This is the most deranged thread I’ve ever chosen to scroll through on here.

You can be against two genocides. Being against one genocide doesn’t make you for another. This is not a challenging moral conundrum. Anyone trying to paint this as “you either want to kill all Israeli’s, or you want to kill all of Palestine” needs some kind of social-emotional-moral help and development, at the least.

In other communities, I’d agree. In a community dedicated to exposing their lies? I think I see it as a “give them enough rope to hang themselves” situation.

Though I absolutely take your point.

Canada’s food safety regulations spits all over the American ones. When putting myself through university via the food service industry, I was shocked to learn how many hoops American companies have to jump through to meet our food safety standards.

Honestly, they get downvoted and mocked into oblivion, while simultaneously demonstrating the purpose of this community. Why ban them?

I’ve seen some incredibly stupid Tankie takes around here, but this might be the most completely dissassociated, idiotic trash I have ever seen come out of any of their mouths. It is the picture of “our heroic adventurers; their british invadwrs” meme.

“Both Imperialist genocides were bad.” “We elevated the native peoples (when we destroyed their cultures and killed anyone who resisted); you’re denying genocide.”

Anyone who reads that comment and doesn’t immediately smell the hypocritical bullshit needs help, either developing critical thinking skills, or getting away from the brainwashing they’ve consumed.

If your definition of leftism doesn’t include queer acceptance, then I’m not interested in your version of leftism.

Any version of bringing the people together to make the world better for the people cannot discriminate based on sexuality. Doing so is to create a multi-tiered citizenship and awarding privilege based on perceived merit, which is right-wing ideology.

Queer groups have been an oppressed group for most of history, which has decidedly placed them into oppressed economic classes, and the culture they developed is a result of that. To dismiss queer acceptance as “culture war,” is to position sexual identity as choice, and to ignore their history of oppression and erasure.

“Leftism” that segregates citizens by sexual orientation, or other identities and backgrounds for that matter, is fascism by another name.

They’re conflating anti-authoritarian with anti-communist because it suits their narrative.

Imagine unironically posting these comments in communities that notoriously ban people for wrong-think.

Shit like this really makes me question if they can genuinely be this stupid.

Not bothering to cover up your crimes isn’t the flex you seen to think it is.

But think about how much shareholder value they preserved!

But autopen was a problem.

I fucking hate stroads.

I’m not eager to jump from one authoritarian Imperialist nation to another.

Honestly? Starting to look like it. From one partnership with an authoritarian Imperialist empire to another, I guess.

Now these are some shitposts.

English as an Additional Language. It’s the new term to replace ESL, English as a Second Language, since it’s overwhelmingly common for non-english speakers picking up the language to already speak more than one language

I was teaching university students from various parts of the world whose English skills weren’t strong enough for them to just be part of the regular student body.

The one ban I received from .ml was for when I indicated that I used to teach EAL to university students. Funny that I can directly insult members of .ml and nothing happens, but make clear that k have lived life experiences that will contradict their narrative? Banned for being uncivil.

I watched the Chinese students insist to the Taiwanese students that they’re part of China. The Chinese students were visibly confused that the Taiwanese students didn’t believe this to be true, and were willing to fight about it, detailing the shit China has done/attempted to do to their country over the years. My co-teacher had to step in, because things started to escalate.

I wonder what the Chinese version of “they drank they Kool-Aid” is.

The strategy of appeasement didn’t work for anyone.