Should Muslims, Palestine supporters & Anti-Imperialists support China?
“Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil. And the enemy of my enemy is not my friend“ - Penn Jillette.
Part 1. Asking the question.
I have seen many people within western political dissident circles, the alternate media, or are anti-imperialists who view China &/or Russia as opposition to western imperialism, & support one or both states.
To prove to you that I do not work for the CIA, MI6, been bribed, been kidnapped, received death threats, or have been hacked, here are articles that I have written;
Terrorism, & why do Muslims hate us?
The issue of Iran & the Iran nuclear deal
Foreign policy, Imperialism, & being the “Policeman of the world”
Do they really hate us for our freedom? And are anti-war people weak? Plus American exceptionalism.
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And here’s Scott Horton’s debate with Bill Kristol:
10/04/2021Scott Horton debates Bill Kristol at the Soho Forum
And Horton is one of the very best anti-war commentators in America.
As you can clearly see, I am extremely critical of American foreign policy & western foreign policy (more accurately the foreign policy of the U.S., U.K., & France). I am critical of American wars for Israel, Saudi Arabia, & the Military-Industrial Complex, & French & general European neocolonialism in Africa.
Does that mean that China or Russia are any better?
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I highly recommend reading the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
George Orwell - 1984 (Novel, English)
1984 By George Orwell FULL Audiobook
Sites to stream Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) on archive.org
A summary of how society works is described in
I will admit that there have been a few occasions where either Russia or China has been the lesser evil;
Penn & Teller: Dalai Lama and Tibet
Likewise, I believe that it would be a lesser evil for Afghanistan to become another central Asian dictatorship than to be taken over by religious fanatics, as that people would probably have more freedom under a secular dictatorship than rule by the Taliban.China’s relationship with Israel.
People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer Qingdao (hull number 113) docking in Israel:
File:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - 20 Years of Cooperation with the Chinese Navy (1).jpg
"The Israel Navy congratulates the Chinese Navy on docking at the Haifa port. On August 13, 2012, the Chinese vessels arrived at Israel in order to celebrate 20 years of cooperation between the Israel Navy and the Chinese Navy. RADM Yang Jun-Fei was welcomed by the Haifa base commander, Brig. Gen. Eli Sharvit, upon his docking."
File:Flickr - Israel Defense Forces - 20 Years of Cooperation with the Chinese Navy (2).jpg
20 Years of Cooperation with the Chinese Navy - Israel Defense Forces
Here is footage of that exact visit, again, from the Israel Defense Forces itself:
20 Years of Israeli-Chinese Cooperation
While the People's Liberation Army Navy Ship Qingdao flying the Israeli flag while docked is not unusual, as that it is a maritime tradition for ship to fly the flag of a country she is docked in, notice how many Israelis were carrying flags of the one-party totalitarian state that is the People's Republic of China. How many Australians, Americans or Mexicans do you see wave Chinese or Russian flags whenever a Chinese or Russian navy or coast guard ship visits an Australian, American or Mexican port?
And for good measure:
The banner says "CHINA LOVES ISRAEL".
One of Israel's open secrets is that it exports military technology to the People's Republic of China. The best example of this is the Chengdu J-10 jet fighter, which is a variant of the Israel Aerospace Industries Lavi, which uses American technology, & was cancelled probably due to pressure from either the George W. Bush or Clinton Administration.
(https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1626098)
The PL-8 missile is also a licensed clone of the Python-3 missile.
Here are some more articles, all from mainstream & some government sources;
US up in arms over Sino-Israel ties - Asia Times
Israel-China Relations And The Phalcon Controversy - Middle East Policy Council
The U.S.-China-Israel Technology Triangle - Council on Foreign Relations
Israel Selling China Military Technology, C.I.A. Chief Asserts - The New York Times
ISRAEL SELLS ARMS TO CHINA, U.S. SAYS- The New York Times
Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China - Military.com
Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China – Defensetech
U.S. Says Israel Gave Combat Jet Plans to China - Los Angeles Times
But wait, there's more!
The Israeli government is also allowing China to take over the Port of Haifa, Israel's largest seaport, which would make it easier for China to influence world shipping & allow the People's Liberation Army Navy & China Coast Guard to send ships & conduct surveillance around the world;
China, the Port of Haifa and Mideast Peace - The Times of Israel
Could Chinese involvement in Israeli ports pose a security risk? - Jewish News Syndicate
Chinese company set to manage Haifa’s port, testing the US-Israeli alliance - Jewish News Syndicate
Chinese company wins bid to run new Haifa port - Ynetnews
U.S. Navy may stop docking in Haifa after Chinese take over port - Jerusalem Post
US Senate warns Israel against letting China run Haifa port - The Times of Israel
U.S. Navy may stop docking in Haifa after Chinese take over port - Jerusalem Post
Israel Rejected U.S. Inspection of Haifa Port Over Fear of Chinese Surveillance - Haaretz
Chinese Company to Run New Haifa Port - Haaretz
Israel Is Giving China the Keys to Its Largest Port – and the U.S. Navy May Abandon Israel - Haaretz
35. CHINA'S J20 STEALTH FIGHTER GETS U.S F-35 TECHNOLOGY FROM ISRAEL
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The Chinese Communist Party pays lip service to Palestine while buying weaponry & military technology from Israel, & has allowed Uighurs to fight the secular Assad government in Syria.
However, I don’t consider China & Israel to be true allies. Their relationship seems to me to be more like business partners rather than lovers. A reason for Israel to do business with CCP-controlled China is because the CCP does’t care about Israel’s human rights abuses because they’re a bunch of greedy bastards. But on the flip-side, the CCP will not sacrifice for Israel either, because they’re a bunch of greedy bastards, & only want money & power, unlike the west, which has an unbelievable guilt-driven relationship with the Jews which leads to its unbelievable guilt-driven relationship with Israel, where no one will seriously criticize Israel, & criticizing Jewish culture (beyond maybe circumcision) is unthinkable unless you’re a Neo-Nazi, Islamist, or self-hating extreme leftist.
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If you think China is any better than Israel, think again.
China's Ugly, Disturbing yet Open Secret
Both Americans & Chinese are arrogant, a flaw of all great nations, but they are arrogant in different ways. While Americans view foreigners are wannabe Americans, Chinese view foreigners as barbarians.
Americans, as with the west in general, is anti-racist to a fault, which is why it’s taboo to criticize Israel. Mainland China is the complete opposite, where racism is completely normal.
Why China Can't keep any friends?
Part 3.2. But wait, there’s more! China’s foreign policy.
President Xi Jinping has claimed that China has never invaded or bullied any other country or tried to seek hegemony. This is so easily refuted & laughable:
List of wars involving the People's Republic of China
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Even Ryan Dawson, who literally spent his whole adult life as an anti-war activist, opposing America’s wars & criticizing American foreign policy, is glad that America is the superpower & not China:
Jimmy Derp brings on Communist propagandist
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China has fought a war with India, a poor Socialist Republic that had good relations with the Soviet Union, taking a chunk of land the size of Switzerland.
China has fought a brief border war with the Soviet Union that nearly became a full-scale war, with the decisive event preventing full-scale war being Ho Chi Minh's funeral.
China has fought yet another war with Vietnam, with skirmishes happening until 1992.
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Pol Pot’s regime, which murdered almost a quarter of Cambodia’s entire population, was so bad that the authoritarian Vietnamese government looks heroic by comparison. This is an example of Even Evil Has Standards.
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This is the South China sea. The red line is what China claims to be its own.
Go to Indonesia & Vietnam & ask the people around which country they hate the most. It probably would not be Japan, the Netherlands, France, or the U.S.. It would probably be China.
CHINA vs. VIETNAM: the New Race of the Century - VisualPolitik EN
How VIETNAM (and INDONESIA) plan NOT to end up like UKRAINE - VisualPolitik EN
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China’s claim that China does not interfere in other countries’ internal affairs is a complete & utter lie.
It is very, very, very well documented that China conducts operations in foreign countries to not only conduct espionage, but also go after, suppress, & if possible, bring in & arrest political dissidents. The Chinese Communist Party would never tolerate any foreign state doing such things in China.;
Chinese Police are Coming to your country?!?!
You can NEVER ESCAPE the Communist Party of China!
How China stops Overseas Students Integrating
How these University Girls Enforce Brutal Chinese Law
Isn’t this interfering in other countries’ internal affairs?
Part 3.3: Human rights in China.
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China is a totalitarian state, with a human rights record rivals that of totalitarian states such as North Korea, Turkmenistan, & Eritrea. But don’t take my word for it.
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Al Jazeera & its subsidiaries (Al Jazeera is NOT pro-American or pro-west):
What Is China's Social Credit System? | NowThis World
How Strict Are China’s Censorship Laws?
Inside China’s Crackdown On Muslim Uyghurs
What’s happening with China’s Uighurs? | Start Here
China Bans Ramadan – Turkey Protests For China's Uyghurs
China Cracks Down On Hong Kong On Tiananmen Massacre Anniversary
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‘But surveys say that 95% of Chinese people support their government.’
Again, this is so easy to explain:
I was WRONG?!? 95% of Chinese support their Government!
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And so much more:
How Does China's Social Credit System Work?
China: Solution for public using mobile phones to film/Sci-fi film coming to reality in China?
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If you think that the CCP is doing this surveillance for safety, think again.
I want you to watch these 3 following videos;
Why a huge missing population in China/hundreds of millions of cameras can't solve systemic problems
2.7 Billion Cameras for Surveillance, Millions of People Go Missing Every Year | SkyNet Project |AI
The tragedy of missing children in China continues, why? Ongoing civilian efforts
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After watching those videos, tell me with a straight face that you still support the CCP or that you would raise a child in China.
I am at a loss for words for an organisation that can conduct the very best domestic surveillance network on the planet, creating an Orwellian police state, but does not rescue children from being trafficked, rather it be for organ harvesting, sex trafficking, or being burnt & having limbs amputated to be turned into a beggar. Many upper & middle class first-worlders just don’t comprehend that such evil exists in this world.
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And for good measure:
China's False Sense of Security
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Even when it comes to simply living in China, China is not the Tier 1 cities of Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, & Guangzhou (roughly in that order) that the Chinese Communist Party wants people to think of as China. China is not even just the river & coastal port cities. China is a country of 1,400,000,000 people (actually probably less: China: No Longer The Most Populous Country In The World | China Census 2021| Aging | Low Birth Rate - China Observer), hundreds of millions of them still live in real poverty.
Saying that you are no longer impoverished if you make $0.90/90 cents or more a day is like saying that you are not overweight if you are under 300 pounds.
Fake Rich of China, It Spends Money This Way| Where China's Money Is Really Going? |
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“Not only are there many officials, but the hidden income & benefits of CCP officials at all levels are even more alarming. According to overseas media reports, in 2007, leaders at all levels squandered 11.8 billion USD on overseas study trips, cars, & food & drinks alone, which is 5 times the amount spent on health affairs that same year. That’s also 8 times the amount spent on education. According to statistics, the salaries & benefits of officials at all levels account for 30% of state revenue, while Germany’s only accounts for 2.7% of its revenue, & Canada & Russia account for 7%.
In a 2006 report, released by the Research Office of the State Council & CCDI, it was stated that the annual income of the Communist Party Bureaucrats was 8-25 times higher than the per capita income in the local cities, & 25-85 times higher than the income of local farmers. This, of course, does not count the money from the corruption & bribery of the officials. A senior official of the CCDI revealed that, since 2012, when Xi Jinping came to power, more than 4 million people had been investigated & punished for corruption by the nation’s discipline inspection & monitoring agencies. For example, Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the political & legal committee, was stripped of power in 2015 because of corruption. Although the CCP announced a verdict of 20.87 million in corruption, Chinese media revealed that Zhou’s family was involved in corruption amounting to 14 billion USD.
In addition, there are a large number of 'naked officials' in China, which are officials whose spouses and children have emigrated overseas and they are the only ones left working in China. The wealth they’ve obtained from corruption and bribery is also transferred overseas. So, they are ready to jump ship if the party faces any danger, or, if they find out an investigation is coming their way.
In 2012, the Hong Kong media cited statistics from an authoritative organisation within the CCP, & found that 90% of the relatives of the Central Committee members have emigrated overseas, & more than 85% of the top Communist Party officials were ready to abandon their posts & flee any time.
According to the Hong Kong media, before the 19th National Congress in 2017, the number of naked officials investigated was nearly 3 times more than the original estimate of 300,000. So in other words, more than 1,000,000 people. Among them, more than 485,000 party cadres were naked officials.
According to a 2018 report by China Economic Weekly, more than 100,000 corrupt officials fled China from the year 2000 to 2011, along with a total of more than 2,000,000,000,000 USD.
Then how much money is left to spend on public services that the people need?”
“According to expert statistics, Chinese people receive 8% of their total tax revenue in welfare, compared to 42% in the United States, 49% in the United Kingdom, & 52% in Canada.
In 2009, the average rate of out-of-pocket medical & health spending .of Chinese residents was 38%, the highest in the world, compared to 14.3% of U.S. residents.“
Can the Third Distribution Achieve Common Prosperity? | Jack Ma | Tencent
Even China’s own Premier admits the Chinese government’s financial troubles:
China's Premier Bangs on Desk in Anger/“Pay back the bonuses”, officials & teachers are required
Even in China’s rich cities, white-collar workers are made to endure absolutely insane working hours that the vast majority of westerners would not tolerate. People have had health problems & even died from overwork, & in Confucian culture, you’re supposed to obey authority & not complain.
See see the 2 following videos, the latter of which is from a mainstream media outlet.
The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China | 996/007 How Chinese Young People Work Nowadays?
The Extreme 996 Work Culture in China
And those people are relatively lucky to be white-collared workers in a Tier 1 city.
If anything, serpentza & laowhy86 attempted to avoid the negatives of China & really tried to paint China in a positive light. But they they did not give up their integrity & be dishonest about China, so they both left in 2019, & may never step foot again in the country.
Just follow the YouTube channels I’ve linked to & watch the first few videos in the playlists I’ve linked to. I do not feel like responding to every little argument that a Wumao would make or holding their hand to explain things to them. Arguing with fanatics & people who use mental gymnastics is a waste of time.
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In my opinion, China has the worst of both worlds when it comes to Traditional & Modern culture. China has the soullessness of modern culture combined with backwardness & even cruelty of traditional culture without the morality, wisdom, or even beauty of traditional culture. The negative traits of traditional culture that China still has are collectivism, classism, racism/xenophobia, child abuse, male chauvinism, & animal cruelty, to name a few. China's Lost Generation is the epitome of this, who are simultaneously backwards, degenerate, & loyal to a political party that acts more like a gigantic, powerful, well-funded mafia. So much for Emperor-I-mean Chairman Mao’s Four Olds & Four News.
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Now, I want to compare China to the Borg.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields & surrender your ships. We will add your biological & technological likeness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
We are the People’s Republic of China. Shut down your defenses & surrender your states. We will add your land, technology, & resources to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Similarities China has to the Borg are:
. Collectivism & totalitarianism: Chinese culture is collectivist & authoritarian with a history of totalitarianism (under Qin Shi Huang, Mao Zedong, & now Xi Jinping), with now a social credits system. The Borg takes totalitarianism to its logical conclusion, with a hive mind, & replacing the minds of anybody that they assimilate with their own hive mind. Chinese culture has groupthink. The Borg have a literal hive mind.
. High population: China is the most populous country in the world (or second most populous, depending on who you ask). The Borg’s population is, likewise, massive.
. Knowledge: China is known to have absolutely extensive intelligence gathering. The videos Did Huawei ever invent anything? & China’s Huawei is Very Dangerous - Episode #109 talks about just a single company’s intellectual property & technology thefts. When the Borg assimilate somebody, they know everything that person knows, & gives the hivemind instant access.
. Imperialism: already explained with China, along with the fact that CCP forces foreign films to be censored to enter the Chinese market. The Borg are constantly expanding.
Part 5. Articles and a video related to the topic.
My most recommended videos on the topic:
NATO and Anti-NATO: Two Sides of the Same Coin? - The Corbett Report Official LBRY Channel
Marxist-Leninists/Tankies: a quick response
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My most recommended article on the issue of China:
The CCP is NOT Progressive - Reddit - tankiejerk subreddit
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Other articles:
How ‘Anti-Imperialism’ became a buzzword for oppressors - Joshua Collins
Why are ‘anti-imperialists’ defending dictators? - 972 Mag
Tankie Man: The Pro-Democracy Hong Kongers Standing Up to Western Communists - The Diplomat
The Rise of the Chinese Tankie - An Injustice Mag
What is wrong with tankies? - Reddit - Anarchy101 Subreddit
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Is the enemy of my enemy my friend? - The Breach
Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity - Against Socialism
Against campism: What makes some leftists support Putin? - Fightback
Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism – Anticapitalist Resistance
Hands off Ukraine – Anticapitalist Resistance
The World Is Non-Binary - aNtiDoTe Zine
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A good thing about this content being made by leftists is that, since tankies are leftists, maybe fellow leftists could connect & appeal to them better than non-leftists.
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If you want to call me Russophobic or Sinophobic,
Fuck you. Go fuck yourself. Get the fuck out of the antiwar & anti-imperialist movement.
I am 1/8 Chinese through my grandmother. I might have more Chinese genes than you.
Come back with a real argument or fuck off.
I just might delete comments that simply accuse me of Russophobia or Sinophobia, though comments with anything more than that will stay up.
This is the only time I have actually cussed here on AntiWar Substack or AntiWar Quorum & not quoting someone else, as that cuss words are for emphasis. I simply don’t have the time & energy for such nonsense.
How to deal with Americans & Westerners.
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I’m sorry for what my government has done to your people. That being said, Americans have been lied to, not evil. We would not support wars if we have not been lied to.
Muslims, if you hate the U.S.’s support Israel, you can start by talking to non-Muslims respectfully (some Muslims are disrespectful to non-Muslims). Jew-bashing will absolutely destroy your optics (public image).
Drop the tribalism. Seriously, your tribalism is how you have this much territory against one of the smallest countries in the world & you somehow still fail. The Israelis are laughing their heads off at you. I’ll get back to talking about tribalism in a minute.
Take a hint from the East Asian countries (specifically, countries like Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, & even Vietnam), & have good or at least have cordial relations with the west instead of hating the west.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Japan_Vietnam_Locator_2.svg)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Asian_Tigers_with_flags.svg)
Having cordial relations does not make you a puppet state. Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, & Japan all have their own military-industrial complexes separate from the U.S. (they don’t buy everything from America or the west). Singapore & South Korea had only token (insignificant) deployments in the Persian Gulf, Iraq & Afghnistan wars, Japan has only done anti-piracy & peacekeeping-type of deployments & not combat deployments, & Taiwan has not been involved in any American wars since the Vietnam war.
South Korea & Japan both routinely do business with Iran (namely buying oil), which is an enemy of Israel & Saudi Arabia. And doing things like exporting machinery than can make quiet submarine propellers to the Soviet Union does not sound like something an American puppet state would do (Toshiba-Kongsberg Incident).
Japan has given hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Palestine & Syria (albeit as a way of giving money to Japanese construction companies). Japan has helped Palestine more than China & Russia combined.
I would argue that it is in your own interest to have good relations with the west. Just look at how developed & rich Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, & Japan all are. The least 3 are big technology exporters to the west, & Japan is especially notable for its cultural exports. South Korea went from being one of the poorest countries in the world to being well within the 15 largest (now the 10th largest) economies, having a larger economy than countries such as Mexico, Brazil, or Russia, all of which have much larger populations. Singapore went from being nothing to one of the richest countries with the highest standards of living on the face of the planet in a single generation, & Taiwan went from being even regionally weak to major technological power (possibly even technological superpower) in the world by developing, manufacturing & exporting semiconductors.
If you don’t want to look to the kafir for examples & need examples from fellow Muslims, look at Morocco, Turkey, Albania, Jordan, Malaysia, Brunei, & to a lesser degree, Indonesia. They all buy western military hardware (Turkey still has the iconic American M1 Garand rifle & M1 helmet for ceremonial use, & Morocco is the only country on the African continent, other than Egypt, to have the M1 Abrams tank & F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighter) & has conducted training with western military forces. “Relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America date back to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and specifically since 1777 when the sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah became the first monarch to help the United States.“ Albania & Turkey are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, & Malaysia is a member of the Five Power Defence Arrangements with Singapore, which is has strained relations with. Turkey has gotten into fights from territorial disputes with Greece & Cyprus, & Indonesia has had several military confrontations against the west, but they have not held a grudges & isolated themselves against the west.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moroccan-American_Treaty_of_Peace_and_Friendship_01.jpg)
(Turkish soldiers being deployed at the Korean War in 1950)
U.S. Air Force Special Tactics Commandos training with Jordanian special operations forces
(DVIDS - Images - Malaysia amphibious assault [Image 31 of 33])
(DVIDS - Images - AFFHWC (PLAZA) CHOD Indonesia [Image 22 of 24])
(Disclaimer: this content is not endorsed by the United States Department of Defense.)
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Then again, Malaysia, Brunei & Indonesia are in Southeast Asia & not the Middle East, Morocco is far away from Israel or Saudi Arabia & do not come into conflict with them, which is why they have better relations with America & the West.
A country can not act coherently if tribal identity is stronger than the national identity. A reason why Syria has had a better time standing up to Israel compared to other Arab states is because of civic nationalism, which lets it act in a coherent manner.
You are not a Sunni, Shiite, Christian, Kurd, or X tribe, Y tribe, or Z tribe.
You are a Syrian.
Likewise, you don’t see, say, Japan successfully get subverted by Chinese intelligence services the same way that, say, U.S. Intelligence Community has hijacked legitimate Syrian reform movements & turned them into forces to weaken & destroy Syria. This is because the Japanese have strong social cohesion, & aren’t a bunch of tribal rabble.
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Many of those points were made in a talk about anti-war activist Ryan Dawson & half-Persian journalist Andrew Illingworth in a video called Iran (it’s more like an audio recording, as that there are no visuals), which I really want Muslims to go listen to.
A reason why the west is so successful comes from the ability to organised, which comes from being a more forgiving culture. In contrast to desert nomads to live in atomized tribes, westerners are capable cooperation because people judge each other as individuals & not groups & have a culture of forgiveness. Being forgiving may not be so important on an individual scale, but it is crucial on a societal scale if society is going to function.
The constant cycle of violence from vengeance is the reason why Africa & the Middle East are fucked up. To solve conflict in Africa & the Middle East, someone must take the last hit, say ‘enough is enough‘, & end the violence.
Recommended videos:
Collectivism, Mutli-Culturalism, Religion(s) just watch 6:32-9:03
UK bombing reaction and thoughts about assimilation
The reason behind middle eastern & northeast African people being so bad at dealing with outsiders is because their cultures were nomads for millennia, & never had to get along with people outside of their tribes. Momentum & extreme social conservatism is how they are stuck in a tribal mindset in the industrial age when you need diplomacy in order to get power & have anyone outside of your tribe take you seriously.
A strategic weakness I see with conservative cultures is that they are good at making enemies. One part of this comes from a combination of strongly valuing purity & loyalty.
We’ve seen this happen with the Crusaders losing potential allies such has the Byzantines & the Emirate of Damascus for not accepting Catholics, the German National Socialists not compromising on their racial views & thus losing most of Eastern Europe as potential allies against the Soviet Union, the modern Islamist Wahabi movement alienating non-Wahabis, or the Imperial Japanese making terrible decisions such as declaring war on countries 12 times their population & casually committing atrocities such as torturing & murdering civilians & prisoners of war, headhunting, the Rape of Nanjing & general war rape, medical experimentation on live victims with Unit 731, & so on.
This is talked about from 7:07 to 13:00 & 18:54 to 21:41 in
The 6 Most Extreme Societies Ever(We’re One).
Another part of this is that conservatives tend to be more tribal & provincial, or in other words, have a particularist mindset, while leftists tend to be cosmopolitan, or universalist mindset which is why conservatism is strong in rural areas & island societies while leftism is strong in urban areas;
Ep. 1823 Our Irreconcilable Division, and What Should Happen Next
Anywheres vs somewheres in practical politics
On a subconscious level, conservatives think that they are fighting an enemy tribe. Conservatives subconsciously associate humility with weakness. Conservatives’ hatred of being perceived as weak probably comes from tribal human nature, in which having your tribe being perceived as weak by enemy tribes means that your tribe gets attacked more & is more likely to be killed. This also explains why conservatives are so obsessed with masculinity, & particularly explains why Trump has a far stronger cult following than better spoken, more articulate (& more intelligent) figures such as Ron Paul (Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem – Ep. 704 – CPAC and How The Conservatives Lost Everything).
This also relates to honor culture, with for example, having a reputation for giving violent retribution against anyone who steals your herd animals is a way to discourage theft. The same would definitely apply if you were a desert nomad, who can not afford to have your food & water stolen from you or you will face starvation & dehydration, which are absolutely terrible ways to die in the desert;
It is actually neurologically, scientifically true that conservatives have larger amygdalas than leftists & why they find more threats in the world; Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology, Conservatives Big on Fear, Brain Study Finds.
We are also little more than hunter-gatherer apes, which is why we default to thinking & acting tribal & irrational.
What conservatives are looking for is comfort through stability, which makes sense in a chaotic, scary world.
To have a better psychological & sociological understanding of conservatives, here are some videos to listen to & articles:
Videos:
The Origins of War in Child Abuse | Lloyd deMause and Stefan Molyneux
Articles:
12 Proven Facts about Honor Cultures
5 Types of Honor-Shame Cultures
We can either be rational, civilized human beings,
(Federation history | Memory Alpha)
, or just be shit-throwing primates (I’m looking at you tribalists out there)…
(This is Why Chimpanzees Throw Their Poop at Us)
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"One thing I learned traveling the world when I was contracting with DoD was that if you treat the locals in a respectful manner so that they see you as a friend, the less likely they'll try to kill you in your sleep.
Not only that, they're more likely to open up and talk about things they shouldn't which can be quite the intel bonanza.
Not only that, it's just mentally easier to treat people nicely and you leave a good impression of your country on them that can benefit your fellow countrymen who may be travelling in your footsteps one day." - Iball nonya
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When it comes to having a victim mentality & using it to justify inaction or even negative behavior, here is an excerpt from King of the Hill - Kahn Gives Up - YouTube, which is a commentary on the King of the Hill cartoon episode The Redneck on Rainey Street;
"Now, I'm certainly willing to believe that there are people who exist that just want to dismiss victimhood & that some of these people are willing to use the concept of victim mentality in order to do that. But that doesn't mean that victim mentality itself doesn't exist nor that it isn't harmful. Kahn & Connie are a perfect demonstration of the difference between being a victim & having a victim mentality. They're both victims of prejudice. In fact, they're both victims of the same prejudice - being overachieving Asians. However, recall Connie's reaction to being told she didn't make it into rice. No matter what circumstance she was in, Connie always focused on bettering herself. She didn't let not getting into Rice stop her from studying, nor did she let her parents losing it drag her down with them.
Meanwhile, Kahn let the fact that he was a victim define his circumstance. He knew doing certain things was wrong, but he did them anyway because, as a victim, he felt entitled to doing them."
"Having a victim mentality does not depend on actually being a victim. Anyone, victim or not, can have it."
"Having a victim mentality is about seeing yourself as a victim, & using that to justify immoral &/or irresponsible actions." "It allows one to excuse their own flaws & prevent themselves from improving."
What I mean to say is that do not let being a victim mean that you do not at least try to gain diplomatic skills, pick up the pieces, & work with people outside of your tribe.
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If you oppose war, support the alternate media. If you are an American citizen, send letters & call your representative in Congress. If possible, go to Washington, D.C., & lobby Congress, which is the most effective thing you can do.
This article is a cut version of
By linking to that article, I’m risking being banned off of VK, where Ryan Dawson’s social media activity primarily is.