sgtlion

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[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

It isn't early morning, it's nearly noon!

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is a good critical analysis, but I don't think it's entirely fair.

China are absolutely dominating on the world stage because they've played western countries at their own game, and are utterly beating them. It won't really be in a practical position to be a serious anti- imperialist force until it exceeds western powers on its own feet, which it is some years away from yet.

China is doing far more to help third world countries than the odd euro-currency investment. But dominating the western currencies as well as your own gives you enormous global influence, whereas converting to solely yuan may keep them wealthy and independent, but have less stranglehold on the west.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Labour will win for the reason that the right wing vote is split. Hope they do more than continue the status quo

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Turns out they just spent two seconds brushing off dust, not really cleaning it

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Saying words is the ultimate communist tactic. Real patriots only grunt

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's the morning, of course I'm up

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

They simply don't want to. Construction company owners are some of the richest and ones who do the most lobbying to MPs.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

No. Cue death threats, but I don't believe killing animals is fundamentally wrong. The industry is problematic, and could/should be significantly improved, but welcome to all industries under capitalism.

I actually incidentally grew up vegetarian, so I eat tons of beans, can cook the veg meals and don't eat much meat now anyway. I'm just not convinced there's good reason to change.

All fucking power to vegans though, I make a point to bully carnists when they're overly smug about it.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Commies are rarely the ones saying "exploit foreign workers harder!", they're the ones saying "give the rich fuckers' wealth to workers while ending imperialism!".

I'm also not as pessimistic as many others - even if the redistribution of wealth alone didn't make up for not-imperialism, I think removing the inefficiencies of capitalism would significantly improve conditions for all workers, globally.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't about a LIB "these people don't deserve to have things" approach. This is a discussion about potentially harmful actions, that's all.

Ideally mutual aid happens in person where you can easily know a person. On the Internet with anonymity, you need to have these kinds of conversations to be a sustainable project.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paradox games! Stellaris, Victoria 3, CK3, HOI4, etc. They just make the effort with all their games and it's great

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