Mine is that Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Sopranos - often touted as the 'big three' TV shows simply hold no interest to me. I recognise that they're all done very well and probably at the peak of their genre, but I don't really like crime, gangster and especially police shows.

Pinkwashing what? I'm making the point that these are valid aspects to measure how free the people of a country are. In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?

Why are LGBT rights suddenly just something to ignore when it comes to this when China is bought up?

So you have no answer.

I'm assuming you don't pretend that a society that Hamas governs would be a free society. Right?

My question remains unanswered: In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?

So how is Rimu a cryptofash?

It was revealed to him in a dream.

Only you guys seem to think this.

China's overall end-goal is specifically to annex Taiwan. Taiwanese people do not want this. What would you call this?

Have they? Why is Taiwanese standard of living so low?

Is it? Based on what? What data are you referring to?

It can be and is disabled by other instances.

You came to me. You reply to me, I'll reply back.

Pinkwashing what? I’m making the point that these are valid aspects to measure how free the people of a country are. In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?

As I said, you reply to me - I'll reply back.

No, it was not.

The OP claimed, or strongly suggested that China is more democratic than the west. This seems farcical given the points I raised.

Make me. You can't.

I will never stop replying.

The point is that Iran or Palestine or China, or whoever being unjust targets of US/western imperialism or bad faith allegations or genocide doesn't automatically make their societies egalitarian or democratic. Both things can be true.

I also bought up their poor journalistic and political freedoms.

And yes, that is my point.

There's no misinterpretation. You openly support the state banning LGBT expression. That's a form of persecution.

If the government demanded that Christian-themed games be banned, that would be persecution to Christians. This is no different.

Why shouldn't a Solitaire game be allowed to have LGBT skins or themes?

So no ability to explain it.

And I'll do whatever I like, and without your permission.

So lets go further. What do people who live in Ireland want? Do they want to launch a violent assault on Northern Ireland? What are you even proposing here?

Is everyone in Northern Ireland a coloniser, or are they only colonisers if they happen to disagree with unifying Northern Ireland with Ireland?

Right, that's still not what I asked you. I'm not asking what you think should happen. I'm asking you what do the people of Northern Ireland want now?

The people in Northern Ireland can move between Ireland and the UK, move into the UK - enjoy equal rights. There's no system of apartheid. They have their own institutions. They can use those institutions to eventually acquire independence, providing there's enough support.

I tolerate sexual deviance just dandy

Clearly not if you think said "sexual deviance" should have its culture shuttered by state force.

I said absolutely nothing about the conflict there. Israel can be barborous in whole and it would have nothing to do with how civil society would look if Hamas governed them. The USA and Israel were utterly wrong to bomb Iran, but that doesn't magically make Iran a free society.

My question remains unanswered: In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?

Crimea? Via referendum, sure.

I don't really regard the referendums conducted in the occupied regions of Ukraine to be valid at all.

Do you support Taiwan's self-determination?