58 years ago today, socialism was once again brutally ended. The "New Order" only ended with Suharto's death in 1998. Sukarno's daughter served as the 5th president from 2001 to 2004.
I had three very good replies below my comment, thanks.
This is indeed what the west does : they shut up about authoritarians who are on our side(, i'm thinking about the political parties recently banned in Tunisia or Senegal while the west stays silent, but the examples are clearly legion, N.Chomsky famously proved that our medias exclusively focused on Cambodia while totally ignoring East Timor, because the Khmer were communists while Suharto was on our side, the difference in our media coverage was something like 1:1000 or more).
We(sterners) may claim that we believe in our universal values but we're not(, or at least there are priorities, and it's not as if these values of Justice/.. weren't shared by communists as well).
So, you're saying that having double standards is logical, and that pointing out western hypocrisy only serves to mark the difference between our speech and our actions ? Perhaps.
I'd still feel hypocritical if i criticised one of the horrors we did while supporting(, or even closing my eyes on,) our side if they did the exact same thing.
There's probably a middle-ground between both options, i'm biased until a certain point, the pro-capitalists probably are as well, at least the communist side doesn't need to lie in order to win the debate...
Because fighting against disinformation has always been about fighting for the control of the narrative
Big up to all the bots in the comments.
This book was very very good, it says so many incredible things that you want to double check almost each page, he talks about solutions and he's indeed well aware that it's not enough to be right in order to be heard, a lot of people i like are ignored like him despite being right :
Of course, yeah, it'd be like saying to workers "why don't you just take control of your workplace", it's at the same time true and yet seemingly unrealistic.
The common thinking is that the rise of the South is unavoidable, i don't know when or even if, but sure hope so, numbers only show a growing inequality between the west and the south(, with few exceptions), the latter seems to be in the same position of selling their raw materials without industries as they were decades ago, only with more debts/shackles.
I've also learned a few hours ago that France cancelled the studies of innocent malians, burkinabés, and nigeriens, i still would have trouble to explain how these countries hurted us, and why other recent coups in Africa aren't the subject of our revenge, their cohesion is nice but other african countries won't unite with them as much as they should because of ideological differences(, you're probably in favor of a communist hegemony without socio-economic differences, so you'll probably disagree with me here, but i want diversity, in unity), and at the root of a lot of our troubles is our refusal to unite in diversity, whether in Africa, Asia, Europe, ..., i don't see a single war which couldn't have been avoided by a desire to unite in diversity, yet millenias later we still don't know how to do that, there's no global cooperation, nationalism breeds more problems than humanism/internationalism. They could gain more power/leverage by uniting(, and it's the same for workers).
The three comments here seem to agree that it should happen in an ideal world, but won't. I don't have a more realistic solution in mind but if anyone else can bring me a better angle to look at the current situation i'd be grateful.
That's partly why they should cooperate, if they act&stick together they'll be too numerous to be stopped, but that's a preoccupation to be wary about, yes.
If you agree that God gave us cancer, then you should normally agree as well that S.H..e gave us everything else.
If Good actions → Paradise
Then Indulgences -(Enables the Church to do)→Good actions → Paradise
Don't believe that people in the past accepted things without questioning them.
Thanks for the explanation, but since you, along with mathematics, agree that there's a surface, there should be a normal/perpendicular, and you can get more or less close to that surface, i guess i just can't wrap my head around it, it'd mean that the hypersphere is on both sides of its surface ?
I've read elsewhere that the universe would be this (hyper)surface, i wonder what the surface of a 5d-sphere would look like then.
Yep, just read some stuff on Quora about 4D spheres, and still don't get it 🤷♂️
You have an edge on the Earth, both above and below, i can't imagine the material part of the All circling upon itself, how would you visualise from outside ?
I still see an edge with an hypersphere, well, w/e, thanks for the answer anyway :) !
Although "commonly accepted" may be pushing it, i can't imagine a finite universe(, i.e., 'with a positive curvature'/spherical), with the old question : what happens at the edge if i push it with a stick ?
(I.i.r.c., the answer is that the edge is expanding faster than the speed of light or sthg)
(And, kinda unrelated, fractal universes piling upon each other may make sense)
I agree, but what i clumsily pointed at is the lack of debate, i see three options :
- We could already back then prove without a doubt that the elections weren't rigged, and couldn't have been, but that's not the case. If it was possible, then we could've reminded them of the safety of our mechanism, but even then we should still invite opponents so they can point at imperfections in order to improve it ;
- We can't currently prove that the elections weren't rigged, and that's a problem that we should acknowledge if we want to prevent such refusal to accept an electoral defeat in the future, it's alarming that we don't intend to change anything, we must be more re-assured that rigging elections is impossible, and not double-down with machine voting instead of a cctv which could record every single vote opened and be inside the box as well and broadcast live, that's an example. There have also been proofs of multiple votes under a false identity, and i wrote once a long text on how we could ensure a safety, but my point is that these solutions exist and that you're not taking the steps to ensure an impossibility of cheating, i could say that it's suspicious but i'll only say that it's a way to ensure more doubts for the next elections ;
- And the third possibility would be that we'll never be able to prove that elections aren't rigged, but i don't believe in this, one would need to not have thought about the solutions in order to believe this.
If i'm taking the first link i found, here's the accusations :
- conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power
- those who attempted to undermine the workings of American democracy will be held criminally accountable
- conspired before, during, and after the siege of the Capitol to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power
- seditious conspiracy
- To prepare for the attack on the Capitol, Tarrio and the other leaders of the Ministry of Self Defense established a chain of command, chose a time and place for their attack, and intentionally recruited others who would follow their top-down leadership and who were prepared to engage in physical violence if necessary.
- At 2:11 p.m., Pezzola smashed open a window, allowing the first rioters to enter the Capitol as Biggs and those with him entered close behind.
- Tarrio’s conduct constituted an official act of terrorism
- In the 31 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,106 individuals have been arrested
Feel free to read the article to see if i forgot something, it wasn't informative. No one can honestly say that they were going to overtake the country, and yet.
The second link is entirely on the charges but is even less informative. Believing that they had any chance to overthrow the United States of America is crazy talk, yet lives were/are ruined while everyone claps as if it make sense. Please find me more arguments from your side if you believe to be on the right side.
Or they would have exchanged their arguments like the civilised people we're supposed to represent. If they killed your representatives that would be worth a decade or more in jail i suppose, but they didn't, they simply entered a building and are accused of having attempted to overthrow the government, an accusation that no one can take seriously(, and yet).
Russia, China, or the many other sanctioned countries, can rejoice on their medias, who are either banned or not read by the "free world", but otherwise, i don't see how they could profit from it. More importantly, they wouldn't be glad that their enemy has problems if we were allied, this world f*cking stinks, and shouldn't.
five Proud Boys convicted for some of the most serious crimes
You're all fucking crazy, they didn't have any power to stage a coup or topple democracy you morons. They simply entered a building !
You can't all sincerely believe that they were going to achieve anything by entering the Capitol, the historical place to have manifestations ?
Political prisoners aren't only people whose ideology you agree with, you're sending people who didn't hurt anyone ^(o.m.g., he pepper sprayed a cop) to almost a decade in jail, sometimes fathers&mothers, am i living in a parallel universe ?
Yeah, i took his comment way too literally since its false sense of security made me feel uneasy, he obviously meant that it's (a bit )harder, not impossible. We should be sanctioned ourselves to feel/understand them, the economic destructions they cause are also responsible for an unrest attributed to the leaders(, it'd be much harder to lead China if its economy wasn't doing so well). It's not "using the sanctions as a leverage" but "maintaining their head under the water until they submit".
The only way out, if autarcy isn't a valid option(, autarcy ≠ protectionnism, only the first one is nocive), is to have allies who defies sanctions, usually covertly. What's the point of being able to produce phones using 5G if you can't sell them ? And most of us ignore what we're doing to Huawei, it sucks. Did you know that Huawei sole shareholders were their employees, or that Canada imprisoned Meng Wanzhou for two and a half years ? And i'm ignoring so many more things.
It's interesting to note that China was one of the few countries who didn't follow the recommendations about market freedoms, i've read from some authors that it's not a coincidence if free markets are only successful for the already wealthy countries, and not the global South.
Your article from the awesome Moon of Alabama(, leftist "disinformation" that ought to be banned at some point, not read enough to worry the powerful,) remind me of this approach to speak about neocolonialism(, there're others but this one may be the most known(, the most visible being the salary differences)).
I've looked at it in the beginning of this year, and made this tl;dr of a chapter from the pro-capitalism(, yet anti-neoliberalism/'free markets',) Ha-Joon Chang in his book "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", have a look if you're interested :)
Also, i never tire to cite what may be my ~favorite tweet :
Economic sanctions aren't only on materials(, e.g., sanctions on Russia's central bank), but even when they are, they don't only concern the exportation of raw materials, but also their importation, as well as the importation&exportation of manufactured products, which means that out of these 4 cases there's 3 that impact industries. Correct me if i'm wrong.
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