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davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in who is on Lemmy (the sociology of Lemmy)

https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115504/http://capperwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Twenty_dollars%2C_same_as_in_town.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries

Headline is not dumb. There are reasons to make a distinction between the two, the most salient one being that capacitors are several orders of magnitude faster to charge and discharge.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says - Al Jazeera

China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

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China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China’s domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says

frothingfash

davel , 2 months ago to technology in China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says

How is the west white supremecy?

Imperialist European powers invented “whiteness” almost 500 years ago as a justification for and a tool of imperialist domination, and the Global North is still doing it.

We really ought to teach CRT in schools like the conservatives claim we do.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Perhaps, if NATOpedia’s raw data is to be trusted.

Incarceration rates and counts. From World Prison Brief

The World Prison Brief at PrisonStudies.org is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is now hosted by the Institute For Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck College, University of London.

It was previously hosted by the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS). It was a research centre at the University of Essex. It was launched at the House of Lords on 4 April 2011. Between 1997 and 2010 ICPS was based in King’s College London and was launched formally by Home Secretary Jack Straw in October 1997. In July 2010 the International Centre for Prison Studies incorporated and registered as a charity with the Charities Commission of England and Wales. From the outset the Centre was independent of governmental and intergovernmental agencies, although it would work closely with them.

So who really knows what the quality of the data is without further investigation. But it seems to have been originally created by the UK’s military-intelligence-industrial complex.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

If liberals are about intentions & sentiments then why do they keep telling me they’re about facts & logic? smuglord

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I mean, you’re asking about two separate political axis: economy, and control.

same-picture

You may not realize that these are in no way orthogonal to each other, but the bourgeoisie certainly do, because they own the means of production, and they use the state to enforce the private ownership that perpetuates their control over the proletariat.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

The Nordic countries are at best welfare capitalist states, and that welfare relies on the super-exploitation of the Global South. No Nordic country is even gesturing toward the abolition of private ownership of the means of production. In fact they’re moving in the opposite direction, toward the neoliberal privatization of more and more of the commons and the financialization of everything, which is burying the working class in debt. The Eurozone is just the cartel of the European private banks, and it was designed to enforce neoclassical economics and preclude Keynsian economics.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I think because they mod !noyank.

ETA: What a stupid, unproductive, corrosive thread this fucking was.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I think the myopic point you’re making is unintentionally promoting some heinous stuff, or else I have to wonder how you seemed to end up with a Lemmygrad alt account. I’m not seeing any “yanks” here being confused about race.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

This sounds like a neoliberal just-so story that may have come out of The Road to Serfdom.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/450cd4a3-795a-4bda-845e-854453b536ca.jpeg

China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/83ec576b-b536-40ac-b2f1-3dafd22b9894.png

China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China’s domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

gold-communist

A five minute primer on Herman & Chomsky’s propaganda model:
Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: racism

We really ought to teach critical race theory in schools like conservative politicians and pundits claim.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

I already covered the origins of this propagandistic Western conceptualization of “authoritarianism”/“totalitarianism” in another comment in this post. But I’ll add a 1955 CIA report that was declassified in 2008.

Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain.