The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Still no worse than the worst of the male grifters.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.

Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

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

In this case “national security” means ensuring US intelligence affiliated companies have full access to control over everything people do with internet connected devices.

To be fair, it’s not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is “imminent collapse!!!”

I remember a sales meeting at work where the sales manager said something like “sales in China are doing well for now, but we never know what they’re going to do to make doing business harder.” I had to keep in a laugh.

Private property.

Inb4 Deutsche Bahn blames their legions of unforced own goals on ,rUSsiaN hÄcKeRs.

Varoufakis is just one of many people who have come up with fancy new terms for capitalism and imperialism. It’s not to say that he doesn’t have an important perspective on some things, but coming up with new terms for things defined over a century ago only serves to distract.

Private property.

Geopolitical Economy Report did two long video discussions on China’s growth last month which are worth watching if you’re interested.

In short, yes. China can keep up about a 5% average annual growth rate. Because capital is controlled by the state, and the state invests in developing the means of production and improving people’s quality of life, China is indeed capable of achieving their development goals.

Interestingly enough, just as the decade or so of near ten percent annual growth was planned and achieved, the recent deceleration to about five percent growth was also planned.

Russia would revive the conflict because western libs project all of their own faults onto the enemy of the day.

If we want to exclude athletes from international competition just because the ruling class in the country they happen to have been born in undertakes military action, that’s fine. We just have to be consistent about it. I’d like to see athletes from the US, Isreal, UK, France, Canada, and many other countries treated the same way the west is currently treating Russian and Belorussian athletes.

Cixin Liu. Not only is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (Three Body Problem) epic, his short stories are really fun reads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzcL3jhb5Y

Happy April Fools!

The DDR truly was something special. Didn’t they even start before the 1980s with LGBT rights and medical care?

That is reasonable from the perspective of the US ruling class though. They are fascist. Anti-fascism presents a threat to their interests.

They need a false flag to go into Ukraine because that’s how NATO would do it - a false flag or atrocity propaganda. Westoids are only capable of projection.