Getting the what now?

Measuring the percentage of private vs state ownership of the means of production isn’t going to tell you whether that state is a capitalist one or a socialist one. The salient question is, which economic class wields the power of the state to suppress the other class? Socialism isn’t a slider bar, it’s a matter of political power in the class war.

Previously:

The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

In fact the Epstein class wants you to be miseducated about capitalism. They have class consciousness and want that we don’t.

Eating, and American football.

They don’t even know socialism exists in the US.

You don’t know that it doesn’t and never has.

The International Caucasian Court exists to put global justice at risk by selectively targeting Global South states

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg said it first

let’s we not forget 🙃

Columbo. You kids wouldn’t understand.

You’re going about this all wrong. Morality is similar to religion in that it’s make-believe. Good vs. evil discourse is unserious, despite most people in bourgeois states taking it seriously, as well as corporate media.

Previously:

This “evil/not evil” metaphysical dichotomy is a moral framework. There are no intrinsically ”evil” people, and I would drop that moral framework.

Philosophy professor and YouTuber Hans-Georg Moeller:

• Why Sam Harris is Wrong - A Critique of Sam Harris’ “The Moral Landscape”
• If Morality Exists Everything Is Permitted. (Q&A)
• Hans-Georg Moeller - The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality

Sure, as long as you insist on misdefining exploitation in that way, then by your self-serving definition, modern China is just as exploitative as the imperial core.

That’s the definition the imperial core wants to promote, because if they can’t look good, they can at least claim that their enemy is just as bad. But the majority of the world isn’t buying the hogwash that the always the same map minority is pushing.

Somehow you’re still ignoring how those Euro-American exchanges occurred under duress, at the point of a gun.

Buying raw materials at a freely-agreed upon price, and then applying labor to them to create a finished good, is not exploitation. No one was coerced into anything.

Where are China’s guns? In China. The US has over 800 overseas military installations, while China has one, an anti-piracy port in Djibouti.

If systemd is running, as it is on the great majority of distributions, then cron is running on top of it, as just another service. It’s not an either-or situation.

Country X importing from country Y doesn’t magically equate to country X exploiting country Y. Exploitation is a matter of unequal exchange, and not every exchange is unequal. Exchanges coerced through classical imperialism or through neoliberal debt trap peonage are unequal.

China isn’t exploiting anyone. You really need to start questioning what your own empire accuses its enemies of. Previously:

• The Atlantic, 2021: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
• Jason Hickel, 2026: Is China doing “colonialism” in Africa?
• Deborah Brautigam, 2019: A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: the rise of a meme
• 📺 Michael Hudson & Radikha Desai, 2024: The truth about China’s economy: Debunking Western media myths

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Capitalism with a larger social safety net is still capitalism, and it relies on the exploitation of workers in the Global South to function. As the Global North’s capacity to imperialize the Globe South deteriorates, so too does its ability to bribe its own workers at home with treats.

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You never want to let a good crisis go to waste.

It’s maybe comparable with the development on Lemmy. Many of the so-called ‘tankies’ are very young, often in their teenage years, with a vulnerable social background (read the posts and comments in the .ml comms). These people needed help to develop their personalities, but are exploited instead by a brutal propaganda machine that makes them parrot its disinformation.

cool story bro