Worst part, this is old news, there's a 2014 study that literally proved what any materialist already knew, Congress only cares about your money.

I highly recommend Proles Pod's Stalin eras series they just finished, it covers a LOT of this. The ultra short version is that this stuff had been brewing since long before Stalin was in power and just finally came to a head during his time in office. The long version of that is a series that's like 20 hours long (not including any portions that may be pay walled)

Realistically though, even if they tried to walk back everything they did, will anybody trust them again?

Honestly? Highly doubtful. Some countries might pretend for a bit to keep trade moving while they secure alternatives (see Vietnam) but I highly doubt that the world will ever trust the USA again without a full revolution.

It took my parents over a year each and multiple attempts. My only recommendation is to find a really good disability attorney. Typically they work on contingency, so they'd take a portion of your backpay if they win your case.

Probably because they're manufactured in China.

GPL > MIT and it's not even close.

That wouldn't even cover the delivery, even after good insurance pays out "their portion"

Hence the "controlled" part. The intention of controlled opposition is to play to liberal sensibilities without actually being opposition (also, the two parties sometimes differ as to which portion of the bourgeoisie class they represent, though the venn diagram of their actual constituency is nearly a circle)

Craft Computing did a few videos on this subject. If you're trying to virtualize multiple systems, you might find this video useful.

Not even Cyberpunk, just dystopia. Normal, boring, dystopia. If we lived in a cyberpunk dystopia, I'd be able to chrome out my physical flaws.

Especially when you realize that he could lose 99.999% of his wealth and still have more money than a reasonable person could spend in their lifetime. Capitalism ruins the lives of billions of people so a smaller and smaller minority can hoard billions of dollars. Even if we took the time to set a cap on wealth one person can hoard, it still wouldn't solve the issues that capitalism is making the earth uninhabitable for humans eventually and that it would still be exporting violence to less developed countries to steal their resources. Capitalism gotta go.

It was still good to point out that I had phrased it poorly in my initial comment, even if the real comrades here will know what I meant. I appreciate that.

Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. I didn't mean to imply that China wasn't 100% within their rights considering the USA absolutely started shit. American government fucked around now it's finding out.

My response when I hear that the "defense" industry will be hurt over something China has done:

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Damn, those look sweet. I kinda wish they showed some internal shots, too.

Care to expand on that point? I've been trying to piece together exactly what you mean but I haven't been able to figure out how me pointing out how the issues are systemic to the settler colonialism of it is me avoiding responsibility. I didn't vote for him, I didn't advocate for voting for him either.

Trump is the symptom, not the disease. The disease is capitalism (built upon settler colonialism and slavery)

Also, just for the sake of simplicity, let's go ahead and accept that premise for a moment and say that it actively IS "spying" on him...so what? Two things come to mind: 1. A whole ton of really rich multinational corporations already actively spy on me every day just from me being online so they can sell that data to advertisers. 2. What is China going to do with MY data that is any worse than what the alphabet soup agencies in the USA government do with it? I honestly think that the PRC has shown itself to be far more trustworthy for the average worker than any of the capitalist/settler colonialist governments of "the west."

To be clear, I don't actually believe that they're using tech to spy on people, at least not in any nefarious manner. Beyond userdata used to make shit work and the normal state censorship (which I understand the need for considering the material conditions and the west having repeatedly tried to use propaganda lies to try and foment color revolutions before) I haven't seen evidence that they're using that data otherwise. Hell, Xiaohongshu made it pretty obvious that Chinese social media is actually pretty wholesome compared to places like Twitter, FB, etc.

That was fucking amazing. He was not at all interested in her bullshit and treated her with the same level of respect she was showing him.

Not everyone acknowledges Palestinians. Many Zionists argue that they're Arabs who aren't unique to Palestine and belong in the remaining countries surrounding Israel, usually Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. They use this to intentionally try to ethnically cleanse the land for Zionists. For further reading on this subject, I highly recommend The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé