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“This type of thing — local authorities levying extra fines and taxes on companies — is happening every day and it’s hurting morale,” said an economics professor in Beijing who wished to remain anonymous.

Lmfao! Cry harder plz. Muh freedums!

The way they’re trying to frame these companies cheating on their taxes, as if the government is the bad one for not letting them get away with it. My brain is melting 🫠

Based weather app! Death to Fahrenheit!

If you’re into this sort of thing

I am to a degree. I’m particularly drawn to essays critical of bourgeois class collaborators who larp in the mainstream media as leftists such as Zizek.

the anti-Chomskÿng ☭

This feels like the turning point for Firefox that we all feared would come. They’ve now switched to outright gas lighting their users. They’re trying to convince us that if they take a stab at doing ads the right way, that we can have a web filled with tolerable ads that work for both the user and the business.

Ads and user data collection are the worst part of the internet. Nothing has ever gotten better because of them. And there’s already far too much focus in this area. Mozilla just wants to be another exploiter so that they can have a piece of the stolen value pie.

Lol

It’s war. You can call it that. It doesn’t change any of the points in the comment that you’re replying to. Of course they won’t change your mind either because, youre just a racist troll.

Holy shit. We’re back to this? Do you also think that the ghost of Kiev will lead the Ukranazis to victory?

There have been calls for the opposition to provide their “evidence” of electoral fraud, but they won’t, because it doesn’t exist. Of course, the western media skips over this entirely and immediately places the burden of evidence on Maduro’s party. Guilty until proven innocent is an important Amerikkkan value, after all.

Lol, LMao even

Most of the world agrees that:

1. There is only one China
2. Taiwan is a part of China
3. The Communist Party of China is the legitimate recognized government of China

So what’s the problem here?

These libs are so used to having stopped caring about a war 8 years before it’s lost that they don’t even recognize what losing a war looks like. They think they can copium their way into Ukraine getting better terms.

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.

Final guess: 11ty?

The problem with liberal democracies isn’t that representatives are elected, its who those politicians represent. It’s not the working class, except when it is and those politicians get Salvador Allende’d 💀.