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They’re billionaire backed, and last I checked, billionaires were in no danger of collapse.

There’s legitimate competition on search, it’s just that people are locked in to Google’s network of other products (gmail, youtube, maps, etc). Notably, all those things also operate at a loss, Google subsidizes them with its more profitable search and ad business to keep people locked in to the monopoly. If search became less profitable their business model would collapse.

An LLM might just lie and say that the link is malicious, or not malicious, and you’d never know. That’s kind of a problem.

I think the point is that militaries and police aren’t being equipped with those things, but they are being equipped with AI tools.

Trump doesn’t have magic powers. If a cult of personality can happen once, it can happen again with a new celebrity.

And sometimes the Wind Fish wakes up and the dream ends.

Why are you not wishing for them to idk, change their mind, be imprisoned, etc etc that are all better solutions than them being dead?

We are limited by our material conditions, and under the current conditions they aren’t going to change their minds or be imprisoned or be subjected to any of those other better solutions. They can certainly die, though! We don’t have to wait for revolution for that.

Also, like, 1984 always described the capitalists more than the USSR. Orwell was basically projecting his criticisms of British society onto them presumably because he assumed; “well if it’s so bad here, it must be even worse over there!”

The whole point of running in elections is to demystify socialism as a boogeyman. Otherwise you’re just doing opportunism.

There’s basically no way for free for-profit search to function if it’s held accountable for serving malicious links, it’d be so cost prohibitive that they’d never make profit. The only way that could possibly work is if searching was a subscription service so their user base paid for the cost of vetting links, or if it was a public utility and the whole of society paid for the cost of vetting links.

I think you’re under-counting migrant labor in rural areas - they might have some revolutionary potential.

I literally multiplied their numbers by a factor of ten, the same one you used. I imagine the official count might be off, but a factor of ten is extreme. Yet, even when I did that, they outperformed the world.

We could have done that. Instead, we were marched to our deaths.

That’s why COVID was my radicalization moment.

The OP describes militarized robots as the anti-guillotine.

Today’s guillotine isn’t a sharp piece of metal, it’s a drone.

The guillotine of the future will be a militarized robot.

I’m sure the West didn’t have anything to do with creating and spreading lab leak conspiracy theories to smear China.

Even if they under-counted by a factor of ten (which seems like a pretty extreme estimate) they still outperformed other non-island market economies by a significant margin. Their official death rate was 85 deaths per million. I’m no mathematician but I’m pretty sure that means, by a factor of ten, the “real” death rate was 850 deaths per million.

Now lets look at those other developed countries you listed:

Sweden: 2,798 per million
Finland: 2,058 per million
Switzerland: 1,611 per million
Japan (another Island): 597 per million
France: 2,616 per million

Looks like China did amazingly well, even if you inflate their numbers. In the same order of magnitude as Japan, a literal island.

… I’m finding mass graves that date back to the Second Sino-Japanese War. Are you talking about the rebels that were killed during the cultural revolution? That was clearly a factional dispute, not ethnic cleansing. Mao even condemned it, and the martyrs cemetery isn’t even a secret that anyone “found”.

Oh but now all the deaths are covered up by cremation and super secret, but trust us, they’re totally real. 🙄

I mentioned the real world in my original post because I just wanted to remind people that tech oligarchy is a paper tiger.

It didn’t embrace it, it used it. The commanding heights of the economy are still controlled by the Communist Party and the economy is still centrally planned. That’s why, during the pandemic, they could tell the market to shut down and implement the government’s Zero COVID restrictions. Politics are in command. The only market economies that could show similar results from the pandemic were islands that didn’t need to actually shut the economy down because they could simply restrict travel.

Developed countries staying developed isn’t really remarkable.

Developing countries becoming developed is actually remarkable, because countries usually end up stuck in underdevelopment as they’re ruthlessly exploited by the global economy. China is finally escaping a trap that has ensnared the rest of the Global South.

Compare that to a developed country like the US seemingly falling into underdevelopment. The contrast is remarkable, too.

Hopefully the war with Iran wipes this slate clean and Zionism becomes a bad memory.

Calling oil sales aggression is some interesting spin.