But that’s not what your post is talking about. Your post is talking about the point at which both options have already alienated most people. Don’t change the subject.

That’s fun, good for them!

What’s barq

Kinda odd to blame voters for being disillusioned with their choices, instead of the parties only putting out upsetting options. Idk feels victim-blamey.

I’m sure you get a lot of speaking and inflection practice from your work, maybe think of it as a skill you’ve gained instead of natural talent!

Those were beautiful! Omg that couple must’ve been worried sick, but I’m glad that they were kind enough to step in. I love sharing passions/interests with others so that busker was cool, and that deaf guy was a real gem with the power bar lol

Just straight up banning human knowledge and the ability to communicate with others. Vile.

Like a 3 or 4 LMAO. I’m pretty set in my ways, I’m willing to hear most people out but only in an effort to change someone else’s mind, not really to change my own. That said, if you are on the left (i.e. identify as anti-capitalist, at minimum), then I will legitimately take your perspective and stances into consideration.

This doesn’t mean that I’m not empathetic or that I shut people down, I’m very conflict averse as well. I just take in what people say, push back maybe a little, and try to understand their perspective while mine still remains unchanged.

Ok so Tiananmen square had two main elements in the protest:

• Liberals who wanted to go down the US Road entirely instead of just the Dengist approach.
• Maoists who wanted to revert the Dengist reforms entirely.

I have way more sympathy for the second group than I do the first. A more ideal path would have been a re-education of the first group and an integration of the second group into the CPC more directly, but unfortunately this did not occur as protestors became militant.

This is not to excuse the CPC response of course; even in the face of political violence, even reactionary political violence from the first group, the military should have as light of a hand as possible in response, and I don’t think this was abided by in the events of 1989. However, I do think it was correct to suppress this movement in the first place in some capacity. The alternative would probably be colour revolution. Look at places like Venezuela and Nepal and Bolivia; they haven’t purged their reactionary elements upon socialists reaching power and capitalist coups/regime change become inevitable.

Yes

(Or at least I hope so lol)

Love this youtube channel! They keep me optimistic