The invention of the personal automobile, and destruction of public transportation, was a triumph of capitalist drug-peddling; suddenly, all at once, everyone's personal mobility became dependent on a single, new commodity, gasoline. Without it, we are unable to function, since urban sprawl and suburbanization now means we can't even walk to work if we wanted to.
And going by time, by spreading everything out, it ended up taking the same amount of time to get to work, in 1900 as in 1980.
Thank you for posting this, it was an excellent breakdown of the functional differences between bourgeois democracy (ie capitalist dictatorship), and peoples democracy as practiced by the PRC.
So many privacy-focused tech-people have focused on software only, because its at least somewhere that they can make a positive contribution, but in all likelihood, something we can't mess with, the hardware, has backdoors and spying. Everything from CPUs, radios, and even hard drives likely have backdoors.
There's pretty much no way around that until we get competing non-western-owned hardware industries, which rn, only china and india are attempting.
Taiwan's military would lose that war within 30 minutes. And how do they not see how messed up it is to use a foreign language, especially one used by countries that caused so much suffering and devastation to the Chinese people, on their own military patches.
CGTN has been progressive when it comes to trans rights for at least a decade. They regularly have a trans woman, Jin Xing, on to have interviews about the challenges she faces, and the progressive role the state and media can play in pushing forward equaility.
I read some takes on this from Chinese ppl to get their perspective, and I've come to agree with it. Some points:
There is no historical or cultural use of cannibis in China. People just don't smoke it, and those that do only do so after they adopted it while being in western countries. The decision then becomes, do we allow the import of this non-indigenous substance and industry?
They're have a strong anti-drug stance given the history of Opium used as a tool of colonization, pacification, mass suffering, and death. The introduction of new, non-indigenous drugs is not taken lightly considering that history.
It stinks. Most people live in close quarters, in large apartment buildings in cities. Alcohol is something that you consume, and doesn't usually affect strangers. I live in an apartment in the US, and I had to get a door stopper thing just to keep the gross-smelling stink out from a neighbor down the hall. For some reason I've found the vast majority of potheads in the US to be some flavor of "don't tread on me" libertarians, who love to do exactly that to other ppl with their smells.
The weed / drug industry is not a productive industry, and is harmful from a Marxist perspective. Most charitably, you could liken it to something like an unhealthy food, which isn't something any country should be giving it's citizens access to.
Galeano, in the introduction to his Open veins of latin america, states that the only reason south america isn't as densely populated as Europe, is intentional underdevelopment, and colonialism. The European powers intentionally depopulated the indigenous of many of these countries by turning their economies into mono-crop / mono-mineral mercantile export ones from the 1500s onward.
I'm sure someone has tried to figure out earth's carrying capacity, but we're not even remotely close to it. There isn't even any vital resource whose production doesn't scale with population growth.
The fear-mongering about population growth is really only coming from euro-amerikkkan capitalists and white supremacists like Bill gates, who are mirroring their 1800s counterparts with population control attempts in places like Africa. Bill Gates openly says he's trying to stop "population increase in places we don't want it", showing his fear of the growth of potentially threatening non-white populations.
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