Kieselguhr [none/use name]

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Cake day: September 14th, 2021

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  • On a tour in late September sponsored by Beijing, the 22 journalists from 17 countries visited bazaars [in Xinjiang] and chatted with residents over dates and watermelon slices. They later told state media they were impressed with the bustling economy, described the region as “full of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity,” and denounced what they said were lies by Western media.

    The trip is an example of what Washington sees as Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China. It’s spending billions of dollars annually to do so.

    In a first-of-its-kind report, the State Department last week laid out Beijing’s tactics and techniques for molding public opinion, such as buying content, creating fake personas to spread its message and using repression to quash unfavorable accounts.

    You are deeply unserious. Even the lack of evidence is clandestine by your thinking.






  • Let’s bracket the “was the USSR in the right?” question, and let’s ask the “how brutal was the Soviet clampdown on these two uprisings?”

    • 1956 Hungary: 2000-3000 killed by the USSR
    • 1968 Prague: 137 killed by the USSR

    How does this compare to clampdowns by NATO countries (excluding the US)?

    • Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch: 100 000 Indonesians killed by the Dutch

    • Algerian War of Independence: 250 000 killed by the French (French estimate) - 1.5 Million (Algerian estimate)

    • French War against Vietnamese Independence: 200 000 dead

    • Portuguese Colonial Wars: 70,000–110,000 civilians killed by Portugal

    • Mau Mau Uprising against the UK: "Officially the number of Mau Mau and other rebels killed was 11,000, including 1,090 convicts hanged by the British administration. The Kenya Human Rights Commission has said 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed during the crackdown, and 160,000 were detained in appalling conditions. "

    This is a non-exhaustive list with estimates. The actual brutality is not conveyed. The war crimes are often comparable to the Waffen SS.
    You get the idea: the colonial powers were incomparably worse. us-foreign-policy