While lemmy.ml isn't explicitly tankie like lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.chat, the fact that it's the instance run by the two OG Lemmy devs (who, along with most of the instance's admins, are Marxist Leninists) means you tend to get tankie friendly moderation. Most infamously, sinophobia is cracked down on, so shitlibs can't just go hog wild with stuff like Tinyman Square and "West Taiwan" and such.
Our government might be two-party in form, but is one party in function. They both champion the same class interests, with most of the difference coming down to how much of the quiet part they'll say out loud.
Thank you so much for posting this! I've always found the technofeudalism thesis grating because it tries to paint what is clearly capitalism as something else, but this paper argues it way better than I ever could.
What people care about China stealing is stuff like a company’s internal research documents describing how to engineer high strength low, weight steel that took a team of PhD researchers in multiple high tech labs ten years and millions of dollars to research and develop.
Much better for those researchers to barely receive a cent of the money from the company's profits while the result of their hard work can only be used by the corporation that hired them. \s
It's hilarious to me that Tik-Tok was banned for its ties to China (despite the US version of the app being hosted entirely on servers in the US run by Oracle) only for users to flood to an app that is extremely obviously Chinese with an already existing Chinese netizen userbase.
I knew Bernie supported bombing Yugoslavia, but the guy straight up used the fact that the invasions of Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, and many others were unconstitutional as an argument in favor of doing an unconstitutional bombing of Yugoslavia as well. What a ghoul.
People will link to wikipedia listing off banger after banger about how based MintPress is, then try to paint all of the basedness as cringe.