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  • the Tibetans govern themselves within a system similar to that under the Qing

    The King dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, a literal theocratic empire whose emperor had a mandate from heaven.

    Btw, these excuses of being “just a protectorate”, “for their own good”, “to protect them” etc are very common excuses for imperialists to enforce their own will. Other common excuses are “historical reasons”, “ethnic reasons” or “national security”.

    Conquest is conquest, subjugation is subjugation. If it’s ok for me, but not for thee, then you are a hypocrite.

    Tibet is a Chinese imperial holding because they took away their right for self determination.



  • Also because Russia is now a semi-fascist far right state, as much as the US, if not worse. No idea how it happened that both self proclaimed communists and far right governments will fight and die for Putin.

    Maybe the extremists are not those who support human rights, but those who support authoritarianism, from both sides of the spectrum.


  • It only took a century and the death of the supreme leader.

    The reality is that communist countries have historically been very conservative in their social policies, and most of them are still today. Even former communist countries are, generally speaking, more conservative as a whole than their more democratic neighbors.