Why should they? We’ve given them no reason to fear us. My district can’t even vote out our congressman who is owned by Israel and AI companies, we definitely can’t organize a movement large enough to threaten the Supreme Court.

Tell Iran this isn’t a full-fledged war… and minimizing it only serves the interests of imperialism.

While inflated CEO pay is certainly outrageous, it’s the people who own the businesses that we should reserve our most vitriolic hate for. After all, at least CEOs do work that marginally contributes to the running of enterprises. Shareholders do nothing except siphon profit away from the people who create it. Not saying CEOs are good, but let’s not get shortsighted here: the entire system of private ownership of the means of production is what needs to change for things to get better.

Israel was always a genocidal project, that’s what settler-colonialism is.

I find it interesting that the study focused on power holders within the capitalist system, which incentivizes selfish behavior, greed, and abuse of power. In a system that does not incentivize those things, I think there would be very different results.

Google literally redesigned their search engine to be worse so that you would scroll through more ads to find the results you want. On average, the best result now is the fifteenth result.

Yeah there may be an overlap. But the 10 million deaths from starvation and preventable disease is the worldwide number (and may actually be an underestimate according to that source), while the 38 million deaths from sanctions is just in sanctioned countries.

1. Xianjiang
2. Hong Kong
3. Tiananmen Square (Also, Tiananmen happened 37 years ago, it can hardly be called current)

These links may provide you with more information than you previously had regarding common criticisms of China. Read them with the understanding that if you live in the West, your prior information has been heavily propagandized, misconstrued, or outright fabricated.

As for US tech atrocities, how about aiding and abetting the actual genocide that is happening in Gaza?

Voting for a lesser evil only legitimizes evil. I suppose it’s too much to ask for people to have principles though. Our childhood heroes would be ashamed of the adults we have become.

“We should all swear fealty to Saruman, because technically he’s less evil than Sauron.”

To be clear, I’m not talking about AOC, I think she has learned the error of her vote to fund the Iron Dome. But my point stands with regards to any corporate Dem.

Does a good country that constantly does horrific things make them bad?

Not nearly as bad as the US/Western Bourgeois. 10 million people die every year from starvation and preventable disease. These deaths can be tied directly to the system of capitalism that uses state imperialism to exploit global south countries, keeping them impoverished, and then withholding food and medicine because it is not profitable to send aid to the countries they have ravaged. The United States alone has killed a further 38 million people in the last 50 years through economic sanctions based on ideological differences.

Even if you believe the most extreme estimates of deaths caused by the Chinese government, and fully attribute them to malice instead of a combination of incompetence and natural famine cycles, the number of people who died is dwarfed by the ongoing slaughter of capitalism.

I do look at history. As in actual history and not the propaganda they teach in high school and broadcast on TV.

China’s price for foreign aid is almost always lower than Western capitalists’. It’s why their belts and roads initiative and BRICS have been so insanely successful.

Cuba doesn’t need agricultural equipment, it needs oil, which the US is preventing it from getting. Since China doesn’t have oil, it is massively building out Cuba’s solar capacity. In the meantime, they are delivering life-sustaining shipments of food.

You seem to be very misinformed about which governments are helping the Cuban people, and which are harming. Cuba wouldn’t need any of this help without US sanctions.

(And ironically, the situation you are describing aligns almost precisely with how USAID functioned before Trump destroyed it.)

Kinda wild how you’re hypothesizing about the Cuban government rationing food based on ideology when the US is literally doing exactly that with the explicit goal of creating as much misery as possible.

Relevant detail: in the last 50 years the US has murdered 38 million people through the use of economic sanctions on its ideological enemies.

Is this what Luigi felt before assassinating delivering justice to that health care CEO?

FTFY

Next time my dog corners a skunk I know where to put it.

Believe me, 90% of the people who own giant trucks out here don’t need them either. But yeah, I don’t really care what you do on private property, just think this is kinda hilariously sad.

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Well a funny thing about off-shoring your economy is that it really just means exploiting people in countries that can’t stand up to your imperial might. So it inevitably creates enemies. Now you have no economy at home AND the rest of the world hates you! Double stupidity!

I trust the Chinese government more than American tech corporations. One side is socialist, the other side is fascist.