World Politics

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Canada accused India of actually killing a Sikh separatist recently, which they vehemently denied. Seems it wasn’t an isolated event. Extrajudicial execution on foreign territory is their M.O. apparently.

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Hindutva is fascist. So, yes, extrajudicial execution on foreign territory is entirely consistent with their general acceptance of the rule of laws which constrain them.

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CNN: Chinese celebrity chef vows to never cook egg fried rice again after nationalist backlash

Light, tasty and simple to make, egg fried rice has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world.
But in recent years, the popular stir-fry has become a highly sensitive subject for China’s online nationalists, especially around the months of October and November.
Emotions are running so high this week that one of the country’s most famous chefs has been forced to apologize – for making a video on how to cook the dish.

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The rumors about the death of Chairman Mao’s son are offensive lies. But you can’t make fried rice because that would be a huge mockery of the boy’s death…

Catch 22.

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I think you’re working from the wrong book.

I suspect it’s much closer to “Thoughtcrime”. Just like the character of Winnie the Pooh, and the existence of the day between the 3rd and the 5th of June, 1989.

It’s not a crime to mention these things, because it being a crime would be to intimate that there is anything about those things which is different from any other character or date, and there is not. And if you ever intimate that there is by, say, mentioning them or hinting that they exist, (especially if you do so in order to refute the rumours which are false because of course they are, also: what rumours, there are no rumours, because nothing happened), then expect to have your social credit cut to zero and some stony-faced Party members visiting you in the night to tell you that you’re going to a re-education camp somewhere in the general region of Mongolia.

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Newnew Polar Bear

Sounds like the filename of a jpeg of a polar bear I have edited three times

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-24/wall-street-cheers-as-milei-swaps-dollarization-for-macri-brass

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Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

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