Like half of us wish we could live in China
“and yet they never seem to write their own neoliberal software”, see i can do it too, it’s real easy
there’s reddit for the libs and piefed for the ultralibs
Piefed
Downgrading from Rust to Python and then implementing built-in score manipulation tools on top is exactly what I expect from freedom-and-efficiency-loving neolib “entrepreneurs”. If Lemmy didn’t exist as competition they’d probably be looking into turning the project into a profitable endeavor as well.
implementing built-in score manipulation tools
Could you please elaborate or post a link to read more about this?
This was based on this comment from a comrade I read a bit ago: https://hexbear.net/comment/6724655
If this is false information I apologize. Or perhaps if they see this they can elaborate.
Yeah Piefed is that software precisely.
I mean, China has one of the lowest immigration rates in the world, with what is practically near impossible conditions for immigration for foreigners, so it’s not exactly because people don’t want to…
That’s like saying people don’t want to drink water in a water-scarce area. Like sure, it’s definitely because of a lack of want rather than a lack of access
it’s very easy to get a working visa there esp for white people and people with teaching certification
Why do I need to live in Russia if I express doubts about the State “Remember the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraqi WMDs” Department’s narrative about the extremely resource rich and geopolitically significant Chinese province of Xinjiang?
My best translation is “This is what the government wants; play along with their stories and just be loyal”
These same people have fun making fun of hypocritical Trump supporters who, when faced with the very same arguments against Trump that they make against others, don’t stick to the principles they pretended to have; they are exactly as bad as hypocritical Trump supporters, but they just want to be blindly loyal to the country.
North Korea for example has been no threat to ANYONE; they’ve cooked up stories about Iran funding terrorists and Venezuela possibly moving drugs to America (they aren’t), but there’s nothing to say about North Korea and for a while there people were still genuinely terrified that the red dawn remake was about to happen any day now. I recall something a lady once said that (Times?) magazine ran a poll to see how many people believed Iraq was involved in 9/11 and it was like 60-70% of the population even though there was zero evidence.
What they mean is always just “Be loyal, play along”
Pretty sure many of us would be down to immigrate to China.
Mandarin is fuckin hard though.
I remember trying to learn Japanese and when the Kanji came out I noped out of there immediately, and I mention this because if I recall correctly, Kanji itself was originally Chinese which I think means the Chinese language is written in similar or exactly the same style and like just NOPE. I remember for instance one symbol that’s supposed to be for tree, and like two of them next to each other means forest, and that much of the language is written in this style where you’re supposed to get a sense out of what the word is trying to say, or something to that effect.
Japanese at least has Hiragana and Katakana; I am NOT going to try to learn mandarin unless it’s simply spoken mandarin and not written (although that said, my pronunciation of Chinese syllables is terrible; a Singaporean guy who tried to teach me the difference between su, su, su and su just couldn’t transmit the differences between; for instance su means four, while su means death, but su instead means…corner or something? Don’t even ask me what su stands for, I can’t remember that one!)
I have my kid in Mandarin lessons twice per week. So, when the time comes, she can request White Monster Energy Drinks on my behalf.
Because the point of being a communist is to break the cycle of pain and grief at home? Hello?
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Isn’t that whole division thing a bedrock of conservative thought? “Everyone has their place” taken to the point where, to them, it logically makes sense that everyone should be neatly sorted into different countries and we’ll all magically live better loves when we have our own ethno states to stay in.
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I started to lose you at the last paragraph. The way I’ve been told Social Democracy is simply Capitalism with a lot of safeguards & controls in place. Places like Norway and Denmark with better safety nets. It’s still Capitalism and if the Capitalist class was smart they would implement this everywhere to keep their system safe…
I don’t see how that’s closer to Fascism because I think of Fascism as Capitalism in crisis. Those Nordic states are Capitalist but seem much more stable than even the US and other more oligarchic states like most of western Europe. So wouldn’t Social Democracy be farther away from Fascism due to the increased economic and social stability?
Social democracy isn’t just capitalists being smart, it’s capitalists bribing the workers by redistributing the superprofits generated by imperialist growth. It is smart to get worker buy-in to capitalism by giving them a cut of the growth, but fascism doesn’t occur just because capitalists suddenly become too stupid to do social democracy. It occurs when the superprofits decline and the empire has to turn inward to sustain growth. The social democratic ideological superstructure remains, but the superexploitation comes home.
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It may not be THE basis of conservative thought, but its certainly a pillar.
Even if you do move, the next thing they’ll say is “why did you move here? You should stay and fix things where you came from”.
My personal conspiracy is that Goat is a zionist agent that pushes an anti-commie pipeline. And this was him on reddit. (Don’t ask how I found the post)
Insane how people use nearly identical usernames on different sites
The origin of the phrase “putting out a fleece” is a reference to the story of Gideon meaning to look for a sign from God before undertaking some action or carrying out some plan. wiki
Invariably, our hearts and minds have their agenda. We want what we want when we want it. We can flip the Bible until we find the answer we want. We can make it our fleece. source
Okay okay, I stop now.
The reeducation camps won’t be big enough.
A lot of people these days hear “communism” and think of Bernie Sanders pushing Medicare for all and dealing with the 1%, but communism in Eastern Europe in the postwar period was something entirely different. It was starvation, the secret police, paranoia, cruelty, and Kafkaesque living. The collapse of a government, even a badly run, frightening government, means increasing chaos.
Kafkaesque lol. Yeah, and everything was in black and white, and the sun never shone.
Putin is the leader of another former communist state, one much more powerful and that is still known in 2018 for poisoning former citizens it decides it doesn’t like.
The Skripal affair has been debunked; the story never even made sense.
He is known for cracking down on his critics using the power of the state and jailing his political opponents.
Why would Putin, a head of state with a 70%+ approval rating according to polls conducted by Western NGOs, need to jail a political opponent like Navalny who had 1% approval? Maybe it had more to do with the fact that he was literally caught on video being paid millions of dollars by MI6 to start a color revolution in Russia.
Before the USSR fell apart, he was in the KGB for 16 years.
He’s proof that although terrifying communist regimes may fall, the people who personify evil inside those regimes live on and can continue to operate with nearly unchecked power.
Putin is living proof that people live past the age of 39!
He does not control the whole Duma any more than Trump, Starmer, or Macron control their legislative bodies, numbnuts. One of the reasons that Putin intervened in the Ukraine civil war in 2022 was because he was receiving too much criticism for being soft on NATO. I’m so tired of this stereotype that every US rival is controlled by a supervillain with unlimited supernatural power.
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I’m actually considering trying to move to China to escape the shitstorm that is sure to hit Europe as the economies goes to even more shit than it’s in now. The main problems are getting the money to do it and checking the strict conditions you have to fulfill before you can get anything remotely close to permanent residency.
Pay for my ticket and golden visa then. I’ll gladly leave this shithole.
praising a thing that never happened and doesn’t exist
I mean I’ve literally talked about wanting to live in China before lol
Russia seems like a really bad place to live and once again people think analyzing a conflict is the same as being completely aligned with one of the powers
Agreed.
I don’t think Russia is it the hell it’s depicted as by racist liberals, but it has a lot of problems to be sure (certainly more than China in their current forms). I’d have to visit to know precisely how “mid” or “meh” it is.
ive been to russia before, its pretty cheap to visit. i visited one of my queer friends in st petersburg and did some train trips to moscow. everything rural is dogshit and very similar to america (re: small town with 4 way stop and annoying car infrastructure), and moscow and st petersburg are the only areas really worth visiting imo. maybe vladivostok would be cool to visit but its obviously really out of the way. moscow and st petersburg have some pretty severe infrastructure issues that many other european cities have already addressed (oh boy i have to cross an 8 lane high speed highway to go to the market! or to get to a major train station!), prague is kinda a paradise in comparison. the soviet union would have handled all of this better, the infrastructure is all running on fumes from the soviet era
out of the two i preferred st petersburg far more, mostly cause the queer scene seemed a lot better. this was all before the war and covid so im sure some things have changed.
heres a pic of one of the streets in question lol
st peterburg imo is nicer because they have a lot of nice little rivers and canals going through the city that are nice to walk or ride along, moscow has a ring forest that is very nice but idk i preferred the canals. just in general russia feels very america-coded and european-lite to me not the greatest visit. i do think the medium sized cities not rural towns are likely better than the usa, but i only stretched my legs at one during my train to moscow. the long train ride was kinda fun tho i talked to a lot of people, very communal atmosphere
How about Sochi and Volgograd?
idk about the south its hard to visit all of russia in one go lol
I’m sure even my mental depiction of russia is tinted by such propaganda tbh
Moscow has the most beautiful subway stations I’ve ever seen
And yet they never want to move to China or Russia
If they did you’d switch to calling them Russian or Chinese shills
Or paid operatives
If I spoke mandarin fluently and if it’d be easy to get family there I’d consider it. Moving countries isn’t something you can do lightly it’s a giant pain to do
Oh, so you didn’t just immediately pick up your life and belongings, get a green card, pin down a job, and move there right after I dared you to? You just proved my point.
It’s the same energy as, “if you don’t love America, get out.”
It’s dumb, and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Ironically the people crying “if you don’t love America, get out” themselves complain about the country and aren’t moving out
