True, but also as a tactic (IE voting in socialism) its a complete historical failure that should be relegated to the history books. There has not been a single case of a country acheiving socialism through the ballot box.

All the attempts in the late 1800s until now showed that capitalists will not give up state power without violence, and even explicitly socialist parties who acheived some electoral success, end up quickly capitulating to the demands of the capitalists who run the country’s economy, and make a hard turn to the right. Look at the state of the European “socialist” or “labour” parties.

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Not to mention all the coups the US carried out even on countries who attempted to tread a “non-violent” socialist path: like Chile in 1970. While the countries who took control of the military and went through a civil war to disempower and nationalize capital are still standing on their own two feet: Cuba, China, Vietnam, DPRK.

“Democratic socialism” is also sometimes used (incorrectly) to refer to capitalist-run states in the imperial core (like the nordic states) with some welfare band-aids, funded on the backs of the world’s workers in the global south.

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism

Would be best to link to this, where its taken from: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html

Literally zero evidence for any of your claims. Why should anyone believe you?

The PRC is a mixed economy, with the planned socialist sector predominating, and a smaller capitalist sector.

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2
• Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?
• Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.

No, its trade and infrastructure projects in Africa are not imperialist

• Debunking the claim that “China is Imperialist”
• The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West. Full video here
• An African leader on the hypocrisy of those saying China is imperialist.
• China africa panel: if you want actual infrastructure, you go to China, not the west.
• Is China really imperialist? What’s the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?
• Five imperialist myths about China’s role in Africa.
• Evo Morales - Why China and Russia aren’t imperialist, but the US is.
• US air force veteran Bill Brown breaks down the history of anti-chinese propaganda, and why China is not colonialist like the west.
• Yanis Varoufakis on China’s foreign policy dealings with Greece and Africa.
• The chinese debt trap is a myth.
• China writes off $6M in debt to rwanda, provides another $60M in grants.
• China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt.
• China writes off $36m Mozambican debt.
• China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.
• After a group of Guangdong landlords evicted a group of Africans, the CPC arrested them, apologized to the African Union, paid for hotels for the migrants, passed a series of anti-discrimination laws, and spent weeks going to all the restaurants, landlords, and taxis to warn them of the law.
• Nato’s new enemy: the CPC.
• The western media’s China hysteria.

A big part of me wishes the browser would just die. Its become a bloated and surveilled mess, entirely controlled by like 2 companies, with 90% of the actual data being javascript spyware. There’s almost no browser that can’t be fingerprinted and linked to your identity nowadays.

A simple markdown browser for static content (IE like gemini), and native apps with open APIs that can render markdown for dynamic content (IE like most fediverse apps), should be all we need.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/when-did-the-united-states-start-calling-itself-america-anyway/

For reference for ppl living in the US, this would means rents of ~200 USD .

The ones with zero fauna are the scariest to me. These are all over the US southwest.

Ocean’s 11 style comedy movie about Fieri and a team saving maduro by taking the guards to flavortown and swapping himself in Maduro’s place.

I posted this above, but considering platner’s statements about how he signed up for the military to kill people, and went back multiple times (even as a merc), how many innocent middle-easterners do we think he killed? He’s definitely murdered at least a few innocent people.

Basically this:

Side point but considering platner’s statements on how he signed up to the military to kill people, re-deployed multiple times (eventually even as a blackwater merc), said he “enjoyed his experience”, how many innocent middle-easterners do you think he killed?

We’re gonna start cracking down on the rage-bait posting a little bit.

US liberals are even more far gone than the strasserists they’re trying their best to emulate. Platner went to the middle east as a troop and then a blackwater mercenary 6 times to kill innocent civilians. When we point this out its considered “divisive”.

We don’t care who wins in your himmler vs hitler elections, the US is a one-party capitalist empire that must be overthrown for the world to have peace.

Disgusting.

Apologizing for a murderous imperialist.

No probs. They aren’t too difficult to learn.

If using helix or vim, there are internal tutors that show you everything you need to do. You run through the tutor once or twice, do web searches for things you don’t know how to do, then force yourself to use it for a while. After a few days, everything becomes muscle memory, and you never have to take your hands off the keyboard.

Confidently wrong.

Your “evidence” if from US government employee / evangelical christian Adrian Zenz, who doesn’t speak Chinese, has never been to the region, has zero evidence for his claims, and is part of the US project of demonizing China, and imputing its fanatacism for killing Muslims on its enemies.

• What’s going on with the Uyghurs / Xinjiang province?
• XinJiang: Facts vs Fiction.
• A Pakistani Diplomat given full access to “re-education camps” and this is what she found.
  • Despite claims of “erasing Uyghur culture”, they stated: “I did not find any instance of forced labor or cultural and religious repression. The imams we met at the mosques and the students and teachers at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute told us that they enjoy freedom in practicing Islam and that the Chinese government extends support for maintenance of mosques all over Xinjiang. […]The most visible sign of protection of Uyghur culture by the government is the government-run bilingual kindergarten schools where children learn Putonghua as well as Uyghur language and culture from a very young age.”
  • The grandaughters of Rebiya Kadeer (Once the richest woman in Xinjiang, and now a member of the “Uyghur world congress”, an org claiming that China is oppressing Uyghurs), talking about how their grandmother is lying about Xinjiang.
• Egyptian media delegates provide a detailed insight of the situation in Xinjiang
• China’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region lift 1.85 million people out of poverty from 2014-2017.
• Dan Cohen - Is China committing genocide? Behind the US goverments propaganda campaign.
• Redsails - The Xinjiang atrocity propaganda blitz
• RodericDay - A thread about the key sources for Uyghur Genocide (Especially Adrian Zenz).
• Chollima report - Who is Adrian Zenz? The Christian Fundamentalist Leading the Global Xinjiang Narrative
• BayArea415 - american debunks major western propaganda on Uyghurs and Xinjiang
• Dr. Asata Bair - The six basic problems of the Uyghur genocide narrative.
• Nuance - The sad truth about Muslims in China.
• The Xinjiang “Genocide” - an excerpt from the Genocide panel.
• TheCanadaFiles - Subcommittee report declaring “Uighur Genocide” dominated by researchers and groups funded by CIA cut-out, National Endowment for Democracy.

Here’s a good short documentary on it: China’s war on poverty