Capitalism and capitalists were a major factor in lifting those people out of poverty by the way. credit markets, FDI, private firms, and export growth were all a reform away from communism towards capitalism and western style market economies. Its also lifted people out of poverty all around the world.

I dont like either of these side these people exist to seize power and maintain absolute control over people. They are both terrible which is why im comparing them and not trying to say one of them is actually good/not bad.

All I have to say is CCP propaganda really got people good. yall see a high speed train and a meh healthcare policy and are immediately ready to throw away your freedoms and morals. You’re from Aus you have it better than China, you’re richer, have better housing, better healthcare, better social security, better quality of life. All without needing to put all your trust and future in a Authoritarian leader. You have Albo, id kill to have Albo as PM.

How is it not a fair comparison? They want to remove all minorities - China removed/is removing ~8 different ethnic minorities, they want a surveillance state with total control - China has a surveillance state with total control, they want a full censored media - china has a fully censored media. The other things is they’re willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal just like china. All their end goals are basically a powerful group of unelected people ruling over everyone with total control. The cope they all tell themselves(including china) is that they’ll be benevolent. I’m sick of seeing people hand wave all this just because they built a train and some houses(btw a lot of houses in china are shit, they’re tiny and fall apart and the ones you actually want are still unaffordable).

Also corporations can operate however they want and that its just an overused meme to cite Dodge v. Ford as forcing them to maximize shareholder value.

Ok but you’d be ok with that since the ends justify the means to you.

Then why make the defense? Why jump in and “um actually this dictatorship was pretty good” if you arent trying to spuiking how fantastic china is. China doesnt have anything that other successful democracies dont have. As it stands China has done far worse than Carp, Thiel, Musk, Vance

Nice, I look forward to viewing the found footage film once the spooky events start going down.

So the ends justify the means? If that’s the case then you basically agreed with these evil cunts because they claim their goals are for the good of people. They are dumb but they aren’t describing a dystopia any more than China is a dystopia.

Personally i wouldn’t go down the chinese route and kill 100 million people just to have the dogshit human rights, labour rights and environmental regulations and go from 50c to $1.20 a day.

You can keep it but you’re gonna get cursed

Thats meaningless, Carp, thiel and musk could say the exact same thing

basically china

This dude has got to be trolling otherwise he needs to be put in a mental institution.

That is going to be trump levels of embarrassing

Never used it but I bet 50% of the messages are “test”

Its been a while since i watched the interview but i remembered that andrew addressed the culture and controversy around looksmaxxing but nothing really relevant to the actual topic. But I don’t know how Clavicular could expect Andrew to know anything about looksmaxxing because he doesn’t research or look at any of the boards. He probably doesn’t even associate looksmaxxing with basic beauty routines.

On the bus I see people unironically sitting there watching fully AI generated shortform content. It’s sad.

Moonrise kingdom but it’s hard to pick one.

I think opinions are shifting as people become less religious.

What you’re going through is pretty normal although you seem a bit extra anxious. As you do it more and more it will become easier. It’s fine to not know how to do things, if you ask people they will try to point you in the right direction.

One thing I find is to just accept that sometimes you’ll fuckup but the nice thing is that the only person it affects is you. If I book an appointment and I don’t bring the right documents or I miss it, that’s OK I can wait a few weeks and do it again no big deal.

That’s so vile and disgusting. I wonder what the internal Russian opinion is on this. Do they buy it?

Drake asks github copilot to make a for loop for him

Trump really is Americas most socialist leader. Gulags for ideological differences thats right up their alley. But there is no chance this passes? It would be so beyond the pale it might start a revolution.