Terrarium

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[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 48 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I don't see how you can see the persecution of Uyghurs and the forced assimilation of Xinjiang

Xinjiang is already assimilated. It is part of China and has been for ages, governed under the guiding principles of multi-ethnic administration. The persecution of Uyghurs is far kinder and more positive than anything the West has ever cooked up. Vilifying it requires a particular level of gullibility that only really exists as white supremacist laziness.

and expect China to do any better. Genocide is genocide.

China has not committed genocide. However, the countries you prefer have.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 51 points 4 days ago

In Africa? That is actually correct. Western countries do not build hospitals in Africa. The most they do is build pharmaceutical production facilities that are later bombed by their airplanes.

The West only built hospitals in Africa before WWI when they were treating the continent as full-blown colonies. The hospitals were built in colonial trade centers for colonists, not for the indigenous people. Neocolonialism does not partake in this practice, it is premised on neoliberalism. It, at most, issues debt with anti-worker and anti-sovereignty strings attached that ends up damaging thr country's infrastructure further. It is important to understand that the OECD countries do not, generally speaking, operate by capital investment in infrastructure of imperialized countries. They are parasitic.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 43 points 4 days ago

I think you don't even know what a debt trap is. It is certainly not the practice of forgiving debt, renegotiating debt plans, or even just eventually taking the assets provided when a country or other debtor defaults.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 46 points 4 days ago

China has dramatically improved living conditions for its own people over the previpus 50 years. This is in stark contrast to virtually every other non-OECD country subject to imperialism. It is even in stark contrast to many OECD countries who have spent the last 50 years neoliberalizing their economies, making life overall much more expensive for their people despite the spoils brought to them by imperialism.

What do you think of when you imagine the ills China has done "to its own people" and have you spent more than 10 minutes actually researching the topic(s)?

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Am I missing something? This is a very short article that says very little. Where is the supposed blueprint? Where are even statements clearly defining the goal and how it will be practically achieved?

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

I watch them as smoldering lessons

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Hell yeah Chinese Concorde

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Even when organized into a small commune, the feds will just raid and/or bomb you if they want you enough. But it is a lot more work for them, so this would be an escalation that overall works in our favor over time.

What we really need is entire communities ejecting feds and dearresting. But that requires a much greater level of organization.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

House of Lords but it's just failsons winning elections because nobody pays attention

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I agree, something like that. Or even just cancelling all low payouts and selectively restoring them.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If they are even slightly reasonable, as in thinking almost cohrrent thoughts, I believe they will end up at the usual "compromise": fuck over the marginalized. The vast majority won't feel the pain and will therefore tolerate it while those most vulnerable die early.

[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah that's a scam with MLM elements. The "coaches" make money based on how many people they sucker into the program, not their ability to trade. They separated you from the others because they were afraid you'd convince one or more of the others to not give them $17,000 for nothing. The selling part with 1:1s was a hard sell session like they do for timeshares. Presumably they walked you through some numbers about how great of a financial decision it would be to give them $17,000, how you would make that back in a month, and wouldn't it be great to be rich and retire early?

PS given your mention of a gambling problem of some kind I would recommend moving away from day trading. At minimum, take an amount of money substantially larger than what you initially invested and lock it away in a savings account or 10 year bonds or something. And keep your day trading money separate from personal finances. And stay as far away from investments that can be overleveraged, i.e. where you can lose more than you "buy in" for. That way, in the worst case scenario, you cannot lose more money than you had before and you can think of this more as a hobby than a job.

And if doing that seems unreasonable or like you could "lose gains" and you don't want to do it, well, then you are still gambling and you are risking losing all of your money to bankers.

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