Settler bourgeois have perfected the art of failing upwards.
Socialist enterprise and markets can be competitive, in fact more competitive than a capitalist system. China is actually super innovative now, having caught up technologically with the west in part by leveraging the same import substitution policies and general disregard for other countries' capitalist's "intellectual property" which drove industrialization in the western nations.
The two big differences between socialism with Chinese characteristics and western neoliberalism are the fact that SWCC places at its core collective ownership of the means of production and state investment in developing said means of production. Whereas the west privatizes everything and only invests state funds in the further enrichment of the few who own said privatized means of production.
Germany is doing this all very consciously, while knowing clearly what the outcome is.
In fact Germany claims one of its official reasons for existence is the defence of the Israeli state and its supposed right to exist. It's considered anti-semitic and anti-German to criticize this position or to even express sympathy for the colonized peoples of Palestine. Allegiance to this official position may be required for naturalized citizens moving forward.
Meanwhile actual anti-semitism (violence against Jews, vandalization of Jewish property and symbols) goes on uncommented.
Yes, the US has never not been the bad guy.
Yes, it's US imperialism.
"Both western and eastern media are bad" has "neither Washington nor Moscow/Beijing" vibes. Which basically translate to meaning "stop calling out my intellectual dishonestly and let me support white fascists in peace."
For those interested in an analysis and takedown of the trope: https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/the-fallacy-of-denouncing-both-sides-of-the-us-china-conflict/
If you read that media bias writeup you'll realize is that all it says is "The Grayzone often questions the US state department line so they're untrustworthy."
Why are you re-lubricating lubed switches? If you are redoing the lube, are you using a solvent to remove the previous application? What sorts of problems are you having?
I just got into custom boards and I've had Strawberries for two months now. They've been perfect. I can't complain about the factory applied lube.
Of all the semantic hair splitting distractions, that's what you go for?
Go study philosophy or something. I'll wait for something substantive.
Once you're a billionaire you've won capitalism and the rules don't apply to you.
knfrmity
joined 3 years ago
Sometimes I ask people what made Trump so uniquely bad. The only answer I've gotten so far, one which can't be applied to every other US president, is his unfiltered and brash communication style.
I also think that Trump was good vis a vis nations in the US sphere of influence. The leaders of those countries started thinking about what happens when they're not the US' puppets. Unfortunately those thoughts were all forgotten as soon as Biden was elected, as everything went back to normal.