Additionally, China is booming, so there’s no need for scapegoats. And if they ever need someone to scapegoat? Well, they have the United States and capitalism.
Unlike the US economy, China’s economy is not in a time of crisis, and all polls recent polls—even Western polls—show that the Chinese people are rather content with the progression of their material conditions and with their government. Unlike in the US in particular and the highly & still-increasingly neoliberalized imperial core in general, there is no urgency to “divert” the proletariat into consumerism or reactionary politics. Divert them from what? From their steadily improving quality of life, their rising incomes and falling costs-of-living? From their 25,000 miles of high speed rail?
You’re simply projecting our dire situation onto China. But Americans going on RedNote right now are seeing that their situation is quite different from ours. To our bourgeoisie, it is a threat of a good example that they don’t want us to see.
I also noticed that in many of your comments, you respond to people bringing up valid criticism and points by saying “Prove it, no CIA” but using American-based and funded sources yourself.
So here’s another issue. The reason I use western sources when possible is because those are the only sources that western liberals tend to accept.
They pull this catch-22 allthefuckingtime.
I understand your point that 30 diplomats from Muslim nations have visited Xinjiang and stated that China is doing an excellent job, however, it is just as important to note that many of these nations rely on China's economic support through the Belt and Road initiative, so they wouldn’t risk talking bad about China.
So the Muslim majority countries are lying because they’re all corrupt, but the white western countries (who routinely bomb Muslims) are telling the truth and aren’t corrupt?
Nonfalsifiable orthodoxy hours. Yet more imperial core chauvinist catch-22 shitfuckery.
Lengthy article; I’ll have to pick it up where I left off tomorrow. Amazing stuff—thanks!
For decades Soros has been a lightning rod for every flavor of antisemitism. A whole gamut of unhinged conspiracy theories have developed around him. I wouldn’t investigate too deeply because the rabbit holes have no bottom; it’s a big waste of time.
MMT is just a description of how fiat monetary sovereignty works. It’s not prescriptive, and it’s not comprehensive. For instance, it says nothing about international trade / international balance of payments / currency exchange.
Liberals, being liberals, take this description, expand it in liberal ways, add liberal prescriptions, and then call that mess—which can’t work—MMT as well.
We’re talking about open source software here, right? They’re not as susceptible to capitalist enshittification, and they can always be forked.
I don’t see using some particular open source software as an endorsement or support for the ideologies of the people who made it. I’m not subscribing to an ideology, I’m just using a tool. There isn’t even a consumer activism argument to be made here, because these are free tools.
What is your actual concern here? Are your concerns that the security and privacy of these protocols and/or software may be compromised? Or are you concerned about something else? Because this sounds rather like a purity fetish thing. Almost everyone in the imperial core is like these people, so if you need your software to come strictly from anti-imperialists then you may be waiting a long time.
I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand the wash of endorphins Western libs get from signaling their anti-seeseepee virtue to each other. It’s like drugs.
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If you haven’t already, you should check out Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”