God damn it, this is how fascism really takes hold, when the fake communist start winning seats. They build up a bunch of momentum and then they suddenly "flip" (To their true form) at the last second and start killing people.
Am I crazy about this? Is something like this worse than a public nazi being in an office seat?
Unsure about how "important" this seat is. I'm more worried about the trend. If the only "commies" getting seats are ACP reactionaries, when real communists won't be able to distinguish themselves from them in the public eye.
Also, how the fuck are they so effective? It seemed like mere months ago ACP began. How the fuck are they able to get any seat with the term "communist" in their party name? Regardless of their reactionary status, to normal people, the big C word is a no-no.
Final free thought: I know commies aren't gunning for office most of the time, and that is fine. Building community, unions, and being in the streets, is more effective. But having some office seats could lead to small-but-useful changes, especially since this is a legal-adjacent seat.
“But if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content.”
Article title: Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’
Okay, I editorialized the title a bit. Basically, Eric Schmidt said that if you were to build a competitor to TikTok after it gets banned using AI, then you could just steal all of the IP, and if your company was not successful, then nobody really cares. But if your company was successful, then you would have the money to pay off the lawyers to get you out of a jam.
It is a rather obvious acknowledgment that money and success tend to generate more money and success. One can engage in dishonest acts, cheating, stealing IP, etc. as long as they possess the money to hire lawyers to get themselves out of the situation.
They even took down the talk from YouTube because of how bad it looked.
And I thought Musk and Trump were the only one stupid enough to admit the obviously evil shit.
"Wiz", an Israeli military controlled cybersecurity company to be acquired by Google for $23 Billion
A cybersecurity company started by 4 Israeli military officials is going to be potentially acquired by Google for $23 billion.
Anyone that tells you that Israel and America don't collude is either bullshitting you, or incredibly uninformed.
America keeps Israel going, without the USA it would fall instantly due too it's apartheid. Their genocidal military sets them up to be capitalist billionaires.
Remember kids, they don't fight fair. You don't have too either.
It's a personal story and he goes through a bit slow but he does get to the point. Basically capitalism has ruined medicine and the actual ways to solve most medical issues cannot be recommended because they don't make a lot of money.
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased.
Obvious bullshit is obvious, but i don't have time to track down the source of this. They say every conspiracy theory starts with a grain of truth, but of course it doesn't have too!
Anyone know what three libs are talking about here? A misunderstanding or just a lie?
(Reposted since this is a better community for this)
Even the liberals are starting to catch on that China is outpacing the United States in terms of EV production and quality. This is a shot from one liberal to another that they are failing to meet the market demands, and China is doing much better than us.
This person actually calls out the USA’s protectionist policies and claims that they aren’t here to protect users, but to prevent their car companies from being completely out-competed by China.
Ehhhhh, kinda.
Some credit card companies make their information more public.
Almost all across the board take on-time payment history as their largest contributing factor of the credit score, 35% according to my report. This means that any missed payments on anything will dramatically reduce your credit score. These hits on your score last, I believe, five years.
Next, at 30%, is only utilizing a small amount of your total credit. Now in such a case, you can get a very low amount of credit and use very little of it. This is fine. But if you're going to use your credit card for actual things, which takes advantage of getting points and bonuses and yada yada, then you need a lot of credit. As someone with a $15,000 limit on one credit card, I am able to keep my credit usage by percentage very low.
Next, add only 15% of your credit score, which is still big, but not as big as the others, is credit age. 0-2 years is only the starting place. Your credit age is average between three and seven years and it only becomes good when it's over seven years. You can only achieve an excellent in this category with 25 or more years of continuous credit usage. This is by far the absolute hardest part of your credit score to increase. The best way to have a good credit score at a young age like in your 20s is if your parents opened one with you and put you on their good credit score when you were in your teens. This can be very dangerous for people who don't have enough money to pay off their card every month and can spiral you into debt really fast.
Having $50,000 or more in credit limit is optimal for the highest credit scores. Considering they do income checks when you apply for a credit card, you absolutely will not have a high credit limit on any one card unless you make a lot of money.
Next and the smallest amount of effect on your credit score is new accounts and recent inquieries. This means you can't go get a bunch of new credit cards all at once, or else your credit score will tank. And if you buy two cars and a house in one year, you should wait a good three years before applying for anything else, less you hit your credit score.
Sorry for the brain dump. I had experience with this as a liberal and learned a lot about it. Just the high credit limit, old credit age, and low utilization requirements, means that basically anybody who is poor is going to have a hard time getting high credit.
Mistakes at least do go off your credit history. I actually had defaulted on a loan when I was younger and really fucked things up and my credit score was garbage. But now it is routinely over 800 when I check it, and it's been over 850 when companies have checked it. I got my morgage at 2.4%... Good credit is cheap to maintain once you have some money... But not impossible if you have less. Just really hard.
Yogthos answer is great, To add more context, and be a bit more negative... the credit score effectively incentivises spending a lot of money and taking out a lot of loans, and by taking out a lot of money and by paying them off, you get better credit, which means only the people who can take on big loans and pay them off get better credit. Basically only rich people have good credit, which means basically only rich people can buy houses and cars and things like that. It perpetuates a cycle for the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor.
Remember, in America, houses are an investment. You can use them to collect rent and, in general, line should go up, so your investment will gain in value over time on average.
I am a totally real person who actually has bought land in China and knows that the government is extremely authoritarian.
And it's against the rules to lie in the internet and you can trust everyone for what they say... Certainly there isn't any evidence of people lying on the internet...
Thick skulls indeed...
Go spread your fake conspiracy theory somewhere else, you fucking fascist. People here aren't gonna buy your bullshit lies.
You don't own the land underneath your feet in America, But in China, at least the land is owned collectively.
Oh, that's right. In actuality, the government doesn't own the land in China. The people do. The government just manages it for the people. So, in essence, every single person in China actually owns a part of the land they stand on. How interesting. Socialism is a very interesting system, isn't it? And considering 94% of people own a home in China, I think their reputation for land ownership is significantly outpacing the United States reputation for land ownership.
But as a totally real person who actually bought land in China, you already know these facts, don't you?
If americans own their land, what are taxes for?
Ahhh americans, can't get through their thick skulls.
I am disappointed that China is still behind in this regard. I don't think anybody gets punished for it or anything. I think it's just a cultural thing. But still.
(Edit. To clarify, I actually liked the article for the most part. I just found some problems with his philosophy lower in the article.)
Okay, the guy goes pretty much full revisionist by the end of that article, but I think most of what he said is sound in terms of facts. His philosophy and political ideology is not exactly correct, though.
He tries to compare communism to fascism and says that communism failed because it ignored merchants. It all sounds like someone who read a couple of paragraphs of a description of what communism was by a western source, but never looked into it further (He has actually read a little more than that. He at least mentions Deng and quotes him as well. His arguments just smell revisionist.). I bet this person just believes that communism is authoritarian but without CEOs.
I always got to keep in mind that China has four and a quarter times as many people as the US. This still blows them out of the water. It ain't even fucking close.
I'm not near my sources right now, But I also try to keep in mind that China consistently beats its deadlines and the United States consistently misses them when it comes to, well, anything really, but specifically climate change for sure.
China is using so much energy and still growing, that they're not gonna be carbon neutral for a while still, but at this rate they're gonna blow the pants off of the United States. I bet these numbers are in the report, but unfortunately I don't have time to skim 168 pages.
Thanks for the reference Comrade!
It's time to put my money where my mouth is and buy some flags.
I don't want to have to support Amazon if i don't have too. But if thats the best way, so be it, recommendations on high quality flags from amywhere welcome.
I was going to search history, but im mobile atm and I can't find search for posts.
Also looking for who I can donate to that will actually get supplies on the ground. I knew of one but cannot for the life of me remember the name. Life has pulled me away from politics for awhile, trying to get involved again.
Thanks for resources comrades.
The two previous top comments of this thread are contravorsial, so I'd just like to say that I thought this comic was very funny :D made me laugh.
Sorry, you have to admit that we get a lot of trolls coming in like that. At any rate, that comment was on the edge of trolling or being serious, and I wasn't sure. I assumed the worst. I'll take my response down.
My more honest response is this: EIther one. I still think Cali won't get it done before Vietnam will. It seems like costs always go up for no real reason, and negotiations are always a barrier, regardeless of location. Frankly with the hyperloop derailing HSR in california (Pun intended) so easily, I can see some other reason popping up, even for a realtively "easy" rail build.
.zip domain...
In 10 years when HSR still doesn't exist in Cali, and China has added massively to their infra, and Vietnam as more miles of HSR tracks than any US state, you'll remember this.
I'm guessing that by the time they're done, California high-speed rail will still not be completed haha.
Trudeau looks like he's posting for a picture and he's totally holding it the wrong way, but at least that's kind of meh.
But is sunak like mid flipping the hammer around? How stupid can you be? This is Patrick Star level of dumb.
Well fuck instead of denying it, now they're just embracing it.
Hopefully history will remember this.
You can read the other responses. They have references.
You'll be reminded of this when China's GDP is officially twice Americas.
Ah yes, as a response to intelligent analysis, here is a meme.
The height of politics online... 14 year old boys yelling "nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"...
It's so fucking disgusting the way economists weaponize certain parts of language in order to make a good thing look bad.
Of course deflation over a very long period of time is very bad. It's one of the reasons that cryptocurrencies are so crazy.
But obviously, if the price of food went down to the price it was before inflation, that's not a bad thing. That just means you can fucking afford shit again.
This one boiled my blood. I'll tell you what, once you become class conscious, it's really hard to fucking ignore that every economist is getting you to work against your own best interests.
Thank you comrade! I will be downloading this and keeping it as a reference!
As davel said, Even if reports like these are amazing, some of the sources they point to are busted up, or videos that have been taken down.
Does anyone know of a good archival site for YouTube videos? Or are places like Odyssee backing them up? Or another project?
Our sources keep getting ripped off the internet and if archive websites keep getting taken down we need a separate place to keep our information up forever.
Damn it, what can we do to back these up? Is odysee a good choice?
So I was just doing a bit of research about some science advancements in graphene processors, as I heard about it in a segment about China's recent research breakthroughs. I did some googling and found... let's say a slightly biased perspective (Just kidding, it's straight up propaganda)
So this is the research paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.12446.pdf
Notice how there are 12 researchers from Tianjin University in China, also notice how there are 3 researchers from Georgia Tech, this includes one american author who co-founded this research center with person in china. So this is a joint effort. He's actually listed as also being a part of Tianjin University, so I guess 13 to 3 people in each respective university (one person double counted).
If you google for "graphene seg semiconductors" you get:
- Georgia techs website first, okay.
- A couple links to the article on arxiv and nature, cool,
And then, a bunch of news articles:
-
https://www.power-and-beyond.com/scientists-develop-the-newest-semiconductor-of-2024-a-85c344436bde92e7350122cb5c012b7a/ - doesn't mention china at all, never Tianjin, only Georgia institute
-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/graphene-semiconductor - doesn't mention china at all
-
https://www.networkworld.com/article/1288967/georgia-tech-researchers-achieve-key-breakthrough-in-graphene-semiconductors.html opens with Georgia tech did such and such, mentions china half way though in passing.
-
https://eepower.com/market-insights/researchers-create-worlds-first-graphene-semiconductor/# - opens with georgia tech, no mention of china
-
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2410612-first-working-graphene-semiconductor-could-lead-to-faster-computers/ - you guessed it, all georgia tech, no mention of china at all
Well damn, with 13 out of the 15 researchers having affiliation with the lab in China, you would think that someone would emphasize that this research was done... In China? Not just "helped" by China, not just "assisted by", but like, most of the research was done there. On paper this was a partnership, but most sites won't even go that far. Georgia Tech did this/that/was awesome/yay america, oh and some place in China was involved too, only sometimes mentioned.
My god, it's as if Usonians just can't swallow the fact that China has scientists... and researchers... and like, smart people. As a Usonian who is breaking out of my media bubble, it's crazy to me to see how fucking biased our "neutral" sources of information are. Wikipedia hasn't been updated with this info yet, but I bet it will mark down all the awesome work Georgia tech did while only mentioning in passing that some place in China was also involved.
I'm not even gonna bother posting this to a lib space like reddit. The copium would be too much for me to handle. The only thing I can think about is if the tables were turned, no lib would have a problem calling out "CCP propaganda" after the first sentence of the article claimed "Tianjin University in China does breakthrough research on graphene processors!"
After finding this yt channel based on a Yogthos post, I went through a couple of their recent videos and I thought this was a good review. I timestamped the part where he goes into green energy/CO2 production.
Awhile ago I did some semi-deep diving into the energy use of China, as I am trying to gather as much factual based information as possible about all the liberal conspiracy theories about China. This segment pretty much sums up what I found as well.
-
China has waaaaay more people than the US, so it makes sense their emissions are higher ->as a whole<-- (For example, if china was, like 10 countries, none of them would have high emissions and the US would have no one to pint a finger at)
-
After taking into account that the average Chinese citizen produces almost half of the emissions of an american, you can ->further<- take into account that most of China's emissions are in manufacturing (In america, it's as much transportation as anything else, in China transpiration is very small by comparison, the video covers that too), and most of those emissions are actually going to foreign lands, mostly Americans and Europeans. After taking this into account I think it reduces China's emissions by at least 20%, and I think that puts the average Chinese person below half the emissions of an american.
-
The world cannot be sustained if everyone lived like an american. It is a privileged position, and thus, Americas emissions (and history of total emissions) is the reason that other countries are not "allowed" to advance like America has.
I just thought this was a fantastic review. Send this to any dumb lib online who thinks that China is the cause of global warming. The probably won't watch, but hopefully someone will.
Warning, rant incoming. Not much of substance here, I just gotta vent to like-minded individuals.
---
Okay, some background, I'm a new-ish commie who doesn't have as much time as I want to do deep research dives.
But I've done some.. and I'm getting pissed.
CNN, BBC, and mintpres, let's talk about them.
-
I've dove into a couple of articles around conspiracy theories regarding China. Harvesting organs (Literally no evidence, the sources stated don't come close to evidence), and Uyghur forced labor (Dumb libs think that a jobs program after their counter-terrorism education program counts as "forced labor"... Maybe there's more? I can't find real evidence but let me know in the comments if there is anything with evidence I should look into), both of them heavily cited by the BBC.
-
CNN's Israel propaganda (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias)
-
Mintpress, never read them, apparently libs hate them (What do you think? Genuinely curious as people here are way more reasonable than anywhere else I spend my time).
So, what I have is some real evidence that the BBC spreads false conspiracy theory propaganda about China that's pretty easily verifiable. I guess that's why China banned them (Oh, and apparently also because the British government banned CGTN).
CNN also has the journalistic integrity of... Well, someone defending a genocide... so basically like a Nazi funded newspaper? Bad as it can get.
Now, I've never read Mintpress, I don't know if they've spread conspiracy theories, who cares. That's not the point here. Let's say they did, let's say Mintpress is all lefty lies and conspiracy propaganda, etc.
You can check out the wikipedia's articles about them for yourself, suffice to say, they don't mention any of the lies CNN/BBC spread, but literally that's the only thing mentioned in the Mintpress article.
If wikipedia were 'neutral', they would talk about the bad sides of CNN/BBC as much as Mintpress, as the evidence is clearly there. As well, some neutral information about Mintpress would be nice too. Sure, use it to learn about the chemistry and biology and the class of the flower you just found, cool, but politics? Fucking biased as it gets.
Like, how can someone with a functioning brain defend this? I guess I used too, but it's just so fucking obvious now. Like, how many times has some 'reputable' news source been caught lying, cheating, or just plain editorializing (I'm guessing that's what mint press does, takes facts and editorializes, that's what everyone does), and nothing is mentioned in wikipedia. How much information is just... oppressed? Damn it, these people call China oppressive, what fucking hypocrites.
Prolewiki to the rescue! I only wish the articles about CNN/BBC were longer. Maybe when I get more time and do a deep dive I can find time to contribute. I think I have my old references too, just can't find them right now.
Okay, I'll end with this, a lot of people here write off anything Wikipedia has to say as nonsense, I used to think that was a bit extreme, but now... I guess I just learned for myself how bad it is.
This is a lib source, but iFixit is trying to, within the capitalist system, change things. It won't work, but eh, I at least usually trust them when they say a product sucks.
These are the worst, irreparable, ad-ridden, who-asked-for-this-garbage, at CES 2024. I bet no one here would buy any of this, or be excited that BMW will come out with ad-glasses for your driving "pleasure", but it's kinda funny (In the so-sad-its-funny-not-funny way) that they are even trying.
Anyway they have lib answers to this, "contact the ftc", as if they have any fucking teeth, or contact your state legislatures, as if they aren't already paid off... Whatever, they aren't commies but at least it's kind entertaining in a dystopian way.
A lot of info about AI recently, and it's use of wage-slave labor abroad, and some in North America. I doubt this is news to anyone here, but it's an interesting read none the less by one reporter who did some digging.
Here is a quote from someone who trains AI in Africa:
“I really am wasting my life here if I made somebody a billionaire and I’m earning a couple of bucks a week.”
In solidarity my friend from abroad :( I hope one day my country can be rid of those that bring this bullshit to the world.
Truly the Libs in America have to be willfully ignorant of their privilege (Irony is obvious) to ignore this stuff.
Aside: nymag looks to be "normie left" but not communist by any means. Anyone have any reason to hate/like it as a source besides the obvious? I haven't read a lot from it, but this article seemed to be not to bad from a reporting accuracy perspective.