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nekandro ,

ITS HER TURN

nekandro ,

Being wealthy in the US/UK/Canada is so much better than being rich in China because the marginal advantage is substantially larger

In China? You still take the train. Transit is probably still faster than driving. Your food expenses don’t scale as fast because cheap food isn’t made of garbage. You already likely own a home. You probably come from a tier 1/2 city, so traveling domestically is cheap. Your kid still has to grind for gaokao.

In the US? You fly business. You drive around in your S Class. You can bribe infinite extracurriculars for your kid to get into a top university. You basically never have to interact with anyone in the lower 90% of incomes, and you don’t need to be THAT wealthy to do so.

nekandro OP ,

Archive: archive.is/S3n7T

nekandro ,

Meanwhile Netanyahu is fine…

The ICC is and has always been the judicial arm of the West used to put down the Global South. Fuck them.

nekandro ,

So when are you booking your flight to Kyiv?

nekandro ,

Chinese spyware… Hosted in the US. With communications going to US data centers.

Odd that you’d call it Chinese spyware, when the more fair assessment is that it’s American spyware that happens to run a content recommendation algorithm from a Chinese company…

nekandro OP ,

Calling a spade a spade is a hit piece now? Truly the least propagandized people on the planet.

nekandro OP ,

Republicans accept a post-truth society where everything is someone’s propaganda, that the federal government is out to get them and that the union would be better served as a union of state-level republics. Democrats still believe in the existence of a ground truth and want a union with centralized control (i.e., they are Federalists). Like the Federalists, the Democrats are backed by wealthy financial states (New York, California) as opposed to more rural/working-class states (Alabama, Ohio) and support heavy industrial subsidies (Biden’s IRA, CHIPS) as well as weak state governments.

This is a fundamental difference that explains a lot, actually. The role of government has always been to convince populations to pursue the policy goals of the elite. The foundations of representative democracy involve choosing which elites’ policy goals to follow. The Republicans want to follow state elites (to borrow a Chinese proverb, the mountains are high and the President is far away). The Democrats want to follow federal elites.

Here’s the real problem. The US gets to choose between a career politician and a career businessman (swindler, by definition). Who represents the working class? Who represents the people who actually built America’s economy?

nekandro ,

They’re just Japanese war crime apologists. You get used to them.

They’re the same people who’ll say that only Jews suffered from the Holocaust and completely ignored the sacrifices of the Soviets and the Romani people (mostly because they were freed from those camps by the Red Army in the East and the West never saw it). They’re the same people who’ll say that US trade with Japan in support of Japan’s massacres in China was just business. They’re the same people who’ll claim that Japan did nothing wrong until Pearl Harbour.

They are delusional, and they’re not worth your time.

nekandro ,

And now we have ROC massacre apologists. The KMT government killed and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of communists in the post-WW2 civil war period. During WW2, the KMT consistently prioritized the threat of Mao’s armies over the threat of the Japanese, stalling pan-Chinese efforts to fight back against the Japanese and inadvertently leading to hundreds of thousands more dead, raped, or worse.

nekandro ,

People really underestimate the impact of sonar on marine life. Hell, people really underestimate the impact of sonar, period. Active sonar operates at 300dB. For reference, 85dB can damage human hearing, and 300dB is 21 orders of magnitude greater than that.

nekandro ,

I remember getting scolded for not singing O Canada properly.

Why is this even a story? This shit happens in schools because wrestling kids to do stuff is hard.

Oh wait, I forgot, China bad.

nekandro ,

Does the principle count, or do you consider that a teacher? What about the superintendent?

People want to make a good impression on their superiors. There’s nothing wrong with that.

nekandro ,

Believe it or not, there’s nothing wrong with telling someone to sing more loudly.

nekandro ,

cute

nekandro ,

Fair enough. I’m just saying that the fact that this is an article in the first place is because of “China bad,” not because it’s anything unique or special.

nekandro ,

Is your principal not elected by the school board (a municipal government)? A superintendent?

nekandro OP ,

Does anybody actually dislike this result?

nekandro OP ,

The really shocking thing about this claim is that it means North Korea isn’t really afraid of defectors anymore. I guess since a huge chunk of defectors end up returning to North Korea anyway?

nekandro OP ,

Do you not understand how North Korean defection usually works?

North Korea doesn’t care, because they know that a vast quantity go back and can be used as propaganda.

nekandro OP ,

Germany x Fascism 2: Electric Boogaloo

nekandro OP ,

I wonder who’s meddling in South American affairs again…

nekandro OP ,

entirely peaceful, not projecting power or antagonizing regional powers

nekandro ,

The entire principle of authoritarianism is either public support or public apathy. An authoritarian regime is only as stable as its populace.

A government that butchers its people against the will of the populace cannot survive even if it is democratic. A government that butchers people with the will of the populace will survive regardless of whether or not it’s authoritarian.

See: Israel, America, Canada, Australia, UK

There’s no fundamental difference between a democratic and authoritarian government in this regard. The primary difference is (and has always been) whether property is managed as a function of the state (monarchies, socialism) or as a function of the individual (democracies, anarchy).

Well, that and the “people” that get killed in democracies are usually of a different skin colour than you, so maybe you just don’t care?

nekandro ,

It’s Russia’s fault that the DNC was caught. Clearly Russia is to blame for the DNC’s corruption.

nekandro OP ,

Kenya’s anti-tax protesters enter Parliament, several shot ‘dead’

Dozens of Kenyan lawyers protest what they say is judicial interference by President Ruto

I guess America’s friends are unified in their disregard for a fair judiciary and the right to protest.

nekandro OP ,

Coincidentally, Kenya’s becoming all goody-goody with Western powers, going so far as to spearhead Haiti peacekeeping efforts and aligning themselves as a major ally of the West in Africa.

nekandro OP ,

Unrelated:

NATO strikes at Yugoslav power plants

Electrical power was out for thirty days after U.S. strikes on two transformer facilities in al-Nasiriyya, Iraq. Al-Nasiriyya 400 kV Electrical Power Transformer Station was attacked on March 22 at 6:00 a.m. using three U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles outfitted with variants of the BLU-114/B graphite bombs.

A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway.

The Saudi-led airstrikes late Friday hit workers’ housing for a power plant in Mokha, Yemen, flattening some of the buildings to the ground, the officials said.

nekandro OP ,

It’s an article about Taiwan. If you don’t know the main politician players in Taiwan, maybe you shouldn’t be here?

nekandro OP ,

Calling all Black people monkeys isn’t ok, but calling all Chinese person slaves is?

nekandro OP ,

I love justifying racism too don’t worry

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