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Thank you! I hope that yours is nice as well ☺️

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Filled using the giant spoon that was gifted to the worker’s party in Stalin’s will.

I’m a bit late. I hope that your week is going well and that the rest of it is nice :D :D

I’m supporting the decision of the Georgian state to improve relations with Russia, its neigbour and the regional power. I support this because improved relations can lead to security and trade agreements that improve the material conditions of the Georgian working class. If the state ultimately backs away from this decision due to it being a ploy to gain leverage over the west, then I will absolutely be critical of such a move. On the other hand, I can imagine how following through can be beneficial for the ruling class as well and I don’t think that your conclusion is a guaranteed outcome.

As others have said, the article is about Georgia’s decision to strengthen its relationship with Russia at the expense of its relationship with the west. The rose revolution is important to understand Georgia’s current position on this.

Has IvanishviIi not already established a regime? In what way does improving relations with Russia allow him to further consolidate his power? While I certainly don’t support oligarchy, Georgia’s struggle against western imperialism is surely worth critical support.

I’m not familiar at all with Georgian politics, but if what you say is true, I do kind of agree that the author should have included some discussion on the matter. That being said, I don’t see how this makes it not “great news”. Regardless of who holds power in Georgia, do you think that having better relations with Russia, its neighbor with which they share a border, will be a bad thing for Georgians?

He just banned his opposition from running in them. Certainly not the same thing.

I’m not sure if this was done on purpose, but you’ve just echoed the same criticisms that the western msm always directs at China. Each and every one of these examples is projection, whether or not you agree that China deserves the criticism.

1. Take a drive through rural USA or Canada. I think that you’ll find China isn’t the only one struggling with this. China has prioritized equal development while the west continues to let its rural towns and villages fall further into poverty and disrepair.
2. China used to have several cities in the top 10 for the worst air quality. Now they have none. China leads the world in renewable energy research, development, and deployment. The USA has placed large tariffs on Chinese made EVs and renewable equipment. The USA is doing its best to ensure our demise through climate change.
3. Why is this a problem? All countries experience slowed population growth or even decline as they become more developed. What’s so different about China that they can’t simply increase immigration like other developed nations? What is actually different is that their economic system will allow them to transition low skill, manual labor industries to automation without increased unemployment that decimates the working class.
4. This problem has been solved. The CPC popped the bubble. Some developers that didn’t heed the warning went bankrupt. The state has said that they will fund purchasing the finished, unsold units and use it for affordable housing.
5. The west’s three letter agencies are the most invasive on the planet with their massive web of data collection and backdoors. The USA holds the largest population of prisoners on the planet while having about 20% of China’s population.
6. This one feels a bit out of place since it’s not really something that the west’s msm mentions. As a supporter of China, I do wish that they would do more in this area, but their non interventionist policy is likely an important factor in their ability to challenge western hegemony today. The arts, while important, isn’t something that people have the time to care about when living in extreme poverty. It makes sense that they prioritized economic development above this. Meanwhile, the west is doing its best to replace artists with LLMs and generative AI.
7. In what way? Because they don’t have legalized gay marriage? It’s silly to project the values of a society that has been at the top in terms of economic development on a society that has just reached the middle to high stage. As Marxist, we have to remember that everything is a process. I’m certain that as China develops, so will their culture, and as a result, so will their policy on LGBTQ+ rights. However, in the meantime, we should also understand that just because state policy may not take LGBTQ+ rights into consideration much at this time, that doesn’t mean that discrimination against this group is a massive problem. Sure, Obama/SCOTUS legalized gay marriage (yes it was that recent), but there are still those in the country who will refuse service to members of the community and the state has completely politicized the issue using the msm to promote a culture war.

I struggle to come up with any criticism that the west directs at China that isn’t projection. The entire subsidies narrative is completely absurd. When China invests less in an industry it’s “China’s state capitalism can’t keep up with the free market”. When China invests more it’s " China’s unfair state capitalism is disastrous to international markets".

All this suits the Chinese Communist Party well. Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has expressed the same ambition as the company, to overcome American sanctions with locally developed technology. The state, already Huawei’s biggest customer, also supports it in other ways. To spur the development of the semiconductor industry, it provides subsidies and invests alongside Huawei. The company and the government both own stakes in Focuslight, Everbright Photonics and Xuzhou B&C Chemical, for instance.

But Huawei’s relationship with the state is often misunderstood. The firm is not trying to indigenise its supply chain to comply with government directives. Rather, for Huawei and many other Chinese companies, self-sufficiency has become a commercial imperative because it is their only means of survival. Its investment decisions are market driven. This separates it from sluggish state-owned enterprises, which formulate their business plans based solely on state policy.

They don’t even bother to add paragraphs between their contradictions anymore.

Lmao. You’re going to need to provide a source for that one.

laissez-faire space travel is working about as well as expected

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Have a nice week comrade Oppo 🫡

and have many Arab and Palestinians within our organization

And burgerland isn’t systemically racist because Clarence Thomas is a SCOTUS member.

Beijing Municipality has checked and double-checked all the figures from the Martial Law Command, the Public Security Ministry, the Chinese Red Cross, all institutions of higher education, and all major hospitals. These show that 241 people died. They included 23 officers and soldiers from the martial law troops and 218 civilians. The 23 military deaths included 10 from the PLA and 13 from the People’s Armed Police. The 218 civilians (Beijing residents, people from elsewhere, students, and rioters) included 36 students from Beijing universities and 15 people from outside Beijing. [29] [30]

https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen/#fn29

The lousy attempt at “breakfast” or the heartburn?

I was thinking the same. That’s literally heartburn on a plate.