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volodya_ilich

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  • Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds. The U.S. Is Sending More Bombs.

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  • The things you can do are support groups and politicians that will push the country in the direction you want it to move

    So voting the greens is good because they're moving the country in the direction of non-genocide? I'm European myself, but I don't see how anyone could vote for the party whose candidate, during an ongoing genocide, says that "defends the right of Israel to defend itself" and claims that the US should have "the most lethal" fighting force in the world. Not most efficient, not most effective, not best funded: most LETHAL.

  • Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping

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  • The Tankie actually said something on the lines of, "If you would JUST READ MARX you would know that earning capital is a fundamental cornerstone of communism!"

    I'm a communist who doesn't want to call China a communist country, so I don't really agree with the person that you were talking to, but your second paragraph does show you haven't researched communism or its history. The debate of whether societies need to undergo capitalist capital accumulation first to enter communism is about as old as communism, and the history of communism is full of examples of this. It's the ideological reason why the Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party split into two wings: the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, the former believing that the Russian Empire had to undergo capitalism first in other to become communist, and the latter wanting to implement socialism to the primitive almost feudalist Russian empire. Some similar split happened more discreetly inside the Communist Party of China, with Mao implementing socialism directly to the extremely underdeveloped Chinese society, and later Deng Xiaoping opting for the more market-socialism (known now to many as "socialism with Chinese characteristics).

    So you may or may not agree whether china is communist, but from your comment it's clear that you're very oblivious to the historical and ideological reasons for the argument as to whether china is or isn't a socialist country and whether they're on the path to it. It's good to discuss things and to have opinions, but please get informed before dismissing other people's opinions on topics they've probably dedicated more time than you to studying.

  • Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping

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  • Yeah, blame the immigrants. Very .world thing to do lol. Taking Germany, for example, according to Wikipedia, 0.17% population growth per year between 2010 and 2020 doesn't seem too great for me, compared to China's yearly >4% GDP growth for example they'd reduce per-capita growths by an insignificant amount. I'm European myself, and I can tell you that the lack of GDP per capita growth between 2008 and 2024 isn't due to population reasons either, and I'm guessing it's the same for the bigger EU economies like France,Italy and Spain but feel free to correct me otherwise.

    2008 as my benchmark is exactly my point: the European economy has only now economically recovered from the effects of its own self-imposed policy of austerity and deprivation of worker rights and welfare, without having restored said rights or welfare to pre-2008 levels. And we see countries like the UK under "labor" administration falling to the same policy again as soon as they enter the government. In the meanwhile, without falling into such policy (although without many significant victories for welfare and labor AFAIK), China has grown its per-capita GDP threefold since 2008.

    So no, I don't think "Chinese economy looks bad", I wish my European country's economy would mimic a fraction of the Chinese growth actually

  • Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping

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  • Funny because I'm European, and the GDP per capita levels of most EU countries are at 2008 levels.

    As for a population pyramid, China will face the same problem as other countries as you say, possibly more magnified.

  • Yet another one of China's elite has disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping

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  • Who thinks Chinese economy is bad now??

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • I asked for metrics, you're bringing words, do you see the problem?

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • Ok, give me some metrics that explain why this is the most effective climate legislation please, other than Biden claiming so

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • So no metrics by which things are improving, gotcha.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • There... are no metrics in the link you sent me... There's "plans to reduce emissions by X year", but no mention to progress so far. There's "investment into carbon capture and sequestration" (famously known to not work) but no metric. There's "a pause in the approvals for new natural gas projects" (but the ones approved keep opening up)...

    Have you even read what you sent me?

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • Ok, can you please give me other metrics? How many nuclear plants have been built? How much has been invested into new rail infrastructure, whether for freight or for passengers? Have there been any new tariffs on the import of electric vehicles? Any regulation against single family housing, against car dependency, or against meat consumption?

    Please, what metrics have improved, other than renewables being installed (at a much lower rate than in many countries)?

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lashes Out at 'Predatory' Jill Stein

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  • The Dems aren't making baby steps in the right direction, though, look up the progression of natural gas exports under Joe Biden. They're actively making big steps in the wrong direction.

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • No, the US isn't expansionist, it's imperialist.

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • "your evidence is overwhelming"

    I explicitly said that all your sources are "western-biased source reports that some government official of a bordering country cries at slight border tensions". By that logic, Spain is a hugely militaristic, imperialist and expansionist regime:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perejil_Island_crisis?wprov=sfla1

    I wasn't doing whataboutism, I was bringing real examples of militarism as opposed to literal news cuts of government officials crying at maps that you provided as "overwhelming evidence".

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • If it was "expansionism" that China sought, why stop at Tibet?

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • My my, how sickening, a YouTube link to an out of context video :( china is truly the worst country of all

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • You're just showing you don't understand basic concepts. You called China's liberation of Tibet "colonialism", proving you don't know the meaning of it. Expansionism isn't "when borders grow at any time in history", it's a tendency of a nation to view its territorial expansion as a desirable goal for the sake of it or for access to resource for example. Austria building an embassy in Tibet would grow Austria's borders, technically counting as expansionism according to you. You have lib level of politics knowledge and analysis, and it's hysterical how you try to bend definitions to make things look good for US imperialism

  • If China wants Taiwan it should also reclaim land from Russia, says president

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  • China bad. Source: YouTube.

    Unbelievable discourse level