Whatsapp and instagram are owned by facebook. Youtube is owned by google. Still US tech companies.

Which country’s economy?

Facts.

You can also find an audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

You obviously didn’t look at even a few of these links either!

The fact that they get memory-holed or paywalled after a few years isn’t my fault, but I’d be happy to update any ones that aren’t working with archived links.

This not sharing information, this flooding. This is a way of shutting up any kind of disussion.

Just silly. For one person its “too much info”, for another its “not enough”. AI really broke people’s brains. If they actually have to read some things and can’t be given a short summary, they call it “shutting down discussion”.

Thx, I made that one.

Was summoned once, and ended up on the jury. It was a really sad case where the cops were trying to put an 80-something year old former convict back in prison, because his son in law had a gun in the house (that they searched because of something the son in law did, but no charges were brought against him), and that was a violation of the 80-year-old’s release conditions from like 40 years ago.

I really wanted to end up on the jury in order to keep this guy out of prison, which luckily we did. The defense was very smart in making his case sympathetic, even though legally the guy had no leg to stand on. There were a few jurors that wanted to imprison him, but we finally got them to go with the majority to ignore the law and keep him out of prison.

The easy rule of thumb if you do/don’t want to be on the jury: the less you talk, the more likely you are to end up on the jury. The more annoying you are, especially talking about how busy you are, or asking a lot of pointless questions: the less likely you are to end up on the jury.

Why does the country have private businessmen owning large companies at all? China has domestic billionaires. Billionaires that have grown fat on the backs of their workers. This is not socialism.

You’re right, you didn’t read even a few of the links, and you’re proving the post correct.

Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.

Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.

Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: “when you tell white people they can’t do imperialism”.

Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition:

That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.

Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this “in your gut”, because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.

Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.

Spain’s government only recently started turning against the US, and this vote was in 2022.

As for Ireland, can’t say.

Basically either the more honest, and less competent imperialists, vs the dishonest, more competent imperialists.

The US and Israel were trying to push the women’s rights angle with their manufactured protests, then bombed a girls school killing ~150 mostly schoolchildren.

Love it, nice job!

I used photoprism for many years, and while its great, immich ended up being much better.

Oof yeah, this chart needs updated.

many human rights violations happening in China