Hey, that’s not nice to falsely name someone’s country!
Be a gentleman, apologize and use the correct name for it:
KKKlanada.

Us Europeans are being lorded over by the US and yet we don’t have ban to electricity to follow the Amish way of life, just because that’s the most backward part of the US.

We’re now living in a time where the US is telling us to tank our economy time after time ‘just to spite the enemy’, while China’s economy is growing 5+% per year.
That’s not sustainable.
At some point the people of Europe will be looking up at China and Russia for having an industry and commerce instead of letting everything be bought out by the US.

Moreover, our human rights are extremely selective and are based on the protection of the two ruling classes of capitalism, the lawyer class and the merchant (aka as donor) class, having replaced the clergy and nobility that came before. Human rights is just one way for the laywer class to justify their actions, which primarily serves the merchant class On top of that, none of those in power are even in Europe anymore. The donors class is all (Anglo-)American and we’re obligated to follow “international law” or “agreements with NATO” no matter what you supposedly voted for.
The moment competition shows up from China, in the US, not even the EU, then those rights the rest of us are supposed to have are immediately thrown out of the window, or for us Europeans, six months later.

Freedom of trade?

2000: “That’s what has made the US the most powerful nation in the world!”
2025: “National security threat!” “IP theft!”
“No ZTE routers, Huawei phones, or inexpensive BYD cars, for you. Sorry.”

Freedom of the press?

2000: “Freedom of speech what the US has and other countries don’t.” 2025: “Fake news!” “Ruzzian Chinese propaganda!”
“No more RT for you. Sorry. And soon we’ll be curtailing TikTok (US), Xiaohongshu (Taiwan) and any Asian cinema as well. (US)”

Human rights?

2000: “You’re allowed to protest about anything.” 2025: “Protesting genocide of Palestine by Israel is anti-semitic and thus illegal. (UK)”

People “want Ukraine to fail so badly” and therefore celebrating negative press, because IT IS failing so badly. And for some, like me, this was clear from day one, that is to say 22nd February 2014. And it was clear from the get go that it didn’t even stand a remote chance by 2022, despite heavy weapons support from NATO, which means, NATO is now failing badly as well.
And I’m part of those nations so I’m not happy about seeing my nation’s economy fail and keep failing worse and worse, while everyone here is still heading West while it should be looking East if it wants economic progress.
In fact, I’d argue that even Russia is still looking way too much Westwards.
The global pace of cultural change towards socialism at this moment is at a snail’s pace while economically socialist China has already won hands down and is only advancing further at an accelerating rapid pace while even it’s neighbors are pretending that this is some kind of fluke that will magically disappear and they can just ignore it and even aim for further capitalism.
It’s complete madness.

This is utter destruction for Ukraine and be extremely costly for the EU, the UK and to a lesser extend the US.
And it’s not even the only mistake we’re making in the EU, because we’re currently making costly mistake after costly mistake.
And the longer you’re losing touch with reality, the harder and faster reality will catch up with you.

It happened in Hong Kong and it will happen in Ukraine too.

And in a few years we’ll be seeing countries turn around towards socialism with Chinese characteristics, because the China’s success isn’t going to be isolated for much longer.

The Anglos are after the indigenous first nations North American resources as well, so it’s no surprise

This also shows that the African continent is going through a giant economic boom.

Hahaha, don’t be silly.
They want to steal Columbia’s resources of course.
They’ve stolen the Panama canal before.

It’s also missing the “Uyghurs in concentration camp” picture.

https://lemmy.ml/post/37946260

The US response (media/police/even some of the public) to anything in protest is the most authoritarian response I have ever seen every single time, but I guess that’s understandable when you’re busy fully supporting a genocide and about half a dozen regime changes attempts per year.

“This is absolutely unacceptable and understandably scared travelers,” said US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy[1:2]. The airports quickly shut down affected systems and searched aircraft out of caution, though no security threats were found[1:3].

Does the computer in your living room get hacked? Check for explosives your basement!
And while we’re at it…

The hack targeted cloud-based audio and display systems through a software provider[3]. “Nobody informed us what was going on, there was no crisis response. Everyone was just really confused,” one Kelowna passenger told CNN[1:4].

bring in the guns!
Let’s have an army of ICE goons walk in next time and have them shoot random passengers
who may look like they could be part of the terrorist hackers!

Russia is currently being attacked willy nilly and there’s talk to do the same with China.

US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.

I wouldn’t put Netanyahu in the former camp.

Sorry, but I’m not a fan of jokes at the expense of the colorblind and self-doubters,
where you have people keep guessing and second guessing what’s in the pile of dots.

Especially when this is on Lemmy.

If you are colorblind and even if you’re not.
You’re being lied to here.
There’s nothing in this meme.

Topic Starter should come out and confirm.

Hmmm… I do mind that they look the part so you can at least recognize them.
Avatar the last airbender movie was the worst offender of this,
because at least one cast member looked like another character from the show.

So the 1st one I have no issue with.

2nd needs a tan and spraying his hair to gray/white,
5th needed more red hair like this:
https://images8.alphacoders.com/127/1272798.jpg

The 3rd and 4th ones look ridiculous though.

I don’t know from which movies they are but
If #3 has an iconic beard, then #3 needs a beard and some better clothes if that’s iconic as well.
#4 is a no.

Seconded, why?

Das verstehe ich nicht.

Obligitatory link to said Communist music:
https://odysee.com/@trader.one:d/soviet-anthem_subtitles:5

It’s even worse in South Korea and Taiwan?

No no no no no…
USA won’t be the chant he’ll receive.
Instead it will be…

ICE ICE ICE

An Exxon gas station!? Really?
Was this picture made in 2005?

You’re more likely to find a charging station with SGCC written on it if you’re lucky,
because it’ll more likely be 国家电网 as latin letters will have lost all status.

“Increasingly likely” is undercutting it.