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WTF is wrong with the people on this site?

The spiritual component.

Yes, just a Jesus-following (not in a church other than for volunteer work) commie at this point. Figure the point of all this is to have kids and help build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the goal eventually being a society that doesn't require anyone to work. Heaven is free time.

Read Marx (for real, not just skimming) then the Bible (for real, not just skimming). Worked for me.

Why has Ukraine rarely lost power, water or internet? Why isn't Russia destroying civilian infrastructure en masse? Because it's not a war in the same way the US went to war with Iraq, for example (one of the first things the US did was target civilian infrastructure).

You're just a clueless American without the basic background knowledge to see this situation for what it is: a preemptive defensive strike against an ever-expanding, finance-capital-backed NATO.

This sort of braindead mindset is exactly why learning dialectical materialism is so important. You're essentially denying causality.

A bobcat is cornered by a man with a stick, the bobcat lashes out, you blame the bobcat.

You walk around a corner to see a kid hit another kid. You blame the one who did the hitting because you don't care to investigate what was happening before you rounded the corner.

There are decades of history that influence and have led up to this moment. The fact that you didn't mention NATO or the US/EU at tall is telling.

Yeah…sure…it hit a "seamount" – it's definitely not out-classed and out-matched by Chinese unmanned submarine drones.

https://metallicman.com/uss-connecticut-black-operations-sub...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJLwUfLcEU

Not to mention a vast percentage of their energy usage is spent on manufacturing for the West. We're essentially off-loading our carbon output to less developed countries then blaming them for it.

That pollution is due to exported goods – the US and other western countries are essentially offloading their pollution to China, who is more than happy to take the cash and greenify their own infrastructure.

Look at the author's publishing history. Nothing but Australian fluff news until 2019 then she started posting upwards of two "China bad" articles a day nearly every day since.

The US' war on China means that anti-China sentiment is on the rise and that means dollar signs for publishers who are happy to toe the line.

There is nothing more pathetic than someone being afraid of a country based on what they hear in media and from their own State Department.

I only get this "China scary" vibe from people who've never been or know nothing about the country.

…if China invaded _their own province_. A province over which their claim is stronger than the US' claim to Hawaii.

I keep thinking there's hope to avoid this war, but the way people comment here and on Reddit (in abject ignorance of geopolitical reality), I fear it's inevitable.

Fifteen (!) countries support Taiwanese sovereignty. The _rest of the world_ respects China's claim. It's insane that this rhetoric is even present in Americans' minds.

China has a more historic and material claim over Taiwan than the U.S. has over Hawaii. Give me a break with all this imperialist sabre-rattling.

Taiwan is a province of China. Fewer than 15 countries (the U.S. is not one of them) acknowledge a sovereign Taiwan.

This is a wedge issue designed so that defense contractors can sell more weapons/arms/subs in the South Pacific.

I don't imagine some central command – I understand Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony and Marx's base/superstructure dialectic. The American people are completely bought into the imperial line, but they still need to be oriented, thus the massive increase in anti-China rhetoric from State Dept affiliated media outlets.

Americans are gone. Anti-China sentiment is at a boiling point and I really no longer see objective reporting or discussions. It's infuriating that the US is able to manufacture consent so efficiently.

He can be voted out at any time. Western democracies don't even have democratic recall outside of the neutered impeachment process. GTF outta here with your completely ignorant takes on Chinese politics, you clearly have never been there nor read much about it.

Term limits are horrible for the working class in the U.S. Constant political turnover means groups like ALEC basically run our legislating process. Killing term limits for certain offices means that as someone gains experience and competence, they continue to lead, whereas in the U.S. they'd arbitrarily have to leave office right when they're getting the lay of the land.

It'd be like firing our senior dev and putting in a junior – no wonder shit never gets done in the States.

Nailed it. The US is only concerned with imperialism and maintaining a stranglehold in the region. Syria was meant to be Libya Part 2: Electric Boogaloo, but it was just a royal mess from the beginning.

The counter-terrorism system they've conceived is worth learning about. They basically erred on the side of "too much surveillance, but alive" over "bomb them all 'til they're dead."

Given the near complete absence of terror in the region over the last few years, I'd say it worked to some end.

No joke. Liberals talking about socialism reminds me a lot of Christians talking about evolution: "we didn't come from monkeys!" …right, no one said as much.

Even a cursory read of Marx/Engels/Lenin would clarify a lot of the points in this ignorant "article."

I found this to be a "lite" version of the various filters and lenses discussed in:

Herman/Chomsky's "Five Filters" from Manufacturing Consent

https://chomsky.info/consent01/

Parenti's Inventing Reality

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673719.Inventing_Reality

Most of my family are now jobless. Many of them now can't afford necessary medication due to that fact.

My state's pandemic unemployment insurance site launched in May with gross security issues and had to be shut down. Thousands of workers and freelancers have yet to receive their first check.

My sister-in-law and her husband both came down with COVID and lost their jobs. They have three kids and now my partner and I are helping them financially (which we really can't afford to do).

There isn't a food shortage because corporations are forcing migrant laborers into the warehouses to work, and they're being infected and dying in higher proportions. Martyrs for the meat industry (Tyson's profits were up 600% Q1). There are human costs to "stock market is fine."

I personally am down thousands of dollars helping my friends/family/neighbors with their groceries and rents. My "rainy day fund" has long been drained and my one nest-egg land asset is probably a few months away from having to be sold to continue supporting my loved ones.

The state is on track to open schools in a couple of weeks. A recent study shows that closing schools can reduce the mortality rate per month by 58%; this research is being ignored in the name of profits. Business leaders and their cronies in the state are pushing for this to get parents out of the home and into work.

My more-rural family members flat-out refuse to wear masks and have already proclaimed that they will not take the vaccine should one become available.

You may be right that this isn't a "nation toppler," but nations are far more resilient than people. I'm happy for you that this isn't affecting you. Consider yourself lucky.

Like Operation Earnest Voice?

…that doesn't mean they don't. Pregnant women are routinely handcuffed while giving birth. If you want to see the peak in inhumane treatment of prisoners, go to any American prison south of the Mason–Dixon. Forced feeding, solitary confinement, executions, no foreign investigations (the US won't let the UN inspect American prisons), single-ingredient dietary plans as punishment – I've seen a lot of it working with a local prison abolitionist group for the last few years.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/shackled-pre...

https://www.pix11.com/news/coronavirus/rikers-inmate-with-co...

https://www.aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/solitary-confinem...

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/force-feeding-pris...

I got very excited to see someone who hasn't heard of the Space Shuttle. It's quite the feat of engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/07/the-history-of-the...

Please don't let the bad-faith "China bad" idiocy leak here from Reddit.

So glad to see this comment here. The entire time I was reading that I kept thinking, "I need to google this guy, he's clearly got skin in the game."

Same. Headphone jack, the internals of an iPhone 7, tiny form-factor, best design (IMO) – they can pry my iPhone SE out of my cold, dead hands.

China's government is not Marxist in any sense of the word. And it could hardly be considered to be communist unless you're willing to accept self-applied labels. From the article:

“The government is scared because the domestic contradictions are growing,” Michael said. “Once you study Marxism, you know real socialism and China’s so-called socialism with Chinese characteristics are two different things. They sell fascism as socialism, like a street vendor passes off dog meat as lamb.”

I agree, that was a fantastic comment.

I love File>New'ing a project. A blank canvas inspires me and I can see the possibilities, but my coworker can't imagine anything yet is able to improve greatly on extant concepts. And yet another friend can do neither, but is great at being disciplined and pruning/maintaining a codebase.

It's not as bad as it looks – he clarifies the situation in later tweets:

"The region you choose on the setup assistant will stay unchanged untill [sic] you reinstall the OS. I saw users who bought the Chinese model set the initial region to elsewhere, thus 🇹🇼 is properly displayed on their Mac and the 10.14.4 upgrade won’t affect them."

"So again there's no hardware lock. It has nothing to do with T2 chips. The only thing that changed is the mechanism macOS use to detect regions. You are still in control of your China model Macbooks."

https://twitter.com/thisboyuan/status/1111545977624621056