masquenox @ masquenox @lemmy.world

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China is already helping Russia.

As I've already said... China could help Russia logistically - but this help could disappear in a puff of hot air tomorrow. Again... China has no friends.

Modi just had a big state visit to Russia.

And this doesn't mean much in any way whatsoever.

I don’t need to ask Jonas Savimbi, I’ve been reading current events.

Actual history will tell you a lot more than warmed-over propaganda.

Good thing Russia isn’t making friends with China and India,

China has no friends - it's like the US in that regards. And India even struggles to project power within it's own borders, never mind outside it.

China could help Russia logistically, but Putin (and all of China's other "allies" - and I use that term lightly) understand fully well that China's "loyalty" can switch at any time - just ask Jonas Savimbi if you don't believe me.

Looks like Argentina is doing a Greece...

You don't need to be some geopolitical genius to know that this assessment is correct - Russia simply doesn't have the economic and logistical power to engage in a wider European conflict with any prospect of success, and this was perfectly clear even before Russia invaded Ukraine and before everyone lost their minds to Putin-hysteria.

Been trying to play Grim Dawn - but it's next to unplayable thanks to it's instability and overall jankyness.

Oh, well... back to looking for something worthwhile, I guess.

Slap-on-the-wrist fines doesn't keep workers safe - organized labor keeps workers safe.

Oh, it's far worse than that... the value of our lives have been determined by the (so-called) "free market" for a very long time now.

The machine is simply going to streamline the process.

You see all of the electric cars on the road now?

You mean those things that aren't public transport? Those things?

Tesla saw an opportunity to make money, and it paved a path to lower carbon emissions (eventually) still profiteering from privatized transport while pretending it was fixing anything.

FTFY.

Capitalism isn’t all bad, it’s the greed it breeds that’s bad.

Capitalism is literally just a set of excuses and pretexts to justify gross economic parasitism - old-style concepts such as "greed" doesn't even hold a candle to that.

Not really sure why you’re singling out capitalism.

And who did Bill Cosby make money for, again? Who protected Bill Cosby and allowed him all that power?

I think kinda everyone did.

No he didn't. Capitalists don't fool leftists - but nobody ever listens to them, right?

The guy was literally helping the environment

No he wasn't. Capitalists don't cure the disasters they create - they just find different ways of profiting off it.

the creator just went nuts.

No, he didn't - he just showed his true nature. That is all.

Oh look... Apartheid-boy is moving his company to a more overtly white supremacist location and blaming his daughter for it.

I am so surprised.

Gee... a capitalist world fawning over capitalists?

Who woulda thunk it?

To every employer I've ever had:

Thanks for inadvertantly teaching me that those commies were onto something.

And here's the long version - for those that are interested.

why do rich people want to replace any living being with a silicon version ?

Because then they can patent it.

So it's no surprise that Bill "Anti-Food-Security" Gates, the world's most famous patent racketeering parasite, has his vile little fingers in this.

That depends on your understanding of "White" and "Black..." you could very easily have a world where people with biological features we call "white" in this world exist but doesn't see themselves as "white" because nobody in your world invented whiteness for the purpose of colonialist exploitation and enforced it on almost the entire planet. On such a world, "black" wouldn't exist either... essentially, it's what our world was before European colonialism.

That's the thing with a lot - if not all - of these "reincarnated in a different world" type of stories - they are decidedly racialized, despite the fact that the question of race is either completely ignored or handled in a rather cringy and hamfisted manner.

Sooo... would it be weird. No... just unusual vis a vis our world where white supremacism is decidedly real. And oh yes... there will be complaints and even more reactionary whining. But, on it's own, that's never a reason not to do something - there was even some whining about Wakanda, despite the fact that Wakanda is based upon a very superficial western fantasy about Africa that has little to do with Africa or the people that actually live in it.

government’s role to be

To violently manage society for the benefit of elite groups within said society.

or should be?

To cease existing.

places a set value on something that many see as sacred; something that shouldn’t have monetary value.

I'd say it's the other way around - because it's labor that is (mostly) being performed by women (or stigmatized as something "only women do") it's considered to be of no value whatsoever. How many women do you know that performs work such as housekeeping, child-rearing and/or marital sex essentially at own cost because this type of labor carries no monetary exchange value in our society?

I'd say sex work falls into that category - but it gets stigmatized because sex work can actually allow women to escape such labor and not be locked into literally playing housewife to the capitalist mode of production (ie, wiping a company man's arrse so that he can concentrate on making capitalists richer).

And if people are just having sex with a fun of it then it’s not sex work either,

No, labor stays labor no matter the reason it is performed - people perform labor when they doodle or blow their noses... it doesn't stop being labor just because they're not doing it in exchange for something tangible.

With sex it is the same - nobody engages in it for absolutely no reason whatsoever.