Comrade Koba posted:

bad news everyone

Tankbuster posted:

The chinese just stole elon musk like every other piece of american tech.

gradenko_2000 posted:

These are highlights from chapter 1 of "Flight MH17, Ukraine, and the New Cold War: Prism of Disaster" by Kees van der Pijl, published in 2018



- reminder that Joe Biden spent Thanksgiving last year with Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein
- this is the first time I've seen the People Power Movement in the Philippines described as a forerunner to a Colour Revolution in a published work before, which is surprising, because this is a post I made in March of this year:

gradenko_2000 posted:

I want to call back yet again to the People Power Movement of February 1986, where two senior military officers from the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. decided to mutiny, and the Catholic Church and the liberal opposition decided that THAT was the time to seize the moment, and they called out as many people as possible to form a human shield around the army camp that the two mutineers were holed-up in, and Marcos sent in troops to try and break it up, and there were way too many people to be dispersed, and the troops were unwilling to open fire on that many people.

Reagan, under the advice of Paul Wolfowitz and Paul Laxalt (R-NV), told Marcos Sr over the phone to "cut and cut cleanly", meaning the US was NOT going to support him if he decided to fight this, but they would go as far as to guarantee his safe exit from the country.

So, he got on a plane to Hawaii, and the history books record this as one of the world's few non-violent revolutions, with the sheer will of The People bringing down a dictator that had ruled the country for over 20 years.

Problem #1: it was NOT a non-violent revolution if you count all of the thousands of people that had been killed trying to resist the Marcos regime in those last 20 years.

Problem #2: Marcos was removed, and so was his top general, Fabian Ver, but literally no one else was. The superstructure of oligarchs and politicians that he had left behind remained intact, and the restoration of bourgeois liberal "democracy" that lead to his becoming dictator was not fundamentally changed. Agrarian reform didn't happen, the new President went along with liberalizing the economy and privatizing the public sector, and insofar as Marcos "nationalized" certain key industries so he could award them to his cronies for free, those corporations were given back to the families that previously owned them. Indeed, Rodrigo Duterte, who is still our president until May of this year, got his political start because of People Power, with the new President appointing him as Acting Mayor of Davao City, and then he spun that position into becoming elected Mayor of Davao City for the next 30 years!

I mention all of this because if we go by the Marxist definition of a revolution as the overthrow of one class by another, then this was NOT a revolution, but merely a coup.

And that's what Color Revolutions are - they're coups, but the fact that they're even called or considered revolutions is part-and-parcel of the generous Western media treatment that they receive.

gradenko_2000 posted:

[a very good effortpost]

Why does this matter? Because Jesse Robredo is the late husband of this person:



Colour revolutions, right?

stephenthinkpad posted:

That was actually one of the smartest moves (either by accident or intensional). This guy was doing the cover for the US military for the Starlink thing, which is exactly what Howard Hughes was doing for CIA. However, because China got Tesla invested in China so much, he doesn't want to activate Starlink anywhere near China.

The way China got Tesla built new plant in China is a classic example of China getting high tech companies to build factories and and then transfer the know how and component sourcing to China. I think the phrase I am thinking of is moving the supply chain and value chain to China without outright stealing or copying.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I remember the first part but not the 2nd.

comedyblissoption posted:

Karen insurgents

Some Guy TT posted:

id like to take a brief moment to say gently caress cathay pacific because they just completely poo poo all over my itinerary by telling me the plane ticket i bought on their website was somehow for a cargo plane

now im in the situation of needing to quarantine in hong kong and figuring out another way to get into china entirely and i have no idea what to do like how does quarantine even work if youre on a train do you have to do it again every time you enter a new province

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Remember when the freaks were calling Jack Ma the new Elon Musk and talking about how China can't have their own Musk

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.outlookindia.com/intern...ia--news-228106

This is only tangentially related to this thread but wtf is hinduphobia? It's been something I see come up a lot more in recent months. Is it something the RSS/BJP types have been pushing?

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/pplsartofwar/status/1578901229652283393

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1577730076401016832

Got his rear end lmfao

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1577730076401016832

Got his rear end lmfao

gradenko_2000 posted:

LOCK
HIM
UP

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1577730076401016832

Got his rear end lmfao

Lostconfused posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1577730076401016832

Got his rear end lmfao

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Who’s right? Certainly, China’s pandemic response doesn’t look as impressive as it once did. As the chart on the next page shows, lives have been saved, but growth has been sacrificed. Still, don’t forget the price other countries paid to recoup a semblance of normal life: a million dead in the US, a million more in Europe. If China had followed a similar path, given its larger population and stretched health-care resources, the numbers could easily have been substantially higher.

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There’s another way of looking at it. China has a serious problem with inequality. A chasm in income distribution rivaling those in Latin America and Africa is complicating Beijing’s efforts to make progress on important goals such as arresting the rapid decline of the workforce by boosting fertility. A study released this year by a Chinese think tank pegged the cost of raising a child to the age of 18 at 485,000 yuan, or 6.9 times average annual income, a higher proportion than in the US and major European countries. For many low- and middle-income families, that’s prohibitively high.

Seen through the prism of those pressing social challenges, it’s possible—and maybe even more plausible—to make the case that Xi’s common prosperity agenda is grounded in sound public policy, a Chinese authoritarian version of the progressive policies also on the table in the US and Europe.

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A correct reading of China’s history reveals not a country that never encounters crises, but rather a country that frequently encounters and overcomes them. I hope its policymakers do so again. If they don’t, the consequences for China’s 1.4 billion people, and a world economy that has come to count on this engine of growth, would be catastrophic. 

Palladium posted:

what is dumber than a western liberal is the global south electoralism kool-aid liberal who still can't see the neocolonial powers age-old playbook of denying them domestically-owned industrialization in tyool almost 2023

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I've met plenty of racist white people, I don't think any hated the concept of Hinduism, they just hated nonwhites.