The stuff about corporate “power-speak”, where the sociopaths start using certain phrases for their power-games and larger selfish strategies, and the clueless layer try to imitate them but without knowing why, is something I experienced at every workplace.
Same. The idea that organizations create a barrier of clueless acolytes to shield the sociopaths at the top from the workers at the bottom makes a lot of sense. I tried to read the whole book he made out of these essays but it wasn’t as great as the main ideas.
Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting… it doesn’t make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the “democracy” there is nothing but political theatre.
Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven’t learned this simple lesson.
American values
The values of the US settler-colonial project, are native eviction, and genocide.
The values of the indigenous peoples were not considered worthy to the european settlers, so they did their best to wipe out hundreds of peoples/tribes/cultures. You either don’t know that history, or worse, you are proud of it.
I highly suggest reading both An indigenous people’s history of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, or her Not a nation of immigrants.
The PRC would be incredibly naive to let US tech companies in, and take over and hoover up their social media landscape, like so many other countries have done. For example India’s most popular communications platform, is facebook. The US effectively controls the social media of a country many times larger than itself, and can influence it whatever way it wants, as well as spy on every person who uses it.
For those who want to view US-run tech sites in the PRC, they can of course via VPNs which are completely legal, but that friction is very worthwhile for encouraging home-run alternatives, and preventing mass surveillance by an evil empire.
libertarian socialist/communist
When your socialist / communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so?
Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don’t, about how to establish socialism, “non-authoritarianly”?
but people in US finance everything
Damn I wonder why they do that. Must have nothing to do poverty. /s
Your main source is ASPI, a far right war-hawk australian defense industry think tank.
Do you have sources for any of these claims?
I like kiss launcher a lot, I use it on my android tablet, which is my main work device. Its the only launcher that has great keyboard support… start typing right away, press enter, and it launches.
Props, this is like an diplomatic BDS.
“Iran is oppressive. The media from the country bombing them told me so”
This is gold. Comrades are on their meme game this week. This one was also fire:
CeraVe is the only skin-care company afaik whose products are developed by dermatologists, and are consistently highly rated by dermatologists. They have good scentless moisturizers, lotions with sunscreen, retinol, shampoos, conditioners, and wash bar(soap alternative).
The strangest person I’ve ever met was homeschooled, it was a really sad case. He was an only child home-schooled by fundamentalist christian parents, and didn’t have much interaction with peers his age until he was in college. Zebulon (yes that was his name) could not hold a simple conversation, and clearly had less education than most grade-schoolers. Talking to him was worse than talking to a child, he would babble or ignore everything you said and change the subject completely. I hope he’s overcome that and is doing better now.
It should be illegal or heavily restricted, as it is in many countries already.
Just orientalist vibes, no sources in sight.