This is always such a useless and thought-terminating cliche: While it looks (and arguably is) horrible that the Communist Party of China has or is affiliated with billionaires, the truth is that billionaires (at least not ones connected to state-owned enterprises) have almost no political power in the government as a whole.

Billionaires and the rich are tolerated for different reasons, but ultimate power rests with the CPC, which control the commanding heights of the economy, and almost always direct it in a pro-working class way.

Even Lenin argued that socialism is basically a more advanced version of state capitalism, except with the proceeds going towards average working people and society as a whole.

Comparing modern China to the USSR is almost apples to oranges. The USSR had very little time to build socialism, and had to brute force it.

According to Marx’s original writings, he strongly argued AGAINST this. He argued that it would be best for a socialist society to slowly and steadily nationalize/collectivize workplaces and economic entities, as they maximized gains from the slow capitalist transition, because they outlived their usefulness, and centralization would be the next logical step, instead of random companies accumulating profit inefficiently.

While I’m not Chinese, I’ve read that there have been instances, both modern and historical, of definite racism in China.

That all being said, while racism is always a horrible issue, I don’t think China’s issues of racism are NEARLY to the same extent or intensity as in the west.

While I’m sure that I’m generalizing, its truly remarkable how surprisingly multicultural that China is.

It seems like that Chinese people/citizens don’t care where people come from (not in a malicious or arrogant way, I mean), they primarily care about who you are as a person and what your role in society is, which matters far more.

Also, I thought that China recognized roughly 57 different groups? But that might just be main ethnic groups, and I’m not doubting that there are 37 or more different minority groups, now that I think about it.

I’m also curious where you see that Xi has mostly targeted revisionist Shanghai politicians.

I’m not disagreeing with you, or not entirely, but I feel like you have something specific relating to this.

I have alot of respect for Li Qiang, and while I understand being wary of officials advocating even for limited market forces, he seems to be one of the more genuine and driven and simultaneously pro-marxist officials in the party.

Is there anything in particular that makes you very wary of him?

How can you call the CPC revisionist? They are arguably the most orthodox (aside from mainly Cuba and Vietnam) of communist parties.

I imagine that China’s security forces makes even Cuba’s look like boy scouts.

Yeah, Xi Jinping should have more people praising him.

If I have follow-up questions, do you mind if I keep in touch?

I’ve looked at temperature/climate/meteorological maps, and done alot of reading of scientific papers, and that’s how I came to my conclusion.

That’s cool AF. Is there any noticable lag? And is it good for streaming/torrenting,as well?

Then let’s make it exciting! Lol.

Yeah, space is fucking majestic, horrifying, awe-inducing, scary, and gorgeous.

This is perfect, thank you!

I was leaning towards SurfShark earlier, but I’m looking at these now.

I’m aware that life is likely going to suck everywhere, and that China isn’t immune to climate change. I appreciate your thoughtful answer.

The crux of my question though, is in your opinion, do you think that Chengdu will be a comparatively “safe” zone, at least for a while, due to the natural geography, shit-ton of nearby agriculture, very fertile soil, more temperate climate?

That seems to be the consensus.

I’m trying to plan something.

I appreciate the help, but I don’t have anything concrete yet. I do have a plan though.

A hypothesis I have is that the world gets warmer, China will be somewhat of a safe haven/last refuge, for somewhat “normal” climate/weather/daily life.

Do you agree with that or have any thoughts?

I’ve read that compared to the rest of the world, China overall, but especially Chengdu/Sichuan, and eastern China somewhat as well, will remain much comparatively cooler and more temperate as the average global temperature rises, and that China’s natural environment and geography will somewhat or moderately temper the potential temperature increase, and delay the number and severity of extreme weather events in China.

I think this makes a great meme, but I gotta say that I kinda prefer Bioware, lol.

I appreciate Lem, though

I agree that carbon/water based lifeforms are the most plausible/numerous to exist, yet I would also love and be fascinated by aliens that are like cybertronians/transformers, “natural” robots that still have recognizable biological functions, and meet the criteria of being alive and sentient. Like a silicon-based lifeform that drinks, I don’t know, argon or ammonia.

I once read a pretty excellent scientific paper, a thought experiment, about an alien lifeform that could possibly live inside stars, and withstand the extreme pressures and heat, and would gain nutrients from different areas of the star, based on the thermal gradients/chemicals, almost like space-dragons.

If you ask me, I really fucking hope that there are aliens out there like the Quarians and Asari (Turians are my favorite) but also extremely weird lifeforms and worlds that defy imagination and understanding.

Like (even though it’s incredibly unlikely) a planet-sized singular organism that thrives off of limited mobility.

Or even worlds where, through some exotic combination of elements and materials, combined with the weather/atmosphere and extremely strange chemical and physical reactions, basically defies the laws of physics of what should be possible.

But you also don’t want to make aliens too “alien” to where people won’t have any recognition or care of their struggles, personalities, life attributes.

I like “human” aliens, especially if they are portrayed as being very psychologically/culturally different from most humans as a whole, but I also appreciate the truly weird and strange barely recognizable ones.