Greed predates capitalism and will outlive capitalism.

I don’t know what his sentence was, but death sentences in China are almost always “with reprieve.”

China is authoritarian. No not like that.

I can’t restore comments that were deleted via “Remove Content,” so in this case, no. They’re the comments that don’t show up in the modlog. It’s an outstanding bug.

Sorry, friendly fire.

Because as far as I can find, the protests were nonviolent until the army was sent in to clear the square. When protestors blocked the army a standoff ensued, which was eventually forcefully broken as per the CCP’s orders.

The people in the square left peacefully and without the use of violence. There was no “standoff” in the square. The violence occurred in other neighborhoods, not in the square itself. You can find contemporaneous Western media coverage confirming this, because there were a lot of Western media there at the time. It’s well documented. That’s why we say that the “Tiananmen square massacre” is a myth, because it wasn’t in Tiananmen square and it wasn’t a “massacre.” The military didn’t kettle peaceful protesters into a square and indiscriminately mow them down and crush them under tanks.

“Coming into power” is putting the cart before the horse. The odds of regime change don’t look good, and what would replace it hasn’t been decided. I doubt “crown prince” Reza Pahlavi is still a serious contender.

I pointed out that you couldn’t pretend defending the working in class when denying its agency.

There’s no evidence of us denying the agency of the working class, but Western media have groomed you to believe it. Previously:

Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of ‘Agency’ Discourse and How Media Chooses Which ‘Voices’ To Center

We discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
• https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#Weapons_of_mass_destruction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_rape_allegations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

TBF most of us used to be liberals, and we have no more wits now than we did then.

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Did you create a new account just to say nothing?

The Kuomintang and certain aspects of S. Korea after WWII share a very similar backstory, did they do socialism? You would probably deny this.

Fuck no they didn’t do socialism. They did fascism[1][2]. How is this detour even relevant?

Literally Prussia

literally wtf r u talking about m8

If you don’t know anything then don’t say anything.

Trade is not tens of thousands of years old. That is ahistorical.

Trading goes back to prehistory, as as archeologists will tell you.

Dialectics (and more specifically dialectical materialism), as opposed to metaphysics.

A lot of new wave was pretty cerebral. Revenge of the Nerds didn’t come from nowhere.

I love DEVO’s almost unrecognizable, fever dream of a cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o

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Reason: Antisemitism

Pathetic. Fuck off, Zionist.

It’s unfortunate that you believe the lies the West tells you about its enemies.

Fighting against your oppressors makes you no better than them, so just close your eyes and think of England.