This stupid idea of those fucking MAGAts is what Putin likes to see how it would play out.

Then comes Russia and China filling the power vacuum.

Resistance becomes necessary once any crime becomes legalized in a mobocracy.

That dickhead in the Oval Office and his cronies have buildings full of lawyers who’ll then launch trucks full of SLAPP suits. Couple with their usual OANN attack dogs.

10-15 euros is a large amount of money where I live at, it would feed a family of five for a day.

You’re living in a country where nearly everything is accessible in 15 minutes of walking or less, and besides you cook your food, I guess your local resto serves cheaper food. However, I also guess there’s some inflation going on and/or higher cost of living, that’s why you see fast food restos as being more expensive, although they do exist partly because of convenience, especially if in a car and a drive-thru makes it faster to grab whatever lunch or dinner off from the order window.

In any case, Mainland China still wants to supplant the US as a world power, so any failings of the Americans will be advantageous to Chinese regardless of its own domestic issues, as it does business with mostly countries rejected by the Americans as “enemy states” and undeserving of its support.

edit: To that particular someone who says to the contrary believing Americans remain strong, the Mainlanders still have their presence known in my country, especially as far as trade is concerned; walk into any street market and Mainland goods are cheap and present in huge volumes, and to boycott their goods will be next to impossible, having completely captured my country’s market.

What’s like to be a prisoner of world events.

Yeah, and no wonder why hardline Maoists hate Mainland China for what it is now, completely deviant from Maoism and becoming the very enemy they tried to destroy.

China is a socialist country, and a developing country as well. China belongs to the Third World. Consistently following Chairman Mao’s teachings, the Chinese Government and people firmly support all oppressed peoples and oppressed nations in their struggle to win or defend national independence, develop the national economy and oppose colonialism, imperialism and hegemonism. This is our bounden internationalist duty. China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one.

What is a superpower? A superpower is an imperialist country which everywhere subjects other countries to its aggression, interference, control, subversion or plunder and strives for world hegemony. If capitalism is restored in a big socialist country, it will inevitably become a superpower. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which has been carried out in China in recent years, and the campaign of criticizing Lin Piao and Confucius now under way throughout China, are both aimed at preventing capitalist restoration and ensuring that socialist China will never change her colour and will always stand by the oppressed peoples and oppressed nations.

If one day China should change her colour and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1974/04/10.htm

Also, fuck the 996 System.

Mainland China now is but communist only in name. So-called “Xi Jinping Thought” is the current setting.

That’s why hardline National Democrats (NatDems), which the Maoist far left in my country call themselves, see Mainland China as an enemy as much as the United States.

Is this imperialism by China, a country which is supposed to be left-wing? Leftists are normally anti-imperialism.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1974/04/10.htm

Deng once said of his denouncement of what he then called “social imperialism”. Unfortunately prosperity brought in part by Western industry seeking for cheap labor is what partly pushed for the reversal of roles, whereupon Mainland China now gets more exceptionalism than its rivals, and is looking to complete its own “manifest destiny”.

Fuck You SPEZ

Banned for talking about “violence” against Nazis and Kluxers.

How the bastard used to be seen as a fucking buffoon, a caricature of what crass capitalism was. So much that he was more entertainment than actual business acumen.

Also, fuck you Roy Cohn.

While there is human moderation, much of it is being subcontracted in developing countries and those who do work there usually end up with some burnout or worse, PTSD due to violent content (i.e. CSAM, gore, porn, etc.)

Yeah, and that one flew under the radar.

Unfortunately, in most developing countries it’s an evil necessity, in that some people can only be communicated through Messenger, or that the sole contact for their businesses is through their Facebook pages. Fact is, most of the separate traditional Internet services – including niche interest fora – are now replicated entirely by Facebook.

Looking for Vegemite in the middle of nowhere OK.

It could come to your country too unless you take action.

I’m in a developing country already out of the shadow of a gun-toting jackass who nearly sold us out to China, no thanks to disinformation, and currently having to deal with politicians and businessmen ripping off the government in infrastructure money.

The US may soon have the hardest fall unless something drastic happens.

If in doubt, raid the local used bookstore. Yeah, and do use uBlock Origin, Freetube as your YT front end, and maybe sail the high seas. Curate your entertainment.

I switch on the news and its 90% pure political propagandano matter the station.

I’m using Bluesky mainly as a newsfeed.

The triumph of disinformation, greed, and self-centered ultraconservatism; a country about to implode.

More like eventually building their own Elysium.

In the entire existence of humanity, class struggle still has yet to end.