Who are you to decide which languages are useful and which ones are not? Chinese is a very basic picture based language, barely a step above cave paintings. The people of Tibet will never progress if they are forced to use such a basic, primitive language. Relative to their population China has produced a pathetic quantity of great literature, maybe if China was to adopt the Tibetan language the quality of their literature would improve.
Yes, because the message they’re trying to push is “China bad” as a US-gvt and Zionist controlled “NGO”
Yes but are they lying? Is it not true that China is unilaterally changing the primary language to Chinese for schools in Tibet?
Yes, and I’d take it seriously if it was real and not fabricated propaganda
Why do you say it is not real, human rights watch is just one source, a quick search leads to several sources you can find yourself. This is also not a new issue, there is information on the promotion of Mandarin over Chinese in Tibetan schools going back years. Just because you do not accept what is happening does not make it propagand
Is China the aggressor in your instance, or are you projecting Western colonialist history onto China
Colonialism is still colonialism, doesn’t matter if it’s Chinese or western it’s all the same. Erasure of cultural identity and especially language is always a big part.
And if it were important to you, you’d be doing activism
I don’t need you to tell me what I should be doing buddy.
I haven’t seen you do activism about, such as Breton or Occitan in France,
To be fair you haven’t seen me do anything, I am an anonymous internet stranger. For all you know I was marching the streets of Rennes in support of my brothers there.
This is also “whataboutism” on your part, one of the lowest forms of rhetoric. Up your game and stick to the point at hand please.
is, TODAY, the official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. In the 1950s, there were about a million speakers of Tibetan in China, today there are about 6 million.
I see that you capitalised the word today, either you understand the concept of time or are, like Donald Trump, a fool who capitalises words for no reason. You should also then be able to understand that this measure is meant to reduce the amount of native Tibetan speakers going forwards in time. You seem to be trying to use the fact that there are more Tibetan speakers today than in 1950 as proof that China is not trying to reduce native Tibetan speakers in the future? How does this make sense in your thick head buddy? Does this type of argument ever work on people?
Have you ever considered that maybe the Zionists, the USA AND China are all bad? All are shitty imperial colonists.
I’m no fan of Zionists but what you are doing is attacking and attempting to discredit the source to distract from the message that they are trying to push.
The story here is the attempted cultural genocide of the Tibetan people by the Chinese government. I come from a nation that has almost lost its language as a result of similar colonial cultural genocide. This issue may not be real or important to you but it is an attempt to destroy a nation’s cohesion and identity.
The real question for me is why are you trying to discredit an article on this, what is your agenda here Riverside?
Yea, well my cousins friend also died in the protests and a bunch of his friends too and you know what his body was tagged? -2672, this means that not only is the Iranian government not killing people, they are actively resurrecting them, my cousins friend and all the other guys just got up and walked out of that morgue, good as new.
This is obviously sarcasm, it is very easy for anyone on an anonymous forum to claim whatever they want. It sounds to me like you are going out of your way to shut down conversation on this matter by unconvincingly claiming “your friends cousin” died. I bet you also had a supermodel girlfriend from two towns over.
I find it cute that you think Russian donkey logistics would be any use in an actual war against NATO.
Some serious big talk out of you when you can’t beat Ukraine a few miles from your own border.
Budanov wants more manpower, water is wet. Nice one dude.
He certainly doesn’t seem to think the war is in a stalemate, but what does he know right?
You can’t deny the reality on the ground right now, neither side can do much due to drones, Ukraine has had the edge the last few months. Russia is tightening its grip on the communication infrastructure of the country because they know what’s coming as the domestic situation in Russia deteriorates.
I love how you refer to my statements as “braying”, pure projection from the Russian side using actual donkeys in this war.
I find it hilarious you consider “westies” brainwashed when Russians vote 99.9% Putin and also all claim to be not political when questioned about it. Every accusation is a confession with your lot.
I would also expect a conflict between west and Russia to not last very long. Russia is exhausted from the current war that they are waging. There is also the extreme population/financial/manufacturing difference between the west and Russia. There ain’t much juice left in the Russian tank buddy.
If Ukraine lacked the troops like you claim surely the Russian army would just be steamrolling Ukraine right now. Instead it is Ukraine who has made more gains in 2026, are the Ukrainian soldiers that much stronger, better equipped or better trained than their more numerous Russian counterparts? They certainly have more teeth than the Russian soldiers anyway.
The war has been at a stalemate with stable front lines for so long now that Europe considers it safe for Ukrainian refugees to return home now.
Meanwhile in Russia the public are starting to make Putin so worried that he has banned all encrypted messaging services. You now need to message on the FSBs Russia Max app. The Russian spin on this is hilarious too, we have gotten rid of the Russiaphobic regular internet for out superior Russian only internal internet! Great success Ivan!
Ukraine has not yet started conscripting those under 24, Russia is not killing enough Ukrainian soldiers for this to be necessary and at current attrition rates it is unlikely.
shoving them into the front lines with a gun in their backs
Loving the projection here, Russia does this daily. Good old Soviet doctrine!
man infantry positions with robots.
I’d rather a robot blow up than a Ukrainian hero. The robots are also doing a better job than the untrained, toothless Russian meat being fed to the grinder.
Overall in 2026 it is the Ukrainians who have taken the most ground. It is starting to look like it is Russia who has the manpower problem.
This is such a lame excuse, the heaviest attrition I have seen so far (other than the attrition to Russian soldiers teeth) is to Russian tanks, APC stocks, Russian warm water navy, ammo dumps and oil depots.
Imagine if 4 and a half years ago someone told you Russia was about to get into a stalemate war of attrition near current borders that would last over 4 years. The whole situation is an embarrassment for Russia at this stage.
Who is doing the lying in this scenario? Is it the Russian people who have been told that they have been winning for 4+ years while the frontline barely moves.
Both sides are being fed delicious propaganda buddy, don’t act like your shit don’t stink.
Truth is Russia has bitten off more than they can chew here, there is no obvious route to Russian victory and it’s looking worse and worse for your boys as each day passes.
Seriously buddy, do you actually have a point or just not understand what is happening?
If all sanctions are leveled at once there is no room for escalation, you have already played all of your cards. Maximum sanctions initially would have caused far more damage to the EU economy and pain to EU citizens.
If you have been paying attention to the cat and mouse nature of the sanctions and Russian evasion of the sanctions you would understand that the additional packages of sanctions were designed to block routes that Russia uses to evade sanctions that weren’t initially obvious. Russia has been quite creative in its complex systems of evasion that required additional sanctions to be levied.
Remember it was Russia who invaded Ukraine and not the other way around. Imagine being so weak to start a war and then start crying when you realise that you don’t have the ability to win the war.
Russia won’t use nukes here anyway because China will not understand any circumstances let them. If Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, Taiwan will have nukes in 2 weeks time. China does not want this. Russia is now completely dependent on China to keep their economy going they will not defy their masters and risk economic ruin.
The only people who expected the sanctions to work instantly are people with shit for brains or pro Russian shills.
The rest of us understand that these things take time to work, especially when the sanctioned country is sitting on a cash pile of 300 or so billion. This money has now run out and we are starting to see the effects, the Russian economy has been contracting in the latest official reports from Russia. If the official Russian reports are admitting something is wrong it is likely far worse in reality.
Or like how he forgot the name of the woman who gave him her Nobel peace prize the very next day.
It make perfect sense. Hamas is a resistance group which main goal is ending of the occupation. If Hamas agreed with PLO view of palestinian liberation they would definitely collaborate with them against Israel
It does not magically invalidate the possibility Israel financed Hamas in their early days, if anything it makes it even more suspicious.
I perfectly understand what you are saying. You think Israel is such a very smart country that they can’t make mistakes and just created hamas to counter the PLO
I don’t think Israel is a smart country at all, quite the opposite actually. I think they are blood thirsty idiots. You clearly have a chip on your shoulder regarding this issue. What can’t be denied is the fact that Israel has billions of times the resources available to Palestine and an international network of wealthy Zionists working to undermine Palestine. This mismatch in resources is why Israel has out planned and outmanoeuvred Palestine so far. Palestine and Hamas have been fighting the wrong fight for 30 years now. The evidence for this is Israel’s continued encroachment on Palestinian territory at an increasing pace and today’s occupation of Gaza.
You know my arguments are strong that’s why you avoid them
I have not been avoiding anything dude. You are clearly not a native English speaker and I am having trouble understanding whether some of your points are bad English or bad logic.
That’s why you ignored that I said Israel was vilifying the plo and said the same exact think about them as they say against Hamas
The very next sentence you wrote is a perfect example of you not getting a coherent, comprehensible point across. The statement you made just doesn’t make any sense buddy, I’m not dodging anything, I was being polite by not saying anything until you decided to call me out.
This is an important moment for Palestine but you decided to repeat the bs about Hamas the biggest resistance group is simply a tool of Israel
I never said this and don’t believe that because Israel was involved in financing the precursor to Hamas 30 odd years ago that it makes them a tool of Israel today. The only way you seem to be able to argue against me is by putting words in my mouth and making things up.
Hamas is not pure in my mind
By “pure” I was not referring to their war crimes I was referring to the purity of their origin. You believe that Israel’s financing back then somehow contaminates the modern Hamas. This is where we disagree, I believe Israel’s early financing has no bearing on the group today, 30-40 years later.
The narrative that hamas was created simply to oppose the “secular” plo don’t work because Hamas collaborate with non Islamists .
Again, I never said this, I don’t know where you’re getting this from. I said that Israel assisted many non-secular groups, what became Hamas was merely one of them. Israel created nothing, they certainly assisted them in their early days.
Your assertion that because Hamas works with non Islamists they couldn’t have been created to oppose the secular PLO makes no logical sense. I don’t even understand how this point makes sense in your head?
Islamophobia is the hate of Islam, not only Islamists, so Islamophobic people would still not support Palestine when the PLO is also majoritarily Muslim
You really just don’t understand what I am saying do you? You also clearly don’t understand the game Israel is playing here. You do not understand the multifaceted plan that the Israeli leadership is currently playing out to steal the entirely of Palestine. You are focusing on one small issue but completely missing the bigger picture. I have tried but I don’t think I can help you understand.
Wrong. If no countries had recognized and built relations with Israel after the Nakba, the genocide would never have happened.
Again missing the point completely.
Before Hamas even existed, the Western countries’ populations were more supportive of Israel than Palestine. Imagine saying “I support Israel” just after the Nakba
It’s like you don’t even understand the difference between the media landscapes then and now or how now that people can actually see what is going on their opinions are shifting. This is an important moment in Palestine’s future and you are choosing to fight a pointless fight on the early days of Hamas because in your mind Hamas mush be pure, any Israeli contamination, even funding in their early days somehow delegitimises Hamas. It does not delegitimise Hamas one bit, purity tests like this only harm revolution. Sometimes it takes a bad thing to kill an even worse thing.
What you are ignoring is that despite that Hamas colaborate with non islamist groups.
I do not dispute or ignore this
The problem is that your argument is used to deligetimize Hamas as a resistsnce group.
I don’t agree with you here, you are viewing this issue as black and white, ignoring the shades of grey that most of the world actually lives in. In trying to undermine their opponent Israel helped create a new one that was more violent and aggressive. It initially looks as though this was a mistake by Israel but it was the subtext for the subsequent genocide in Gaza.
The point is not to delegitimise Hamas but to show how the Israeli propaganda and colonial expansion work hand in hand.
But most people are not dumb
You give people too much credit, the evidence all around us including but not limited to what is happening in Gaza should be proof of this. Mass media indoctrination of islamophobia over the last 30 years has achieved its goal of manufacturing the consent required to dehumanise Muslim people in the Middle East. If people understood there would never have been a genocide in Gaza.
They undwrstand settler colonialism is one of the worst thing ever
The vast majority of people don’t understand that Israel is a settler colonial state in the first place and think the Jewish population has always been in “Israel”.
You don’t seem to understand that Hamas can be both an indigenous resistance group retaliating against Israel and financed by Israel in its early years as a religious counterbalance to the secular PLO.
You also don’t seem to understand how it is beneficial to Israel to be fighting a group like Hamas over the PLO in how Israel presents this conflict to the media and the world. Israel can point at Hamas and say “look at these Muslim extremists, you can’t negotiate with them. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, looks what Hamas do to women and gays! This war is to do with religion, the Muslims always want to destroy the Jews.” This narrative was not possible against the PLO, if you can’t see how this situation favours Israel when selling the story to the Western audiences and how Israel much prefers it this way you are hopelessly myopic.
The EU disagrees with you after a thorough investigation. China has been giving its EV manufacturers massive state subsidies for a long time now, this is not news to most of us, just you for some reason…