There should be substantial financial and social help given to families that want to have children, and they should get more help the more children they have.
(But to balance that out with a left wing policy, i also want free contraception for everyone who doesn’t want children.)
Russiagate truly broke the brains of liberals.
The article claims that this is because China supposedly doesn’t care as much about the environment as European countries do. In reality the opposite is the case. China is the only major industrialized economy in the world on track to hit its climate goals, and it has undertaken enormous investments into green energy. As even the article admits, China basically manufactures most of the solar panels and many of the components that go into the windmills that Europe uses and that the world needs for a green transition. Not only that but the use of EVs is more widespread now in China than virtually any other country in the world. They are literally everywhere in China. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that China is at the forefront of cutting edge nuclear energy development and has invested huge sums into building hydroelecric power.
Absolute gigachad.
A lackluster party is better than no party. Collective organizing is essential. Individualism is liberal and bourgeois.
“We’re coming home!” Crimea celebrates after 97% vote for joining Russia
“We came back home to Mother Russia. We came back home, Russia is our home”
96.77% of Crimeans vote to re-unite with Russia
“We are going home, Crimea is going to Russia”, said the republic’s prime minister
Majority of Crimea citizens one year after referendum do not regret joining Russia
Crimea celebrates 2 years since historic referendum to rejoin Russia
Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since
The Majority of Crimeans Are Still Glad for Their Annexation:
“it is incontrovertible that most […] Crimean residents welcomed joining Russia. Numerous polls at the time of the annexation and in its immediate aftermath revealed broad support for joining Russia”
“Crimea’s annexation in 2014 gave residents grounds for optimism, with a majority of Crimeans hopeful that their lives would change for the better.”
“The majority of Crimeans do not experience Russian rule as oppressive, alien, or unwelcome. Instead, based on the evidence of our surveys, they are reasonably happy to be living in Putin’s Russia.”
—Foreign Affairs Magazine, official publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, arch-imperialist US neocon think tank
No offense comrade but this reads like a MAGA fever dream. It’s all wildly unrealistic and detached from the realm of what is possible in reality given how international trade actually works. It also vastly overestimates the US’s capabilities. The Europeans couldn’t even properly decouple their energy from Russia, but the US is going to decouple from China? Lol. No. Not happening. You don’t just rebuild entire industries and supply chains overnight. If the economy crashes it’s not going to be a magic ticket to re-industrialization, it’s going to be complete pandemonium and things will spiral very badly, very fast. This isn’t some 5D chess move, it’s a bluff with a very mediocre hand.
At this point you could make quite a lucrative business sitting in a 10% tariff country buying goods from China and reselling them to the US.
Yeah it’s a total scam. The US can just print infinite dollars while other countries give them actual physical goods. And they have the gall to complain that they’re the ones being taken advantage of!
So fuck it, let them impose all the tariffs they want, they’ll just be accelerating the process of global de-dollarization by doing so. China will find other buyers, the US won’t find another China to make all their shit, and they won’t bring back manufacturing to the US either, that’s structurally impossible.
China buys US treasury bonds, which are sort of like loaning the US money, since they pay interest. Except that the reason why China does this in the first place is because they get too many US dollars from selling the US so much shit in the first place. And because they can’t use those dollars to buy much from the US in return because the US doesn’t produce very much that China wants or needs. So Vance’s logic is backwards here, it’s actually China that gives the US a ton of stuff and in return gets glorified IOU papers.
China should be the ones calling it unfair. It’s the US that’s leaching off of productive economies like China (and Europe, before we decided to commit economic Seppuku by cutting ourselves off from cheap energy and thereby destroying our productive industries).
Don’t insult peasants. Peasants are awesome.
And we deserve everything that’s coming to us.
No, i should have made that clearer in the post.
You’re missing the point. And no, i don’t support “intellectual property”. But whether or not i support something doesn’t make that thing not real. We have to engage with reality as it exists, and that’s what China is doing.
Trigger warning: if you speak Chinese you will probably cringe at the pronunciation of Chinese province names in this video.
Lazy copypasta. Please come up with your own comments.
You are misunderstanding. This post is a repost from the Revolution Report. They are the ones pointing out the presence of pro-NATO elements in this protest.
I don’t know if you remember school, but there is a bonkers amount of rote memorisation, and there’s a limited amount of “how to think” you can teach a classroom of 30-40 kids who are mostly checked out.
I had the benefit of experiencing two different school systems. One in a formerly socialist Eastern European country and one in a Western European one. Of course times change and i’m sure by now it’s different that it was even two to three decades ago, but from my experience there is some truth to the statement that there was more rote memorization in the eastern educational system.
I wouldn’t say this was always a bad thing though, because in many subjects the results produced by that system were objectively better. Students not only fared much better in international math and sciences competitions (where it’s definitely not all about simple memorization but often about solving new and quite complex problems that you have never encountered before), but also generally students were at least one, maybe even two years ahead in many subjects over their western counterparts, at least until you get to the university level where things become much more equalized.
As for the western educational system “teaching how to think”, maybe in theory, but in practice from my experience what this usually resulted in is a lot of “unconventional” teaching methods (a lot of props and group work, the latter being very bad at getting everyone to actually engage with the material) that could be frustrating and even confusing for some students. Some of these methods worked while some were a complete waste of time.
And also there was a lot of “i won’t tell you what to do, you have to figure it out for yourselves” which ended with a lot of students just giving up and never actually learning how to do something because they couldn’t get there on their own and the teacher wouldn’t take the time to properly explain and do demonstrations themselves of how it’s done because that was considered too “traditional” of a teaching method, and the class would eventually just move on to the next thing.
Also, in the more “humanities” oriented subjects there is a lot of refusal to just give a straight up “this is the correct answer”, which again can be confusing for a lot of students and end up with them finishing the class without having actually learned anything concrete. In general there is a lot less factual information that is imparted on students in the western educational system. I probably knew more historical facts from early childhood schooling in eastern Europe than i learned in all my years in a western European school.
The western system relies on students being motivated to go further on their own initiative, which frankly is simply not the case most of the time. Even the best and most motivated students often want to do other things after school than more voluntary school work that goes beyond your assigned homework. The result of this is that when you go to university you often find that you have serious gaps and a lot of catching up to do to even get to the level that is expected of first years, whereas you don’t see this problem in international students coming from certain other countries that still have a more “old fashioned” system. Again, this depends, it’s not always the case, but more often than not, it can be.
This is not to say that there aren’t some advantages to the western system, i can’t speak to higher education in the humanities for instance, so maybe there are certain skills there that are better developed in this system (though judging by the state of “economics” and “political science” in the West, i’m not even sure that’s true). And maybe some students do feel more comfortable with this style rather than the “traditional” one. But overall i don’t think it’s enough to say that it’s a superior system, especially in the hard sciences.
Ah, that’s too bad. No i haven’t archived it, but the main text of the post is basically the entire text of the thread in the linked tweet. I only added the italicized bit at the top, the rest is the original thread’s text copy pasted.