• Trudge [Comrade]
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    China can’t win. Make crappy products and they laugh at you. Make middling products and they accuse you of copying. Make superior products and it’s an onslaught.

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        In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

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    The world’s worst polluter

    Ignore that our pollution stats are obfuscated by outsourcing production and theirs are inflated by producing our cheap consumer slop.

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      Well they are the ones making your products, you should really be thanking them for producing YOUR products in a more clean manner.

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    oh shit, where is that ev shower going to happen? i want a free ev

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    Economist covers from 2013 and 2024, the common themes continue to be racism and xenophobia

    That isn’t any different from the Economist from 1843 and all years between

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          Liberals: Stand on the exact same positions for 160 years, rules most of world directly or by proxy, destroy everyone who tried to change that status quo

          Also liberals: calls other people “conservatists”

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    When your criticism of a country is definitly genuine and not propaganda:

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    Can China clean up fast enough?

    I guess that you answered your own question.

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    “The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism.” -Lenin, whose roast they continue to seethe about.