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  • Several countries have overlapping claims, but for some reason Westerners are only interested in China’s claims, because Western media has one specific narrative it wants to tell. Maybe Westerners should mind their own business and let countries on the other side of the world sort out their own disputes.

    You’re forgetting to tell the commenter previously, these islands were previously occupied by France and Japan,
    one colonizer kicked out of Asia and the other being the loser of world war II.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlThey do be like that
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    No. You need lots of energy/electricity to economically grow and the US has fossil fuels in abundance,
    especially coal, but it’s very high in the other two sectors as well.
    Despite that, the Soviet Union managed to grow much faster with much less, same with China.
    But the Soviet Union doesn’t have much coal and natural gas didn’t become big and cheap
    until the turn of the millennium.
    And coal has been very important in the 20th century as that provides cheap electricity, while oil mainly provides cheap transportation. The problem with oil is that it’s also easy to transport itself, so as a country like Saudi Arabia which has no coal and only oil, there’s a large chance that it will get stolen from any countries with massive coal deposits and even a larger chance for the oil to be sold by a tiny group of elites of that country to countries with massive coal deposits.

    The US, despite its absolutely massive fossil fuel deposits compared to the rest of the world,
    started to falter in the early 1970s as they had an internal oil peak, crashing their economy.
    The Soviet Union was thriving, but still had a long way to catch up as it had been a monarchy up until the early 20th century,
    plus setbacks from invasions by Germany who put all their weight on the Soviet Union and still lost.
    The US then blackmailed Saudi Arabia just in time and was able to prop up their system and even thrive
    by forcing Saudi Arabia to invest into the US or be invaded. It allowed the US to go into massive debts without worry.
    The same happened to other oil producing nations.

    It’s the US whose underlying institutional failures are showing right now.
    China has risen in the 20th century because it’s expensive coal became cheap enough over time, as all the cheaper coal had been used up. Russia managed to regain some of its power with natural gas.

    But since the early 2020s solar power has become the energy/electricity rising star and solar power is far more evenly distributed than fossil fuels.
    There’s no blackmail scheme stopping this and we’re already seeing China haven taken a giant lead in solar power, wind power and battery storage, while the US is trying to instigate a civil war while trying to ban wind power and attempting to go from blackmail to direct oil theft.






  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlEvergreen meme
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    The Chinese protesters hanged and burned unarmed military police who were ordered to sing them out of the of the square like pied pipers, which worked as they did so even during the insurrection.
    They had no intention to kidnapping or murdering anyone and came in unarmed, until over a hundred military men had been burned to death on “the tank man street”.
    The Chinese military police shot and killed all the terrorists and evacuated the peaceful protesters.

    What the Chinese government can be faulted for was that they did the same Biden Jan 6th order to send in the military with the same instructions:
    Show up on “Capitol Hill and surroundings / Tianenmen Square” in time or be tried for treason.
    Use force on people blocking your way.

    For Jan 6th 2020 insurrection this resulted into 0 protesters dead as everyone fled the moment they heard of the US military coming.
    For the June 4th 1989 insurrection it turned to over a 100 protesters dead as they were protesting far from the “tank man street” or even the square and did not believe that there even was an insurrection going on. Most of these deaths were caused by a single incident where the military and protesters were quarreling on who had the priority on taking public transportation.


  • Ah yes.
    The infamous “they” who control everything.
    But what “they” who control “they”, who are really in control of the lights in your room and the lights you’re trying to check?
    What if there’s an infinite amount of “theys” all the way down that by mathematical logic leads to myself?
    What if the interview being held and the question being asked wasn’t meant to test me, but to test you?
    What then?





  • What about trying to figure out first what the other two buttons do? Maybe they turn on the light of the room you’re in. And I can see light without entering a room right? Just open the door, no need to enter it. If not allowed, look at the foot of the door or try to see if the room has a window.

    No need to buy fancy equipment or even go into the room at all.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAm I wrong??
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    Oh, so the bigger issue was whether or not to trust the peasantry, as they were not the labourers Marx thought would come to overthrow the capitalist system, more so than national socialism versus world government socialism?

    If so, thank you for making me learn something new.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlEmpire propaganda is ahelluvadrug
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    No, it makes it okay for a foreign country to invade with just cause when there was…

    1. A coup
    2. The next election was won through the popularity of a tv series, where the election winner played president on tv. This was not a coincidence.
    3. It became very clear that the policies of these two presidents that it would completely isolate Ukraine from Russia, despite half of Ukraine being Russian and the other half semi-Russian.
    4. This upset parts of Ukraine that have deep economic ties with Russia so much, that they declared independence of Ukraine to join Russia, starting with Crimea.
    5. This in turn was painted by US/UK media as aggressive annexation by Putin.
    6. It also became clear that Zelensky wanted to join the EU at all costs.
    7. This concerned Russia as the EU doesn’t seem to be independent of NATO policy and having nukes placed close to Russia’s border aimed at Moscow in areas where xx% of the population would consider themselves Russian wanting to join Russia is considered a nightmare scenario for Russia if separatist conflict would be taking place there.
    8. Russia then made negotiations with Ukraine to address both concerns and Ukraine did not uphold their part of the agreement. This happened twice and in both cases this ended up with military victory for Russia and the separatist areas.
    9. Russia also negotiated with NATO, since NATO was supplying Ukraine with arms to end this conflict and it became clear that NATO and the EU were pushing Ukraine to further the conflict.
    10. At this point Russia decided that it was time to act before things would get further out of control, showing Ukraine’s president that they were willing to wage war in order to prevent high otential nuclear conflict, by doing a small flash invasion, while preparing for world war III.
    11. Ukraine’s president then flipped, saying he was willing to take the situation serious, but then flopped when UK’s former prime minister came to visit him telling Zelensky that NATO was prepared to fully support Ukraine with whatever military equipment he needed.

  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlVictims of Communism
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    There are also victims of Jews.

    When OP criticizes “Mein Kampf” for it’s ridiculously demonizing claims against this group of people by saying that these “Victims of Jews” mentioned in the book were warmongering imperialists, then it doesn’t mean that OP is concealing true victims made by Jews.



  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAvatar III is out.
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    I don’t understand how this is exactly military propaganda either, but I do see an argument for dichitomy in it.

    Imagine living in the middle ages and you crave to read a book that goes against feudalism, especially the theocratic kind, because you know that the system is corrupt but you can’t quite put your finger on it how or offer an alternative, so you’re searching an answer and then you finally find a book that criticizes Christianity, the dominant religion of your area. Hurray! And what does the book contain? Why a praise for a satanic society of course, because ‘that’s what anti-feudalism is all about when you are against a system where the most military crafty person is being regarded as the one sent by god to rule over you.’

    In this story, the Na’vi are portrayed as naïve. It’s in the name.
    Their society isn’t better in terms of economics without resorting to imperialism, but that they’re “more in contact with nature”, by having a more primitive society.

    But because they’re more primitive, they need a big strong human man to protect them and the hottest hottie will fall head over heels for him, bonus points if she previously was the strongest warrior’s girlfriend and he’ll have to endure from sidelines how he gets cuckolded by our insert-All-Anglo-American hero (not sure if that happens in Avatar, I’ve only seen #2)