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  >I am not justifying the endless stream of “military operations” the USA has partook in, but to compare what’s going on today to what military action looked like 20 years ago is just silly. What do you actually know about Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Yugoslavia? Afghanistan? ... Only someone as privileged as a USian could say something so completely wrong.

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  While generally true that people rarely argue from the position of being a freethinker as a vocal core of their argument. What is not rare, however, is the habit of many calling anyone who points out that English sphere narratives about the DPRK are manufactured nonsense brainwashed. To label someone brainwashed on a given issue rests on the presupposition that you yourself are not. It assumes you operate as a free thinker. This posture persists even while their views align almost entirely with...

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  Well kind of funny because it's not at all comparable to what you're trying to compare it to. Also I never called anyone an llm I asked if they used it as it left an artefact.

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  >Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits. -Roderic Day All the libs in the comments really living up to the quote.

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  You had it right 好(了), 进去 means Ok/alright, go in / get in. 进去 marks motion inward with 去, typically away from the speaker’s deictic center. 进来 would instead mark motion inward toward the speaker’s location or perspective, so would sound more like inviting someone to come in.

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  The CIA (but mostly Allen Dulles and his cronies)

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  This is literally me. This is exactly what I would believe if I was illiterate.

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  Term limits are antidemocratic and largely unhelpful as they disincentivise long term thinking. There's a reason Amerikkka only put them in place in 1951 after FDR.

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  This comparison mixes a few real policies with a lot of exaggeration. For example, the train and flight issue people always bring up is not about having a vague “bad social credit score.” What actually exists is a court enforcement measure. If someone refuses to comply with an effective court judgment (most commonly paying a debt or damages) the court can place them on the judgment-defaulter list (失信被执行人) and issue a high-consumption restriction (限制高消费). That mainly blocks luxury consumption lik...

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  Yes, they are different, but the point at the core of my argument is that it's irrelevant as they serve the same purpose at their core. Whether it's s RCV or MMP, the outcome remains austerity, imperialist foreign policy, and rising far-right influence because the state remains an instrument of capital. Ballot mechanics don't override class power. RCV isn't "anti-establishment at its core"; it's a procedural tweak that can just as easily stabilize bourgeois legitim...

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  That makes sense, and then you look at Europe and realise the issues at hand are systemic, caused by material conditions and bourgeois democratic electoralism is never going to fix those issues. Much of Europe already uses ranked choice or proportional voting, yet remains austerity-ridden and sliding toward the far right because it is still under the dictatorship of capital. The voting mechanism is secondary to the concrete material conditions: capital's imperative to accumulate, the commod...

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  [My previous comment on it. Mostly there is no "score" it's a binary list of businesses and business people (some individuals may end up on the list if they lose a defemation suit for example) who owe debts/damages and refuse to pay. It's not automatic, it's not affected by your day to day life and you are put on the list only after a court hearing](https://lemmy.ml/post/44251521/24441691)

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  Abuses and genocide are 2 very different things. If you want to talk about the abuses during the ETIM crackdown and what was done wrong etc that's definitely possible but you should really stop spreading the genocide narrative that smears mud on this real serious conversation.

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  Do you have any proof? The OISC disagree with you. And even the UN doesn't call it a genocide because that's not what happened.

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  You didn't make one you just stated something wildly incorrect so why should I take the time to give you a well thought out response trying to explain how truly idiotic is?

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  I was in Urumqi recently enough and I can tell you this they are some of the most pro government people I have ever talked with lmao they love that ETIM was kicked out. You have gusano testimony from the likes of Rushan Abbas (Guantanamo bay torturer) It's not real. Also tell me about this geographic evidence? Pictures of prisons that you decided are camps because we're evil scary Chinese people?

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  >Uyghur being widely spoken/“in Chinese” Not what I said. You have to be a troll.

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  Bernie is absolutely a liberal. Calling him anything else ignores what he actually proposes. He wants to regulate capital, not expropriate it. He wants to blunt capitalism's worst edges at home while leaving the imperial core intact. That is social democracy at best, a liberal ideology. His own platform accepts the basic framework of private ownership of the means of production. He seeks to manage the crisis, not resolve its root cause. That is precisely the reformism Luxemburg critiqued a c...