Pre revolution, those countries were utter basket cases. Post revolution, they brought land reform (broke up massive land holdings and gave them to the landless), ended their high illiteracy, and brought in much better health care and human services. And they do it despite the West sanctioning, sabotaging, and trying to destroy them anyway possible.

Literally any anti communist story coming out of the West has HUGE provable lies and exaggerations, and it always has massive obvious fascists claiming it. Go ahead, name one “oh but the USSR did…” and I’ll show you a story of academic fraud and some guy that thought that Hitler wasn’t that bad.

I imagine that the holodeck episodes (“We’re stuck in 1990s LA”) is when they gave the costume crew the day off.

NGL, I play games off of Steam, which is easy mode. You can run the Windows game off of Proton, which is Valve’s program for Windows to Linux gaming. Did you try right clicking on the game in Library, going to Properties, then Compatibility tab, then choosing Proton. Almost always the newest version of Proton (8.0-3) will do the trick. Rarely the experimental version or an older version is better.

Adding “gamemoderun %command%” [without the speech marks] to the launch options usually improves performance.

There’s a bit of learning curve, but you can do it, comrade.

I’ve been using Mint OS for gaming and it’s been perfectly fine. I probably can’t play some burning edge, this year games, but everything else has been fine. And I’m free from Windows garbageware.

Also this is in the end of summer, when prices are going to be their lowest.

I’m also unironically a fan of randint so

Yes, in hindsight, calling that genocide with no real evidence of direct killing is a bit too much.

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But the report I linked to mentioned coercive birth control and internment or imprisonment for violations of the family planning policy (page 35).

Your interpretation is much stronger than the report: ‘but remained “seriously concerned about reported instances of the use of coercive measures, including forced abortion and forced sterilization, with a view to limiting births”’. I’m not even saying that it isn’t happening. But if it was a massive problem, you’d think there’d be more than reports. There are mobile phones and foreign tourists in Xinjiang, it’s not like the government would be able to forcibly abort 10% of babies there without someone taking a smartphone video of the abortion police coming to their home.

I’m reminded that forced sterilisation of minorities in the US is a known fact.

I choose lemm.ee specifically because of the conservative defed policy.

I’m legit sorry for all the drama and unpaid work the mods have to go through. Really.

I applaud OP for the the citations and research. I appreciate his linking to the UNHRC report, but nowhere in that report does it mention “genocide”. I’d honestly like people to compare it to multiple UNHRC reports on US treatment of its black population.

I’m no expert, maybe China is taking an overly heavy hand in Xinjiang. But to call it a genocide when no evidence exists for mass killing, and when the US war on terror lead to 5 million actual deaths, is absurd projection and and diminishes the value of the word “genocide”.

As someone who never used outside apps (maybe I should have), the mobile app was OK a year ago but it’s barely usable now. I’m unsure if their code base is falling apart or they’re not paying their server cost. But feck it’s bad.

I know multiple Ukrainian men who are trying to leave or have already left. No sane person wants to stay in that shell of a country, and lose a leg to a Russian mine.

Western liberals, please ship yourself over there and die already. We don’t need your Nazi apologies.

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I sent him a few 3 message to see how he was doing. NGL we weren’t super tight before COVID, we never hung out outside of work, and people not masking around me really drove a wedge between us. I’m trying hard not to justify what happened, but who knows maybe I am a little bit.

Weird way to avoid the Epstein island, charter school proponent, weird bullshit in Africa guy, literally at war with open source guy discussion.

Hey I’m sorry that I made an abbreviation for a naughty word.

In communist North Korea, over a million died from COVID, 45,000 die a year from lack of health insurance, and 200,000 die annually from poverty.

I had a workmate develop a chronic illness after an infection of COVID, and he had to leave under hardship. People that hung out with him as best mates for years stopped talking to him in a matter of days.

Capitalism seems to be going great in 2023, I don’t know where you’re getting this from.

Honestly it’s cool. Personally I try to be very objective, scientific, and factual about stuff, but I’ve 100% been wrong about things in the past. I think the measure of a person is their ability to admit a mistake in the face of irrefutable evidence against their POV.

Also non scientific bodies have been chiming in to promote the theory. With the whole anti-China thing going on, it’s gotten a lot more traction that it should have. If the superstructure wants this idea to become mainstream, it can and did.

WHY IS THERE NO HENRY KISSINGER EMOJIS?!?!?!?!?!