Just have the poors consume less, that should fix inflation, right?

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Nahh, it still cost a multiple of the initial asking price.

China does have smart libraries strewn about the place, especially in cities with low income, that are located along city streets and parks, which provide free Wi-Fi, charging and air conditioning. You can borrow books with an app for almost free (albeit with a required deposit that gets charged if you don’t return it)

Why not? First time I read it was last year when I bought it through a vending machine at a Chinese train station. At this point it’s just a meme, and won’t give you any insight to the oppositions psyche.

In these situations China gets to be liberal due to being “more capitalist than even the USA” or whatever they think that entails.

Take care

True, but Dankzedong said it has been going on for weeks at this point. I’m just making the suggestion, in the end it’s up to doctor’s discretion.

“Or something”… Get checked? Also, don’t leave home with bronchitis. Comrades shouldn’t infect other comrades, even if it’s just a flu. Get some symptom relief drugs prescribed just in case, and if it still isn’t gone after a week get some antivirals (most doctors don’t know about antivirals, so you’ll have to mention it).

It’s the spectre of communism! The ghosts of the DDR team which triumphed over their Western brethren in 1974 giving their combined strength to the DPRK.

17-18th century Dutch Calvinist Burgher Drip. Just dress as the last (successful) revolutionaries in Dutch history.

That focusing on fringe topics that don’t fix the issue at hand let alone the root, and scapegoating minorities and creating artificial identities to square off against each other are great ways to keep the population both divided and mentally occupied enough that they won’t develop political consciousness and progress beyond infighting?

I’m not here to police your language, but I’m honestly curious what, apart from assigning blame to a butthurt moderator or even the person you’ve talked to, what you’ve learned from this interaction. Are there ways we can change our tone and content to both better radicalize and stay well enough out of the aim of trigger happy speech zealots for our message to stay prominent longer and have a greater reach.

It’s sad there is no alternative. ML parties in the Netherlands, even if they participated only just started to pretend to care about anti-imperialism.

I’d join in on the discussion if it wasn’t for the shameful fact that I can’t argue my points in Dutch.

Been back in Europe due to some heavy family shit.

Every day I meet people who make fun of the far right and Trump, all while voicing opinions such as: “Israel should do to the Palestinians what the USians did to the Native Americans”.

All of these people would join the fascists as soon they are no longer seen as the underdogs.

They’ll likely scrap it for parts and reassign people to whatever new anti-China media channels they come up with.

It’s very telling that this got dropped after Trump’s case.

You’re better of buying Chinese brands through whatever store that promises a long warranty.

When my (After)Shokz headphones broke, I wanted to repair them. I could do so in China, but in the West they just redirected me to the store that sold them to me. Lenovo and DJI are probably the best, but that’s because these are brands that have a large market share and will have local service centers. So if you’re going for phone brands such as Xiaomi or Huawei, better to send them a mail and just ask what happens if your device dies.

I tend to answer the Russia/Ukraine question as such:

Support Russia? No, we’d rather see Ukraine remain independent of foreign interference. We don’t support the military occupation of Ukraine by Russia, and neither do we want to see Ukraine become a US puppet and end up an eternal battering ram to be used against Russia. We don’t want to see the sacrifice in lives of many more tens of thousands of people that is happening now. This conflict won’t get solved with more bullets, only with more talks, just as every other modern conflict. We want to see deescalation, and to stop fueling the oligarch that rake in the mega profits from the ever growing war machine on both sides of this conflict.

The question that stumps me with Westerners is: do you denounce Hamas?

Taking the Geneva Convention route or using the ICJ answer, or even talking about the history, just end up with them screaming at me.

It required a marriage. Ouch.

TIL. Apart from being cool dude, are there any of his ideas that really stand out to you?