I have! Let's go ahead and read over your own words since you are incapable of doing that. It isn't a false claim, speaking of the material context of what is currently happening when the nation is facing a UNPRECEDENTED trade war. Ignoring what I'm saying doesn't change that.
That was not my argument. You brought up GDP and you will find GDP doesn't mean jack-shit to most Marxists.
If the average Chinese worker received a pay increase (and the haven’t this year) of 0.8% nobody would claim that was a surge in their earnings. Nobody claimed there was a surge in their earnings. What I claimed was that it is indeed abrupt and STRONG because of the trade war currently happening. It is indeed strong because of the fact that they are still growing in the face of their major importing declaring full trade-war. That is strong. You cannot lawyer out of that.
Anything else?
"gdp is everything lol" We aren't neoliberals.
"orly?" Do you usually talk like an insufferable Redditor?
We measure the improvement of material conditions of the working class. China serviced that far better than the west and their economic growth to maintain that ideal against a unprecedented trade war is indeed strong.
We still doing this? Let's compare American manufacturing industry too while we stroke off about GDP...lmfao
a sudden or abrupt strong increase
If we're doing this, a small surge during an economic trade war targeted mostly towards the country is quite strong. It is abrupt. Fits the definition well. I love lawyering.
Not too familiar with lemmygrab. But yeah, everything you don't like is propaganda and anything that goes against neoliberal regime-think that suggests we should actually cut more social services, give more bombs to Israel/Ukraine/proxy(s)-of-the-year and assuage the concerns and desires of the growing right with ineffective, spineless leaders is propaganda.
Of course, China is leading the world in academic articles, EV technology, nuclear. Average citizen eats more protein and has a better diet than Americans while PPP goes every up and ours stagnates for more and more lower-class people. Developments are built to supply the growing population, not to service a F.I.R.E economy.
The neoliberal party says do not trust your eyes or ears, though. Plenty of people here been to China, an actual socialist country and have thoroughly debunked most of the talking points in person or with stuff like a certain U.N article not finding any evidence...we give evidence and proof all the time. Either it be Ukraine, or China if you actually took the time to look and read through what we have here it's not just simply "propaganda".
or, on the other hand, everything truly is propaganda. You just found ones you don't like.
User instance is too on the nose. Anyways, unlimited death on IDF soldiers. Every dead IDF troop is a fresh beer!
Are you done shitting the bed yet?
No one is defending it. They're saying they use it for things they can't find elsewhere like I mentioned multiple times.
That is literally a solid chunk of billionaires...pharma??
No one is defending it or telling you that you have to go back. That's your prerogative.
Isn't the one originally meant for satellites at the kennedy center now??
Is there any good studies or models showing how long shit like heavy metals and other chemicals will remain bioaccumulating in different food-chains like in lakes or coasts?
To think that will be our mark beyond the scorched steel frames and various hotspots of radiological, chemical or environmental damage.
Always a highway with some non-conventional road-design. Talking about weird, angled loops and multiple high-way bridges going 4 high above each other. I'm either walking along it or in a car driving/being driven, which is funny because I despise driving (don't mind it on ebikes).
It's usually night-time, with late-dusk being the earliest. Sky is painted with a brilliant ruddy hue with a thin, bright yellow line hugging the horizon where the sun just dipped below. I always end up at my grandmother's house, but she is never there as she moved away a long time ago. Various things can occur there, where I meet old friends. Random events can seem to happen; most common I've noticed is zombies and I haven't watched much zombie media in the past two years. Sometimes though, it's just silence and being alone in a house that's no longer inhabited.
No need for demons and hell when we can create our own on Earth.
Just remember this one for the next time some hand-wringer on lemmy.world or lemmee talks about how ebil China or the USSR was. Or how evil "totalitarianism" is when used to describe every country but the west.
Three children, one of them with cancer, being deported separately from their pregnant mother; whom is also being deported.
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
For Immediate Release: Friday, April 25, 2025 Contact: Arianna Rosales, National Immigration Project, media@nipnlg.org Jesse Vad, ACLU of Louisiana, jesse@or-nola.org ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation Families disappeared and isolated without legal acce...
"New Orleans, LA – Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans ICE Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children – three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns.
ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24. In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel’s phone number.
As a result, the families were completely isolated during critical moments when decisions w
One of the mods before being removed/stepping down (don't remember name) was gifting out death-threats to a user. There is two mods off the top of my head I can think of that has cult of personalities around them. I believe one of them has been removed or kept as a mod.
At the same time, they are a friendly instance. I'm not here to start drama with them. When brought into comparison though, I'm gonna be honest.
The products you consume every single day or once per week or even a month is likely tied to some ghoulish shit. If you use a phone, computer or any electronic it likely has lithium mined from child-labor. Most social media is ran by ghouls.
However, if you intend to stay up to date and current with the modern world you'll understand that under capitalism there is no avoiding exploitation. Everything you use is made with it.
Sadly, there is a lot of sources of information on X that you really can't get anywhere else. Otherwise, most people decouple from it as much as they can. Personally, I don't even use it. But I can understand why some would.
Yeah, we don't lose our entire instance over abject moderation failures or have cult of personality mods that hand out death threats.. Not really. Try again.
I don't know why this was downvoted. I used to see this and variations on euro threads on pol all the time.
Exactly. Every single time they wring their hands and clutch their pearls about China, or Russia or any other country; I think about shit like this.
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer.
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
Love it when libs lecture us on human rights abuses in China or elsewhere, meanwhile...
"In shelters across New York, migrant children sit in front of computer and TV screens, appearing virtually in real court proceedings. They swivel in chairs, walk in circles and play with their hair — while immigration judges address them on the screens in front of them.
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.
“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”"
Buddy, your slippery-slimey weaseling isn't gonna work here. What is the context of totalitarianism being brought up here on a communist forum in a drive-by comment when the word is typically used by most as a "whistle" for anti-authoritarianism in a manner of anti-commmunist/anti-fascist "three arrows" bullshit?
It's obvious what your intent was, you just don't like it being deconstructed for the sake of what it is instead of whatever "moral principle" you're putting on as a front. Democracy and rugged Calvinist individualism kills far more and you're free to stand firmly by that statement while most of the western world has a higher death toll than any communist or "totalitarian" nation through just their economic actions via exploitation of the third world. Should we add military interventions as well?
I do indeed take it as a political challenge. Because it's politically illiterate. My health is fine, thank you. I got work but a lovely partner and family to talk to every day.
Is there a specific reason LeVeyanists/LaVeyan Satanists tend to be anti-communist?
Don't get me wrong, I know Anton LaVey is a huge piece of shit regarding his flirtations with fascist attitudes and eugenics. I've known a few of them and they tend to have straight up obnoxious opinions on communists despite the fact that we both share a lot of the same criticisms of religion. Then there's LaVeyanist groups attacking leftist groups as well.
Generally, it seems like there's a lot of left-leaning ones with a good mass of reactionaries with a anti-theist bend. Is there a reason the anti-communism comes into play here though?
Could also purely be anecdote. Reason I post is because I'm curious on the thoughts you all have.
Think this one broke the libs
Some gems, top comment aside:
"Our glorious peacekeepers in Rwanda, their barbarous peacekeepers in Sudan"
A lot of cope, but some of the subsequent threads on one of the biggest subreddits with begrudgingly tolerable views towards China is...interesting.
Ukrainian man is 3rd to die in ICE custody at Krome Detention Center
The wife of 44-year-old Maksym Chernyak, who spoke to NBC6 on condition of anonymity, claims her husband did not suffer from any pre-existing medical condition. She alleges that he was not properly cared for at the Krome Detention Center when he started to feel sick.
Chernyak died on Feb. 20 at HCA Kendall Hospital in Miami while in ICE custody, according to the agency's website, which also notes that he was vomiting and having seizures. A doctor determined that the preliminary cause of death was a cerebral hemorrhage.
Top US officials accidentally messaged a journalist Houthi strike plans
A National Security Council spokesman said in a statement the reported chat "appears to be authentic"
The Trump administration is facing political uproar after the White House confirmed that a journalist had been inadvertently added to an unsecure group chat in which US national security officials planned a military strike in Yemen.
The Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he had been added to a Signal message group which apparently included Vice-President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
this feels fake, wake up, new psy-op dropped.
Anyone familiar with what the OP is talking about or is this more anarlib slop?
366 likes, 60 comments - euphoric_autonomy on January 17, 2025: "China loves rampant resource extraction, invading Indigenous territory and global capitalism.".
Just curious, because this account has had an interesting pattern. Also, 15% is the problem?
Does anyone else hate phones?
I feel like a boomer in my 20s with the fact that I fucking despise having to pay 30-40 dollars a month just so some guy from work can reach me and tell me I need to work extra hours. Everything and everyone else I can contact online using my work's PC or my personal laptop. It's also dogshit-garbage because it's getting to the point where most services entirely give up on their desktop/browser ports or websites because they just assume people are going to use their phone.
Instagram was like this for a long while. Indeed recently removed their "distance" feature and other filter features from their desktop version. Reddit is another example. Enshittification of the internet to put it all on a phone is awful.
Anyone else having issues with QR-Code bullshit this tax year?
So, basically last year I used Turbotax. This year I am using my banks financial service for taxes. I am both not allowed to access last years transcript because I need a QR code to sign into my account because it uses a phone number I don't have anymore. OR the same thing applies with my banks financial service because they both use ID.ME.
Has anyone had this issue? Is there straight up a service I can use that bypasses asking for last years transcript? Only other option I have is a local tax-man parasite.
Should add the Red Army Choir to play every time you click "Mark all as read" in your inbox
Optional: bricks your computer when you do it
Cybertruck Bomber's "manifesto".
[Is there a better place for this?]
FULL TEXT:
Summary/tl;dr: Apparently, ex-soldier is claiming that the UAP phenomenon we have been observing is a technology that only the U.S/China have and that it is China launched these "U.A.Ps" from submarines and have drones parked over the majority of the country. He also admits to war-crimes and claims the FBI was tracking them.
Personally? Combine this with the UAPs/drones, the recent two bombings in a single week; it all screams manufactured consent and it becomes even more blatantly obvious when China is moved into the picture. This is scary, not for what he says but what The Powers That Be may use this for.
"Forwarded message From: dabergmlb dabergmlb@protonmail.com Date: On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 10:42 AM Subject: Fw: Re: Initial contact To: REDACTED Cc:
In case I do not make it to my decision point or on to the Mexico border I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1JAN an
Amazon originally denies a leave of absence for an employee injured in Bourbon Street attack.
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Day after they came from Mobile, Alabama, to
"Scott-Windham returned to Mobile on Wednesday night with the bullet still in her foot, along with multiple fractures. Whitsett remains in Touro Hospital with injuries to his leg, shoulder, back and head, but on Thursday, he was recovering well, Scott-Windham said. Two other friends with them suffered minor injuries, she said.
She'll need to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot. The Amazon warehouse where she works originally denied her request for a leave of absence, but the company said in a statement Friday that they've since spoken with her and given her time off with pay.
"We wish her a full recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to work once she's able," said Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel."
Isn't it weird that UFO cranks are more reasonable than liberals sometimes?
I say "crank" because the person's posting history is...intriguing to say the least but then they just say something like this and you're like, "Holy fuck, even the cranks can see right through the neoliberal ghoul-slop"
Of course, not all of them are like this; but in response to the whole "drone debacle" that's going on right now over the U.S a lot of obvious lib-leaning types are quick to jump on it being "RUSSIA N CHINA!!" while these fellas are already jaded to it. Neat.
Then they go on and post about Sistine lizard people or whatever. Does anyone else know what I mean by these nuggets of consciousness?
A beaten communist marching towards the Red Square, 1993
From @ussrpictures on Instagram.
It is ushanka season
Warm and cozy
got it from a milsurp store discount bin; been a part of my winter gear ever since.
wish I could share videos on here (directly not via link)
Between good memes and some clips to throw around I wish it was possible lmao
is FluentInFinance one of the worst subreddits?
Now, I know some of you are ready to come here and post some horrible fascist subreddits; but that's just too easy. Fascists are everywhere and they converge on all platforms at this point.
In terms of neolibs or radlibs, I genuinely think FluentInFinance meets that criteria as a point between the both. The well-off neolibs with raging hatred for the poor are constantly on there dismantling the "common points of the prole clamoring on twitter" with "facts and economic logic" that's just boils down and condenses into blaming people for their finances, recommending/shilling outright financial services that shouldn't be captured by corporations and generally completely ignoring the material conditions of everything around us.
More often than not they invade other socialist subreddits and literally comment on posts about people struggling on "How to cut 5 dollars out each month and save X so you can invest into X and have at least part of a bed-rock after years of effort and time you co
GSAAuctions advice
Been looking at ways to get a super cheap car. GSAAUctions has some neat govt. fleet vehicles and other stuff for less than a thousand dollars on some.
Anything I should know about GSAAuctions? I'm pretty sure the govt. cars aren't criminal asset forfeiture, right?
If I were to successfully bid on something, what is the process on "getting it"? They issue you a certificate and you pay the final bid and go and grab it? Or is there something else I'm missing?
Never done this before...or bidding on anything at all. I hate bidding.
