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yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

If people make idiotic comments then they shouldn’t expect generous replies. I don’t ever make any glib comments when somebody makes a respectful reply that’s on topic. Respect is earned.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in The West Must Recognize Its Hypocrisy writes Financial Times

Well that’s something we can agree on. Politics of any society that allows mass wealth inequality will end up being captured by those who have the wealth. The only way to have a just society is by limiting inequality. And in my view, Americans should not run around the world and interfere in other countries pretending to do it for some grand standing purposes like spreading democracy while their own society is profoundly sick. Fix yourselves and stop playing world police. Let other countries deal with their own problems, and we’ll all be in a better place.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to worldnews in The West Must Recognize Its Hypocrisy writes Financial Times

That is such an absurd statement to make. To understand how absurd what you’re saying is replace Taiwan with Texas or Hawaii and replace US with Russia or China. Then tell me with a straight face that US would allow this level of interference in a US state where Russia or China would groom politicians, sponsor movements via their state orgs, and send weapons there. Last I checked US liberals are still losing their minds over the fact that a Russian oligarch bought a few 100k worth of Fb ads during an election campaign. What these links show is political interference on an incredible scale, and the kind US would never tolerate in a million years.

And don’t pretend that this is about spreading democracy, it’s about spreading US hegemony. US doesn’t even have democracy at home, how can it possibly spread it anywhere else:

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.

Having a foreign power take over and run your government isn’t what self determination is. Self determination fundamentally starts with having sovereignty, and having a foreign power drive your political system is literally the opposite of that.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

You know you could have replied with the exact same reply to the parent comment, yet you chose to reply to this one. Curious.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

This is such a disengenuous statement dripping with derision. Honestly trotting out this glib phrase is a clear declaration that you’re not interested in a good faith discussion.

Don’t pretend you were ever interested in having any sort of good faith discussion here.

The vast majority of people in “shithole western countries” would say that this is true of their government. I’m not sure that’s true for people living in the USSR.

Given the level of discontent in western societies right now, I don’t believe you. Meanwhile, as opinion polls show majority of people who lived in USSR now say they prefer the old system after getting a taste of the capitalist paradise.

We have all of those things.

There are literal tent cities of homeless people growing in many G7 countries each and every year:

• caufsociety.com/list-of-tent-cities-in-america/
• cbc.ca/…/canada-homeless-tent-encampments-1.65482…
• …arcgis.com/…/17437fc6fcf94430843a15f727a5260f
• latimes.com/…/in-seouls-piece-rooms-theres-not-ev…

The idea of a food shortage in Australia is unheard of. Was that true of the USSR?

CIA says that people in USSR ate just as much as Americans after WW2 period while having better nutrition:

• scribd.com/…/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5-pdf

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

Thanks for letting us know that you don’t understand how jpeg compresison works. 😂 It’s not uniform across the image, it compresses similar regions. And enjoy:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e3bc77e4-a651-49ff-b48b-5609e259aa38.png

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

You’re such a bad troll, it’s hilarious. Maybe learn how jpeg compression works there before playing detective. 😂 Hilarious how you think I’m going to dox myself for you here. You believe whatever you like though, it’s pretty clear that you live in your own alternate reality.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

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yogthos , 1 year ago to worldnews in Russia seizes control of Danone and Carlsberg operations

Horseshoe theory purveyor has logged on. 😂

yogthos , 1 year ago to worldnews in Russia seizes control of Danone and Carlsberg operations

That’s all they have, no actual arguments, no analysis, just smear people and try to shut down discussion of any topics they disagree with.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

You can’t believe that I grew up in USSR and actually liked my life there because you’re smooth brained victim of western propaganda. And when you’re faced with people who actually lived in USSR and liked it, you’re incapable of processing this information. Meanwhile, you can stop calling me a liar, cause I still even have my original USSR passport. Learn to deal with it troll.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/869caa4c-05e2-4bde-bae6-abeae69a9a89.jpeg

You can keep calling me whatever you like, but anybody reading this thread can clearly see that you’re just insane.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

A lot of people who actually live there seem to disagree with you, and say things got a lot worse for them once they got to experience enlightened western democracy. Obviously we should take your word for it though, since you’ve clearly shown yourself to be a knowledgeable intellectual in this thread.

• A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country’s economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary’s integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.

• The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.

• Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.

• A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -“during the time of socialism”. The survey focused on the respondents’ views on the transition “from socialism to capitalism”, and a clear majority said they trusted social institutions the most during the rule of Yugoslav communist president Josip Broz Tito. The standard of living during Tito’s rule from the Second World War to the 1980s was also assessed as best, whereas the Milosevic decade of the 1990s, and the subsequent decade since the fall of his regime are seen as “more or less the same”. 45 percent said they trusted social institutions most under communism with 23 percent choosing the 2001-2003 period when Zoran Djinđic was prime minister. Only 19 per cent selected present-day institutions.

• 75% of Russians have expressed increasingly positive opinions about the Soviet Union over the years. Only a small portion of those surveyed said they had negative associations with the Soviet Union. The economic deficit, long lines and coupons were named by 4% of respondents each, while the Iron Curtain, economic stagnation and political repressions were named by 1% each, the Levada Center said.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in Strategists admit West is goading China into war

Nah, I made my point quite clearly bruv.

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to technology in Chinese Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Developing Photon Chips

very much so

yogthos OP , 1 year ago to worldnews in India ties up with UAE to settle trade in rupees

indeed