Even domestically, Americans hate this crap. No one likes the TSA. No one thinks they do a goddamned thing. It's a massive invasion of privacy and a huge waste of money. And then we have this "Real ID" thing looming over us just to get on an airplane (again, for a domestic flight only).
You'd think we could unite against such a simple common enemy but apparently no one has the time. I guess politicians are worried about a sudden glut of unemployed TSA workers who's only job skills are identifying the water bottle I forgot in my bag.
You’ll also notice that those capitalist countries which have less income inequality than China have more government intervention in the market (i.e., tempering the “free market”)
There's no truly free market. Every country has some level of regulation. In the US, many people point to tax rates as the cause of (and solution to) inequality. I think they're correct but that's also really stretching the definition of "regulation".
The fact that it’s steadily decreasing is directly related to the point I made about the CPC truly working for the people to solve the real problems they’re facing: they identified a problem, identified some causal factors, discussed the importance of fixing it, made plans of how to fix it, are implementing those plans, and make reports on the progress of those plans.
Every government bigger than a village generally does this. Every politician talks up what they've done because they want to keep power. China should be proud of its accomplishments but I'm sorry, there's nothing unique or special to what you're saying here.
If there's a failure to follow through on campaign promises, it's because the legislation failed to pass but that's more about democracy than economics. I politely suggest we not go down that road in this thread :).
I'm gonna say it's because it's a wall of text with mostly subjective or aspirational statements to rebut a cheap two sentence quippy post.
It would have been sufficient to simply state that China' inequality problem is improving. If you have the free time for the wall-of-text route, demonstrating how concrete communist policies are directly leading to these improvements would have been much better than the "CCP works really hard to help people" fluff language.
Your wiki link for inequality has China ranked 98, not 71, putting it much closer to the USA at 107. It's fair to say both countries have "rampant income inequality" right now. Also notably, the Gini index has a very long list of nominally "capitalist" countries ahead of China, which meet your criteria for a sustained fight against inequality and taking care of the poor.
The CPC is extremely developed and works for the people; large companies have branches of the party that help steer them. All enterprises (state-owned, private, or foreign) produce annual “socialist responsibility reports” which guarantee that their actions are not putting profit before the goals of the society as a whole: poverty alleviation, environmental improvement, education, and more.
Forgive me as you've written quite a bit here but this seems to be the only concrete policy to discuss vis-a-vis capitalist vs communist systems. The rest is subjective language about "working for the people". Every politician gets up on stage and talks about how they're fighting hard to give people better lives. No one really gives those statements any credit.
Err, what? Look at pot "legalization". It's still technically illegal but states don't care. You'll see billboards about it down the highway. Previously we had a patchwork of which states had gay marriage, even when DOMA was on the books. Then there's the whole "sanctuary city" thing where support isn't given to Federal officers.
The Federal government might be stronger than the founders intended but it's not that strong compared to other countries. It's a miracle we all drive on the same side of the road.
Last I checked, opening links in iOS with alternate browsers is very app-specific and requires a hack using a different protocol. E.g. Chrome registers itself as a handler for the "httpChrome" protocol and the app needs to do Open("httpChrome://lemmy.ml"). It's far worse than anything Microsoft did with IE back when they got sued.
I recoil from Apple products like a vampire does sunlight. But AirTags are awful tempting. How well do they work, really? Especially with a Pixel phone.
I don't think you get that UWB fine grained locating? If I was trying to find my keys in a large grassy field, is that feasible?
Google Voice is not available in my country. Plus, it’s Google.
Also, Google Voice takes my top pick for the next round of Google product executions. It receives no updates: no RCS, no fake iMessage support (parsing the Liked "prev message" stuff), and it's buggy as shit.
I'd gladly even pay for GVoice if it meant it got a renovation and it was going to outlast Google's attention span. Telephony is something I just don't want to self-host because there's no way telecom companies will make it easy.
I'm not an expert on EU antitrust but these things seem like they naturally go together. After all, Outlook comes with Office, right? Is that not a communication and collaboration tool?
I agree and you're forgetting old people. A lot of them have straight up told me, "I'll be dead when the worst hits, so why should I care?" People need more cynicism for human behavior; it's not entirely cartels and conspiracies.
This is called sealioning so you're really just helping my case here. Err, thanks, I guess?
Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
But from memory, you typically display the following rule breaking behavior:
"Ignorant American", "Hypocritical American", and so forth
"Whatever helps you cope!" "Good luck with that!" (end of conversation)
Posting almost exclusively stories that portray the US in a negative light
Most Americans have seen enough of the far right's "No, YOU'RE the propaganda shill!" style that this is a pretty sad and transparent deflection.
For the original charge, many people have tried to engage with you in good faith. You answered with bigotry and even more weakly sourced misinformation. When finally cornered, you dismiss the entire conversation with a smug remark. You are clearly a propaganda troll with a biased agenda and per the rules, you should be banned.
It's about as equally arbitrary as describing Celsius in terms of 101325 Pa ("standard pressure" boiling point).
Americans are more used to switching units and scales as they relate to the topic at hand. Describing distance between cities in inches is dumb. Using Celsius for the weather is equally unwieldy as the units are not fine grained and despite the headline, we're not even halfway to the boiling point of water on the Celsius scale. And likewise, if you live in a cold climate, even 0C isn't super relevant as a floor. Things don't even get uncomfortable until -10C anyway.
Speaking of Pascals, I feel "conversational" in Celsius and it kinda works but Pascals are even more irrelevant to daily tasks. Things don't even get interesting until you get to 200 kPa and jumps of less than 100kPa aren't very noteworthy. It's like currency after massive inflation.
Your definition of whataboutism needs a serious overhaul. It's done to divert anger somewhere else or lessen the perceived severity.
Topic: China saying one thing and then covertly doing another to support an unjust invasion.
Thread: "But whatabout Iraq?!?!"
It flows from tribalist anger. Gotta point out how the other team screwed up so you don't feel so bad when your team shits the bed.