"I think Western institutions and media are not being entirely honest about their geopolitical opinions" is not like the phrasing I see from hexbear users out in the wild.

What you see is the logical conclusion of when you step back and realize that people are always supporting this year's war drive and claiming last year's war drive is ancient history and all in the past.

Trump made Hillary eat so much shit over the Iraq War, and here you've got Ronny saying he wants to jumpstart the greatest refugee crisis in the world right at the border.

Why do you think your base wants a wall, Ron?

The United States is not an arbiter of which Mexicans are to be extrajudicially executed by drone strikes. You're acting like a coward who's only too happy the Mexicans are too weak to strike back.

You can call me a MAGA Leftist if you want, but that's because you're a misinformation troll.

damn, you're such a Liberal you had to respond to me twice about how much of a Liberal you totally aren't

trans rights are human rights btw

equivocating human rights with nonsense

oh i see you're a Liberal with a capital L

why do Liberals tell on themselves so hard? They come into a thread to argue against farming sustainability and 5 posts later they sound like a british tory talking about peasant rights

You're trying to make leftists look bad with your strong stance on trans rights.

lmao liberal

I agree there's a human right to not dying to climate change.

The question is, why is the burden of following environmental regulation on the shoulders of just a few, like oil companies?

Seriously, it's as if you have this conception that farming and the food industry is run like an MMO. It's all very regulated and subsidized, everywhere, in every single country, with national security and sustainability in mind. Not just environmental sustainability either but financial as well. The only countries that allow their agricultural industry to turn into cash crops are places like Iraq and or the remaining French Colonies in West Africa, places that were invaded and then reformulated entirely to fulfill the economic needs of the US and Europe, respectively.

China is interested in delivering rising living standards to it's peoples. Which is why they've achieved it. Which is why they are known for supporting their farmers really fucking hard with technical and financial aid. If all China wanted to do was chase dollars, they'd still be poorer than most countries in Africa. Where people are 'free' to pursue dollars selling crops to Americans so that they can pay their debts to those same Americans, in return for further loans.

pronouns are bad

hi liberal

the guy decided to run against a religious icon, and now he's eating so much shit it's incredible

so I'd like to understand the people here and why NATO is disliked/hated.

They are currently waging a hybrid war against most countries in the world. For every year of my living memory either NATO is bombing some place in the middle east, waging lawfare/starvation wars against countries in south america, or all of the above against someone in Africa. NATO is the sort of group that would rather see the peoples of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger die of hunger rather than pay market price for their goods. NATO will continue to blockade Venezuela until their oil is owned by american shareholders. NATO has bombed half of the muslim world, and now insists that it's leadership has been bought off by perfidious chinese money. And the Chinese, who played the game and followed the rules, even they must be cowed into poverty and submission.

It's a defensive alliance between warmongerers, and I know that if NATO decided to stage nukes/troops against my people we wouldn't be able to resist. Of course we stand with Russia. We wish we were them. We wish Libya could have resisted NATO. We wish Syria could resist NATO. We wish Iran, Cuba, Iraq, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Niger, Palestine, and so many others could resist NATO. We can only hope that China and Russia can, because if they can't, we are truly doomed to NATO's whims.

And NATO's made it clear. We are the jungle. We are less than human. And we are treated as such.

What you see as double standards is just us trying to survive your governments.

i dunno i think not dying of starvation is a great human right to have

If you believe that the state has the right to enforce poverty on one group of people

citation needed

since no one seems to give a shit about the Uyghurs.

yes, they are making rice in the deserts of xinjiang using slave labor because there's a shortage of farmers in china. no wait the article is about sichuan

and the gov't isn't doing sufficient to make up for the loss of revenue

yes the chinese government is famous for not supporting it's agricultural sector

I would say that if the state expects people to do labor, then the state should be expected to pay for that labor.

meanwhile the united states actually does use slave labor in the deserts of california, but nobody seems to give a shit about americans

Not really surprising that german state media would fall in line when it comes to China reporting. The chinese have a history of playing ball with pretty much anyone from Israel to the EU and beyond. If there's even any basis to the article's thesis, it is the rabidly pro-US faction that rules Germany today which is making the main choice in this matter.