Semjeza

You are an American who just got your alternative potential answer from Wikipedia, right? Decent rapid research skills, well done.

But you need to keep going to contextual information. “the Historic City of London” is what it says on the page you linked, but click on “City of London” for its definition, perhaps.

And if you’re doing a bit like other posters, you need to keep the format roughly the same to convey that metatextual information.

If you’re living in one of those very conservative on women’s dress Islamic nations (i.e. Middle East or Central Asia) then there are cultural limits imposed beyond the baseline of the religion.

A Senegalese Muslim woman in colourful patterned headscarf and matching dress is following what Islam requires.
Some places have kept, or imposed, much stricter controls on women’s dress (amongst other things). And while they might choose to wear more colourful ones, many of these countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, through to Pakistan and Afghanistan) turn a blind eye to femicide and are plagued by honour killings.

Socially constructed idea varies by society.

Who’d’ve guessed?

You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.

The change is police reform, so that the police will care for the life of all - even a suspected criminal; right?

Sadly, if a right only exists when a State exists to guarantee it, it will be taken as soon as it comes into conflict with the state’s goals.

Sadly, ergo, all rights are delusions that we enjoy as long as we do not rock the boat.

This is why no armed force will ever abide by any rules or rights of war when push comes to shove.

c.f. Israeli nuclear proliferation, any country’s war crimes (rape, extrajudical killings, murder of civilians), etc.

The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.

More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.

We can’t be sure.

The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.

And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.

Cuba’s medical work is amazing.

The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.

Aye, I don’t consider myself especially sensitive to such things but a world where hunting and cannibalising babies is par for the course means there’s a lot of horrific moments of very horrific things.
It is a book/series that continues to bother me/come to the front of my thoughts often enough. Albiet sometimes in fun or non-traumatic ways too.

The PRC is helping kill Balochi and Burmese to keep it’s access to resources in those areas in the 21st century.
Which is far fewer than US imperialism across any comparible time scale.

Over the last 5,000 years: millions.

On migration and trans rights they’re cleaving pretty right wing.

On economics, they’re still quite centre-left-ish.

And since everything is polarised these days, they get to be centre-left to the right, and moderate right to the left.

I enjoyed them, but felt at some point in Book 3 that I didn’t care hugely about most of the characters. But then things somewhat redeemed themselves, although I think something with the climax and Wormwood, but can’t quite recall what irked me specifically. Mostly fun romp, however. Sadly did mean I recognised a necklacing in a news headline while browsing International news, however.

Which makes it easy for me to compare and contrast with the not Sci-Fi but actual grim crapsack fantasy world of Red Wolf, Black Leopard (probably racistly since they’re both African inspired stories), where I stopped reading because of how grim and horrible the world and setting was, but the picked it up again a week later because it was so compelling and I wanted to find out what happened.
The horrors and atrocities get worse in Moon Witch, Spider King, and others more cerebral, which made it easier to keep reading.

Maybe, tell me your progressive policy party and we’ll find out.

And which political party has a remotely progressive policy line?

I get that. The hypocrisy of criticising one side, but not being able to bear any criticism when the other side does the same is infuriatingly lacking in moral backbone.

And while a change from US to Chinese hegemony might have some short term gains for some places, there would also be losses for others - one need only look at the Balochi, Tamils, Myanmar/Burma, Afghanistan for no shortage of examples.
The PRC is an imperial power ascendent, and the national ideology and mood is already scarily fascistic.

I mentioned Israel-Palestine for history, as too many folks seem to want to portray October 8th as a random, unprovoked attack by Palestinians - removing it from historic context which, all events, must always be kept.
We can never hope to build a better future without knowing and understanding how events lead to one another.

Anyhow, I’m sorry for any stress caused.

The whole “Israel-Palestine conflict began on October 8th, do not look at the ageing historical events behind the curtain argument”. And then seem to basically fallacy fallacy at anything you might have to think about how it fits with your narrative. If you’re actually trying to bring nuance and point out how large nations are bullies who use military and economic clout to force their will on the world around them: that’s what I’m saying too. Go back and look over what I’ve said with that lens, and see if you can find that reading.

Also, what’s with the focus on 100 years ago? Time hasn’t moved that fast yet. Round up by 50%? Just say S70 my friend.

And for the purpose of friendship I should assume you actually want to make a point and ask:
“OK then, what information do you actually want to convey to me? What is the core idea you want to assert, not a negation of something said but an idea that stands on its own.”

But why quibble over the murkier “did he exist” ground when you could engage on “was he a miracle working guy who came back from the dead” and make them find more evidence for that!

Its funny of you to call my response to a post calling out China “whataboutism” when part of the idea of the original post is that the countries called out as hostile have done far fewer wars than the PoV nation-Empire The USA.
How dare I complicate a “China = bad, US = good” by exploring that the PRC might have reasons that make sense for it’s actions.
How dare I not assume that China’s aggressive expansion of fishing started in the 1970s when Korea and the US were engaging in anti-Communist war games around the DPRK and PRC after the Korean War.

Vietnam, Philippines, and the RoC are also part of the mess which is the South China Sea dispute (which really kicked off in the 70s too, with the discovery of oil there (how dare I write this aside insinuating which country is known best for its violations of international law, norms, and rules for a little bit of the black gold)) which to be clear I’m not on the PRC’s side on (or indeed any of the claimants on the whole. The South China seas is a mess, and needs to be settled; obviously the PRC has much greater clout and military power than the other claimants, so it won’t follow any arbitration that doesn’t give it most of what if wants - following the precedent set by the US with the UN and ICJ (there’s that “whataboutism” again, right? How dare I draw parallels and recognise similarities between hegemonic powers).

Responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to Chinese exercises responding to US joint exercises responding to China responding to…

Not sure what your point is. I said PRC and US both did it. So you agree with that, right?

Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?

Why do you think you need a romantic partner?

… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”