um, yes it is.

Bill who?

I assume you meant decent. Prime has always been substandard. They are indeed a descent service gliding right down into the enshittification cesspool.

I did forget. 2 out of 78.

Which is basically an accounting issue. We could produce all the stuff we need with a smaller workforce, but that would squeeze a lot of profit out of the production system. Simply put billionaires would suffer. Without an ever increasing consumer population there is the horror of degrowth.

well the Japanese Liberal Party has exclusively ruled Japan since WWII, and it might as well be considered a one party authoritarian state with a facade of democratic legitimacy. But yes, not strictly speaking fascist.

GTFO Shitter.

Eh. That’s a no true Scotsman fallacy. Also the christian religion has been authoritarian at least since it became the atate religion of the roman empire back ion the 4th century.

ya see it wasn’t about slavery, it was about enforcement of slaver property rights. Not seeing the difference is reductionism. /s

Dred Scott was still in effect in 1860. The federal government was not involved AT ALL in enforcement of slaver’s ‘property rights’ in non-slave states, that enforcement was up to the states, and was generally done by bounty hunters. The election of Lincoln, with the almost certain consequence that Kansas would be admitted as a free state, was the proximate cause of South Carolina’s secession. Slavery was obviously the critical factor, regardless of the enforcement or non-enforcement of Scott.

From now on I’m calling it Foot Football. That other game is Hand Football.

As far as the PRC is concerned Taiwan has always been part of the PRC. That was the point. The Taiwan policy of the PRC hasn’t changed.

The PRC has always maintained that Taiwan is part of China and will be eventually incorporated back into PRC. (The ROC had the same position, but with respect to the mainland until 1991.) Taiwan was in fact part of China from 1683 until the Japanese started their imperial colonization of China and Korea, taking Taiwan in 1895. It would be news and a really big deal if the PRC stopped making that claim.

By equitable I meant ‘equitable for everyone’ not equitable for only the people of the core of the empire.

A degrowth society has to be an equitable society. Otherwise your criticism is entirely valid.

We are going to have a degrowth system regardless of any policy decisions, as the current growth system is burning through critical resources and destroying the environment. We can either plan for this, or we can have an unplanned existential civilizational crisis.

What the flying fuck was she supposed to do with that mess?

Both parties are the same!

And whenever they have control, more tax cuts for the rich.

The 5G bullshit started because Huawei was ahead of everyone else in 5G tech. First the Obama administration, then Trump, then Biden all attempted to cripple Huawei’s ability to produce 5g commodities in order to protect the development of domestic production.

What is remarkable is how quickly the US discarded the ‘free trade’ pillar of its neoliberal ideology as a competitive threat to a critical technology emerged. The actual ideological principal is hegemony, not ‘free trade’.

So I assume the fascist knobs will initiate a law suit to block this.