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  • Israel is going to spend even more of its blood preforming a ground invasion.

    Those poor innocent invading soldiers trying to invade and colonize more and more land from these savage indigenous people. If only the indigenous people just accepted their fate peacefully and just give up their homes to the colonizers. They simply are the wrong ethnicity so they have to leave their houses or be shot. Not enough people consider how bad that makes the colonizers feel. Not leaving your house means you are just asking to be killed.

  • But capitalism specifically favors the greedy and individualistic. It's no surprise that if you base your society on capitalism, people will get more greedy.

    On top of that, capitalism enables some uniquely capitalistic evils, such as commodity fetishism and alienation.

    Also, some consider capitalism inherently unjust, making it an evil in its own right.

  • A thing can't be weak and strong by the same metric, indeed. That's why this article has to call China's economical strength a miracle, as well as so weak it is about to collapse, otherwise the contradiction would be too obvious.

  • I am not defending China, just pointing out a crappy argument.

    We're becoming more and more fascist in the west, with politicians like Trump, DeSantis and so on. This article from Reuters is part of this shift to the right and that's why I'm pointing it out. Fascism is a bigger risk to our way of life than China is.

  • China's economic miracle? I don't believe in miracles. I don't believe articles that talk about miracles.

    China is both a dangerous enemy and they're about to collapse. The enemy is both strong and weak. Umberto Eco called that one of the characteristics of fascism.

  • Republican means you are in favor of a republic, meaning no monarchy. Communism wants a classless society, so they are republicans as a logical consequence of the ideology. America is a democratic republic, so both Democrats and Republicans are just meaningless labels .

  • I don't think there is much difference in the use of the word liberal. If I compare the politics of the main liberal party in my home country (VVD in the Netherlands) there isn't that much difference with the average Democrat in the US. The main difference is whether they are perceived as left or right wing by the population.

    And it very much is neoliberal. Both parties (VVD and Democrats) are in favor of a smaller government and laissez-fair capitalism. They might need to compromise on these principles from time to time to remain popular, and in Europe maybe a bit more.

    Funny thing: right wrong conspiracy nuts get their talking points from the us, so more and more people are starting to call liberals left-wing communists in Europe. So far it's just by the people who get their talking points online.

  • it's interesting that an American is pushing Chinese talking points

    Maybe he just agrees with it? What is it about Americans that they wouldn't be convinced of other perspectives? Americans can only align with US propaganda?