It has Shadow right?

China didn't have a president during the 1979 invasion of Vietnam

Yeah but Deng was running the show so the L is his, he was the one who contacted Jimmy Carter to tell him he was gonna do it too, Carter advised him not to but said the US wouldn't raise a stink.

I remember reading how he made it so the position he occupied had a bunch of powers concentrated in it so that he was for all intents and purposes the leader of the CPC.

It then shows China's self-crit and divergence in policy from the US.

Did they self-crit? I know there's an interview where deng, regarding supporting pol pot, said something like "well we didn't know what was going on there but we had to fight vietnamese (soviet) hegemony throughout southeast asia", but idk if the at the time or current chinese foreign ministry would say they did anything wrong or would do anything different regarding the broader sino-soviet proxy-wars because, to them, their most threatening enemy was the USSR (right next to them) not the US and their strategy worked. Though obviously they behave much differently nowadays

They've diverged from US policy in part because their common enemy defeated itself before china really re-approached it in a internationalist manner (that is in taking joint action with the ussr), and now china itself is the enemy.

Maidan/Hungarians/etc

Blegh gross

And since they won't do it now all the EU countries that said they would only do it at the EU level won't do it either

How does that happen? Like do truck drivers not take 1 look in the trunk to see what they're carrying?

Yeah also, adding to this, supporting the Pakistan military during the Bangladesh liberation war and threatening India with invasion if they entered east pakistan to stop the genocide. Like, lotta awful foreign policy choices during the cold war as a function of the sino-soviet split which only matter less now because there's no soviet side anymore.

As a non-american, and someone who would not face the immediate short term consequences of this probably, the prospect of breaking the american 2-party system from the right or the center (arguably) isn't any worse than letting it go on as it is.

For one because it opens broadens the possibility for a mainstream american labour party (which just by existing can already have the possibility to change the world frankly) to compete with the democrats, since there would be more competitive 3-way races where dems are in third place and easier to surpass

But mainly because the system has been incredibly stable and it structures the entirety of how mainstream political life works, because of that it can consistently deliver governing majorities in all levels of governing the country which means that it's even harder for insurgents to use government-makeup instability to present themselves as a solution.

Obviously though there isn't yet a politically relevant left that can take advantage of that instability though, and for there to be one there would probably need to be a split in the democratic party to join with a jumbling of all the left-wing sects in the country, both of which seem unlikely to happen (and maybe the later isn't actually needed aside from DSA), so the equivalent of what this musk party idea is for the right in that it splits the republicans, attracts some democrats and gathers independents around it.

Of course instability domestically can lead to something very ugly abroad but I don't know how it could be any worse than it already is, or if it were how it would not be self-defeating for america

This fucking sucks because I'm obviously very interested in Xi's biography and that of his father, and the sordid parts too not just what an official biography would have, so normally I'd be down for a book like this but this whole texts psychologizes so much, and always from the same angle, that I know it would just be incredibly annoying to read.

I bet it's just shit like "Mr. Xi once had poo blown in his phase when fixing a bio-gas generator in a village he was administrating"-this is real btw-" this hardened his view and that's why the uyghur genoci-" fuck off

It's a slow burn, but if you're not invested in knowing more about Kiriyama's situation after EP 1 you probably won't like it

Sangatsu no lion is great and wholesome

Those sausages are crazy good IDK why

Is there a law against running a political party if you're born outside the US, even if you have american citizenship? I didn't know that

New Musk tweet:

Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?

Would he himself do it and if so would it actually break the 2 party system this time like Reform (but less successful)? Obviously you can't expect Mr "big things coming" to follow through on anything though.

Competitive 3 way races where democrats get 3rd place are probably easier for a socialist party to surpass them though.

No shot dead cells is on mobile, how

They're already in the EU and the country's elite seems to want to adopt the euro but thete have been protests against it

I think there have been a bunch of elections recently because there's 1 party that nobody wants to govern with so theres always a hung parliament or something

Xi picked up the phone and went back to gaming

Good news from Georgia!

The Georgian Dream regime has announced it is shutting down the NATO and EU Information Center under the pretext of “institutional reorganization.” Reports have also surfaced from former employees who say they were dismissed from their posts.

No official explanation has been provided as to why the government chose to terminate the independent structure rather than reform or strengthen it.

Imagine going to the NATO and EU information center to actually seek out information

So the number 1 cappers in the world...were capping?

I also know that 1 or 2 years ago there was a split in the party's leadership when the central comittee kicked out Jones Manoel, who is a HUGE brazillian ML youtuber, who has a lot of followers who joined the party because of him, I barely understood why because there was a lot of bureaucratic terms about meetings or rules that were bypassed and stuff, though one of the things he said is that the new leadership didn't like stalin or something. So I don't know if the people I talked to even like the party anymore.

There's also a discord server called Sovereign with, like, 7k members which is affiliated with a community of brazillian communist youtubers to promote left wing content on social media, I think a lot of them also supported the party at one point. Though I think 2 years ago there was a split between, don't laugh, the moderation team of the discord and said community so I don't know if that's still a thing