You cannot endore erdogan and be anti-war in Syria, these are mutually exclusive things since Syria is a goal of the neottomanist project.

Yea, the displays developed much faster than all the supporting components.

is there like a single damn thing that is not dropshipped or resold from china or asia in goddamn amazon?

reform through forced labour is good, tho there is a clear distinction when it’s on a capitalist country and private individuals profit of the prisoners labour to when the prisoner labour is used to develop the country, like gulags in the USSR.

the army has many positions that do not have to deploy and kill people, there is a lot of maintenance engineers for example.

if you’re american, enlist and sabotage the army

you could come up with the best theoretically possible electoral system and it won’t change a thing since ultimately, the state in the West serves the capitalist class.

同志，这是哪里？

In the USA and most Western countries you have Laws and court systems that are meant to counter the Federal government from abuse of power.

Surely those have worked out just fine against Donald Trump 😂

the CCP has full access to the corporate leadership and thus can control Corps by proxy. Remember when billionaare, Alibaba CEO Ma was taken down by the CCP for getting too lippy against the regime and as a show of blatant force was literally disappeared, for months? I do.

Yes, that’s exactly the point. In China, capitalists have no political power, the communist party holds all the cards. That’s awesome.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei

https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

Fascism: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with a belligerent nationalism. The American Heritage Dictionary 1976

This definition is so broad that literally any country fits it Canada, Mexico, US, Germany, SK, France, Japan, etc… all fit this. The economy is intrinsically linked with the state, this is an absurd definition. I much prefer this one by georgi dimitrov

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm

Comrades, fascism in power was correctly described by the Thirteenth Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.

The most reactionary variety of fascism is the German type of fascism. It has the effrontery to call itself National Socialism, though it has nothing in common with socialism. German fascism is not only bourgeois nationalism, it is fiendish chauvinism. It is a government system of political gangsterism, a system of provocation and torture practised upon the working class and the revolutionary elements of the peasantry, the petty bourgeoisie and the intelligentsia. It is medieval barbarity and bestiality, it is unbridled aggression in relation to other nations.

The key to understand the politics of nations is understanding which political class they serve, it is fairly obvious that in the West the state serves the capitalist class while in China it serves the people. In the West you have a carrousel of former bankers rotating the seats ffs. That is actually fascism, the open dictatorship of finance capital.

It could, didn’t say it couldn’t, my point is that when its publicly traded it’s guaranteed to be bad since the company now serves stockholders.

If its publicly traded, you can bet it sucks.

it never occurred to them that US bad when it invaded countries abroad?

if it wasn’t in one already, it’s certainly headed to an hyper recession right now.

also you can literally drink alcohol on the streets of China

i know the writer is in the NYT for a reason, but i still cannot comprehend what’s the point of keeping this charade that taiwan is not china, reunification is not mentioned once on the article lmao.

bummer if i saw this yesterday i would’ve donated but i just made a mistake that likely set me back a couple of years and i can’t help :(

i had a really really really fucking terrible day, made a mistake that likely cost me my entire year of work if not more.

SCREAMS

yea, i mostly distrust them because my most degenerate acquaintances from high school went to study medicine and are specializing in gynecology…

i will always be distrustful of male gynecologist