oh fuck this is true isn’t it

this guy is trying to fill a hole in his life lol

You ever notice how America seems unable to meaningfully damage China’s economy?

This is because China’s economy is integral to everyone else’s. You can’t really hurt China without hurting yourself. Their annual trade volume is in the trillions of dollars.

China paid a price for this leverage. The price was allowing capitalists to operate within China. That is how you do business with the rest of the capitalist world.

They crossed the median line

idk dog, the wording in the article leaves some weird wiggle room.

Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, or ADIZ.

you’re asking communist states to relax their defenses while America is still the dominant power on the planet

uninformed about what?

and also red and nude

we’re all ChatGPT in here lol

Russian independence shields China, which shields the global south.

pretty sure the only person who thinks Russia is communist is my racist aunt in Illinois lol

astrology is an oligarchy, oh shit oh fuck

jumpscare lol

High on the Hog

thanks for the rec!

Why do 9 million people starve to death every year under global capitalism?

The 7% statistic seems credible to me at a glance, though somewhat dated. The data are from Peking University’s 2010 China Family Panel Study, not RFA or Zenz pulling numbers out of their ass

https://docs.iza.org/dp9976.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Family_Panel_Studies

I’ll wager this statistic is declining over time, but I don’t know. I’m about to go to bed or I would do a deeper literature search.

For me the more important question is: Why? Why is China like this? Why did China liberalize under Deng? What is the worldwide political and economic context? Is child labor in China possibly a difficult problem to address, when we look at the whole situation? What measures have been taken so far? I hope you are at least wondering.

I’m no expert, but I’ll point out two things:

1 ) Not long ago, China was still dirt poor and fighting tooth and nail to industrialize and modernize as fast as possible. China’s economic power today is a fairly recent development.

2 ) China liberalized in order to survive in a hostile global economy. Liberalizing brought in a huge influx of foreign investment and industry expertise. The alternative was to be politically and economically strangled like most other socialist states have been. There’s only so much you can do with a self-contained economy in a hostile world.

we’ve definitely had better threads lol

this thread kinda rides the line between “are we just dunking?” vs “are we actually discussing?” and ends up not really being either

it was either embrace partial capitalism or get strangled out of the world economy. Deng’s reforms brought a massive influx of foreign investment and expertise.

mass human rights abuses

your source chain:

mainstream articles, citing -> the victims of communism fund, citing -> adrien zens, citing -> “an anonymous source told me bro”

go actually follow up on this shit you read

found some speculation on who the culprit might be

https://lemmy.ml/comment/2473458

as much as I wanna jump on the spez evil train, I think a more likely trail is that kid who got banned for community squatting, he found that they automated away his ability to just spam create dumb communities so now he’s likely just paying someone to DDoS the platform. He has a youtube channel, it’s really sad. All his videos are worthless acts like “hacking” (more like exploiting) websites that he thinks are popular/makes views. He even has a video on how to speedrun getting monetized on youtube in the event that your channel gets banned/demonetized. It’s super shitty.

whether or not she’s doing it, she’s 100% asking other people to do it