Hm, putting people in camps isn’t in the list of things you said. You’re saying they didn’t put people in camps?

Well I believe in the Marxian idea that economic situation causes political action, so I think people turn to radical Islam when their lives aren’t going well financially and they’re frustrated about that. So if I were a member of some theoretical communist organisation controlling China’s government, I’d apply a Marxian material analysis and find the economic drivers of radicalisation, and then institute public works projects to address them. Raise minimum wage, improve public transit, universal basic income, build affordable housing, that sort of thing. I wouldn’t lock them up and make them do labour, that’s America’s thing. Modern day China is turning into America 2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Beginning in 2017, under Xinjiang CCP Secretary Chen Quanguo,[3] the government incarcerated over an estimated one million Uyghurs without legal process in internment camps officially described as “vocational education and training centers”, in the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority group since World War II.

I admit, this article does have some inaccuracies. For example, it calls the imprisonment of Uyghurs the biggest mass internment since WW2, when it’s actually the second biggest. Gaza is bigger. But broad strokes, China has been locking people up based on ethnicity, and their birth rates have dropped 20% more than the rest of the country, so they’re contributing to the destruction of a people. If this weren’t something they were responsible for, I’d say it’d be their ethical duty to distribute aid to assist in the preservation of the Uyghur people. You know, pay for free daycare so young couples can feel safer starting a family. But that sort of thing isn’t really a priority in this case, because all the government needs to do in order to not destroy a people is stop persecuting them.

China initially denied the existence of the Xinjiang internment camps and attempted to cover up their existence.[90] In 2018, after widespread reporting forced it to admit that the Xinjiang internment camps exist, the Chinese government initiated a campaign to portray the camps as humane and to deny that human rights abuses occurred in Xinjiang.

Oh wow I guess the secret camps full of racial minorities that the government tried to cover up must be nice places to live, because the same government says they are, and the government would never lie to people. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, the genocide doesn’t exist I guess.

I dunno, go argue with someone who believes the ideas you’re attributing to me. I’ve got no dog in the fight you’re having with an imaginary version of me

There are no messages in my inbox, coward. If you’re gonna harass me with feces, do it right!

Okay

I’m broke, therefore telling me to go to Xinjiang isn’t evidence. Like, okay, you’re an ml user, so you’re going to need an example. Let me make a similar argument.

Saturn has a breathable atmosphere! Take a rocket and see for yourself.

See how you don’t have a rocket, so you can’t go to Saturn, so my comment therefore doesn’t have any evidence in it? Now pretend Xinjiang is Saturn, and then you’ll understand my rebuttal.

Well can I have a few thousand dollars to fly to America and five hundred more to fly from LAX to Xinjiang?

Well anyway can I please have a few thousand dollars to take a holiday in Xinjiang? You said I can go see Uyghurs not being victims of genocide myself, but that’s not true, because I’m broke. So are you gonna put your money where your mouth is?

Yeah, see, the way you’re talking right now looks exactly the same to me as the “no politik” comment

I really want to make a joke about you not knowing about the Uyghur genocide because of the Great Firewall, but unfortunately for comedy, I know 90% of Hexbear users are Americans who’ve never been to China

Oh okay I can’t tell when Hexbear users are being stupid on purpose and when it’s by accident. It all looks equally asinine to me. Is it also a bit when you say the Uyghur genocide doesn’t exist?

Third place

Everything is political and saying “no politics” just reinforces the status quo. Not that I’d expect a Hexbear user to understand that.

You have to kill the cop in your head before you can fix the rest of the world. You can’t go march in the streets while you’re paralyzed by self-hatred for being gay. Therapy helps you kill the cop in your head so you can stop hating yourself and start marching for your rights.

If you want to complain about irrelevance I’m fine with that. I was only arguing with you because you complained about politics. If that’s not your complaint anymore then I have no beef with you and wish you a pleasant week

You can use Lutris to play pirated games on Linux

Sometimes I want to explain myself because the person I’m rejecting is my friend and I want them to have a sense of closure because I like them

Everything is political but you’ve been brainwashed into thinking only national government is political.

The Lemmy devs aren’t leftists. I wish they were