The 1950 invasion was a military annexation by the PLA, not a domestic Marxist uprising.

Tibet wasn’t militarily annexed in 1950, because it was never officially independent. It was annexed in 1720 by the Qing Dynasty and only briefly splintered into an autocratic theocracy during the civil war.

Indonesians chose English for global trade while maintaining their state language. Tibetans face structural coercion

You must be joking.

Which Fortune 500 companies allow you to speak Indonesian exclusively?

Tibetan is dying out as a language because the Tibetan nationalists never bothered to build up educational infrastructure when they were in charge.

That’s just the CIA

Musk is another chode eating cunt with no real friends.

He’s absolutely got friends. They’re fucking awful people. But they’re in position to catapult him into the stratosphere.

Toughts

it assumes Chinese imperialism was necessary to defeudalize Tibet

It assumes Chinese Maoists aided Tibetan communists in their overthrow of the brutal theocracy that governed the country to date.

Certainly possible this could have happened another way, in the same way you might argue the US could have revolted against England without the help of France.

But the idea that Chinese integration with Tibet constitutes “imperialism” presumes China’s economy is parasitic - leeching resources, robbing land, and press ganging laborers for the benefit of Beijing. None of that is in evidence. Just the contrary. China and Tibet have been engaged in reciprocal mutual aid, to the benefit of both regions.

Most importantly, it doesn’t justify forced sinicization

Capital improvements being reframed as “forced sinicization” is just American agitprop. The Chinese government is extending education as an amenity to a province that lacked it. The Tibetans are learning Mandarin because it benefits them to speak fluently with their wealthy neighbors.

For the same reason Indonesians learn English and Italians learn German, Tibetans are learning Mandarin.

You’ll be disappointed

Quality of life in Tibet improved enormously under Chinese rule. LIfe expectancies rose from 37 to 78. Literacy jumped from the low 30%s to the mid 70%s. Tibetan lay residents owned their own homes for the first time in their nation’s history. The region’s economy expanded rapidly as did the population, thanks to modernizations in transportation, agriculture, and health care.

Meanwhile, with the colonial status of Hong Kong at an end and the city incorporated into the general Chinese economy, neighboring Shenzhen has enjoyed a similar economic boom. Residents can move freely into and out of the SEZ in a way they couldn’t under English occupation, they use a common currency rather than relying on conversions to and from British pounds, and they are free from British home rule. Most importantly, the residents are subject to the same taxation and civil rights afforded to the rest of the country - bringing an end to such labor atrocities as the 996 system, tax avoidance, and ecological crimes like illegal fishing and dumping.

Given the nightmarish wave of fascist policies currently spilling over the UK, I cannot imagine why anyone would envy living on the other side of the planet while being subjected to a Tommy Robinson inspired government.

• It is actually good to legally discourage 18 year olds from drinking

• It is actually good to legally discourage 18 year olds from smoking

• Thankfully, we’re throwing all the amenities of armed forces enlistment in the trashcan and going head first into meatgrinder conflicts that will poison people off the military for generations. So the only people crazy or foolish enough to enlist are folks I don’t like anyway.

Phone constantly getting blown up by my good friend Scam Likely

glances at the DC police news blotter

shuffles feet nervously

What could have possibly prompted this?

“Well, the rent is rather high. Perhaps I could look into getting a roommat-”

“ROOMMATES WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!”

“Okay, I guess it’s back to the basement to goon on Discord, then.”

“Sir, we’ve increased the rent again, as you’ve ordered.”

“Excellent. Now saturate the media broadcast telling them to start having lots of children.”

And they’re a hugely popular genre.

The IT Crowd is a show about two to five people in a room talking to one another. They did this for six episodes a season and the show ran for four seasons. This produced one of the most watched television shows on the BBC Network.

Quietly

One dollar for estrogen results in twenty new Undertale purchases. They’re practically printing money.

It’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

The picture is there to convey emotion, the text is there to explain context.

Look at the picture, sweetheart.