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Really? I’m not convinced the Chinese government acts in the interests of its people at all. That’s probably the biggest reason I can’t call it Socialism. Just because government influence is stronger than in the West, the economic system isn’t completely different.
But isn’t the means of production still mostly controlled by capital owners? Sure, some industries are influenced by the government, but that is also the case in the West. The plan is certainly more detailed for China, but to me Socialism always meant labor is controlling the means of production. How’s that the case when an elitist single-party government influences the capital owners?
Enlighten me then. Means of production doesn’t seem to be controled by the party alone. Most of China’s economy still follows capitalist principles. Rich Chinese and owners of businesses are still private citizens. Sure, some influenced by the government, some industries very heavily regulated, but China still follows capitalist principles in most cases.
I always thought Socialism means that means of production is controlled by labor directly, not capital owners or an elists single-party government.
As the life-sustaining places become more scarce, they become more expensive. Your best play for survival is to play the game, amass wealth and afford the trip to Elysium. That’s why even the people understanding the problem are part of it.
Let’s not call China socialist when a single party dictates larger economic trends in an otherwise competitive global market. It’s just not “free” as in free market capitalism.
Otherwise I completely agree with the weaknesses of the western capitalist systems.
Of course not. Extra deliveries past congress. Not that they would block it
You could argue they’re a bit in denial, so France’s clear words may wake them up a bit.
Yes, actually at my job a co-worker just found exactly such a bug yesterday: Debug build zeroed out the variable and the release build didn’t. So the bug only occurred in the release build, but could not be reproduced on the debug build where the developers work on. So in the end he found it because of the different compiler flags used for debug vs release builds at our work place.
Yep, variables that are merely declared are not initialized, so their value is not guaranteed. Could be anything.
You’re charging the class for a thought crime!!
Horrible code. First, it doesn’t compile because there’s no ;
at the end of the class definition.
And then more importantly you have a private destructor which means this CriminalScum’s destructor will never be called, so you can’t charge it with distruction either. Or are you telling me this CriminalScum has friends?
Biden really doesn’t want these Muslim votes it seems.
He’s not my president. Can’t do much but protest here and hold my own representatives accountable.
I can’t fault anyone for not voting for a war criminal.
On foreign policy the US remains a genocidal bully with questionable morals and alliances. But domestically the Democrats present a veneer of somewhat moral, inclusive values. So with the presented choice I would recommend to go with the seemingly moral guy and try to hold him accountable, rather than vote for the fascist maniac that acts the same domestically and foreign.
Just hope you get locally active to organize a stronger left for the future.
Ukraine indirectly benefits a lot from Israel’s weapon technology. Many of the European weapon deliveries they receive were tested by Israel on Palestinians. See “The Palestine Laboratory” (sorry for the Amazon link. You may find the book in other stores as well of course).
It’s not like Switzerland would hold tgem accountable for, might es well get complicit.
The problem is that we’re like Heroin addicts protesting against the bad effects of Heroin, but since we’re addicted we still keep buying from the dealers. Why would the Heroin dealers worry about empty threats? They know they are necessary for economic growth and helping us maintain our lifestyles. It’s kind of ironic that the thing that provides us with a livelihood also destroys nature, which is also and even more vital for our survival.
“Let’s add special interest and climate deniers to the climate change conference.”
Most transparent plan ever, yet it still worked.
Damn… belligerent is an understatment at this point. They’re outright thugs, encouraged by the protection by the US.