The Warning Signs for Kamala Harris's Campaign Are Flashing Red
Key Takeaways:
- Kamala Harris's underdog narrative: Harris frames her campaign as an underdog, despite polling better than Biden did before dropping out.
- Close race dynamics: The election is tight, especially in swing states, with Harris underperforming in key demographics compared to Biden's 2020 performance.
- Trump's flaws: Harris critiques Trump for his presidency’s economic policies, handling of the pandemic, and attacks on immigrant communities.
- Voter demographics: Harris struggles with voters of color, young voters, seniors, and union workers; Trump has significant working-class support.
- Arab American voters: Support for Harris has declined due to her stance on Gaza and unconditional support for Israel, leading to a potential loss of Arab American voters, especially in Michigan.
- Policy shifts needed: The article argues Harris should adjust her stance on Gaza, support a ceasefire, and condition U.S. arms to Israel, which could sway Arab American voters.
- Economic populism: Harris is encouraged to focus on class-warfare rhetoric and pro-working class policies, such as a $15 minimum wage, capping drug costs, and expanding Social Security, to win over lower-income voters.
- Youth voter engagement: There's concern about low youth voter turnout and lack of outreach to young people of color, which could affect the election outcome.
- Final campaign stretch: Harris is urged to take bold steps on economic issues and appeal to working-class voters, similar to Biden’s approach in 2020, to secure victory in key states.
Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran
Biden, Netanyahu Closer to Consensus on Attacking Iran
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…scheerpost.com
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Cool, crash the price of oil right be fore the election.
Biden is trying to make Harris lose. He hates her for taking his job.
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Biden's bitter at people realizing he's too old. Pretty sure he was hoping to go out like feinstein.
Bibi just wants someone he can influence with shiney things rather than needing to pull strings.
What a fantastic democracy/republic we have in the USA 😭
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Vice President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister
Joe Biden has been demoted to Vice President ?
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If anyone wants, here's an extremely optimistic 2009 Brookings Institute white paper on how various hostile actions against Iran would play out based off numbers and history.
Chapter 3 analyses a "boots on the ground" invasion (the occupation would require a draft), Chapters 4-6 analyze American and Israeli airstrikes. Neither of them expect Iran to employ masses of drones or close the strait, and they consider ballistic missiles against US assets unlikely.
While they have an extreme western bias, there's no way you can twist the numbers to look good.
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Chapter 3 analyses a "boots on the ground" invasion (the occupation would require a draft)
Good luck, I'm defecting as soon as they don't have eyes on me.
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It makes it pretty clear how insanely unfeasible a ground invasion of Iran would be even with the most optimistic assumptions.
1.3 million just for the occupation of an 88 million pop country, and that number just comes from other occupations, without taking into consideration the terrain or people or last 50 years of preparation for asymmetrical warfare.
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SHUT UP! Why couldn't you let him have that little bit of naivette?
Seriously though, its a damn fine idea, if only the US and the DNC weren't totally bat-shit on this front. Why does a little thing like reality have to be so un-cooperative?
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still president?
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It’s called deescalation through escalation.
America supports it when Israel does it, that means it’s okay.
Iran, go right ahead. Lebanon, go right ahead. Hamas, go right ahead.
Israel and America have already stated this is a perfectly valid reasoning. The rules of war go both ways.
Again: If America is the world ethics, these actions are perfectly valid. This is what America does.
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This is what America does.
Except it isn't. USA does not preemptively attack countries which plan to attack USA, since nobody is doing that. USA wrecks and coups countries because they are either trying to leave the US hegemonic control or the ones that are simply appealing targets for imperialism.
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The port of Eliat is bankrupt.
The economy of Israel is in a tailspin from the combined efforts of Yemen, and Hezbollah.
But yeah, sure, an economy being destroyed isn't military damage.
Let me guess, the blockade of the south during the civil war didn't accomplish anything, right?
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But yeah, sure, an economy being destroyed isn't military damage.
It's not when the question is whether Iran can or should do a preemptive strike.
Fine, then the fact that Iran hit many of the targets has become public despite the Israelis best attempt to censor that information from coming out should tell you everything you need to know.
So should the fact that Iran got through with their first attack despite preemptively giving the targets to US/Israel, and that US did most of the interceptions at the cost of 1 billions dollars, and Israel used up most of its stock of ammunition.
By the by, given the cost of the ballistic missiles and the cost of the interceptors, hitting nothing is still a success. Not that that is relevant to this conversation give the fact that we know they did hit quite a few of their targets.
EDIT: Speaking of, a drone attack from Hezbollah hit a mess hall for a military base in Haifa. 67 confirmed casualties reported so far. Iron Dome didn't even detect it.
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Latest analysis from journalists in the county of Israel, that Israel tried to censor, then got arrested for a 'aiding the enemy in war' charge for trying to report that Iran blew up at last one 500 million dollar radar system.
It's why the US is scrambling to ship THAAD systems to Israel.
Remember, Israel is incredibly censored right now, and believes that accurately reporting damage needs to covered up at all costs.
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We already saw that the dome cannot intercept Iranian missiles just days ago. Also, the math doesn't work in favor of the dome given that they need 2 interceptors per missile. There's also the issue of production capacity. Once it runs through the existing stockpiles of interceptors, making new ones at the rate they’re being consumed is not possible. For example, from 2008 to present, Lockheed Martin was able to produce 800 missiles, around 50 a year. armyrecognition.com/news/army-…
To counter the 180 missiles Iran reportedly launched, requiring up to 2 interceptors each, would have exhausted nearly HALF of all THAAD missiles ever produced. And that’s assuming there are enough launchers to even fire that many interceptors at once. The US is completely unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe.
Iran can absolutely cripple Israel by destroying its energy infrastructure.
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I remember when Democrats gave a fuck about 1 thing. Now they care about 0 things.
Imagine this:
-A democrat who supports genocide.
-A democrat who is championing Trump’s border policy.
That’s where we are now. That’s who democrats are now.
But I’m a ‘tankie’ for pointing that out, I guess.
Have fun explaining your way out of how you supported a candidate who supported genocide and deportations, liberals. ❤️
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Yep. And when Kamala wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college because swing stat voters actually don't support GENOCIDE the Dems won't show a degree of self awareness or accept any responsibility, they will just blame Jill Stein voters
I say let them attack iran. It will be the final thrashing before the American empire collapses completely.
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Brother, while I can agree with the, I guess, ‘good’ interpretation of societal overhaul and accelerationism, I think I need to point out that there are far more powerful entities engaging in the same thing, and they might have the power to completely dominate you in a society without “rules”.
Alls I’m saying is: be careful what you wish for.
If you’re going to be an accelerationist, you need to do things like BILLING certain people named G-LON TUSK, and others like them.
Otherwise, you’ll just be breaking down the government for them to build one that fits them better.
Remember: BILL them.
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- There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
- A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
- Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don't vote for her.
- Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.
I'd like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?
What are you doing to stop fascism outside of voting for the lesser fascist?
Fascism cannot be defeated through the ballot box. It is capitalism in decay, when capitalist democracy becomes unviable and the capitalist ruling class choose capitalism over democracy.
I'm dismissing your framing; I dont live in a swing state, dont try to convince me to vote for the lesser fascist.
My question is, do you care about stopping fascism or do only you care about delaying it for another four years?
Do you care enough about stopping fascism to put in work to stop it outside of election day and trying to post your way into getting people to vote? Like, seriously, are you interested in putting in actual work to prevent fascism in the US in our lifetimes? This isn't a gotcha I'm trying to set a baseline.
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I'm doing about 20 hours of work a week as part of a socialist org, in service of building up a center of power to actually be able to challenge the lesser and greater fascist.
I'm thinking long term, because I'm not satisfied with "just vote for the less fascist party every four years as each party keeps getting more fascist"
If all the work you're doing is within the confines of bourgeois sham-democracy you'll never be able to defeat fascism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis. You can either find a magic cure to stop the contradictions of capitalism from heightening or you can move toward defeating it.
The latter is the only one that has been demonstrated to actually work.
I sure hope Brown Hitler beats Orange Hitler.
What a vibrant fucking democracy you amerikkkans sure have over there. Whatever meaningless, bootlicking bourgeois electoralism you choose, let's hope you don't get everyone else on earth killed as a result of your endless and unapologetic imperialism, invasions, coups, proxy wars and many genocides.
Is it guilt that keeps you from reading your own history and understanding that all this mass murder that amerikkka has been inflicting on the world for hundreds of years is not driven by the individual incoherent puppets your political system forces you to choose from, but from the very nature of your capitalist empire? Fascism is the product of capitalism in crisis. It's not a thing you can vote against, since you have absolutely no meaningful input in the decisions of the worlds most violent military empire (and you know it). What kind of political system creates a revolving door for endless marches of psychotic war criminals and even puts a few of them on the menu every few years? Obviously not a system that opposes fascism.
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Sacred Lion of Venice was made in China, new research suggests
Was the Lion of Venice made in China more than 1,000 years ago? Italian scientists have evidence
The winged Lion of Venice watches over St Mark’s Square in the north Italian city, just as it has done for hundreds of years. But now a team ofHolly Chik (South China Morning Post)
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Seoul pays more for US troops amid rising crimes by American soldiers on S Korean soil
Seoul pays more for US troops amid rising crimes by American soldiers on S Korean soil
The US and South Korea renew the deal covering the cost of American troops stationed in the country, with Seoul to pay 8.3 percent more coupled with bearing the burden of rising US soldiersPressTV
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Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?
Should Zelensky's government be afraid of far-right groups?
Ukrainian deputy Oleksandr Merezhko sparked a stern online backlash after publicly warning about the threat posed by what he described as a growing far-right movement in Ukrainian society.Paul MILLAR (FRANCE 24)
A year since Oct. 7 - One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21326770
From - The Picture Show
Photo Stories From NPROctober 8, 20247:28 AM ET
By Ayman Oghanna
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is being squeezed, Hubble Telescope finds — and nobody knows why (video)
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Is it OpenHarmony? 😁
We do not know what the US officials are referring to when they talk about so-called global “operating system” built by the US and other countries globally. China believes there is only one system in the world, which is the international system with the UN at its core; there is only one order, which is the international order underpinned by international law; and there is only one set of rules, which are the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. China is committed to peaceful development and upholding the UN-centered international system and basic norms governing international relations. By contrast, it is the US who is obsessed with the old dream of Cold War, unipolar supremacy, selective approach to international rules, exclusive groupings, and bloc confrontation. The US is the biggest source of instability in international order.We urge the US to stop creating all kinds of new terms to peddle the so-called “China threat” narrative.
Ukraine Faces a Double Threat if Russia Takes Pokrovsk
Russia's Donetsk Offensive Threatens Pokrovsk, a Key Military Hub Critical to Ukraine's Steel Industry
The eastern city is a key military hub, but it’s also critical to Ukraine’s steel industry.Keith Johnson (Foreign Policy)
Ukraine Faces a Double Threat if Russia Takes Pokrovsk
Russia's Donetsk Offensive Threatens Pokrovsk, a Key Military Hub Critical to Ukraine's Steel Industry
The eastern city is a key military hub, but it’s also critical to Ukraine’s steel industry.Keith Johnson (Foreign Policy)
Say hello to the new Clipboard Project 0.9.1! This first release of 2024 brings in added security and some nice bug fixes
The Clipboard Project is a clipboard manager that works entirely in your terminal. It has tons of swanky features including this new one in 0.9.1 that lets you securely ignore copying passwords and other things like that!
Link to the code: github.com/Slackadays/Clipboar…
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China plans to complete a fusion power tokamak reactor by 2030.
China plans fusion power research
A research centre to support China's push for nuclear fusion power has been approved. It will be able to test large superconducting magnets and filters under operational conditions.;World Nuclear News
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Good luck to them!
I think the only major contribution to humanity the CCP I would respect would be fusion research.
It's not complicated, just stupid expensive and politically impossible, but if they can figure it out, they have truly provided a transformative humanity.
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If only we dissolved all nation states and lived in communes that best reflect everyones individual values.
Mine would have nukes, because I will never trust humanity, no matter how good things get.
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It's silly to act like individual values are some sacred, unassailable thing gifted to everyone's soul by the heavens, rather than something that came from a combination of inborn human traits and memories*, i.e. they are something that is contingent, changing, and in no way above being questioned.
It's also silly to act like it makes sense to just have a blanket acceptance of something if it's an "individual value" even though, when we look at the world, individual values can sometimes be extremely fucked up and we shouldn't allow people who would enact those values to abuse with impunity.
*"memories" is simplistic, but I don't think it is catastrophically so.
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- The Xinjiang Genocide Allegations Are Unjustified
- The Uyghur Human Rights Project is a product of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the American government’s main regime change NGO.
- Uyghur genocide allegations
- US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire
- A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmat…
- The blueprint of regime change operations
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twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578…
#HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.
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Edit: my mistake there is one and I will reply separately
First of all, Wikipedia is not a primary source, and second of all, Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO
(And third of all, there is a Wikipedia link in there.)
I like to use it to learn about things that generally have agreement among internet users.
Things that generally have agreement among internet users of Five Eyes countries, who are heavily influenced by the of imperial core states that are run by the capitalist class of those states.
Why do you think that your sources aren’t being used to edit the pages on WP?
Whether or not my sources are being used on Wikipedia hadn’t occurred to me. Why would it?
Why do you think that your sources aren’t being used to edit the pages on WP?
It’s self-evident why not: My sources run counter to the imperial core’s narrative. Specifically the United States government’s narrative. The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted this genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, while aiding and abetting an actual genocide in Palestine.
The blueprint of regime change operations
We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.
The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.
Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.
Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).
Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.
I guess my main issue with your argument is that I’m not convinced of the reliability of the sources you’ve cited regarding the situation in Xinjiang.
Despite your criticisms of Wikipedia, I believe the users of the site do a good job of vetting the information that’s there.
I do think it’s valid to criticize the US broadly, and I likewise think it’s valid to criticize China when they appear to be doing mass internment and “re-education” of their minority groups.
I guess my main issue with your argument is that I’m not convinced of the reliability of the sources you’ve cited regarding the situation in Xinjiang.
It seems the sources you deem reliable are largely the same sources that Wikipedia, MB/FC, AFM, and the RAND Corporation deem reliable. I have a lot of thoughts about the media and about media literacy.
Despite your criticisms of Wikipedia, I believe the users of the site do a good job of vetting the information that’s there.
They usually do a decent job, less so when reality rubs up against cultural hegemony.
I do think it’s valid to criticize the US broadly, and I likewise think it’s valid to criticize China
Sure, there are no sacred cows.
It runs counter to the genocide—“cultural” or otherwise—narrative, and counter to the “Han supremacy” narrative. The Uyghur people and other minority groups were excepted from China’s One-Child policy, and as a result the Uyghur population in Xinjiang has grown in proportion to the Han population. The Uyghur languages and religious* practices are protected and financially supported, not suppressed. People can go to Xinjiang and see for themselves. They can see & hear the languages in use and visit the mosques.
*The CPC is officially atheist, but their general policy on religion is tolerance, and an expectation that religions will eventually wither away on their own.
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Seriously? A source on the authoritarianism of China? Oh idk, there's the Great Firewall of China, um the whole Winnie the Pooh thing. Why don't you go-to China and start posting "Fuck Xi" and see how quickly you get arrested. At least here I can say "Fuck Biden", or Fuck Trump without worry.
Oh, I'm on .ml that explains everything so this'll probably get removed to, can't have the truth breaking through on .ml lmao
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Okay so basic western supremacy, gotcha.
Redditors going from zero to rudyard kipling in 5 seconds.
I mean, that's not the CCP, that's just the Chinese people working like dogs to profit the corrupt party members.
The CCP gets very little credit for modern China, it was Mao dying and Deng choosing a looser rein that lead to China's shocking rise, the people themselves are great, the party is merely a horrible parasite that killed 50m of its own people from its pride and chooses to keep much of its wealth offshore.
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I mean, that's not the CCP, that's just the Chinese people working like dogs to profit the corrupt party members.
If that's true then it is also true that Capitalism didn't do anything for America either. It was Americans working like dogs for the profit of corrupt leaders.
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Not even a drop whatsoever.
Taiwan brought the same people with fewer resources far more forward and did it with respect for freedom and human dignity.
While Mao basically murdered or caused the death of 50m of his own people from his own stupidity.
I'd prefer the Chinese put their CCP against the wall before they invent fusion, I guarantee this will be a true golden age for China, but I think the CCP would try to take down China itself before it let itself lose control.
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Fusion reactors are incredibly complicated.... This is a research reactor, with the goal of figuring out how to create sustainable fusion for real world uses by 2050.
This is not a performative action for a determinative outcome, this is aspirational and has no guarantee of achieving its goals, which is good. This type of research and science needs to be funded, even when it may fail.
Maybe this will spurn competition between powers to accelerate their own fusion reactor research, and create a virtuous cycle that accelerates this technology becoming a major source of green energy in the near, or medium-term, future.
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I disagree on the private sector aspect of this, but I agree on the democracy part. Although, I don't really view America as true democracy at this moment in history, but that's besides the point here.
Fusion technology is at a point in its life cycle where it needs to be a public sector project. There is no path to profitability in the near-term, that would justify private sector involvement, except as a means to extract profit from the very expensive research process of even making this technology feasible.
Not that I'm against the private sector within the nuclear power industry. I'm very excited to see what they can do with . I'm just extremely skeptical of most private-public partnerships, especially in cases like this.
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First wall problems compounded by geometric constraints, fueling, magnetic & corresponding mechanical complexities, particularly over long periods of time where material fatigue sets in due to coils applying heavy, dynamic loading.. there's a lot against tokamaks.
They seem to impress people, and we could all use novel research into MHD. But @Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works is kind of correct.
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All he does is ketamine and buy-up companies that already exist.
His workers have all the ambition, however misplaced.
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These guys are Canadian and I've always thought their tech seemed really creative and novel
Isn't fusion power not as clean as people say it is?
The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.
I'm happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.
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The PRC doesn't have an already-built-up car-focused infrastructure like the US does for example, so they get to do it right from scratch. It becomes very difficult to get rid of that once it's built, so its best to do it right from the start.
They're trying to account for current and future needs for city-to-city travel.
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Wrong.
Is China State Capitalist?
- The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
- Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
- Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
- Didn't China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn't it liberalize its economy? Is China's drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
- Is the CPC committed to communism?
- The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
- The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
- Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
- Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?
- Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
- Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
- What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
- How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev's market reforms?, 2
- Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2
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This is completely false. If you're uninsured, a visit is less than ~5 USD per doctors visit, and about ~20 USD for a specialist visit.. If you're insured, as 95% of the population in China is, then visits are free. It also has a very low cost per capita, since public health is socialized, not privatized.
Primary school is completely free, and college has tuition fees just like any other country.
Got any more of "I heard it from a friend?", that people can upvote to affirm their racist biases?
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As far as the motivation for these large projects, its noteworthy that the most common profession in the NPC, the highest governing body in the PRC, is civil engineers.
I've seen a few shorter documentaries about how these massive projects are carried out, and it's fascinating.
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Has any of this actually been built? Everybody's got "plans."
Elon Musk "plans" to build colonies on Mars.
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Yes, this is a map of what was completed in 2018. China isn't the US, they don't give billions of dollars of public funds to grifters like Elon Musk, they actually build things.
As an example, China used more concrete for building projects from the years 2011-2013, than the US used in the entire 20th century.
China has built entire ghost cities, bridges, subways and malls using Tofu Dreg construction. So yes, that is technically correct. China does indeed "build things."
The point of critical infrastructure is that it's supposed to endure, not have to be torn down again in a couple of years because it's unsafe to occupy or use.
Actually planning for the future if something the US can't even fathom doing. Remember this fearmongering article from the daily mail about a "ghost" subway station in Chongqing?
Here it is now:
Western countries look at China building a city where no people are, and project waste, when in reality its just the PRC properly planning and building cities, anticipating housing and infrastructure, before they need them.
Meanwhile the US doesn't do anything beforehand and cities become a sprawling suburb, car-centered wasteland. They let private capital seeking short-term profits build their cities, and turn the country into a wal-mart parking lot.
A huge W for public transport. I assume the PRC already owning the land is significantly decreasing bureaucratic cost / time, allowing for such fast advances.
In sharp contrast the US (and some European countries) keep running after tech bro "innovations" like the hyperloop rather than sticking to actually working systems. Most of them will never see a real purpose because they were never realisable in the first place or will be slimmed down to a point where conventional public transport would have been the better option. And tbh, most of them are really just bait to keep those countries in a state of "looking for alternatives" whilst their current infrastructure is rotting away. And with especially the US being a nation centered around individual transport the vision for public transport is imo clearly lacking.
Europe in general isn't hit by that as much, seeing the benefits of current public transport solutions (at least nowadays... the 90' and 00' were different thanks to neoliberalism and making short term profits instead of doing long term investments), but it is hindered by the clusterfuck of nations / different railway standards. The EU is trying to manage some of it (with ETCS / ERTMS) as well as the new coupling standard (DAC) and track gauges slowly but steadily going towards 1435mm but there are still a lot of things to do such as a transition towards a standard current or even more important: unified train registration (atm a train/carriage needs to be registered for each country separately which leads to unnecessary train switches at border crossings). For example Italy requires carriages to have a fire extinguishing system whilst some other EU countries don't or some mountainous countries require specific braking tests. Having unified safety standards would make things a lot easier.
But at the upside at least some European railway companies do have a vision. For example, the ÖBB (Austrian federal railways) plans to have high speed rail connecting the main cities as well as European alpine corridors like the Brenner, Koralm and Semmering, regional trains for distances covering abt 200km and are reachable in abt 2 to 3 hours and (sub-) urban rail for metropolitan areas. In bigger cities, they want to provide bike sharing at the stations whilst they want to make car sharing available in rural areas to help cover the last few kilometres through the mountains/woods/fields, where busses only go on a daily basis if you are lucky and the bus driver doesn't skip your stop and take a shortcut because they believe nobody will be waiting there anyways and they might reach said vision in the next upcoming years and likely less than a decade.
So TL;DR the PRC is profiting off of their property law, their ability to centralize standards and them going the (at the moment) optimum way instead of hoping for innovation from tech bros with fancy power point presentations and zero knowledge of physics, Europe is doing alright but is a bit of a decentralised mess and the US is getting a bit distracted by "innovations" and their mantra of individual transport.
(My experience in the area mainly comes from working at a state-owned railway company and being interested in the matter in general. If there is anything to add or if I have gotten something wrong, feel free to comment.) \^-\^
It'd be hard to quantify, but I'm sure some statistics person could compare transportation methods, that includes speed, distance, energy usage, population, capacity, and probably a few more, per capita.
You could isolate it to a country's top X biggest cities, and how traveling between them compares in all those metrics.
It's funny when the western supremacists themselves try to claim that supporting communist countries is a uniquely western phenomenon, when its the opposite, it's the US and its vassals demonizing Cuba, China, and the USSR.
The CPC has over 90 million members, every socialist country like Cuba and nearly every communist party on the planet supports and looks up to the CPC as a model for the 21st century. Even most non-communist global south countries look up to it.
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Conscription officers detain men outside Okean Elzy concert in Kyiv
Conscription officers detain men outside Okean Elzy concert in Kyiv
Video footage taken at the scene shows officers stationed outside the doors to the venue, intercepting male attendees as they exited the concert. Officers are shown forcibly arresting some men.Abbey Fenbert (The Kyiv Independent)
In the last few days Zelensky's regime hugely ramped up the kidnappings, this news article is about a single case. Bars, concerts, theaters, shopping centers, everything in the big towns is being raided by "recruitment officers" and "police", some of them are covered in masks and have rifles. Men are kidnapped and sent to die.
Zelensky has already cleansed/genocided villages througout the country (it's safer because media pays less attention to villages), then it was smaller towns and now it's time for the big towns.
Please stop supporting this murderer before he finishes off the entire country. I have lots of friends and family members who did not manage to escape the country, and I live in fear that any day might be the day they get kidnapped and sent to die...
It's ongoing right now btw, more masked people hunting people down all across the country, now from gas stations and even on the roads...
People are getting beaten, told to lie face down on the ground, there are (for now unconfirmed) reports of a man dying in hospital after "recruitment officers" beat him and tried to busify him (women bystanders managed to free him, but seems that it was too late)...
The things that are happening right now is a fucking horror.
A student tells his story about being beaten by "recruitment officers" for answering a call from his mother... He was let go only because he was a student (and therefore, for now, allowed not to die in the meat grinder).
(this one actually happened a few days before the mass kidnappings began, on 8th of October)
Some blogger from Lviv tells his story about being forcibly pulled from a car by masked people ("recruitment officers"), beaten, thrown on the ground... He complained to police about that, but he cannot even identify who has beaten him because they are all masked... Holy fucking shit.
Zelensky has already cleansed/genocided villages througout the country
Aaah yeah. Genocided villages...
Please stop supporting this murderer before he finishes off the entire country.
Supporting in what way? By giving Ukraine the means to defend itself against Ruzzia?
Aaah yeah. Genocided villages...
Yeah, cleansed/genocided/or whatever you call it. Zelensky knows nobody cares about villages, so he started with that, and then moved to a bigger fish.
Supporting in what way? By giving Ukraine the means to defend itself against Ruzzia?
Supporting in the way of giving him money, weapons and power. That he uses to terrorize and genocide Ukrainians.
The biggest threat to us, to our lives and freedom, is not Russia - it's Zelensky. Yet you don't help us, you help Zelensky to murder more of us. And why shouldn't you? After all, a few Russians will die as well, so no matter how many of us how died it's a win for you..
Yeah, people cheering whatever the fuck Zelensky is doing to the people they supposeddly "support" is.. Scary to say the least. Is it "won't happen to me" mentality? Is it "hurt Russia at a cost of whatever amount of Ukrainians it takes" mentality? I dunno...
And the funniest part - I can understand why people downvote my comment (I used quite "strong" language there), but why the fuck are they downvoting the post? XD
Is "kyivindependent" also a Russian propaganda now? 🤦
Anyway, there is a good side to this too, I'm even kinda happy that my post got so many downvotes - it means .ml is not a total "tankie" circlejerk, and there actually are people with opposing views here (even if those views are about genociding my country...).
Is it “won’t happen to me” mentality?
Mostly. Majority of people on this site is more or less the same as reddit, westerners. A lot of them privileged, sheltered westerners. For them, especially the Americans, the war is not real. Their grandfathers weren't dying in nazi death camps, their fathers weren't dying from drugs or alcoholism or poverty during economical transformation. For them it's a show to watch on TV, and since we here are telling them something entirely different than the narration they got used to in last two years, they get cognitive dissonance and lash at what cause it the most. Even including the sources they were taking as a gospel before.
And some are worse, those that are more or less aware, that it was their grandfathers who gained their golden age when ours were dying in camps, and their fathers gained their end of history when ours got pummeled by transformation.
Oh boy oh boy it arrived. And what a friendly seller 👌 Kinda a shame that they gave up this hobby. Sold everything for an apple and an egg. It’s a #ViperPit #SimPit loosely based on a F-16. Nothing of this is functional though. Yet.
Winter may come!
Man… the _feel_ of those lovely switches and dials alone ❤️
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holy shit, that guy’s heart must have been bleeding …
Looks awesome, enjoy putting it all together!
And out of curiosity: what is the average price range for a setup like this?
heavy use for a year now. Think the seller was happy to see it going to someone using it again 😁
Usually this is work and parts in the 4 digits area. This was an absolute steal though for just 260EUR. Alas nothing is functional and restoring stuff to function is quite time consuming as well. Part of the hobby though so that's fine and expected.
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