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  • So what's gonna happen when Trump dies (if he dies this year)?

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  • The politics of the UK and Australia is a good example of a string of incompetent conservative leadership eventually leading to a change to the "progressive side" that didn't reform anything. With Western liberal democracies, they can't solve the economic decline of late stage capitalism regardless of who is in charge.

  • Why do the elites do everything they do to accumulate wealth?

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  • The capitalists own the means of production. That produces income beyond what they need. The surplus money allows them to buy more productive assets. These assets only need to be sold if the owner has a LACK of money (i.e. they hit a rough patch). Hence it continues to accumulate among fewer and fewer rich people who pass it to their next generation. They are in competition WITH EACH OTHER to accumulate assets.

    So what compels them to work hard (not productively, but still hard) to ammass ever more money? Surely it’s easier to sit in a pool all day and collect tithes rather than strategizing about the new merger, the new apartment block to buy, the next politician to bribe ecc.

    LOL. They don't work at all. They employ someone to do the work whether it is the strategizing or the bribing.

  • Why isn't medicine free on China like how it is free in the DPRK and Cuba?

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  • It was privatised back in the 80s.

    By 2000s they reformed and created government owned health insurance. Nowadays healthcare is cheap but not free but they have come a long way. Even in 2000, China was considered poor. They were paying in Yuan for drugs and medical equipment imported from overseas. Now the country can afford it. 20 years ago it was a very different story.

  • This isn't a scene from Black Mirror; it's a portrait of capitalism, a system that, far from ensuring a decent life for workers, invents new ways to line the pockets of capitalists

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  • "It didn't run them over!"

  • My younger brother is screaming in pain...

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  • Ouch. He could try some light spine decompression moves to ease the spasms.

    There are simple ones on YouTube he can do in bed.

  • Keir Starmer warned 'do not get naked' and 'change in bed' as Chinese spies will be watching

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  • How the fuck do people read texts like 'On Practice', 'Oppose Book Worship', and 'On the correct handling of Contradictions among people' and still spout dogmatic views on China?

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  • There are levels to this left-wing stupidity. If you think Marxists are off track, you should see the anarchists and prog-libs complaining about China.

    But I think the focus should be on opposing the right wing at the moment because they are going absolutely nuts. China is going to be fine regardless because they can't be fucked-with by any country.

  • How come some people can work 8 hours straight and then have energy to hit the gym, but if I walk for 1 hour in the treadmil all that I can is lay down for the rest of the day?

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  • During the 8 hours, they take breaks/pauses/rehydration for long enough that their recovery systems recharge. Depends how intensely you are walking as well. And how well hydrated and fueled up with carbs you are. Why are you on the treadmill for an hour?

    (The point of cardio IS to burn calories, so you should feel tired! That's the carbs getting drained out of you. Needing time to recover means the exercise is working.)

  • Why does Baltic countries are so pro-western/anti-communist?

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  • Baltics in West.

  • Financial Times: "Trump is making the world fall in love with China"

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  • Did China make a big tariff board full of BS numbers? If Trump is trying to copy China, he's doing pretty bad at it.

    Trump can't even emulate an adult. Wtf would he knows about policy? He struggles with HS level maths.

    I recall he recently claimed certain medications became 900% cheaper under his administration.

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    Can we stop with the chauvinism please?

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  • Jameson is critical of Postmodernism in the book.

  • Donald Trump announces he will begin ground attacks on Mexican territory.

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  • Honestly, they have to work on their defence and not try to hit back to score a political point. The air defence does fuck all and are a waste of precious money if the systems aren't secure, if the personnel aren't secure, communication systems etc. If CIA agents are all over the country, they are vulnerable to the next thing.

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    Can we stop with the chauvinism please?

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  • 1st point : Tupac died in 96. Did he ever really have cultural sovereignty over his own art? Hip hop is arguably a postmodern form of music - a rejection of Modernism. Postmodernism criticises Modernism's cultural democratization through ironic appropriation of older cultures to create commodified products out of artistic expression. Read "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Jameson.

    2nd : "Settlers" by Sakai showed the colonial imperial attitude that built America was replaced by a labour aristocracy that has continued into neocolonialism. America became the cultural hegemony that dominates capitalist mass media exported around the globe. Hollywood cinema, streaming services, and social media are all American based corporate products. Arguably only China has its own ecosystem of mass media.

    American settler culture has a motive to support the American capitalist class: creation of a racial hierarchy internally, rejection and denigration of other cultures, etc.

  • What is the general view of Saddam Hussain?

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  • Tyrant. A good source is the 1st episode of the 1st season of the Blowback podcast.

  • Excuses, introspection, and "saving"

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  • I see a lot of Americans begging China to “save” the US.

    I think they want justice. The US is a terrorist state. Unopposed, it is going to do a LOT more damage militarily in the near future. We shouldn't forget the US bombing of Middle East and African countries happened just this year.

    China is a rising superpower but I don't think it's at the military level to stop that yet.

  • Is this the end

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  • Don't visit r/postcollapse then!

    Because it's looking pretty desolate 🤪.

    I think there is a future but it's gonna be a mix between Idiocracy and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

  • [Showerthought] does the bourgeoisie culturally exist?

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  • Am I crazy here or is the bourgeoisie historically unique in ideologically negating their own existence as a class?

    Byung Chul Han introduced the concept of self oppression in a couple of books. The idea being that the capitalist class doesn't need to enslave workers any more. Now that workers are encouraged to think of themselves as individual brands hustling against other individuals, they then push themselves to serve the capitalists. The workers don't need to be berated by the boss, they are enslaved by their own positivity.

    CEOs are a form of celebrity worker to be emulated. They supposedly claim to live to work, making sacrifices for the job. Etc.

  • Conservatives are tying their own noose with Ai

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  • There's enough of a collaboration between big tech companies like Oracle, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI etc. to call it a collective action. You don't need unanimous consent from every capitalist.

    Just because DRAM is one sector where they haven't got a commitment, doesn't mean they aren't going to try automate away office work and charge rent to businesses.

  • Conservatives are tying their own noose with Ai

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  • Tech billionaires with the most influence all just seek to increase their own profits without any overall plan of how to actually expand the AI infrastructure

    They have a plan. It is to serve their class interests: siphon off resources through ownership of wealth. The wealth in this case is owning the data centers that provide the AI that automates the work. Charging rent for using AI means they control the infrastructure. Works out for them (not for the users).

    They have the closed source models trained on data that they collected by vacuuming up what was online. Those models are so large that you need NVIDIA GPUs to run them at those big data centers (which also need the supporting power grid).

    This is just the next big tech money grab. It was cryptocurrency before, and before that it was social media platforms. Somewhere in between there was 3D TV and augmented reality glasses.

    AI bros are trying to scam the end user. They should only collect this rent if the tool saves people some money. If it costs you more to use than the work you avoided paying for, then there's no benefit to paying for AI. They need user engagement right now to lock you in, so you can't get off the hype train.

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    China quietly takes over another trillion dollar industry (Remote Sensing)

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    Mike DEBUNKS NYTimes Anti-China Propaganda

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    U.S. Emissions Rise, China’s Fall, in Massive Shift Between World’s Biggest Climate Polluters

    www.theenergymix.com /u-s-emissions-rise-chinas-fall-in-massive-shift-between-worlds-biggest-climate-polluters/
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    Everything Is Fine (Coinbase ad sinking the boot into the UK) 🤣