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davel , 2 months ago to memes in Fascism everywhere

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: What this CoolDude is posting is hardly memes, more like a boomer-level propaganda

A Cool Dad

davel , 2 months ago to steam in List of countries that cannot make a PSN account, following the Helldivers 2 controversy.

Why Andorra — is Andor a swear now?

davel , 2 months ago to technology in Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

This reminds me of David Rees of Get Your War On and My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable fame who moved on to Artisanal Pencil Sharpening in 2010.

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

How did this escalate to tone policing and fascist-jacketing? smdh

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?

Again, jesse-wtf

davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in How should I change my polite behavior to be more accommodating?

I don’t think that kind of thing is unique to the South nor its link to slavery. In a larger scope, it’s a deference to class hierarchy. George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia, talking about his experience in socialist Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War:

Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said ‘Señor’ or ‘Don’ or even ‘Usted’; everyone called everyone else ‘Comrade’ and ‘Thou’, and said ‘Salud!’ instead of ‘Buenos días’. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy.

davel , 2 months ago to worldnews in NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win

I won’t try to when Hudson is such a good explainer. His 2019 paper he refers to is here: PDF. I think it’s largely an updated executive summary of his 2015 book, https://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/08/michael-hudsons-new-book-wall-street-parasites-have-devoured-their-hosts-your-retirement-plan-and-the-u-s-economy/ (PDF).

If you prefer video/audio, here are three relevant episodes from this year of Hudson’s & Radhika Desai’s Geopolitical Economy Hour:

• The debt explosion: How neoliberalism fuels debt crises
• Economic solutions: How to go from financialized neoliberalism to a productive, sustainable economy
• The reality of Bidenomics: How good was Biden for the economy?

davel , 2 months ago to technology in China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery

Are you kidding me? iPhones and most smartphones and laptops are Chinese products. The vast majority of high speed rail in the world are Chinese products. The Tiangong space station is largely Chinese products.

davel , 2 months ago to worldnews in NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1c73526a-10c2-4b62-b35c-e0366d176be5.png r/neoliberal is leaking again.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

basically zero labor laws

You have no idea what you’re talking about, like at all. Even shitty Wikipedia says they do.

davel , 2 months ago to technology in Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

It’s true, China Has Billionaires.

Income inequality rhetoric ignores that a class can reap the benefits of work via public investment (e.g. a bullet train), even if bosses make more as individuals. Working Chinese people are seeing the fruits of their labour despite billionaires and inequality. To recriminate them for not demanding more is recriminating the virtue of patience.

In fact, much of what passes for “socialist” idealism in the West turns out to be a mirror image of bog-standard liberal-capitalist entrepreneurship propaganda: “I will be my own boss! I will run my own business!” This idealism appears unaware that the necessity of management is foisted upon us by logistics, not capitalism. Denial of this reality results in fantasies of perfect synchrony between perfectly autonomous anarchists.

The “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” dream, embraced more by pundits with cushy lives than working people, also reveals a dark truth: western “socialists” have some awareness that a more equal world will mean losing first-world privileges. They cannot conceive of things getting better steadily and slowly, with hard work. And so they are forced to denigrate the Chinese road of self-sacrifice in favour of leisure-driven utopianism. The reality is that the victory of the working class over the capitalist class will usher in an era of hard but rewarding work, as opposed to hard work without reward.

United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

davel , 2 months ago to technology in Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry

slave labor in xinjiang

Oh no the CIA-backed terrorists got job training, the horror. lemmy.ml/comment/8175413

The actual slave labor is in the United States, thanks to the 13th amendment.

davel , 2 months ago to programmerhumor in The perfect way to round out your career

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/bacc6da7-de45-46dc-9e76-95e66faf7b97.jpeg

davel , 2 months ago to worldnews in Russians Who Fled Abroad Return in Boost For Putin’s War Economy

Paywall bypass: archive.ph/AZiHf

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to worldnews in Biden condemns university antiwar protests, says 'Order must prevail'

Disregard what Liar in Chief Biden says? All the time. White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw children beheaded by Hamas

Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel

Washington Post Fact-Checker Gives Up on Recording Biden’s Lies

I judge him by his 50 year track record, not his words.