It's that, but mostly it's the same move as the tobacco guys: delay as much as possible, sow fear, uncertainty, doubt, maximize every penny you can from the stock returns and buybacks, and when the enemy finally triumphs, demand compensation.
I get that, but I was that nerd shoved in lockers, and while the Midwest was decent, in the south it was far worse because I wasn't white.
The south tolerated those assholes a lot, and they were extremely ignorant, and their ignorance was a source of pride for them.
I don't want to demean the Midwestern red staters in any way, other than they clearly follow the wrong person, but the south is following moloch, their literal antichrist, out of hatred of others, and I'm fine holding them in contempt for that because it's no better than I would expect for them.
Also, they scream and scream about a Bible they've never read, and I say that as someone who went to catholic school, they thought I was lying like I said I memorized the phone book.
Last month, Ko said that the goal of the forum is to jointly build the “Chinese dream,” as “the two sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one family” and “people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese of the same race and speak the same language,” a Central News Agency report said.
They are the same race, and I am tired of your pathetic at a racist view in what is clearly a political issue, that's bigotry, plain and simple!
I am once again asking you to explain why an economy that is over 50% publicly owned and managed, around 10% cooperatively managed, and the remaing private sector has CPC control, is Capitalist. Read Socialism Developed China, Not Capitalism.
Private firms contribute approximately 60% of China’s GDP, 70% of its innovative capacity, 80% of urban employment and 90% of new jobs.
I read das capital it had value as a lens to interpret historical narratives.
It's also 150 years old, and every attempt to follow it's principles has ended in complete disaster, often starvation or other forms of genocide, because while it models the collective selfishness of the rich, it WHOLLY fails to model the individual, as his focus on the collective (which was quite popular in the 1800s, as a vague attempt to "Darwinize" and model sociology in terms of group motives) collapses instantly when confronted with modern systems analysis and game theory which shows exactly how people actually behave in groups, selfishly and often without thought of others.
This is why it fails, every time, at the simplest attempt.
You need something that takes into account individualism, which Marx was too early for, if he lived today perhaps he could understand. You're acting like something we tried to figure out before we even imagined the concept of DNA is relevant to our modern world.
Zizek is actually the closest to someone able to understand Marxism in a modern context, but Marx himself is as obsolete as a telegraph machine.
And yet SMIC is gaining on TSMC.
Yes, the founder is Taiwanese (fled the PLA), they bought Chiang Shangyi and other actual talent (in hindsight, maybe you're right about race, the Taiwanese do seem racially superior to mainlanders in every way), and bought the same machines from ASML and others.
It's like me saying I'm gaining on Messi because I got off the couch and bought a ball.
Racism, much? Also not true at all, the mainland has incredibly advanced production because the majority of the world produces there.
That's not racism, they're literally the same race according to everyone including the fucking CCP!!! I know you don't have to worry about facts, but don't be so pathetically transparent.
Also I doubt you've been to China lately, saying they're on the path to Marxism is hilarious, let me guess, the new York stock exchange is the hub of western socialism too?
They've copied us in everything but name, it's a properly capitalist economy, which is why they're doing so well. They even had their own real-estate financing bubble, we're so proud.
All the Healthcare and other improvements are from the west, are you honestly trying to tell me they invented any major medical breakthroughs? Because if they had, we would have copied them, which we haven't. Not a lot of western drugs licensed off China, they stick to copying the low-end.
And SMC is still a decade behind tsmc, no matter how much they cry, they don't have euv in volume or anything on the level of euv, and they were one of the biggest consumers of Nvidia (fabbed in Taiwan with a Taiwanese founder and ceo) until they got cut off.
This is exactly the same mindless propaganda the Soviet union tried to spread, you need to get better.
It means the nerds you shoved in lockers who learned to read and now have successful lives while you scrape by trying to make alimony at a job that would pay a living wage if you didn't live in a right to work state.
The revolutions in China, Cuba, and Russia brought huge increases in life expectancy, literacy rates, access to healthcare and education, housing rates, and more.
The revolution in China brought a catastrophic wave of death.
Meanwhile the same people across the channel had incredible prosperity without the 50m dead from the GLP and CR, while inventing incredible technologies the mainlanders can't even understand, much less copy like everything else.
China is absolutely crippled by the genocidal failed regime that is the CCP. They're only prospering now because Deng is a proper capitalist, and that's where the life expectancy comes from:
Mao was the only proper communist, and he just got everybody killed because he was a complete idiot. I'm sorry your ideology is so transparently broken.
And the Soviet union did well at first because Lenin relaxed communism in favor of partial capitalism, which Stalin reversed and killed millions in his purges, leading to the Holodomor and other catastrophic failures, which brezvhnev repeated and lead to the failure of the ussr.
Nothing but failures all the way down.
But thank you, for actually identifying with both China and the ussr, you make it much easier to prove you obviously wrong compared to the whiny little shits who dream of an ideal communism that never actually happens.
I do believe revolution is necessary for Humanity to move forward,
Everybody believes in revolution, their revolution, and if you follow them they promise you'll get everything you ever wanted:
The American revolution is one of the few that actually worked out, and it just transfered power from England to the new ruling elite landowners in America.
What works is everyone organizing and showing unity, revolution just shuffles the deck so the new leaders can declare victory while learning to walk on their hind legs.
The Midwest was conservative, but mostly in the ornery 'bah, leave me alone!!!' kind of way that hates big gubbermint while complaining when their subsidy checks are late.
The south was mother fucking insane. It was clear the only thing holding them back from going full Christian Sharia was fear of the federal government, again while cashing every federal check they could and basically living off welfare. They were the only 'REAL AMERICANS!!!' according to them, and the fact that I was born here just meant that I was a really sneaky illegal coming to take their jobs they weren't willing to work.
I'm so glad I managed to escape, but it always feels like they're trying to follow me out of their shithole to destroy the good parts of this country.
It's that, but mostly it's the same move as the tobacco guys: delay as much as possible, sow fear, uncertainty, doubt, maximize every penny you can from the stock returns and buybacks, and when the enemy finally triumphs, demand compensation.