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China have a consistent policy. They recognize the state of Palestine and vote for its membership in the UN.

China want to mediate a peaceful resolution. To achieve that, they will not distance themselves from or sanction Israel. They can't be an effective mediator otherwise.

They only use trade sanctions in RETALIATION to attacks on China from other countries.

Sanctions aren't going to beat Israel. It's supported by the US with billions of dollars per year.

The capitalists own the means of production. That produces income beyond what they need. The surplus money allows them to buy more productive assets. These assets only need to be sold if the owner has a LACK of money (i.e. they hit a rough patch). Hence it continues to accumulate among fewer and fewer rich people who pass it to their next generation. They are in competition WITH EACH OTHER to accumulate assets.

So what compels them to work hard (not productively, but still hard) to ammass ever more money? Surely it’s easier to sit in a pool all day and collect tithes rather than strategizing about the new merger, the new apartment block to buy, the next politician to bribe ecc.

LOL. They don't work at all. They employ someone to do the work whether it is the strategizing or the bribing.

"It didn't run them over!"

Ouch. He could try some light spine decompression moves to ease the spasms.

There are simple ones on YouTube he can do in bed.

There are levels to this left-wing stupidity. If you think Marxists are off track, you should see the anarchists and prog-libs complaining about China.

But I think the focus should be on opposing the right wing at the moment because they are going absolutely nuts. China is going to be fine regardless because they can't be fucked-with by any country.

During the 8 hours, they take breaks/pauses/rehydration for long enough that their recovery systems recharge. Depends how intensely you are walking as well. And how well hydrated and fueled up with carbs you are. Why are you on the treadmill for an hour?

(The point of cardio IS to burn calories, so you should feel tired! That's the carbs getting drained out of you. Needing time to recover means the exercise is working.)

Jameson is critical of Postmodernism in the book.

Honestly, they have to work on their defence and not try to hit back to score a political point. The air defence does fuck all and are a waste of precious money if the systems aren't secure, if the personnel aren't secure, communication systems etc. If CIA agents are all over the country, they are vulnerable to the next thing.

1st point : Tupac died in 96. Did he ever really have cultural sovereignty over his own art? Hip hop is arguably a postmodern form of music - a rejection of Modernism. Postmodernism criticises Modernism's cultural democratization through ironic appropriation of older cultures to create commodified products out of artistic expression. Read "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Jameson.

2nd : "Settlers" by Sakai showed the colonial imperial attitude that built America was replaced by a labour aristocracy that has continued into neocolonialism. America became the cultural hegemony that dominates capitalist mass media exported around the globe. Hollywood cinema, streaming services, and social media are all American based corporate products. Arguably only China has its own ecosystem of mass media.

American settler culture has a motive to support the American capitalist class: creation of a racial hierarchy internally, rejection and denigration of other cultures, etc.

I see a lot of Americans begging China to “save” the US.

I think they want justice. The US is a terrorist state. Unopposed, it is going to do a LOT more damage militarily in the near future. We shouldn't forget the US bombing of Middle East and African countries happened just this year.

China is a rising superpower but I don't think it's at the military level to stop that yet.

Don't visit r/postcollapse then!

Because it's looking pretty desolate 🤪.

I think there is a future but it's gonna be a mix between Idiocracy and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.