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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.google.com/search?q=80+percent+iud+uyghur&oq=80+percent+iud+uyghur&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l2.6658j0j7&

One of those "fabricated" typos you mentioned, which shows the quality of reporting on the situation.

If the media is just eating up fabricated errors meant to smear someone that tells you a lot about the quality of journalism involved with this story.

(Also tbc this isn't fabricated he published this, anti-china crusaders are just publishing misinfo that he didnt)

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So what I'm hearing is it doesn't matter if you're ignorant about the way China works because the US media told you Xi is an evil dictator who controls everything and you believed them. Got it.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

You are free to continue to believe nazi myths used to justify killing Jewish "collaborators" during the nazi occupation of Ukraine even after professional anti-communist historians have changed their mind on the issue.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You are free to continue to believe nazi myths used to justify killing Jewish "collaborators" during the nazi occupation of Ukraine even after professional anti-communist historians have changed their mind on the issue.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

The three sector model bends over backwards to not acknowledge marxist economics that make more sense here. You really should read marx on the theory of labor value and commodity production. There is no such thing as a raw material.

Now, housework. The argument in favor of including things like housework is more that economics was founded by men with men in mind. They weren’t necessarily thinking of “women’s work” as something with much value. Factoring it in attaches a value, regardless of who actually does it.

It also provides a more accurate picture. Let’s say someone has a choice. In scenario A, they stay home, cook, clean, raise the kids, and generally act as homemaker. In scenario B, they have a job, pay a cleaning service, buy prepared food, and send the kids to daycare. If you’re just measuring GDP, scenario B is going to be clearly better because more transactions happen. But if you measure their labor in scenario A, you will get a clearer picture.

This is a good example.

For political reasons I do believe it should be measured, however for the purpose of a forum discussion it is a very complicated topic where it would be better to just exclude domestic service work given the data we have right now doesn't in any way measure domestic work outside the formal economy.

If you're interested in developing your ideas further from this good starting point I would really suggest picking up some writings of Alexandria Kollontai or reading transgender Marxism.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Adrian Zens is integral to the Uyghur Human Rights Project.

This is honestly pretty dismaying. This isn't meant as a put down because it is outside of your control but we've got to work on investigative literacy as a country if so many people are having a hard time doing simple stuff like this.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Theyre literally down voting "direct engagements between US and Russian military assets could lead to nuclear war"

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Service work is connected to distribution and commodity production and housework is constant. Everyone in aggregate does the necessary amount of housework to maintain themselves. Can a country do more housework to expand its economy? Of course housework is undervalued but it isnt connected to this topic because it is a constant.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Google "Jewish scholars double genocide myth" and be ashamed you'd ever use the phrase "red fash" and then do better.

How does this antisemitism always show up in anticommunism? /s

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

He decided to make the bomb. He knew what bombs are used for.

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