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davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power

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davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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The platform isn’t a national security threat, but a challenge to Silicon Valley’s dominance
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    The imperial core countries affords those—notably deteriorating—social programs through the exploitation of the periphery countries, programs which the core does not allow the periphery to have. The global north working class paid for those concessions with our blood & sweat, though no one seems to remember, thanks to two red scares and a cold war. The purpose of FDR’s New Deal was to save capitalism from socialist threats, and the capitalists have spent the last fifty years chipping away at their New Deal concessions. Europe had its own, even stronger socialist movements, and their capitalists similarly ceded ground temporarily.

    China escaped from the imperial core’s predation in the last century, and is still in the process of recovering from it.
    United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

    Despite over sixty years of imperial core-enforced sanctions, Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans.

    Look up China Ghost towns.

    I am familiar with them. Those were planned communities that were photographed after construction but before being populated. Perhaps there were some duds, I couldn’t say: researching every bit of US propaganda gish gallop isn’t my day job.

    This Is What The World’s Loneliest Metro Station Looks Like Today

    China intentionally popped its housing bubble recently, and that’s why some capitalist real estate developers are going bankrupt, and China isn’t trying to save them because they’re capitalists.

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      This Is What The World’s Loneliest Metro Station Looks Like Today

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