CommunistFFWhen

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How is Laos doing? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One recent article I read was about how Vietnamese and Chinese businesses have being coming to into Laos to set up plantations to export China and causing it to become one of the country with the highest deforestation rate.

This site compile articles on Laos both original and from other new sources if you want to read (including RFA shrug-outta-hecks )

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Current leadership is highly focused on wanting Vietnam to get out of the middle-income trap, saying this is the country only chance to do so, they are pure nationalist and developmentalist, wanting to emulate Japan/Korea/Singapore/China rise. Their policies including:

  • Reduce state bureaucracy by reducing amount of state employees (with good compensation) through merging departments and provinces
  • Heavily increase spending on sciences
  • Building infrastructures including better highway system as well as high speed train and metro
  • Free basic public education from next year
  • Gradually transition to a free healthcare by 2030s
  • Promoting importance of private businesses as well as being much more lenient toward them when they break laws not putting them in jail if they pay enough to cover the damages.
  • Building international financial centre

Trump capitulation and zionist collab are just all for self-interest to develop the country. The country rely heavily on foreign investments (from East Asia and Singapore) and export (US exports account for 1/3) for their developments.

At least there are no peeling back of existing labor laws yet.

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Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
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In Vietnam’s communist system, all land is owned by the people and managed or leased out by the state. Most of the property for the golf project is still controlled by families with long-term rights of use. In the Khoai Chau district of Hung Yen province — where the Trump project will take up nearly four square miles along the Red River — a sense of betrayal has been rumbling.

At town-hall meetings in early April, officials told hundreds of residents that the best they could expect was about half of what their land would have sold for even before the golf project was announced in October.

Amid a chorus of outrage at one meeting, nearly everyone stormed out. Word of the offered rate spread through streets and into the fields. Opposition has hardened as farmers fear losing investments in saplings that take years to mature, and the security that the land has provided for generations.

“They’re not listening to us,” Le Thi Thanh, 57, said on a recent fever-hot afternoon, squatting to graft young custard apple trees. “They just come here and impose their will.”

At the groundbreaking, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh seemed sensitive to the possibility of public backlash in a country where, despite the power of a one-party state, people are not afraid to protest over being forced from where they live and work.

Raising his voice to a crowd of bankers, generals and Trump invitees in suits or shimmering stilettos, Mr. Chinh instructed the provincial authorities to ensure that those who sacrificed property would “have a new livelihood and new home better than their old ones.”

He also said the project would “receive maximum support” to “further strengthen the relationship between Vietnam and the U.S.” He promised that it would be completed in 2027.

The Vietnamese spirit is now helping a bunch of genocidal asshats committing genocide in c/slop@hexbear.net
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Great article about Laos and the effects of Vietnam and China businesses investment on its environment (www.mekongeye.com)
 

In 2023 alone, Laos lost more than 136,500 hectares of primary forest – an area 3.5 times the size of Singapore – placing it among the countries with the highest rates of deforestation worldwide, according to Global Forest Watch.

A report published in 2020, based on land transaction data from 2014 to 2017, revealed that deforestation occurred in nearly a quarter of the land deals between Laos and foreign investors.

In addition, the government has authorized investors to use more than 110,000 hectares of land within national conservation and protected forest areas, converting them into “production forests” – meaning areas where trees are planted for the purposes of agriculture and logging.

Quite doomer tbh sadness

Deforestation for banana and durian plantations to export to China. The article mentioned the companies create jobs and roads but I'm not sure it is enough to justify this destruction of the environment.

Bulletins and News Discussion from November 18th to November 24th, 2024 - Could It Soon Be Azover? - COTW: Ukraine in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Does anyone following the Myanmar civil war know anything that contradict this news about how China has detained one of the Myanmar ethnic force's leader to force them into talks with the current junta (as well as cutting off access to water, electricty to ethnic forces) ?

It seems objectively bad and goes against their supposed non-interference policy.

Really good animation in this little arknights PV in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think only two people are explicitly gay in the game, the rest are implied (some heavily) subtext. The fans run with those subtext though, lots of good fan contents for every type of parings. Texlapp is one of most popular one for example, two mafia heiresses, one ran from their past life, the other chased after to see her failed and be dragged back into the swamp. The event that resolved their conflict was super great and brought us this banger.

Best place to look for more is under the Arknights tag on tumblr.

Really good animation in this little arknights PV in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Seeing this at the end of 5 years anniversary stream was so good.

Highly recommend anyone that love tower defense and can tolerate the gacha aspect to play it. Beside all the awesome treatment of the devs toward their artists and communities, beautiful arts, music and animations, its story offers really sharp critique of capitalism: American prison system, American healthcare system, England oppression of Ireland,...

In the lastest main story chapter, we are shown glimpse of a growing movement of the oppressed that I feel is just a stand in for a revolutionary left movement. Here is a quote from its leader:

"He said to ignore the Infected in positions of power, because they still enjoy exploiting others with their authority and see disease as only a tool. And that we should also grant the same kind of liberation to any oppressed people, and not just our sick brethren. Because they can fight alongside us, and we'll need their strength to put up a fight. ... What we want is to send a message to all the aristocrats, and oppressors, those trying to divide, suppress, and eliminate us— The blade they so despise hangs high above their necks."

Best part of all is the stand in for France had been utterly destroyed before the game story even started france-cool

Dunkey announcing his indie game publishing company in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He played and enjoyed story-driven games like RDR, TLOU, Death Stranding, Yakuza and many more just fine. His problem was always about the anime tropes in the vast majority of JRPGs that doesn't suit his sensibilities and slow-paced, repetitive turn-based combat - he still enjoy turn-based stuff when it is fun like Persona 5 and Into the Breach for example :shrug-outta-hecks:

A North Vietnamese Army officer smiles after noticing the peace symbol necklace of an American soldier who surrendered, 1973 in c/history@hexbear.net
[–] CommunistFFWhen@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

iirc, those symbols were used by US soldiers who wanted to signal their intention to surrender/lay down arm or sth and NV soldiers knew not to shoot them

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