I’m reminded of a quote from from this talk by Eric X Li on the PRC’s civil service organization department: “Neither George W Bush, nor Barack Obama, would have been able to become even a small county manager in China.”

Any negative speech: especially harsh, slanderous or divisive, that provokes equally charged emotional responses.

One other thing I’d like to add: It’s not just that rage-inducing content is out there, that’s always been there. It’s that it gets rewarded by big tech, by making sure that highly responded content, gets pushed to the top.

Capitalist tech companies have an incentive to platform this content because it increases the on-site time, and their own popularity, to the detriment of their users mental health. It also helps them push pro-capitalist narratives that atomize and isolate people who should be united by a shared humanity and class status.

tbh we’re somewhat guilty of this in lemmy also, with the Active sort allowing new comments to bump posts to the top of feeds.

The only real way to fight it, is to keep an eye out for these toxic / combative threads and posters, and remove them if necessary. Since we don’t capitalist incentives to keep people on site or serve ads, it serves no benefit to keep rage-bait posters around.

Only tears for the offspring of one of the most evil regimes in history, never for the millions of people they oppressed and murdered.

It’s quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover “thinking”:

I don’t know what this means, you’ll have to use the search to find content.

In addition to the recs below, I highly recommend Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: history and critique of a black legend

Another thing I thought of randomly: read cj chivers the gun, which compares the development processes of the ak47 vs the ar15, and their histories. It’s a microcosm of the superiority of socialist / collective planning vs the shitshow of capitalist profit-driven development.

I know this is mostly a joke, but its also incredibly dangerous. Just use an explicit tool like bfg

It took me like a full minute too.

One way you can do this is via RSS feeds. Go to the /inbox page on all your accounts, and add it to an RSS reader. You’ll then get notifications for new items (at least as often as your RSS sync frequency).

Its also especially rich considering the US state has access to even disabled nest door cameras, which amazon is happy to give them.

Even someone who is completely sinophobic, would have to concede that the PRC, even if it wanted to, could not send police to your door.

Send cops to your door, imprison you, kill you, etc. The US has many political prisoners, and even jailed a mother for discussing abortion with her teenage daughter over facebook.

Same for Alan Dershowitz, who also spends his time writing books defending both sexual assault (and getting pedos sentences commuted), and Israel.

“This mass-murderer told me that everyone is actually just as bad as him. Why would he lie?”

China is an oligarchy, my man.

Wrong. Here’s some sources:

Is China State Capitalist?

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2
• Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?
• Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.
• China cracks down on billionaires - Ben Norton interviews Ian Goodrum
• Do capitalists control the communist party? No, pic
• How the State runs business in China.
• 50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.
• China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.
• China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US’s main demands in the trade war. “Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better.”

Just because the US commits countless atrocities, does not mean every other country does so, especially its victims.

Its more hypersonic missiles that have made them obsolete, as of many years ago now. If the US were in an actual war with a country who has them (China, Russia), its entire carrier fleet would be destroyed within a few hours. US military planners even admit this openly.

Read the article I linked above for the answer. Richer countries like the US and western europe industrialized at least a hundred years before. Both the USSR and PRC were largely feudal economies in the early 1900s. But the soviet union (despite starting out from about the same point as Brazil in 1920) caught up to the US within a few decades, beating it to space, and forcing it to allocate tonsof resources to state-run research and development projects.

It wasn’t even really the USSR’s choice to de-link, it was heavily attacked by all the western countries during it’s civil war, and they embargoed the country when they lost. The west rode their hundred-year head start on industrialization and resource advantage from hundreds of years from colonialism and slavery, and also funded the newly defeated fascist countries like germany and japan to become anti-communist bulwarks producing consumer goods.

The PRC has now surpassed the US in most tech sectors, once again proving the superiority of socialism.

We use renovate for dep updates (for lemmy-ui), and a self-hosted woodpecker CI for lemmy.

CI is imo the more dangerous way people are linking their projects to github.

You can use rust and still use the GPL.