Yeah, that’s all I’m really commenting on here. This site seems to reject cops pretty quickly but puts a lot of effort into embracing vets and I’m asking what real difference is between the two groups, outside of average age

Hmm. Personally I don’t even agree with that statement, but wouldn’t it be more apt to compare vets to cops that have retired and taken a pension and shit? Like most soldiers don’t quit, their contract ends. Does ACAB not apply to retired cops?

I’m trying to have a good faith talk here

I understand that?

I’m perpetually fascinated by people here who tout ACAB while also twisting themselves into pretzels to excuse soldiers. I guess being complicit in a system that terrorizes the poor, minorities, and marginalized groups while acting as armed forces of capital is bad on US soil, but excusable overseas? Am I understanding this right?

Anarchists bad, upbears to the left

China’s indirect influence through those pale in comparison to the influences of whatever native country is in question. Like do you really think China’s views on LGBTQ+ people, filtered through Disney or Tencent, really makes more of a difference than Disney’s own policies, or the cultural hegemon here? We should focus on our own shit

That wasn’t my point. People bring up these criticisms of China and hide behind the claims they are critiquing a socialist country/its policies. But hey isn’t that weird, that they are only motivated to critique countries that are currently the target of US imperialism?

If you want to discuss AES countries and their flaws, and you only ever do this for China, just be open and honest and say you hate China for whatever absurd reason and move on

Oh word, you live in China? I didn’t realize, my bad

I think I can count on one hand the amount of times those topics are brought up about China in good faith. Maybe you’ve seen it more often and seen the brigades more than me

My thing is, why is it always China lol. No one comes into these spaces with scorching hot takes about the LGBTQ rights in Laos or the economic systems of Cuba. It’s a lot of CHINA CHINA CHINA, which between the current culture, and trying to deprogram baby leftists, it’s really hard to spot good faith discussions/let them grow. And the thing that really sucks is every good China discussion is like 1 rogue comment away from name calling, it’s hard to stay on track

Thanks for confirming that. PCM was basically the only sub that could get “Joe Biden is a rapist” to hit r/all so I wasn’t terribly surprised they did that

And the for a while after the coup, the comment section was defaulted to sort by controversial, meaning you’d see incredibly lib comments at the top of every section.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t that during the peak of the Tara Reade story breaking? Or after?