Hawaii absolutely got it the worst when it comes to cultural commodification, which is really saying something because the Indigenous Americans has some of the worst examples of that I’ve ever seen.

For anyone living in the United States, have you ever been to any of those tourist-centric towns which are built over really important parts of native American history? If you know you know, and you’ll know it’s nauseating to look at. That’s basically what happened to Hawaii at the national scale. Nothing is sacred to Anglos.

Yep, that along with the Junggar Basin which IIRC is in the top three crude oil producers in the country. Xinjiang’s up there with Heilongjiang and Shandong in oil production.

80% was probably way too much of an overestimate though, I incorrectly recalled seeing that number to describe it before. Nobody’s put together a formal list on which provinces produce the most amount of oil since 2012, so I don’t have any actual percentages on hand.

The western “left” has recently come out of their shell and completely give up hiding the face they support the modern murderous empires, replacing the word “tankie” with “commie” has shown that their mindset is just the same as your average Cold War era racist American. Whataboutism as mentioned is a great example, as any mention of the literal hundreds at this point of invasions and destruction of developing countries for resources and influence will have swarms of “leftists” coming into their defense, at best maybe saying “That’s bad too, but-”. I’ve heard some self-proclaimed socialists, more than one, say things around the lines of “America has some problems, sure, but if you support (any AES country) you’re a fuckin’ loser.” Completely indistinguishable from anything the far right would say. It has killed my hope in the leftist unity ideal, and if the hope were to rekindle it wouldn’t come from westerners.

西方左是不行了和我的迎接个。

They made three of the largest world influencers that aren’t America break free of the dollar hegemony and they think that’s somehow some epic gotcha. I’m willing to bet now countries are going to start buying their oil directly from Venezuela and China quite soon (Russia later when people stop caring), once it’s finally realized that allying with America will not save you during conflict. They screw over their ‘allies’ almost as much as their enemies.

You know what’s funny, too? If they do start buying directly from China, guess where 80% of Chinese oil comes from? Xinjiang.