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Cake day: June 11th, 2025

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    5 hours ago

    Of course Western governments had no hesitation in denouncing genocide in China before a single body was documented. Yet, when people protested against an actual live streamed genocide, supported by these same governments, they were met with beatdowns by police and criminalization.

    Even today, they will still seriously tell you that this is a genocide:

    And this isn’t:

    The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.


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    The wiki you linked redirects “Uyghur genocide” (which all the people search for due to heavy propaganda) to “Persercution of Uyghurs”. The name of the article was changed, because there is not enough scholarly consensus to define it a genocide. It’s literally in the summary section


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    Here is the human rights report from the United Nations on Xinjiang. It talks of human rights abuses (which there are), but it doesn’t use the word genocide, because it doesn’t meet any definition of genocide, especially not the ones recognized by the UN.

    The Western move to label it genocide before any actual proof is just atrocity propaganda to divert people’s attention towards China, rather than the West’s own crimes against humanity.













  • Meanwhile, I have to install my third freedesktop 1GB dependency for 4 flatpak apps. What I wouldn’t give for a slim 100mb electron package… All my electron apps as appimages are less than 1gb total.

    But hey, at least native apps are so much faster. I have to get out an atomic clock to really see those microseconds that Zed is saving me compared to VSCode. You can even use the extra battery you gain to do one extra Rust compilation from scratch!



  • To the people saying things like “what took you so long”, I think you’re missing the point. They even address this in the post:

    EFF exists to protect people’s digital rights. Not just the people who already value our work, have opted out of surveillance, or have already migrated to the fediverse. The people who need us most are often the ones most embedded in the walled gardens of the mainstream platforms and subjected to their corporate surveillance.

    When the ship is sinking, there’s some value in someone staying behind to help people get off. That’s not the same as generating value for Shitter.