Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit France next week

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T08:34:23+00:00

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T16:58:37+00:00

Right, by witnessing and reporting on the ongoing genocide.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:46:26+00:00

To be tautological, it will either be observed, in which case it'll be recognised as real, or the data will rule out its existence. :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:49:33+00:00

He was preceded by many, including Albert II, who, on June 14, 1949, survived a sub-orbital V-2 flight into space (but died on impact after a parachute failure).

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T11:16:18+00:00

Brilliant!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T09:13:49+00:00

The visit will 'inject new momentum to the peaceful development of the world', according to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson.

Beijing says it is a neutral party in the Ukraine conflict.

It notes a provocative US policy of continued NATO expansion and interference in Ukraine, which gave Russia few choices.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:33:12+00:00

Intellectuals often think of themselves as secular priests/monks,
who eschew commercial concerns.

They may thus feel contempt for
both dogmatic materialist Capitalism
and dogmatic materialist Marxism ('Communism').

They imagine that they're here to do the work
of understanding what the human adventure is all about.

This is actually an essential societal function,
providing ethical direction, etc.

It's something that used to be thought of
as trying to figure out the Mind of the Gods, as it were.

Unfortunately, today, the intelligentsia may have been
infiltrated and corrupted by bad actors
manipulating the gullible into undermining/discrediting
(actual) thought/episteme/science
in order to return humanity to the dark ages of
top-down dogma-based authority, where sociopaths can thrive.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:50:56+00:00

You Keep Using That Word ('truth'),
I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means,
Which seems to be ... 'Imaginary Deities and Magical Beings'.

And, by the way, why are you rejecting Mbombo, the Lord? :)

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T22:34:25+00:00

Wait, the deity has an adversary in a monotheism?

And let's just have a look at how it all works:

Jesus (who is God) sacrificed himself on the cross,
to appease ... well ... Himself (since monotheism),
so that He, Himself, would forgive us shitty humans for our sins.

And you're OK with that story.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:55:31+00:00

No biological processes, ancestors, DNA, evolution, etc?

Either I created myself or ... deities?

Oh, right, only one deity.

OK, which one?

Mbombo?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T21:20:23+00:00

It all seemed reasonable ... and then ... deities!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T17:56:18+00:00

What does that mean?

Let's, for the sake of argument,
grant you the (weird/masochistic) claim
that 'we are all shitty'.

Does that the Christ 'atones for EVERYONE'
suddenly make everyone ... 'not shitty'?

How does it all work?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T15:54:49+00:00

... holding a chainsaw and screaming 'A la Snackbar'!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T14:29:31+00:00

So, let me get this straight:

The policy of the USA is to do everything
to aid and abet a criminal supremacist regime,
giving it money (lots!), 'intelligence' and weaponry,
helping it mass murder the legitimate inhabitants
of Palestine, and steal their ancestral land,
thus fully colluding in the ethnic-cleansing.

But that's ok ... cause the USA also build a pier for the victims.

Is this a joke?

How about simply not funding, arming and helping the perpetrators?

Did that ever occur to anyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T12:17:39+00:00

I'm reading along, not really disagreeing,
curious to where this is going,
and then this:

'And because America has rejected God, America will fall...' :/

Great! :/

You'd think that the medieval dark ages were a long time ago,
but nooo!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-06T07:25:23+00:00

Why?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:56:31+00:00

But why does the Christ need to atone for anyone or everyone?

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T20:50:06+00:00

It's not your videos that are ... bit of a stretch. :/

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:57:21+00:00

Trying to gather visits to proselytising videos may be even sadder.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:30:06+00:00

The Guardian’s Jason Burke asked some random people about their feelings outside a theater in Jerusalem, and then presented this weird nothing thing as relevant news reporting.

:D

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T13:20:00+00:00

Because it's simply absurd to claim that
a late translation (the King James Bible)
of Christian mythology into English
[not even Latin, never mind Greek]
might present 'Infallible Proof' of anything ...
except perhaps of the gullibility of some people.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-05T11:08:43+00:00

This is sad.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T22:31:34+00:00

Islamists should probably not have been allowed (certainly not en masse) into Europe,
which is almost defined by its fight and victory against the idiocy of Islamism.

This religious ideology has managed to make (close to two billion) humans
prostrate themselves daily, face to the ground, ass in the air,
several times a day, towards some black stones in Saudi Arabia,
fantasizing that this pleases some deity. :/

Now, whereas Christianity (which at some point was arguably no better than Islam)
has become rather civilised today, the Mohammedans appear unwilling to eschew barbarism.

So, chances are that they will probably never rise above their dark dogmatic nonsense.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-04T08:48:53+00:00

That's, of course, awful.

However, Cuba is sitting right next to and under embargo by a hostile military hyperpower, actually the most hostile, militarised and aggressive power in the world, which seems to be in the business of constantly (directly or by proxy) attacking some-or-other country. It is, and has been for a while, controlled by a permanent deep-state 'Neocon' regime, always looking for excuses for the next attack, bombing, invasion, regime-replacement, ... These Neocons would love to use 'just helping the poor Cuban protesters' to then install some Zelensky-type ('friendly to US interests') puppet-government in Cuba.

Under these circumstances, trying to widen through social media anti-government protests (even non-CIA-funded ones) may be argued to present a real national danger to an independent Cuba.

That's probably the calculus behind that terrible Cuban Law that restricts the use of information 'through telecommunication/ICT infrastructures, platforms or services, of content that threatens the constitutional, social, and economic precepts of the State.'

Let's just hope that this kind of law does not become a thing everywhere.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-05-01T13:45:17+00:00

Soon!

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T17:52:54+00:00

You seem to keep bringing this back to race.

That's ok too, I guess:

One can indeed, if sincere, discern differences between peoples.

Once you've been in Africa, that becomes clear, not just for sub-Saharan Africans in general, but also between the different tribes:

It is accurate to conclude that e.g. Pigmies are short and Dinkas are tall.

In Africa, you can also see Africans left to their own devices, and observe how they live, manage their affairs, and treat each other.

And in Africa, you can't blame white-on-black racism or anything like that, though some people still try nonetheless, but nobody believes it, not really.

In any case, Africa is educational ... as it may offer a preview for the future of Europe and its (American, etc.) former colonies.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T14:10:49+00:00

They certainly neither serve nor protect.

HugodeCrevellier · 2024-04-30T06:01:57+00:00

The police in the USA seems to be becoming
less and less like an actual police,
i.e. there to 'protect and serve' the citizens,
and more and more like an occupation force,
i.e. there to subjugate, control and 'pacify' the population.

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