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This is HN where people using text files only is the best way to do things and being semi-Luddite is the way. FSD is amazing. Any notion it takes more effort to use it than driving…

(1) is written as if other forms of govt like a typical liberal democracy in the west or Europe give their citizens much of a choice.

Ukraine never really had nukes. Only technically. NATO is bad for the world so any one fighting it are pretty cool. Which seems to be Russia and Korea.

“destitution” I am not referring to this. I was referring to the political/economic meaning of the word. Not about not making a lot.

I don’t get what you’re saying. There is a paused civil war due to outsiders (whites, UN, etc) interfering and still occupying half the country. Not sure what you mean what crime d…

Wage slavery doesn’t literally only refer to wages. I was referring to the political meaning. Not something you can go to the dictionary for.

Those scholars are blowhards. Trump is basically the same as any other time. As you state the US is unipolar in how it treats Others. Aka authoritarian. Blowback was great I should…

Oh yeah you don’t know what you’re talking about haha. The west isn’t a dictatorship! Only the Others.

I don’t think you know what “communist standards” means. > “North Korea is economically isolated because they refuse to be normal even by communist standards.” “Kim is isolated bec…

The US has been authoritarian for a long time. What else do you call a society that keeps on humming along while doing various genocides via a culturally embedded Monroe Doctrine m…

It is slavery. Chattel slavery is much more severe than what we normally consider slavery. Yet “slavery” and chattel slavery are both still slavery. The reason what you’re saying i…

I have the opposite problem. Spending time with people is difficult for a few years now. Even though I was born in the west and have only known this world. Now I will be leaving th…

Reminds me of all the Covid data trackers in mid 2020

Not sure what that letter said but open source^ isn’t good and I’m what people would incorrectly stereotype as someone who would love open source as a Marxist [sympathizer]. ^outsi…

Still seems silly when meme stocks exist and the establishment (like entire media and news apparatus) can and do collude to mess with things (like “Black Monday” ~2021 when all the…

I’m not the most well versed but isn’t that still insane to be 4x valuation of PayPal? Maybe it’s more PayPal valuation being crap vs Stripe being too high. Adyen is close to PayPa…

“Used for a specific thing”. Democracy doesn’t mean liberalism. You can’t take a word and make up a meaning. Democracy is a govt that is the will of the people. China is quite lite…

It obviously is how? Because they are yellow Asians and not white like you? Hilarious that Europe and the west’s govts are not liked by their people. China’s is. And yet these same…

How can they be democratically independent when the entire continent is controlled by NATO? Democracy means something. Democracy can’t exist while you’re a vassal state.

China existed 100 years ago. Hong Kong is Chinese. I have never come across a person who isn’t a bigot and raging chauvinist who tries to act like the Chinese civilization and the …

Imperialism is whatever westerners don’t like, right? How is China imperialist?

Interesting. I didn’t know there were no US military bases there. Still Taiwan exists as it does because of the US meddling across the world.

Forcefully reintegrated? Colonialism was the forceful part. Not a country having control of its own land. He isn’t demanding any will of the people. Unlike the EU, US, etc, Chinese…

The smugness and superiority about how the rest of the world are immoral barbarians and the global status quo of white/western hegemony is amazing and very moral is pretty funny. I…

This thread casually talks about Taiwan being a vassal state of the US during a civil war and Hong Kong being a colony of the British. Yet the world, largely the global south, shou…