I was saying this to a friend of mine and he was seriously saying stuff like: "oh but with inflation, that means nothing, so it doesn't count." I thought. It was one of the most braindead things I ever heard. And so far up anti-China propaganda's as that the sun doesn't shine there.
They're already preparing their excuses for a possible Trump win.
My cat wants to eat the rich. But she is also afraid to go outside.
The fact that there are U.S. sanctions on the Chinese as they try to make sub-5nm chips is hilarious. Free market indeed.
For me, this started in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, and the absolute denial and non-engagement of the Democratic party to self-examine their own actions that led to defeat, such as blocking Sanders to promote an unpopular Clinton, blaming everything on their voters, kicking and screaming, and then of course four years later fucking Sanders again.
I heard a good podcast with historia publica yesterday, and he said it excellently: when there's crisis, the youth wants to radicalize, but unfortunately, in our countries you are not allowed to radicalize left, only to radicalize right. (I'm paraphrasing).
Simple and elegant visual explanation. Thank you for this
Xi, baby, whatchu doin'?
I now have a fight with one of them because he told me he expects the same remarks from me regarding Stalin. I told him I that would never hapoen because Stalin actually did good for a lot of people.
I posted this in a friend chat, and said Good riddance, took out the trash, only umanitarian action he ever did (him dying). And my friends said I shouldn't be so extreme 'cause he also did good things (don't know what those are and they didn't tell me). Then they said something about taking extreme things and nuancing them.
I'm realising these people are the worst sort of down the middle soc-dems in their politics. They literally said something about pulling it "more to the middle".
Wauw. Thought it would never happen. Fucking Kissinger kissed it. Goodbye scumbag.
Hi all,
I have a movie podcast, in which I talk with my favorite people about one of their favorite films. And for januari, the film I'm reviewing is Frida, a movie about Frida Kahlo.
This made me do a deep dive into Frida Kahlo and, what do you know: Frida Kahlo, die-hard communist. She had an affair with Trotsky, her last painting had as subject Stalin, and when she went to the US, she was reported saying: “I’ve learnt so much here and I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.” Badass quote.
So, yeah. Frida is a decent movie. They even openly show people discussing communism, they show a flag with hammer and sickle, they show Trotsky. That sounds like nothing but this is an American movie by an American filmmaker (albeit a woman but still).
Picture by Florence Arquin, 1951
The idea that 20% of people voted, and this is seen as representative for anything, is ridiculous.
What I don't like about the PRC is that it didn't make into law that there can't be billionaires. Whatever you think of China, whether it's socialist, or state-capitalist, or capitalist in economy with socialist social relations run by a communist party, the fact that there are billionaires, even when they are kept in check by the government and do not control the state apparatus, I think it would have been an amazing precedent to say that billionaires should not exist. Every penny above 1 999.999.999 yen or dollar or euro (already a ridiculous amount but ok) should flow back to the people. It undermines the socialist project that I want to believe China is still building.
I know this has nothing to do with the article. I just wanted to say this.