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All I know about the Carter’s tenure w/r/t neoliberalism was Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker. The Fed is basically the cartel of US private banks, largely independent of the government, so I’m not sure how much I’d attribute the Volcker shock to Carter. Not to lionize the guy, as he is a war criminal[1][2].
What’s the point of asking what the point is?
Anything and everything goes.
I’m old enough to remember one of the first salvos of the neoliberal era we’re still living through. 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike
The PATCO Strike of 1981 was a union-organized labor strike of air traffic controllers (ATCs). Following a decade of successful strikes in other industries, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) declared a strike on August 3, 1981, demanding higher wages and more benefits. Despite 13,000 ATCs striking, the strike ultimately failed, as the Reagan administration was quickly able to replace the striking ATCs. As a result, PATCO was decertified, and the decline in labor unions in the United States increased.
I wouldn’t recommend trying to trick people into caring about their privacy: it’s not good for your reputation or your long-term relationship with them.
I simply ask them if they would be OK with a company taking money out their bank account.
This is as unconvincing an analogy as 
, and for the same reason.
Nobody needs to force state machines on me. I’ve been addicted to them ever since my CS classes covering language theory.
If that’s what you jump to, you might want to introspect on that. They’re not savages for being xenophobic, that just makes them human like the rest of us.
You are the one saying that they are xenophobic, and I reject your racist, orientalist, essentialist claim. Yours is an idealist position, not a materialist one, yet you’re the one trying to argue that communism as idealist.
It’s not in “China’s nature”, but if they decided to invade in a world that looked like ours today but without the US, there would realistically be nobody to stop them.
You say, “if they decided.” What’s the point of this hypothetical? You’re doing a lot of mental gymnastics to construct a straw man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN
A STRANGE GAME.
THE ONLY WINNING MOVE
IS NOT TO PLAY.
Lovingly hand-prompted to an artisanal LLM.
Either Communism is a realistic political system that can be implemented with humans as we are, including all of our base animal impulses
That is precisely what it is.
or it’s a fantasy that requires humans to achieve a higher level of consciousness first or something.
That is precisely what it is not.
I think there’s ~0% chance you’re interested in understanding dialectical materialism or historical materialism, but I’ll link to this anyway: Elementary principles of philosophy
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules
There is no community rule against calling people on their bullshit, reporter.
Also, we do indeed deny the bullshit “genocide” against the Uyghurs.
Okay, boomer.
China is super xenophobic, like many Asian countries.
Those savages. Yeah, that doesn’t sound racist at all, not orientalist at all. Are you Josep Borell?
If China then decided that they want to finish the job on making the Korean peninsula Chinese, who would realistically stop them?
What are you talking about? Koreans are still in Korea, speaking Korean. If it were in China’s “nature” to make Korea Chinese, then why didn’t they do it at any point over the centuries?
Winnie the Pooh is banned in China
Winnie the Pooh is not banned in China, despite Western propaganda to the contrary.
There’s a reason you can find a lot of Americans talking about how they don’t like the American government, and not a lot of Chinese people saying they don’t like the Chinese government, and it’s not because the Chinese government is perfect.
No government is perfect, but Chinese people like their government a lot more than Americans like theirs for good reason: their material conditions have been steadily improving over the last several decades while ours have been steadily deteriorating under grinding neoliberalism.
For example, here’s George Bush’s chief of staff openly saying that US wants to destabilize the region, and NED recently admitting to funding Uyghur separatism for the past 16 years on their own official Twitter page.
God damn. I didn’t know the quiet parts had become that out loud. These people suck at their jobs.
“This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.” No censorship here, though! 😂 Luckily Archive.org still gotchu:
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Edit to add: I never heard of Factcheck Lab. They’re based out of Hong Kong. Unfortunately I can’t read a lick of Chinese.
You mean that thing that didn’t happen?
Imperialism is human nature, yes.
It is human nature in the sense that humans have been known to do it. It is not human nature in the sense that humans will always do it when the opportunity presents itself.
Are you really trying to argue that Communists can’t be imperialist?
That would be a strange form of communism. Imperialism is, however, baked into capitalism, because once the capitalist class has absorbed the domestic, it tries to exfiltrate new resources abroad and subjugate new labor abroad and access new markets abroad. That is what the UK did, and that is what the US, as the global imperialist hegemon, has been doing for decades, along with its imperial core junior partners.
that’s basic human behavior.
It’s has nothing to do with the material conditions, iT’s JUsT hUmAN NAtUre.
The problem is not human nature, it is imperialism, otherwise known as monopoly capitalism, otherwise known as the highest stage of capitalism. In the time of British hegemony it took the form of colonialism, and in the current time of American hegemony it has taken the form of neocolonialism.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: not programming-related
Reporter has a point.