I can understand that someone might think communism is a better solution and worth a shot - but what I can’t understand is the China/Russia apologia. Trying to convince people what is plainly happening isn’t is a form of mental illness.

Mostly the people running and modding it are insane.

That is neither evidence nor a source.

The report is just repeating allegations and asking for an investigation. Did no one else read it?

It is not a finding of fact or anything similar.

The report here also does not include sources or evidence.

The current membership of the HRC is: Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Malawi and the Netherlands.

Do with that what you will.

It won’t be popular here - but that report is just a report of allegations and is also not substantiated by anything?

There is very little French spoken in New Orleans. There’s more creole, but is absolutely not used virtually anywhere as a part of daily life.

I haven’t been to Baton Rouge, but a quick googling suggests the same. It is not an official language and not part of daily life. It is heritage more than practice.

Which is what Quebec is trying to avoid.

There is very little French spoken in Louisiana. There’s more creole, but it’s still single digit percentages. It is not common and their curriculums are certainly not in French.

The entire towns website for Berlin, NH is in English: https://www.berlinnh.gov/. There’s not even a French translation.

I think you are severely overestimating the prevalence of French as an official language in North America - and even as a lingua Franca.

What other French areas in North America are you familiar with? The only one I can think of is maybe Haiti?

I’ve only ever really been to Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Canadian Niagara Falls. Montreal is fun and different, Toronto is like a baby NYC, Vancouver was cool but just ok. I’d go back to Montreal before I went back to any of the other places. Except in winter.

France has a whole host of laws to keep France French as well.

Quebec and Montreal are wonderful because they’re so different and yet so close.

It’s hard for me to hold a grudge against them for that. It’s not like they’re saying you must speak French to go to school there - they’re just saying you have to try to learn French if you want to go to school there.

Yeah but the tomato pureé you guys make is way more delicious than the tomato paste that comes out of tubes this guy is referring to.

I mean yes, they’ve stolen a lot of IP. Much of it was not transferred legally. They have a state run industrial and commercial spying program and have for decades - just like Russia.

What OP is actually referring to is the lack of industrial oversight and the Chinese penchant for using substandard material like steel and lying about it to charge a higher price while providing an inferior good.

Look up ‘tofu dreg’ construction.

It’s not western capitalists getting rich off this, it’s unscrupulous Chinese factory owners and industry magnates.

It’s also not just an export problem.

What an insane thing to repeat without any evidence.

He’s going to have to do something, they’re going to have their own economic issues to deal with…

Hasn’t their economy already shrunk by 5% since the war began?

Seems like they’re going to become a vassal state of China.

I mean Russia is pretty close to needing to pick a side.

This doesn’t seem particularly internally consistent.

If the ME doesn’t matter because hydrocarbons don’t matter, why are Russia and China bound by them? Isn’t Russia in even deeper trouble since most of their hard currency is from exporting hydrocarbons?

When is the world being more destabilized than today and by who? Is the world stable right now?

Who is the financial outlook fragile for?

What are the impacts of climate change and demographics over the next decade?

How does this disproportionately work to the detriment of Israel?

I’m not even saying you’re wrong, but there’s a lot missing connecting this to the point you’re trying to make I think.

Which are the poles you see in this multipolar world than were different from the poles over the last 50 years?

Time will tell.

You’re right that both sides have been awful.

While Israel may be led by a group of religious extremists, so is Palestine and Gaza specifically by extremist terrorists.

This round of tit for tat will echo like all the previous rounds over the last 70 years.

Until Hamas frees the hostages, it’s virtually impossible to overplay the hand.

This will just be another footnote of ugly killing on both sides in a long history of ugly killings.

The government of Gaza is Hamas, elected in 2007.

Israeli civilians have also been caught in the crossfire. You know from the terrorist attack they committed 3 weeks ago that killed 1,400 and then the 200 innocent people they kidnapped and imprisoned as hostages somewhere in Gaza, which is what this is all about?

If Hamas freed the hostages, Israel would have a much harder time conducting this war in the way they are, but you can’t literally kidnap someone’s citizens and expect anything less.