IntoDaLagoon

I mean the authoritarian persecution was that everyone kept running them out for being hyper-reactionary religious weirdos, and tbh the genocidal settler state they would go on to build has kind of proven their persecutors right

You can tell China doesn't care about its people by the fact that they did zero covid for months and delivered groceries to everybody, as opposed to the enlightened and humane west, which let that shit rip and killed everyone's grandma to make line go up

You think the decaying capitalist military empire with a nuclear first-strike policy who's upper military ranks are all Christian fundamentalist psychos is less worrying?

America is on the downswing, hard, and China is pulling further and further ahead as it is. Who do you think has more to gain by doing something crazy to distrupt such an arrangement? America, like all empires before it, has never taken well to humiliation, and is already halfway through going fash. I don't think you give enough credit to just how ugly we get when the illusion of fineness becomes impossiboe to maintain.

We only know the fucked up abusive relationship we have with out own government, and our programmed sense of superiority makes us project it outward.

She should probably get a remote starter for her car

When was the last time you voted on whether to invade another country, or double the price of food, or to turn something as simple and basic as health care into a luxury commodity until people can't afford to have teeth? I don't remember voting to let covid rip, or give tanks and murder robots to the cops, or to ignore climate change for decades. I was never consulted on if we should have the world's largest system of prison slavery.

All of these decisions were made for us, at our expense, because they made the donor class more money, and we live in a dictatorship of the rich.

"The United States is also a one-party state, but in typical American Extravagance, they have two of them."

-Julius Nyere, first president of Tanzania

Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, headquartered in Taipei. While China has a ways to go on working conditions, the overall trend (as with pretty much every other metric) is that their conditions continue to improve due to increasing regulation, ours continue to decline in the dearch for increasing profits. I'm definitely hoping they achieve a better work/life balancr, although having been to Taiwan, I'll say they certainly can't throw any stones in that department either lol

We already live in a dictatorship and we already have a war

The CCP controls the media and limits free speech,

In my country like three completely unnacountable megacorporations control the media and limit free speech. The CPC at least gives a shit about public health and safety

and makes decisions for everyone

I don't remember being consulted on the decision to invade Iraq, continue the illegal blockade of Cuba, send missiles to Nazis in Ukraine, make food twice as expensive, have the sky turn blood red from fire every couple years, be watched by police snipers at a football game, live in an endless pandemic, or drink microplastics for the rest of my life.

The proverbial chickens are coming home to roost

The DNC is literally just a corporation and there is absolutely no future for left politics within it's hostile structure. As the rate of profit continues to fall, they will continue to follow the republicans in implementing fascist policies because those are the short-term profitable policies their corporate owners demand.

The success of mild democratic socialism in some western countries was a historical anomaly that owed it's existence to two conditions that no longer exist: the presence of a colonial economic bounty, and the need to complete with the Soviet Union.

I'm realizing this comes off terse and hostile, sorry, im just typing in a hurry because my battery is dying lol