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yogthos OP , to worldnews in China's popularity among Arab youths rises as Middle East enters post-US era, signifying increasing strategic autonomy in regional affairs: experts
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I don’t know what CCP is, perhaps you were referring to the Communist Party of China (CPC)?

yogthos OP , to worldnews in China is building a 100GW renewable capacity project by the Yalong river. This will power 100 million households, the equivalent of the entire US population.
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Not even remotely comparable.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in China is building a 100GW renewable capacity project by the Yalong river. This will power 100 million households, the equivalent of the entire US population.
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You know what else means environmental consequences, continuing to burn fossil fuels like no tomorrow the way western countries are doing.

yogthos , to programmerhumor in Gotta stay up to date on the latest buzzword!
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LMAO anybody remember NFTs, that was probably one of the shortest lived fads in recent history.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US
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I think that’s precisely what’s happening, the amazing part is how many Europeans refuse to acknowledge it because they painted themselves into a situation where they’re entirely reliant on US for protection now.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in 2023 Edelman report shows that China has the highest trust in government
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Buddy, entire books have been written on how western oligarch owned media works with western regimes to manipulate public opinion. Here are a couple you should read:

Thing is that no amount of propaganda can counter the actual lived experience of the people in a country. This is why there is growing social unrest despite the west having the most sophisticated and best funded propaganda in the world. People can see that their lives are constantly getting worse and they’ve lost trust in the system and the media.

If people’s material conditions in China were declining the same way they are in the west, then people in China would lose faith in their system too. Yet, the opposite is happening because people are seeing their lives improve drastically with each an every decade.

yogthos OP , to memes in Easy Pills to Swallow
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Good to know you agree with being exploited. Boots aren’t gonna lick themselves I guess.

yogthos OP , to memes in Easy Pills to Swallow
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Wait till you find out how jobs work under capitalism. Your labour produces a certain amount of value, then your boss appropriates that and pays you back a tiny portion of it in form of wages.

yogthos OP , to memes in Climate Action
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That’s not actually correct, it’s not change in individual actions that needs to happen but systemic change. People act in the way that makes sense for them to act given the circumstances they’re in on individual level. What needs to change is the economic system to move away from consumerism, production of disposable goods, planned obsolescence and so on. This can only happen when the economy is publicly owned and directed towards the goal of profitability as opposed to towards creating as much profit as possible for people who own the companies.

yogthos OP , to memes in Where's the lie
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the web is unusable without it

yogthos OP , to technology in While we get frivolous stuff like ChatGPT, China is putting technology such as 5G and AI towards actual productive use by creating fully automated ports.
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The main disconnect is that regular people living in USSR did not feel oppressed, and most people were generally happy with their lives. I find there is a fixation on maximizing freedom of speech in the west, but the reality is that it’s not something vast majority of people thinks about day to day. Even in he west, most people aren’t even able to articulate what communism or capitalism actually is. In fact, I would argue that when a country is in a situation where politics becomes the dominant topic most people think about that’s a sign that things aren’t going great.

Everybody in USSR had their needs met, work wasn’t exploitative, and people didn’t work that hard, there was lots of vacation, and guaranteed retirement. Nobody worried about losing their job and ending up on the street or not being able to retire in dignity. It’s really hard to convey how much stress that removes from people’s lives. Crime was extremely low, elderly people would go to the parks in the evenings, the idea of being mugged seemed completely outlandish. Kids could go anywhere unsupervised and parents never worried about it.

There was a lot more opportunity for self actualization in USSR because you didn’t have to get a career that was profitable to exploit. For example, you wanted to become an artist or a scientist and pursue some obscure topic then you could do that without having to think about whether it could be monetized or not.

City planning was excellent compared to anything I’ve seen in the west. Everything was broken up into self sufficient microdistricts that had parks, schools, hospitals, and stores within walking distance. You didn’t need a car to get around, and public transit was excellent.

The main downsides that I remember were around lack of commodities. My family still had a black and white TV in the 80s and a rotary phone. This would be the main complaint most people had.

This was the main motivation for trying the western system. Most people knew that people in the west had nice things like fast cars, fancy clothes, gadgets and so on. Since nobody actually had any understanding of what capitalism was like, they just assumed that they would get to keep all the good aspects of USSR and get all the cool stuff west had on top of that. By the time people realized what a horror this was it was too late to turn things around.

Modern day Russia largely resembles what we see in the west. I think Russia has regressed in terms of human rights, it now has oligarchs running things, there is homelessness, and life expectancy has dropped significantly. It’s exactly same dynamic we see in the west where a small minority lives off the exploitation of the majority. However, even despite all that capitalists still haven’t manged to dismantle all of the legacy of USSR. This thread on Reddit shows that the worker rights situation in Russia today is still far ahead of what we see in US.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US
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😂

yogthos OP , to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US
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Now, now, let’s not let facts get in the face of the narrative here.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US
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No, that’s political power, and they are voted into power and out again

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. The power stays with the class that’s actually in charge which is the capital owning class. And there are numerous studies showing this to be the case. Here’s what one long term study of US politics has to say:

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.

Meanwhile, the fact that you keep claiming that China is a dictatorship just further exposes your ignorance on the subject you’re attempting to debate. This is wilful ignorance because you have been provided with numerous western sources demonstrating that this claim is false. Yet, you continue to repeat it.

And of course, the system that Russia resembles the most is the US. Don’t take my word for it though, it’s what your own state media says:

“American democracy is a sham, no matter how much it’s pumped by the oligarchs who run the country (and who control the nation’s “news” media),” he writes. “

You are shamefully ignorant of the subject you’re attempting to debate. Spend some time educating yourself instead of trolling here.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in European Council of Foreign Relations openly talks about vassalisation of Europe by the US
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Literally, every government is fundamentally authoritarian because it holds the monopoly on violence by virtue of controlling the police and military forces of the country. It’s a nonsensical terms that illiterate people use because they think it sounds scary.

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