SSJMarx

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[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I imagine they might vote differently now, lmao.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

The Whiskey Rebellion was a response to taxation that unfairly targeted the rural poor. George Washington crushed it.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the FSB couldn’t find any Nazis for the livestreams

Brother, there isn't a single picture of a single Ukranian military unit taken in the past ten years where somebody isn't wearing a fascist symbol of some kind. The reason the SMU stretched on is much more material - the Russian leadership greatly overestimated their military's capabilities.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's because the so-called "subsidies" from the Chinese government are much more than the "subsidies" wielded by the American government. In America a subsidy amounts to throwing money and tax breaks at corporations and asking them to make something with it - but Chinese subsidies are direct investments, with the government controlling how the money is spent and staying involved every step of the way. That's why they turn so reliably into increased production and reduced prices while our own subsidies tend to turn into stock buybacks.

There's really no practical reason why the US couldn't adopt a similar industrial policy - imagine going to GM/Ford/Chevy and paying them to build new EV factories in Detroit, directly overseeing the whole process from start to finish, and leaving behind government representatives at all levels of the factories' operation - but the reason we don't do it is pretty much purely ideological.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago

5 - it’s just imperialism. They want to control more territory, so they do

Your definition of imperialism is straight out of the 3rd century BC, comrade.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hyper focusing on the 11- or 9-dash line is a lie by omission. China's usage of and claims to the area predate the Republic of China too, and are established in multiple treaties signed by the Qing with colonialist powers, which is what I was referring to. Like it or not the PRC is the successor government to the ROC even though the ROC still exists in Taiwan, that's why the PRC eventually took over the UN security council seat, and because of that by precedent the PRC inherits the ROC's territorial claims, who inherited them from the Qing.

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