Yes, I absolutely can. This is why I choose to support China. It’s neither authoritarian, nor a shithole.

But evil Chinese company is spying on you! Only western intelligence is supposed to be able to do that!

I love that the article ends in an ad for the Galaxy S23.

I’m still here cracker. And yes, I’m still sore about what people like you took from us. I want you, and all people like you off of our lands. I applaud China for having the opportunity to do exactly that.

Maybe they should do something worthwhile like I don’t know free HongKong maybe, which actually has long term potential, unlike China.

Or maybe free tibet, seems they have put up with enough of China’s bullshit for long enough as well.

Fuck off cracker.

It’s not your land cracker.

How did that come to be?

So whose land do you live on then?

How about you free Hawaii instead of complaining about Hong Kong’s decolonisation?

That’s what they eventually did. They do that with other countries as well.

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

When your overton window has fallen off the bloody table.

Yeah, you should only get your news from right wing media owned by oligarchs. That’s how you know it’s true.

Now you have some idea of how we feel on Reddit. The difference here is that karma doesn’t matter. And hexbearers can’t even downvote your comments anyway. You’re just complaining that you have to listen to another point of view.

I didn’t spend too much time on it, and it could probably be done better. I just used free web tools to download the video and autogenerate subtitles. The text at the section I mentioned says this:

с азиатами наизусть меньше и меньше культура и

ценности нашей ключевой минус России.

Fed into google translate, we get this:

with Asians by heart less and less culture and

the values ​​of our key disadvantage of Russia.

Again, results weren’t great (which is why I didn’t post them the first time. Someone with more time on their hands could do better). But it hits a lot of the same words as the native speaker’s quote, and it seems to indicate something racist is being said. The first auto-subtitler I used was completely useless, the second was “good enough” for my purposes. I have no reason at all to believe that the original translation was fake, and this didn’t contradict the original translation.

If I were to try a third time, I would probably upload it to youtube and try using their tools, but I didn’t really want to upload it to my youtube account. Google’s natural language processing is pretty good.

Now you see, THIS is whataboutism. The point here is that we have a leader in the current Ukrainian government who comes out and says that he considers Russians to be subhuman. You come up with a baseless claim that we think all Ukrainians are nazis. We think that the current government of Ukraine is dangerously far right and descended from actual nazi collaborators. You don’t want to hear it because it doesn’t fit your world view.

You might also be interested that I translated it using AI. Results weren’t great, but language used around the 26 second mark matches the translation in the tweet pretty well. You can do this yourself instead of just calling it fake and lashing out at the left.

You said the quiet part out loud. The USA really does represent a gangster.

You might be a fan of this guy

Listing data for 2023 as proof of me lying. Cute. How about going back a couple of years? But no, I’m lying about everything, and Cuba not being able to buy parts they needed is totally their fault. I’m done with this. You can continue defending your murderous country in peace.

Not being able to trade in USD is a huge issue, as it means you are blocked from SWIFT. When it’s stated that you have to use a different currency, it means a whole different trading mechanism. Which may or may not exist/work for your business. And if the US decides to cut your access to SWIFT completely, then you’re effectively out of business.

You could argue that the US should not have this much power over world trade, and I would agree with you. But you’re not. You’re blaming the Cubans for not being able to buy the replacement parts they needed, because the US totally isn’t interfering with their trade. Not to mention the absolute inhumanity of this position. When the US suffered from hurrican Katrina, Cuba didn’t hesitate to offer aid. When Cuba’s main oxygen plant breaks during a pandemic? Apparently the American people show their humanity by cheering. And you feel this is just. I feel like you’re just being willfully obtuse at this point.