Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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Aren't they a 49:51 split international company:Chinese version?

He's not wrong on that point though.

Open dissent will be quashed and make you, at best, a social pariah very quickly.

The guts and persistence of groups/individuals like the '89 Mothers is astonishing and worthy of a lot of respect.

The PRC has big problems, that it is Guantanmo-ing or arresting and using as prison slaves at least three ethnic minorities for thought crimes is an atrocity.

But the huge increase of living standards for all Chinese citizens, including those of persecuted minorities when they're not being locked up for ideological reasons is almost unbelievable.

Over a billion people have gone from not having plumbing to having indoor toilets, heating/cooling systems and access to modern health care in the space of 50 years.

It would be easier to drop a moderately small artificial asteroid with heat proofing from near the moon.

Why try to redirect a natural one?

Sorry, I thought you meant as a response to the murder of the Hebdo staff by the two brothers and their accomplice.

How did you mean it?

Edge lords, but not even close to Nazis.

French culture is more racist-y than US culture, and a history of trait-blindness is starting to catch up with it and having ripples across French society.

Yes, collective punishment is always a good response that has never backfired.

Agreed. Have a good one.

I agree with all your points on Communism. At least in terms of how it's been implemented, at least in name, by the Soviet Union and the PRC it has been as extractivist and imperialist as Capitalist nations.

Though one can't really divorce the conditions in countries such as Nigeria or Bangladesh from Capitalism. The Global North's standard of living requires the conditions there to exist, the Socialist with Totalitarian Characteristic nations at least keep their poor conditions mostly in house (albiet with some local imperialism, and the PRC has recently started expanding outside it's borders though mostly infrastructure and resource acquisition so far.)

They're not quite two sides of the same coin as the goals for growth are expressly different but neither cares for social connections, a sense of belonging, society in the real, let alone the environment.

Those still to be solved problems may also be the result of governments. Those problems would likely shrink (albiet be replaced by others) when there aren't global systems of power and exploitation pushing to keep extracting resources from a corrupted Global South, polluting as processed by an overworked Asia, into commodities to sell to underpaid and liminally employed citizens of the Global North for them to destress and feel a fleeting sense of meaning in our increasingly atomised societies.

More Anarchist, I think that we should try to disengage from states and their power structures and treat people with respect and autonomy. Try to bring thee principles into daily life and interactions and live as much of a better alternative as I can.

Devolution of powers is a fine first step to work towards if engaging electorily, but that's a long way from the be all and end all of political ideology.

Thanks for the detailed responses.

Sounds like, to me, that you have a bigger issue with government than Socialism or Communism themselves. Are you much of an anarchist?

We can at least agree that it was a dictatorship under Stalin, right?

Does Kerala (though only a state and receives national funds) or Allendé's Chile (Overthrown by US supported military coup after a couple of years) count, or do they not for the reasons in brackets or others?

Ironically in the 19th centuries Europeans were all clamouring to have definitive proof that Homo Sapiens evolved within their borders to prove that they were the greatest and most fully evolved humans.

Out of Africa had to work pretty hard to become accepted.

And is very much based on skeletal records.

Subway in Europe does the veggie pattie and that is fire. Can't find that automatically in non-Europe Subways.

Late by all accounts, but the whole episode where Phoebe finds out about Monica and Ross and tries to mess with them is funny.

I think there are probably some funny scenes in early series, too.

Most of it is very surface level and bland though.

Snape is the best part of the latter books. He's well rounded, motivated, and a fully fleshed out character.

The rest of the world and half the people in it feel like cardboard shuddering in the breeze by that point.

The plot twist was that Snape wasn't a traitor, and killed the dying Dumbledore to save Draco Malfoy from becoming a murderer.

It also has about 4x the population, and doesn't pollute 4x more.

Plus it's still the largest manufacturing hub in the world. Europe would pollute a lot more if we hadn't exported a lot of (some might say too much) of our industry to the developing world and China over the last 50 years.

That's good, and I'm glad to have been informed of it.

Thank you.

My copyright change is the 17 years from first publication. Feels maybe still a little long, but much better than what we have now.