I think it originally referred to the people supporting the droning of civilians in the middle east in guise of “fighting terrorism”. Nowadays it refers to liberals who blindly support everything NATO and their allies are doing.

I’ve never been as ashamed of being a dev than after I joined the lemmyverse and kept reading this kind of takes from programming.dev.

We need to force devs to have more human contact.

If a “transitionary period” takes more than a decade at what point do we say “they aren’t transitioning” and call it what it is, state owned capitalism.

I mean, how could we know how much time is needed for the transition? It has never happened yet, we’re still experimenting.

Stalin died 70 years ago, there is no Stalinist ML bubble.

It’s hard to tell without motion but he’s actually passionately stroking his braid.

Can you explain the relevance?

they seem to have left the square to clear nearby streets

That sounds so strange, how do we expect them to clear entire streets if they can’t even get past a single guy armed with grocery bags?

The way China operates is completely the opposite of the way the US operates. Here is a video on Yanis Varoufakis explaining how.

I also remember them invading […] the Philippines.

That was Japan you absolute moron lmao

You should join us to crush the boot, instead of licking it.

He’s the guy who created the website your currently using lmao

I just tried, you get cool videos about Uyghur culture

You should make an account and talk with them, it’s very rewarding!

Eh… as someone living in western Europe, I can’t say it’s free. I would say that it’s subsidized at most. We still have to pay a part of our healthcare, we can get a private health insurance to complete the government coverage, but it’s still not enough to cover all of it.

Mental health isn’t covered at all, ophtalmology barely (still gotta pay 200€ for a pair of glasses, after public + private coverage), dental only the very basic is covered…

“The jews are secretly controlling the world. Don’t look at the chemtrails, they inseminate you with 5G!!”

Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system

Everything in that sentence is factually untrue, I need to get some of the stuff you’re smoking because it must be crazy strong.

There’s no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China

It’s very easy to know. India and China have similar landmass, population, and got their independence at around the same time.

The difference between the two is that China’s people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

It’s ridiculous to compare mainland China with Taiwan, as that island is incredibly small and therefore much, much faster to develop, and it received a lot in investments from the USA as they need a strong ally at the PRC’s borders to support their hegemony. Look at south Korea for another example.

China is a gigantic country, larger than the USA, that was still aggrarian just 50 years ago. They are still developing and there is a large disparity in earning between the developed coastal areas in the east, and the undeveloped west. The prices you see on the app a from the coastal areas where salaries are similar to western Europe.

Marx wasn’t against the idea but he would have been surprised

Towards the end, Marx actually expected Russia to go through a communist revolution, and that it may even be the start of the revolutionary wave in Europe. See the preface for the 1882 Russian edition of the Communist Manifesto for reference.

I like this comparison, it’s actually interesting to think about.

Pretty much everyone tends to agree with the scientifical consensus that climate change is coming, whether they are capitalist or communist. The only people who disagree are those who are financially invested in oil, gas, or coal.

In a similar manner, the message that “communism is bad” comes from capitalist regimes that have a financial interest in preserving the status quo. If you want to understand people within a capitalist society, a really good way to do it is simply to follow the money.

Considering that just two weeks ago the canadian government for cheering for actual SS Nazis, that should be a surprise for no one.

Landlords are deemed worthy of oppression because they decide to let people die in the streets for their ideology. So yes, reasons.