Consolidation from what? A time when television news studios were owned by your average mom and pop who mortgaged their house for a chance at their dream lifestyle?

Media has always been owned by the oligarchs. For literally centuries it’s been owned by the oligarchs. The Opium Wars, the Indian Wars, every war ever has been supported by the news outlets owned by the war-profiting oligarchs.

The consolidation was just an optimization, both of operationalizing ideology and of extracting profit.

But there was never a time before which media was actually competitive and balanced and could guide someone towards an accurate understanding of the world. The white supremacist oligarchs have literally always controlled the media, the narrative, and the propaganda.

It’s less obvious, and therefore has a better chance of subverting expectations if you use a real place.

Do you know what they call seagulls in Hudson Bay?

So that’s what? A single volley of interceptors that will fail to stop a single incoming missile?

There is no world in which Cuban would ever want to live under the American government. That’s literally the entire point of this whole thing.

LOL. No one cares who you vote for, certainly the people in power don’t care. Do you not read the research, or do you deliberately ignore it. Public opinion has ZERO impact on which laws get passed. This has been true for decades. What does have an impact on which laws get passed is whether the ultra minority of the rich approve it or not.

Your vote is meaningless. I don’t need to put up a better candidate, but electoralism has abjectly failed. You’re gonna keep voting for the least bad candidate and your least bad candidates are going to continue to mass murder children. Real solid theory of action you got there.

Me too. Because i’d be rubbing all their atrocities in your face and you’d be saying “not in an election year!”

We came! We Saw! He Died!

Who said that? Not Julius Cesar. Cesar’s statement was actually far less bloodthirsty and sociopathic. These are the words of Hillary Clinton gloating that a 70-year-old head of state was sodomized by a bayonet on film.

Do not come

Who said that? Not your dom. That has Kamala Harris, telling immigrants of South America who were feeling the devastation that the US has been causing there for decades (both parties) to not seek refuge here because we will torture you, we will kill you, we will put your toddlers in solitary confinement and cause them brain damage, and we will increase the funding and arming and head count of the groups that take these actions.

There’s a single puppeteer called the owning class. They have two sock puppets, one is red, the other is blue. We are both watching the same play. I say “they’re both sock puppets”. You say “they’re clearly different colors, and one of them curses more and is clearly more angry and racist”. I look at you and say “they’re both sock puppets”

You get upset because I won’t choose your preferred character in the charade.

Corporate profits go up under Democrats.

The US criminal justice system, including the parole system, manages at lease 3x more of our population than any other country in the world. It’s larger than the largest carceral system ever in human history, as a function of population. The American prison system produces over $100B in profit annually, and the prisoners working as slaves produce over $11B in goods and services.

Oh. Speaking of prison slaves, Bill and Hillary Clinton had black house slaves in the Arkansas governors mansion. They had all the power they needed to hire people and pay them a wage, but they stuck with the tradition of black house slaves.

How far back we need to go? Truman and Operation Paperclip saving 10k Nazis from justice? Bill Clinton and his selective use of “war for humanitarian aid” dropping depleted uranium on Yugoslavia but not lifting a finger for the actual genocide in Rwanda?

And of course then there’s the sociopathic sanctions regime, a collective punishment crime against humanity that kills more people than war, and specifically effects children and the elderly. US-led sanctions kill about 800k people annually. This has been true for 50 years. Both parties, my friend. Both parties are killing children.

They’ve all committed war crimes. They’ve all committed crimes against humanity. They’ve all killed countless children. They’ve all overseen corporate super profits and massive exploitation. They’ve all fought against unions (looking at you, Biden). They’ve all protected the ultra rich. They’ve all expanded the genocidal US military. They’ve all expanded the domestic police force until it’s as large as China’s military. They’ve all expanded federal policing and stripped civil rights in the “Constitution-Free Zone” that 80% of Americans live in. They’ve all been terrible for black people (yes even Obama).

They’re on the same team - team global domination. Every single scrap the Democrats throw you is the equivalent to the dog whistles the Republicans through to the people you look down on. You’re a better person, sure, but you’re just as easily manipulated. All you need is an AOC photoshoot at the fences of her crying and you know you made the right choice. Never mind that the kids in cages got worse under Biden, that the use of solitary got worse under Biden, and that the death of children all over the planet continued under Biden and got far far worse in Gaza under Biden. At least you voted for the good ones, right?

Yeah… so, recognizing that population competition is one of the ways that dominance can be exerted, China choosing to limit birth rates of the most populous ethnicity, which happens to be the dominant one, would be the opposite of eugenics used for reinforcing dominance. It’s actually an incredible defense of China because it shows that not only are they nothing like the West, the West can’t even conceive of what would motivate the dominant people to restrict their own privileges to reverse historical trends caused by dominance of their forebears.

You’ve got to be kidding comparing the One Child Policy of the dominant ethnic group, which the government itself was predominately composed of, and literal genocide and cultural genocide of white supremacists against the people they violently colonized.

it really feels like people are trying to push this narrative just in time for the midterms.

Come on, fart! I see you around all the time on the Fediverse. We’ve been saying this shit non-stop for years. This is just disingenuous.

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🪞 Talking to yourself, I see. 🪞

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/996-is-ruled-illegal-understanding-chinas-changing-labor-system/

The 996 schedule is illegal under Chinese labor law and has been for years. It went up to the court system and the legislative system and the workers in every case were supported in their labor claims.

As for billionaires, I’ve said this before in other comments, I’ll say it again here - The communist revolution in China was very explicit about its collaboration with the national bourgeoisie. It’s quite open about it, as communists do not hide their intentions and speak openly about their strategy. The Chinese strategy was experimental, drawing from the failures of past revolutions and developing a theory based on them, it implemented an experiment of cross-class collaboration while maintaining a dictatorship of the proletariat. Creating on-paper billionaires is easy when you have a stock market and you’ve opened it up to Western speculators. In fact, if you’re doing it right, you’re guaranteed to get billionaires. The question is not whether there are billionaires but whether the state is promoting the interests of the proletariat. Billionaires are a side show.

The 100-million-member CPC is predominantly farmers and blue collar workers. The party is constantly punishing the rich for corruption. They’ve literally executed the rich for harming the masses through negligence and profit-seeking.

Billionaires are not contradictory with the process of building communism. Billionaires will be impossible under communism since there won’t be money. The process of building socialism is what we’re all currently working through as a species.

Oh, sweaty. Of course only you write out your own posts, everyone else copies and pastes their words. And of course everyone who argues against you a sophist, only you can cherry pick facts that make real arguments with substance. And of course you don’t have to read what other people write, sweaty. Only your words deserve to be read and argued against. Anyone else, and especially someone who disagrees with you, is writing for their own benefit and you don’t have to read it all. Just respond. I’m sure it’ll be just as good that way. You’re just so smart!

This is what lack of material analysis does to a mother fucker.

Why do we loathe capitalism? Because of its essence? No. Because of a subset of its effects. Capitalism itself is an arrangement of social forces. What is there to loathe about it in essence? The loathing is of the alienation, the class antagonism, the environmental degradation, the oppression. Capitalism is loathsome because of some of the things it does to humanity.

But capitalism is also an organic result of the manifestation of prehistoric white trauma. It is a natural outcome of specific conditions and it serves specific functions. The world as you know it, nearly all of it, was built within the capitalist mode of production. What your life consists of now could not have been created through feudal society nor through slave society.

It is possible that another form of industry could have emerged from non-European society that would not have gone through the capitalist mode of production but a) it hasn’t happened and b) we haven’t theorized how it would happen.

So reality is here. We have to deal with it. Capitalism is a facet of this stage of social development in the human species. One can no more do away with it by fiat than one can do away with trauma or coping mechanisms or addiction or many other arrangements of humanity brought about by prior conditions tied inextricably to long historical processes.

You can’t just deny its existence, nor it’s history, nor can you can hope to deny all that it has enabled if you expect to be able to overcome it. You must know your enemy to defeat it. Simply claiming your enemy is evil and then refusing to understand your enemy ensures your defeat.

Capitalism, like any opponent, has strengths and weaknesses. Those strengths perpetuate it, solve problems that human society has, and produces outcomes that human society wants. It’s weaknesses, however, are things that threaten to collapse it, things that produces outcomes human society does not want, and creates problems for human society.

We must understand both of these, and how they relate to each other, if we are to overcome capitalism.

China’s use of capitalism is an acknowledgement that it is useful to solve specific problems in human society, and in fact is useful to solve some problems in the meta game. Not only did a capitalist mode of production solve major industrial problems for China which were required to meet the needs of the masses, it also had the effect of reducing the opposition from the imperialists, which creates much needed space for it to continue to operate.

It learned from the USSR that used capitalism to solve problems for a short time, and then adopted a hard-line bloc stance, forcing it into increasingly more difficult positions vis-a-vis the imperialists, which weakened the USSR instead of strengthing it.

China has far surpassed what the USSR was able to do, and it has done so while remaining truer to its theoretical roots than the USSR was able to do in the same time frame.

By choosing an idealist perspective on capitalism (i.e. capitalism is bad) instead of a materialist one (i.e. capitalism is internally contradictory) you doom yourself to ignorance, incorrect reasoning, incorrect conclusions, and therefore incorrect praxis

Revolutions are context dependent. You can’t have a global revolution because it covers too many contexts. Global revolutions that do happen will be based on the contemporaneous development of local revolutions, that is to say a global revolution is a descriptive bottom up phenomenon, not a top down one.

You focus on your context. You figure out what that means. You do your part. Let other people do their part. You may find yourself as part of a global phenomenon, you may not.

Also, think about what a revolution is. It’s a replacement of a power structure. Globally, you could have a revolution against the UN, maybe. WTO? IMF? But you would have to get through your local power structure first.

So you focus on replacing the power structure in your context. Others focus on replacing the power structure in their context. And that’s how it goes.

Well, you could launch a war with Iran, for one. That’s looking like a good way to destroy the global economy.

1. Poverty (which they’re alleviating), and the trappings of poverty (like poor labor conditions, corruption, and abuse).
2. Environmental degradation (which they are alleviating) and all the trappings that come with it (like greater impact on the poor, bad health outcomes, corruption).
3. Threats from state actors (which they are alleviating) and the trappings that come it (like selective repression of dissent, organizing, and collaboration, surveillance and chilling effects, etc)

Literally anything that causes an idea to spread is propaganda. Advertising, calls for help, gossip, commentary, analysis, storytelling, hell public art or theater or even just public conflict. That’s what the word means, the means of idea propagation.

Wow. Just wow. You can’t possibly be this wrong, can you?

Let’s start with naming things. Han. The predominant Chinese culture you refer to is Han Chinese.

Let’s look at one law that everyone loves to talk about - the One Child Policy.

Did you know that the One Child Policy only applied to Han Chinese? That’s right. The Chinese government explicitly and openly promoted heterogeneity by limiting Han birth rates explicitly. Some other minorities were also restricted, that’s true, but they were restricted to two children - double the birthrate of the Han. All the other minorities were unrestricted.

That’s just one example of how wrong you are. Shall we do others?

Tibet and Xinjiang educate their children in their native language, in their native cultural traditions, and the governments of those regions run those regions in accordance with their best interpretation of the confluence between their own traditions and the Chinese system of government.

Let’s compare that to the US or Canada, shall we? No? You don’t want me to explain how Indian boarding schools literally beat children for speaking their native tongue, forcibly cut their traditional hair styles, and trained the children to hate their own families? You don’t want to hear about how such boarding schools existed into the 80s? Should we talk about US eugenics programs and the forced sterilization of a full third of the women on Puerto Rico or the forced sterilization of black and Indian women on the mainland? Is that too much for you?

How much more wrong can you possibly be?

China officially recognizes 11 languages that can be used to conduct official business. Eleven. Most American politicians couldn’t even name 11 languages.

Do you still think China enforces homogeneity? Are you so committed to your position that evidence cannot do anything to your Yellow Peril brain?

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What kind of global imperial superpower doesn’t drop bombs for 35 years in a row? That doesn’t sound like any global imperial superpower I have ever heard of in the last 600 years. If China is a global imperial superpower without doing the whole war crimes thing, I’m almost inclined to say you’ve sold me on global imperialist superpowers being redeemable!

A false dichotomy is when you only present two possible options when the set of options to choose from is much greater.

This is not attempting to get you to choose, but rather expose the hypocrisy of those who say “the US is bad right now but at least it’s not China”