naturalgasbad @ naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca

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Again, what are the recent policy impacts of this "free speech"?

I can point to a very clear example of Chinese protests netting real, tangible policy change at the national level: Chinese protests took down Zero COVID policy. This is recent, large-scale, national, and resulted in a real and tangible change in government policy.

What can you point to in the US over that same time frame? I guess the march on Washington in support of Israel's genocide?

Like that Boeing whistleblower last week?

You're making it seem like things are so much better here.

$16B US revenue, doubling YoY, gross margin likely in the 70s. Even at the P/S of an established company like Facebook, TikTok's US operations would be worth on the order of $200B. That's on par with the largest acquisitions in history and dwarves Nvidia's acquisition attempt of ARM.

Any sale of a hundred+ billion dollar company takes years. Look at the attempted acquisition of ARM.

To the same extent this is true in both Russia and China, yes. Yet, what are their impacts on policy?

The Soviet Union's greatest error was not allying itself with the PRC. Not only would the PRC provide a massive labour market and an ideologically-aligned ally, but the agricultural output of the PRC in terms of high-value foodstuffs (fruit, seafood, etc.) is immense. In fact, the PRC's main agricultural limitation is it's insufficient ability to produce basics (rice, soybean, corn, wheat, etc.), which is the singular thing that the Soviet Union can produce extremely well.

What opposition leaders? What dissidents?

Two of the top university presidents in the country were taken down after daring to question the common narrative on the conflict in Gaza.

A whistleblower for a government defence contractor was just assassinated in the middle of legal proceedings against that defence contractor.

Whistleblowers are hunted after: Assange is struggling to avoid extradition and Snowden is stuck in Russia after being pressured to leave everywhere else.

Meanwhile, even legitimate presidential candidates like Sanders are given every disadvantage, most notably in terms of (a lack of) funding and superdelegate votes in primaries.

Good headline NYT, but now tell me why their money is stuck. Is it perhaps because the US is trying to legislate a TikTok ban?

The only difference between the Russian and US system is that instead of having one big party whose interests are entirely separated from the public and which completely crushes any opposition parties, we have two big parties whose interests are entirely separated from the public and which completely crush all opposition parties.

A sham democracy if there ever was one, but that's because the purpose of indirect democracy is less to decide on policy and more to select a strongman leader that's most appealing.

The Russian election was "rigged" in that there was only controlled opposition... But this is also not an inherently unique feature. When was the last time a US President was neither Democrat nor Republican?

300 taken out (dead/injured)... Sounds not unreasonable for a missile strike? Iskanders routinely rack up ~10 KIA and ~80 injured

Russian missile strike on Ukraine funeral kills 51

So clearly someone is lying...

Russia's economic integration has undoubtedly been with the Global South in recent years. What, exactly, are you disputing from OP's comment?

Israel

Reeks of sabotage to me. The Long March 2C is a remarkably reliable rocket.

Except US TikTok data is hosted by Oracle in the US...?

People (including you) seem to forget the context for why the Cold War was a cold war.

Relevant:

U.S. to Push Israel on Allowing Gaza Offshore Gas Reserves to Revitalize Palestinian Economy

China's been negotiating SCS claims with its neighbours. That's why, as of now, Taiwan's claims in the SCS are actually larger than China's claims (because of China's negotiations with Vietnam).

Is this the first Israeli conflict you've followed? This is just the IDF playbook. Slander, deflect, lie, and deny.

Maybe the state-sponsored racism doesn't help, huh?