matter how idiotic it might be.

Why would they screw that up just to take a tiny island that is no more than a symbol.

Dictators have startet wars for way less.

Not at all.

In europe it’s the opposite. We use the comma for this. So $100.000,45 is one hundred grand and 45 cents.

Those $25 are only worth $12,50 in goods or services.

You’d think that installing a niche distro like that is more difficult than one of the big ‘plug and play’ ones. Meaning they actively put more work into it, how strange.

Is there an easy way of doing that? As in is there an archive specifically for reddit or do you mean on one of the internet archive websites?

You’re forgetting Putin and Xi Jinping, but I agree

You said they think they’re clever. I’m assuming you’re maybe not a native english speaker but saying it that way means you think they’re not clever. Just so you know

But that’s not what you said? You didn’t disagree with them you called them not clever/stupid. You’re the one that seems offended by people using a quote for some reason.

What are you guys even arguing about?

They like using a specific quote, so what? Why do you care?

Talking Shit, as I suspected.

1. Name one doctors society that does. Because I seriously doubt most, if any doctors say that.

2. Please show me the evidence for that

I will ignore the rest of the rubbish you wrote

Which doctors are trying to get rid of the “concept” of addiction? What Illness is addiction a “symptom” of? What billion Dollar Industry are you talking about exaclty? If Addiction is a symptom and not an illness why did you spend this whole thread arguing about its criteria? Symptoms aren’t diagnosed.

The only one being fuzzy and vague is you

Because you seem to lack the understanding that no one criteria is enough to diagnose addiction. And yes the preoccupation and duration of use are listed as criteria in both ICD-11 and the DSM-5. Just because there is no set number doesn’t mean they do not factor in to diagnosis. And again how it affects your health and life in generell are obviously also criteria by which addiction gets diagnosed. But saying duration and amount of use are not factors is not true.