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Not only vocabulary, but grammar too.

Scratch that, get people to demand and vote for public transit and cycling infrastructure. It's much cheaper per person than building&recycling batteries for all the EVs, and beefing up the power grid to support the exploding demand. Much better for the environment and society in general too.

That's what Xi keeps repeating, that reunification is only possible by continuously strengthening economic, cultural and even political ties. Western media keeps trying to claim he wants to "take Taiwan by force" but there's never a source, it's always "read between the lines" of his speeches.

I think the correct term is not "insisted on provoking" but "started". Dropping bombs on primary schools and city centers is not a provocation, it is an act of aggressive criminal war

Yes, but not because they have fun gimmicks on gas stations

I think there were some (plenty?) of NFTs that were backed by IPFS.

The fundamental problem with them is that the concept of "owning information" is ultimately absurd.

I think it was pleasing enough to right-wing billionaires (sorry for the tautology) - both the campaign itself and the ultimate failure.

modern corporatism is a long way from the rights-respecting free trade that was originally meant by capitalism.

After seeing it cited multiple times in Das Kapital, I've recently read "The Condition of the Working Class in England". Read it for yourself to see what "was originally meant by capitalism".

Modern-day corporatism is not the worst form of capitalism (for the USians themselves), due to workers organizing and literally fighting for their rights in the past century.

While it's true that the ideology of liberalism "has its heart in the right place" - by that I mean it does advocate for human rights and development - it also promotes capitalism which is in direct contradiction with those ideals.

Campaigning with Cheneys, promising full support for a zionist genocide, backing off from universal healthcare and trans rights. Need I go on?

So you believe that a dictatorship of capital, wielding the power of state violence to suppress its enemies and plan the economy, is better than a stateless, classless, moneyless society? Basically what you're saying is that USSR was the absolute peak of societal development, and while I do like many faucets of USSR I will disagree here.

Again, if internet censorship in Russia has taught me anything is that people can learn this stuff pretty quickly. My 80+ grandma knows how to set up and use a VPN on her android phone.

Good! But for how long?