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davel OP , to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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The executive branch amends the “foreign adversaries” list as it pleases.

davel OP , to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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That reminds me that it’s happened before: Export of cryptography from the United States

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davel OP , (edited ) to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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Tiananmen square massacre

their genocide of the Uighur people

This bullshit never ends, does it?

their oppression of Hong Kong

Hong Kong was the product of the UK’s century of Chinese oppression, and their 99 year lease on oppressing Hong Kong ended in 1997.

steal Taiwan’s sovereignty

Taiwan is only considered sovereign by eleven countries, most of which are micronations like the Holy See, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan

was a bigger crime

davel , to worldnews in China to ICJ: Palestine has ‘inalienable right’ to armed resistance
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No, thank you! I’m still quoting it. I quoted it yesterday: lemmy.ml/comment/9280017

davel OP , to worldnews in Blinken Says Haiti Transitional Council Will Take Charge Soon
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I have no idea about Haiti in particular. I only know that, as a tool of control under IMF/World Bank neocolonialism, food sovereignty is often suppressed, forcing Global South countries to rely on imports for survival. Agricultural lands are expropriated for cash crops to be exported.

davel OP , to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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Those are not my adversaries, they’re the adversaries of US military industrial-complex and the imperial core capitalists in general. One reason they’re a thorn in the capitalists’ side is that they’re unable to exploit them through neocolonialism.

What has Cuba done to me? The reason Cuba has been under an illegal, grinding embargo for sixty years is that they pose the threat of a good example to the capitalist class: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

davel , to worldnews in ‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21
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From what I’ve heard in the past, predominantly the Qatari government: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network

And of course it’s biased: literally all media are, because it’s literally impossible for them not to be.

davel , to worldnews in Ansar Allah Announces Expansion of Attacks on Israel-Bound Ships to All of Indian Ocean
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These airdrops are a farce when there are hundreds of truckloads of aid just sitting there waiting to enter Gaza. The only thing standing in their way is the IOF. The airdrops are theater to assuage American & European liberals.

Although several countries, including the U.S., have participated in airdrops of aid, Bouloukos described them as “immensely expensive,” “completely inefficient” and “dangerous” and that the only solution to the humanitarian crisis is getting aid in by road.

davel , to worldnews in ‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21
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I should write a bot for MBFC mentions to save myself time lemmy.ml/comment/8913172

davel , to worldnews in Ansar Allah Announces Expansion of Attacks on Israel-Bound Ships to All of Indian Ocean
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This is a fake article: they didn’t call them Houthi rebels and didn’t say they’re Iran-backed even once.

davel OP , (edited ) to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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The imperial core countries affords those—notably deteriorating—social programs through the exploitation of the periphery countries, programs which the core does not allow the periphery to have. The global north working class paid for those concessions with our blood & sweat, though no one seems to remember, thanks to two red scares and a cold war. The purpose of FDR’s New Deal was to save capitalism from socialist threats, and the capitalists have spent the last fifty years chipping away at their New Deal concessions. Europe had its own, even stronger socialist movements, and their capitalists similarly ceded ground temporarily.

China escaped from the imperial core’s predation in the last century, and is still in the process of recovering from it.
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

Despite over sixty years of imperial core-enforced sanctions, Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans.

Look up China Ghost towns.

I am familiar with them. Those were planned communities that were photographed after construction but before being populated. Perhaps there were some duds, I couldn’t say: researching every bit of US propaganda gish gallop isn’t my day job.

This Is What The World’s Loneliest Metro Station Looks Like Today

China intentionally popped its housing bubble recently, and that’s why some capitalist real estate developers are going bankrupt, and China isn’t trying to save them because they’re capitalists.

davel , to memes in Well that sucks
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Looks like woods porn is back on the menu.

davel OP , to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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It doesn’t examine other social media, like the much-larger Facebook.

Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”

All of the US corporate social media platforms are part of the US military-industrial-intellegence complex now. Look at their boards of directors and executives. Look at Reddit:

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TikTok as well. We’ve known since Snowden that US “cloud”/hosting companies are deeply embedded. The US already forced them to move their service to the US onto one of those providers, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman.

They have their eye on the fediverse now, too: Atlantic Council » Collective Security in a Federated World

As I’ve said before, the threat has always been coming from inside the house:

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Lastly, it doesn’t suggest that foreign influence operations aren’t a threat at all.

One can’t prove a negative, and I’m sure there isn’t literally nothing that has happened or will ever happen. But trying to propagandize the voters of the most propagandized country in the world probably isn’t the most efficient way to go about it. Bribing politicians surely would be more efficient, for example.

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davel OP , to technology in Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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If it’s a 100% capitalist state then why is it ensuring that its people can afford housing at the expense of the capitalists? CNBC this week: China’s housing minister says real estate developers must go bankrupt if necessary

“We will scale up the building and supply of government-subsidized housing and improve the basic systems for commodity housing to meet people’s essential need for a home to live in and their different demands for better housing,” an English-language version of the report said.

Unlike Obama, who bailed out the private banks at the expense of people with home mortgages. Michael Hudson, 2023: Why the Bank Crisis isn’t Over

The financial sector is the core of Democratic Party support, and the party leadership is loyal to its supporters. As President Obama told the bankers who worried that he might follow through on his campaign promises to write down mortgage debts to realistic market valuations in order to enable exploited junk-mortgage clients to remain in their homes, “I’m the only one between you [the bankers visiting the White House] and the mob with the pitchforks,” that is, his characterization of voters who believed his “hope and change” patter talk.

The Federal Reserve is just the cartel of the US private banks, whereas banking in China is predominantly state owned. The Chinese state both runs these banks and has fiat monetary sovereignty, so it’s not answerable to the capitalists like the US is.

Why The Government Has Infinite Money

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