A nominally leftist party (probably actually socdems) won the French elections at one point, maybe in the 70s. They got to work raising taxes on capitalists and their means of production. It took about two years before they rolled it back cause the capitalists just said “oh alright, we’ll just leave and take our money with us then.”

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I’ve usually gone for sci-fi lately, sometimes fantasy. I really really really enjoyed Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series (they’re so cozy!). Recently finished Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time which was really interesting. When I’m in the mood for fantasy I’ve been working my way through Fionavar (super weird narrative style though) and Shannara. I can also highly recommend In the Name of the People, a Chinese political drama.

Can’t speak to everything, but I remember reading about special schools and workplaces for (I think) autistic people. Places where the person’s individual strengths and sensitivities are respected and where the people are able to really thrive. It could have been something like a restaurant and a workshop with caretakers and maybe even parents present.

I’ll try to remember to find the article when I have time.

Maté’s hypothesis feels a lot like the quacky libertarianish mass formation psychosis some far-right grifters were talking about during covid.

In general I’ve learned to steer clear of Gabor Maté. He has a lot of really strange ideas about the world.

Don’t forget Freie Demokraten (FDP). They’re turbo-neolibs. All they care about is cutting social services in favour of handouts for the rich.

What gets me about the the mainstream political discourse is how vilified the AfD rhetoric and policy proposals are, only for all of the main parties to jump on the bandwagon and do the things.

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

As far as I’ve seen it’s just libs who are desperate to smear him. It’s embrassing having your only talking points dismantled with primary sources.

No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn’t be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won’t have much flow anyway, as it’s meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

Free trade only ever meant that non-US countries must reduce or remove tariffs and remove capital controls vis a vis the US, so that US capitalists may exploit to their heart’s content.

So US cops don’t hunt down communists, and therefore the US isn’t fascist? I’m having a hard time seeing the thought process here, but then again I’m not a fascist.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

forgetting that she praised her [Nazi] grandpa

Was it this speech? I’m having trouble finding anything else but I’d like to see the original quote.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bkt91mtIYGs at 13:24

This old article (1974) from the US neoconservative outlet National Review made the rounds here a few months ago and speaks to the point of western misinformation. Even these diehard anti-communist neocons admit that the Chinese government and CPC were working with the Tibetan state throughout the 1950s to improve conditions for Tibetans, but US meddling forced more drastic action on the behalf of the CPC. The Dalai Lama has been in the pocket of the CIA ever since 1959, if not even before. A spiritual precedessor to Juan Guaidó, if you will.

https://shugdensociety.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/a-myth-foisted-on-the-western-world/

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

All countries will confiscate illegally obtained income. Want to work cross-border? Do it with the proper visas, permissions, tax reporting, residencies, etc. There’s no story here, just more China hate to help beat the drums of war.

Oh great, even more lies from German state media. This AfD group had no official invitation from the Chinese government, nor did they meet with Chinese government officials. DW is really trying their best to push horseshoe theory on us, and it would be laughable if people didn’t take it seriously.

All of these issues can be mitigated to the point where they’re unproblematic, they just generally won’t be or are skipped because it’s deemed unprofitable. It’s also funny seeing yet another sad nuclear hit piece from a gas lobbyist.

No, we’re not liberals, we’re communists. We talk shit about and dunk on liberals because we fundamentally disagree and take issue with the entire ideology. We take issue with being called liberals, because we’re not.

Liberals have nothing to do with the left.

You can’t be a liberal and a socialist at the same time, unless you’re talking about philistine and opportunist social democracy.

Non-digetic screams just summarized this whole thing perfectly.

It’s informative in the way a fantasy novel is informative.