What’s next for Hui Ka-yan after China slapped Evergrande with a 4.2 billion yuan fine and banned him from the markets for life?
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Okay but healthcare in the USA is a scam. If everywhere else can manage to give you the treatment for a price you can afford, why can't the second richest country in the world?
*The tweet sounds USA-oriented and I'm replying with the assumption it's about the USA.
So what exactly is this? Open-source ChatGPT-alternatives have existed before and alongside ChatGPT the entire time, in the form of downloading oogabooga or a different interface and downloading an open source model from Huggingface. They aren't competitive because users don't have terabytes of VRAM or AI accelerators.
but only until Russia exploit those countries the same (or worse) than others did before.
Okay, but they can't exploit them worse. The west still exists and unless their rule becomes completely dominant (Giving them room to punish and set examples), they'll continue to give countries the same terms they're giving them now at the minimum. I'm now talking about countries that don't have to fear immediate invasion by Russia or the USA. Countries with some amount of sovereignty, but not enough to be able to afford making an enemy of the west.
Russia, India, China, whoever (China has caveats but it's not important for this point) need to show any nations willing step outside Empire's umbrella that the terms are better. Maybe if the west collapsed, and all of Russia's rivals collapsed, Russia could enact worse imperialism and colonialism than what's there now. But for many many decades to come, the west's relative power will be very high.
More powerful sovereign economies gives all small economies more choices in how to deal and enrich themselves. What I mean with sovereign economies is economies that are resilient to manipulation by the USA e.g. sanctions and invasion. If being sanctioned by the USA would completely destroy your economy, you would never risk disobeying them. If the BRICS countries are completely immune, both to sanctions and to invasion, that means that as a third country your risk is less when doing business with BRICS. If the USA sanctions you, you'll still have a powerful ally and trading partner. It's not risk-free, and having two poles isn't hugely different from having a hegemon. But multipolarity, which is the real effect Russia winning this war is having, is good for everyone but the hegemon.
I just believe it started as Putin’s wish to reunite USSR to its former glory. His words years ago: “The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century.”
It was a geopolitical tragedy, because it created a hegemon. Putin's words would have some meaning if he had any power to make that happen, but he doesn't. Him wishing The Soviet Union existed doesn't mean any of the post-soviet countries wish they were Russia. The Soviet Union could offer a system that was attractive to people from those countries. What can Russia offer? Practically nothing. The Ukrainian areas that Russia has incorporated were all areas with strong Russian support, for one reason or another. Invading and annexing hostile areas is much harder. Beyond their ability, surely.
I do not agree [that the invasion of Ukraine is self-defence].
Say Russia didn't invade Ukraine. What would happen? NATO has been expanding, that isn't disputable, Russia has set red lines (you can think these red lines are bullshit), and those red lines have been crossed. Whether the red line is reasonable or not, the fact is Russia used to have to power to have their red lines respected, they would've lost that power without the invasion of Ukraine, and they now again have that power. By invading Ukraine, Russia has stopped itself from rapidly losing power. Some people might consider this already self-defence. I don't think you should. But by being surrounded by NATO, by many of the post-Soviet countries and EU countries adopting strong anti-Russia sentiments (before the invasion), by the USA having targetted them as a target to destroy, it's realistic for Russia to fear attack. If someone wants to attack you, they are an enemy, and denying enemy attack vectors would then be self-defence.
To be precise, under international law, pre-emptive strikes don't qualify. You could call any action a pre-emptive strike if it did. But I'm not looking to clear them of wrong-doing, I'm trying to find their real motivation. I believe this is their real motivation. This is consistent with Russian insistence on security guarantees, them giving multiple chances, and them pulling out of Kyiv, and them attending the peace talks in Türkiye in the first half of the war.
There's a lot of in-depth information available on this site and others if you aren't convinced but feel this line of thinking is worth exploring.
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And now I will reply to the meat of the comment in the topic of your country's development. Thank you for replying in good faith. I'm glad you feel your country is improving, and meritocratic.
You believe living conditions have improved dramatically: (I don't use the word 'believe' to discredit it, but I'm addressing your subjective opinion at the moment): I must then challenge you on if the improvements have outpaced your country's (or region, if it was part of the USSR)'s wealth, and the advance in technology. I must also challenge you on if your perception of the Soviet Union is a fair one or one formed by influence from propaganda. You can't answer these questions, but you should consider them as analytically as you can.
For example you say people get paid to do nothing, and that's bad. But it's not bad for the worker. It's bad for the nation. If the nation is losing money on that worker doing nothing, it's in the nation's best interest to find contributive work for that worker. We can safely assume that the nation makes choices in its best interest and will find contributive work for that person eventually. Meanwhile they're getting a salary. People are also left outside the job market under liberalism, but they'll be on unemployment or homeless. From just that example, while both scenarios are a failing of the system, the USSR system is better for the worker.
You then talk about a low standard in terms of everyone's wealth and access to goods, leisure, housing etc. But consider the USSRs economic realities. It transformed very poor nations into middle income nations in a very short amount of time, all while suffering a devastating war. The priority was giving everyone something, and quality could come gradually when no one was destitute.
Again, I'm grateful that you decided to reply in good faith and value your opinions on the state of your government and country, even if I don't agree with your conclusion regarding the USSR-local SSR relationship and the USSR as a whole.
The nested thread is inactive. kurcatovium wasn't doing bootlicking, they're being faced with a big accusation that goes against their experienced reality. "The majority of the world disagrees with you", and given that I think they have been respectful in interacting with me and more on the point, they didn't justify imperial actions.
Also edit out your boorish insults
Okay.
like anyone need to elaborate every single time when downvoting a bootlicker like that for spewing anticommunist comprador lies about “USSR occupation”.
Yes, you're right. But it's what they were taught and they have no reason to investigate if no one gives them one.
I’m pretty sure the Tiananmen square massacre was a bigger crime.
Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move
genocide of the Uighur people
Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/15-years-on-the-staggering-death-toll-in-iraq-keeps-climbing/239055/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
their oppression of Hong Kong
Even the propaganda version pales compared to the shit they forgive.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
their attempts to steal Taiwan’s sovereignty
Yeah alright go home mate.
Do you think Russia does what it does for the greater good of these people?
No. It does not matter why they do something, they're doing it, and it benefits the 7 milliard people.
Isn’t Russia doing basically what every other imperial power did since long time ago? Conquer or at least control, because they want to be imperial power too?
What they're doing in Ukraine isn't imperialism, it's self defense. (Self defense doesn't automatically mean it's justified. As with all things there's appropriate response and degrees). Would they partake in imperialism if given an opportunity? Absolutely, it's a capitalist dictatorship, they don't have morals.
But for me personally Russia represent something worse than those mentioned before.
What do they represent? "Those who (exploit) rich countries () to build their billion dollar mansions ()" is the enemy of the global majority. Carefully consider the USA and the EU nations' track-record. Russia by contrast has only existed since the 90s.
If you want to know a bit of my background, I live in a country that was 40 years under USSR “occupation”, so I’m obviously not a big fan…
And has your country improved? Is employment more dignified and abundant, are more people educated, class differences smaller, is infrastructure and housing being built more rapidly?
At least I don’t have to avoid passing around windows or drinking tea.
You would if you cast yourself in with the yanks. https://cpj.org/2024/03/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
- Edit: Removed hostile language directed at other users.
If you were to divide the world into two camps, one with 1 milliard people and another with 7 milliard, and they wanted opposite things, would the 7 milliard group not represent most of the world? Now, I don't want you to dox yourself, but I ask rhetorically which camp the country you're from falls in. Here's a map in case you're genuinely unsure. !alwaysthesamemap@lemmygrad.ml
independent news outlets like The Intercept
How is The Intercept independent? They're bound by USA laws, they're party to the war.
- We are based in the United States.
The USA is a brutal dictatorship who invaded a sovereign country. What's the difference exactly? The USA has invaded someone more recently than Russia has, and they do it a lot more often. They're also more dictatorial and more brutal. The fact that the USA is mad at Iran for supporting their enemy is completely understandable. They're not being hypocrites, it's just mafia tactics and they're not ashamed of it. What's not understandable is you or anyone saying USA sending weapons to Ukraine and Iran sending weapons to Russia are somehow not equivalent.
To be clear, I am not at all justifying or forgiving the use of sanctions, it's a barbaric form of warfare that explicitly targets non-combatants, the USA should be ashamed and their leadership jailed.
Look up China Ghost towns. Some insightful shit.
No it isn't. This is the insightful western coverage.
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/chongqing-china-metro-station-nowhere/index.html
But as it turns out, predictably, if you check now the city has reached it and it's a completely unremarkable piece of infrastructure.
Next they'll write articles about the next stop in the line. Maybe western media can't wrap their heads around purpose oriented modes of production.
The USA has invaded Cuba and the DPRK. Literally the only thing they want from the USA is to be left alone and allowed to be friends with whoever they want without the USA threatening to kill anyone who talks to them. They'd both be radiated wastelands if the USA could make that happen unscathed.
Prolewiki is the Lemmy aligned wiki, run and maintained by Lemmy/grad users and staff. Greenland is not considered global north because they are a colony of Denmark. Geopolitically their interests don't align, and for the sake of economic classification, Greenland is exploited and Denmark is doing the exploitation. The map uploader didn't decide who is or isn't in the global north, they're repeating the classification used by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development https://unctadstat.unctad.org/EN/Classifications.html.
The USA is not a democracy. Not a weak or flawed democracy, as those require some democratic input. There is no democratic consideration done by the ruling elite when dictating their rule. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B The extent of the democratic process in the USA is voting blue or red. It's a meaningless and infrequent vote.
Wait wait wait, TikTok follows local laws?! 😱
Is it illegal for Swedish companies to store user data? Is it illegal for them to sell user data? Do they have very strict rules about showing users every time and how data they generate is saved?
Iraq accepting Euros for their oil.
That tweet is so weak, how are hundreds of people here upvoting and commenting on this?
Giving talks at NED funded Think Tanks