Summary of the article:

• The UK's deindustrialization is China's fault, not the fault of the capitalists who deindustrialized the UK
• The UK is trying and failing to reduce carbon and that's somehow China's fault
• China doesn't even care about renewable energy

Mass-media propaganda might be the only innovation or export the west has and it's stale af.

"These Chinese magnets are a threat to national security!!!"

The data use policy for the pilot states that the footage cannot be actively monitored for law enforcement purposes, but that police may request access to previously stored footage.

So I guess they'll only be providing live data to who? Food deliveries? Feed it into the healthcare system so they can be given medical care?

“Our ability to help the individuals directly is not really part of the pilot,

Yeah, it's just a tool for pigs to sieze your shelter, property and violently oppress the most vulnerable.

“We’re not detecting folks,” Tawfik said. “We’re detecting encampments. So the interest is not identifying people because that will be a violation of privacy.”

Zero fucking self-awareness. All these techbros selling shitty python code to make it easier for fash boots to locate prole necks are class traitors and need to face the fucking wall.

Uhh, hey, Donnie? We're going to need you here to open on saturday too, okay, thanks. And, uh, please tuck in your shirt; I heard corporate is doing inspections this week.

This was even before 2-3 attempted assassinations

Trump winning, constantly looking over his shoulder, jumping at every loud noise and gazing too long at every 18 wheeler he sees might be the funniest outcome for a manhattan billionaire

Still waiting to see that pasty technofascist to show up to any of his fistfights.

Pretty safe predictions here, so I'll take a wild swing: Isn'treal shoves Iran into full-blown war ahead of schedule and elections are "delayed".

Not quite; westerners believe photographs of mars are real.

I understand that after WWII the CIA took control of the Banderites as a terrorist force to use against the Soviet civilians and armed forces; how NATO was cobbled together from the Nazi diaspora; how Canada imported Banderites to gut labor organization and all that. There's probably a lot more awful stuff I don't know, too.

So yeah, in the larger picture. But I was mainly referring to the time since the Maidan coup (which, of course, even then goes directly back to the previous color revolution...)

The starting point for the Marxian analysis centers on the existing dominant forces of monopolistic industrial capitalism. Therefore socialist revolution still must move through capitalism by process of subordinating the ruling class to a proletarian state. As Cowbee pointed out, fascism is not a state absent capitalism, but rather mode of capitalism itself. Because of the inherent contradictions, we assume that any capitalist system already produces various quantities of fascism as a mechanism for maintaining superiority of the owner class.

I've lived inside the western propagandasphere most of my life, and I'm always surprised at how obscenely xenophobic and dishonest it is. To the point of being an inversion of reality.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I held on to many of these "china bad" media narratives and was reluctant to let go of them when confronted with reality. I can say now how wrong I was and irresponsible it was for me to perpetuate that bullshit. I won't excuse my old attitudes, but I do recognize that I didn't invent them either; I just sort of absorbed them.

The closer I look at China, the more my opinion improves. Especially with regard to geopolitics, the Belt and Road Initiative, BRICS, renewable energy and infrastructure building. It's a success story of the process of socialism; they are effectively constraining and directing capital to improve material conditions for the working class. Planning society to meet the needs of its populations works. Building peaceful and productive partnerships around the world works. Of course nothing is perfect and any rapidly industrialized society comes with growing pains, esp given China's own historical context, but I've come to regard China as close to as a model society for our point in time in many ways. And yep... I've also been guilty of having stupid ultra-left "iT'S NoT ReaL ComMuNiSm" takes too. I honestly wish I had been raised with a Marxist education in my early life so I could have found a sane way to understand the world much sooner.

As the empire collapses, I think it's becoming clear to more people that the western media narrative is a bandage over the rotting wound of capitalism; ignoring its own decay and falsely demanding that we believe everywhere else must be somehow worse.

“The far right in Ukraine is growing. The right wing is a danger to democracy.”

Can we just get a straightforward "We regret arming neonazis to the teeth for the last ten years and cheering them on to invade Russia" already? This soft-landing walkback bullshit is so annoying.