frashelaw's comments

> China/Russia/Iran/Cuba/NK

Wow, you got all the state department's most wanted "bad governments" list!

Be sure to keep reading NYT and MSNBC to sell you the next reason we need to bomb and starve millions of innocent people across the globe! America #1!

"Democracy" LOL! America is a democracy in name only. In reality it is a corporate oligarchy.

Precisely.

As I briefly alluded to, the liberal democratic capitalist economic and political organization of western society, along with Anglo cultural notions of individualism in general, are entirely antithetical to addressing climate crisis, which requires long term coordination and economic planning, not the profit driven hawkery of the "free" market. And extreme individualism feeds into making this level of coordination completely politically untenable in the west. Just look how much people rage against lockdowns and public health mandates as millions die from the pandemic.

The crisis likely will be eventually addressed, but it will be by the successors of liberal democracy, and the multipolar world consisting of the post-capitalist, post-US-hegemony third world.

Westerners really will do literally anything about climate change except reckon with their corporate overlords who by far are the biggest contributors to climate destruction.

Get real, your app using 15% less power makes literally zero difference. If you want to make a real difference, nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management. Anything short of that and climate disaster is inevitable.

But of course, they will never do that.

you F R E E M A R K E T people really boggle my mind

The US was always the most advanced police state. All the "freedom" indoctrination just thinly covers up the fact that the rich pull the strings, own the politicians, start the forever wars, and neglect the needs of the common person.

The US was always the most advanced police state. All the "freedom" indoctrination just thinly covers up the fact that the rich pull the strings, own the politicians, start the forever wars, and neglect the needs of the common person.

D is excellent for systems programming

Note that it's specifically Online games, not all games.

Have you considered that maybe china isn't the 1984 bogeyman dystopia the corporate media told you it is, and that it's just hysteria to distract you from the real issues at home, with legitimized mass surveillance, corporate censorship, and militarized police?

Something something Chinese social credit evil, something something fighting for "freedom" and "democracy".

10000000 million

    "The rent of the land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give. "

-- ch 11, wealth of nations

    "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

-- Adam Smith

    "[the landlord leaves the worker] with the smallest share with which the tenant can content himself without being a loser, and the landlord seldom means to leave him any more."

-- ch 11, wealth of nations.

    "The landlord demands a rent even for unimproved land, and the supposed interest or profit upon the expense of improvement is generally an addition to this original rent. Those improvements, besides, are not always made by the stock of the landlord, but sometimes by that of the tenant. When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own. "

-- ch 11, wealth of nations.

    "RENT, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances. In adjusting the lease, the landlord endeavours to leave him no greater share of the produce than what is sufficient to keep up the stock"

-- ch 11, wealth of nations.

    "[Landlords] are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own. That indolence, which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind"

-- ch 11, wealth of nations.

Today's hyper-militarized police forces are their state-provisioned security to protect the capital of the 1%.

Gusanos lmao

Yet another shining example of western hypocrisy: ignoring and apologizing for a well documented genocide of Palestinians, and spreading a RFA/CIA narrative blowing an anti-extremist integration campaign in China way out of proportion.

Of course I'll get downvoted to hell for saying this, because everyone here agrees with you, but that's just how it is on this website.

Exactly, and these people are taking an idea about "1984" from an executive of a tech megacorporation that is just one of the many corporations that dominate and run our economy in their favor, at the expense of everyone else.

North Korean defectors are paid by South Korean govt and US-funded orgs in order to push propaganda about North Korea.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-k...

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-22/problem-north-korea-s...

Exactly. Capitalism is ultimately playing a key role in perpetuating poverty.