Absolutely, every time I’ve tried to “debunk” a lie that someone’s bought into it comes off as saying that “China can do no wrong”. I don’t think anyone is receptive to that message. Mentioning specific good things that they’re doing and focusing on what we can learn from communist nations is much more palatable.
I’ve had this essay bookmarked for a couple weeks now, I should probably actually go read it 😅
I started with some of the conditions included with IMF & World Bank loans. Mentioned that anything that prioritized self-reliance is discouraged, the effects of aid on local agriculture. Specifically called out Sankara & Burkina Faso since I knew that he refused aid and under his leadership living conditions were improving before he was couped. His successor accepted IMF loans and immediately fucked the economy.
They’re sovereign nations that keep picking China, if we want to reduce China’s soft power the only thing we can do is offer better terms than them.
I also mentioned the quote “Every time the China comes, we get a hospital. Every time Britain comes, we get a lecture.”
Then from there talked about how the media reports on these issues. When China builds that hospital it might be reported to enslave the local economy, whereas IMF loans with absurd terms are reported as giving money away for economic development.
I was chatting about this with family over the Holidays. Some of them were saying shit like “China is enslaving the African people”. Didn’t have all the receipts to dunk but managed to turn the conversation towards western media bias in reporting. Also specifically mentioned that over half of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada and discussed how unequal exchange works.
Will be sharing this article with them, thanks! :)
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Yes, but the cities they live in are designed to support car infrastructure instead of being walkable / having adequate public transit. Cities are designed in this way to serve the interests of the wealthy.
The wealthy are the architects of the system we live in, and they resist any desire for change with all the power at their disposal. The disinformation they spread with media outlets they own, the lobbying to reduce regulation, outsourcing, etc. all play far more of a factor than your average persons agency.
Not benevolence at all. Workers had significant extra pressure when the ruling elite were worried about communism spreading. Now with union membership at historic lows, and government unafraid to side with capital, western workers have very little bargaining power.
Good read if you haven’t already come across it :) https://redsails.org/concessions/
I’d personally not do this considering the monthly costs of keeping a pet in stasis could be redirected to anything else and it seems to me that the technology is far enough out I probably won’t live to see it.
Additionally you have to trust that the company you’ve chosen will remain solvent long enough for the technology to reanimate them from stasis.
Not trying to be a bummer, but they’re important aspects to consider.
I think framing it as “american media is afraid of Israel’s wrath” is getting things a bit backwards.
Yes, the whole US media ecosystem runs cover for Israel. However it’s not because Israel has any real power over western media, it’s because the US government supports Israel.
Israel only has power because they’re a proxy of the US.
He’s from the game Team Fortress 2. He doesn’t represent anything in particular, he’s just a funny beloved character :)
You can search for “meet the heavy” on YouTube to see the official character concept video.
nohup redirects output from your terminal to a file. worth a shot
The closest analogy I can think of is Malcom X’s words on house slaves and field slaves.
There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes-they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good because they ate his food what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master’s house-quicker than the master would. If the master said, “We got a good house here,” the house Negro would say, “Yeah, we got a good house here.” Whenever the master said “we,” he said “we.” That’s how you can tell a house Negro.
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And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,” the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?” That was that house Negro.
– “Malcom X speaks” p. 10-11
I hesitate to directly equate chattel slavery to comfortable white collar westerners, but it seems relevant to the question of why wealthy proles would act against their own class interest. There is this brain-worm burrowed deep that shouts “Where is there a better house than this?”, “Where can I eat better food than this?”, “Where can I get more treats than this?”.
Looks great! How did you finish the edge?
They even do AI slop better than us 😭😭😭
The pain and destruction is caused by fascism, not by his intelligence. If he was “more intelligent”, he would not cause less pain or destruction.
In practice I’ve noticed very little difference between cachy & other distros in terms of performance.
I think it’s mostly convenience & marketing. I’ve run most mainstream distros and cachy definitely worked “out of the box” for gaming. I don’t think it’s worth swapping for if you’re already using Linux.
Nothing wrong with cachy, I just don’t think there’s any special magic I’ve noticed that sets it apart from arch.
Thank you for the example! I’ll look into it :)