yogthos

There's zero connection between these two things.

I mean we can just not invest in the Us and diversify trade. The US investment in Canada has no ditect relation to Canadian investment into US.

British media, in particular, has been making some hilariously hamfisted attempts to draw a connection

• https://news.sky.com/story/i-still-would-like-to-meet-putin-epsteins-unrequited-love-for-russian-leader-13502862
• https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/jeffrey-epstein-investigated-for-being-a-russian-spy-tpcplhvxp
• https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/press-review/20260202-daily-mail-epstein-s-sex-empire-was-honeytrap-directed-by-the-kgb

why is this a binary choice?

While people coming together to support each other is great, people shouldn't have to come together to do things like put a roof over their heads. USSR had kommunalkas after the war because there wasn't enough housing for everyone, and they managed to address this problem by the 50s. The fact that one of the richest countries in the world can't ensure that everyone has housing is an utter disgrace.

meanwhile in the real world

typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

Real wage (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8SvK0E5dI

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

None of these things would be happening in China if it was doing capitalism. It would look the way other capitalist shitholes look like today.

Gotta love guzzling CIA propaganda uncritically.

Imagine being over the age of 10 and using the word authoritarianism like it means anything.

Plenty of anarchists have the exact same position as the US regime when it comes to western adversaries like China.

just go back to doing your trolling on reddit where there are people dumb enough to listen to you

the fed instances see each other 🤣