Also as Yogthos alluded to, China doesn’t have eminent domain, they can’t just take your house like in America. This has lead to people who refuse to sell having highways diverted around their house, parking lots, and in 1 case, a shopping center surrounding the house.

They don’t have eminent domain because their legal system isn’t designed off of common law. They do however have forced evictions and land expropriations, which basically boils down to the same thing.

It’s just academically dishonest to claim that the Chinese government can’t just take your home, as that is by far the most common reason for organized protest in the country.

1993-2003, Shanghai From 1993 to 2003, 2.5 million people were evicted in the city of Shanghai.[9]

2008, Beijing Olympics In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, many of Beijing’s densely populated neighborhoods were torn down in order to make way for new developments and infrastructure projects. The Center on Housing Rights and Evictions estimated that 1.5 million people in and around Beijing were forced from their homes, often with inadequate compensation. Chinese authorities maintained only 6,000 families were relocated, and that all received proper compensation.[10]

1995-2005, Chongqing Three Gorges Dam From 1995 to 2005, an average of 86,754 people were evicted annually in connection to the Three Gorges Dam,[9] totaling an estimated 1.4 million people.[11] Recalcitrant residents in the city of Chongqing had their water and electricity turned off in order to force them to move; the residents said they had not yet left because proper resettlement hadn’t been arranged.[12]

2013-present, Beijing “Limited Property Right” houses From 2013 to present, 108 communities that are listed as “limited property right” houses, with over ten thousands households are forced evicted. At the same time, thousands of households with “limited property right” due to historical reason, which are not included in the 108 communities list are also being evicted illegally, such as XiangTang village and JiuhuaYuan community eviction. During the winter of 2020, the city of Beijing and government of Xiaotangshan township cut off water and electricity of the residents, and send unpermitted security guards to the community, in order to force the residents to leave. The security guards and excavators go to residents’ house when they go out for food and water, and demolish their home without any negotiation or arranging settlement.

Every government that has transitioned to an industrialized economy has some sort of way of land procurement for public works. One of China’s main economic advantages compared to the west is this procurement can be done at scale via a centralized apparatus of the government.

To say there is no way for the government to procure “private property” is either very ignorant or very dishonest. Especially considering that the procurement and sales of rural property is a large part of how local governments create funding in China.

I personally see nothing wrong with governments procuring private property for public works, it’s just part of securing economic growth for the nation. However, claiming that it doesn’t happen at all is just inaccurate.

enact genocidal policies like the US still does on the indigenous peoples of the mainland and occupied Hawai’i which has been gentrified and settled to the point of being unlivable for most of the locals.

And the same has been said about tibet, inner Mongolia, and xinjiang. I mean you can look at Chinas own census data and see that han Chinese are migrating to cities in xinjiang, displacing ethnic minorities to move away from their cultural cities.

The claims of China’s abuse of ethnic minorities are a scam espoused by the same people profitting off the genocide in Palestine. Anybody who takes the evidence seriously instead of treating accusations as trustworthy because of the volume of them doesn’t understand (or chooses to ignore) how the US propaganda machine has always worked.

You are conflating the accusations of genocide in one region with the accusations of ethnic discrimination. Even in that grey zone article it is conflating the study from some weird neocon group with all investigations into ethnic discrimination in China.

Han chauvinism is an established concept that even Mao took aims to curtail. Something they are still combating considering there has only been one ethnic minority to serve in the central committee in the last 35 years.

An actual criticism that I have about Xi is that he is a bit culturally conservative. The belt and road initiative utilized a lot of han centric language and the current central committee is notably the first committee that has no women serving on it in the last +25 years.

Yeah, not really comparable when it comes to war crimes. If someone wanted to conflate a topic that makes both countries look similarly bad in an honest light, it would be the treatment of ethnic minorities.

I had this one professor I was really grateful for though. He was a big open-source guy

I had the bizzaro version of this guy in college once. He sold his own 150$ “textbook” that you had to purchase from a copy shop next to campus. It was just a bunch of sections of other text books that were clearly copied and put together in a tabbed paper folder by the little printing shop.

Was also the same guy that wouldn’t accept assignments unless you turned them in a specific blue folder, which you could conveniently buy from the same copy shop for 5$ a piece.

Still kinda pissed about it like 15 years later, but at least now I can kinda appreciate the hustle that dude had going.

Kinda looks like it once had a layer of sheet metal attached to it at one point.

I for one will be sowing all my seed incredibly close together, the plants will grow stronger together. Also all birds are now counter revolutionary, get out your noisiest banging pans my dudes.

Also, how do I invest in pig iron futures?

That and canned veggies. Don’t know if it’s because we were low income or if produce was just a lot more expensive back in the 80s and 90s. But, I remember eating a shit ton of canned “mixed vegetables” at my house and at friends houses.

My mom was a good cook, but I feel like we didn’t get a lot of fresh veggies unless we were living on a military base where the groceries were subsidized.

You are so sensitive to immediately tell someone to F off which screams American.

Lol, have you been to East Asia? Getting told to fuck off isn’t exactly a hard thing to provoke in Asia, it’s not something that only happens in America.

You claim yourself as Chinese which means you know best about all Chinese culture right? Which is such a common Chinese xenophobic tactic.

Almost as common as white people explaining Asian culture to Asians on this social media platform. I’ve been lectured to about my own culture by European and Americans who have never left their own countries.

But at the same time you’re so disconnected from your own culture you feel the need to share you and your own parents ethnicity

My dude… Your ethnicity doesn’t change just because your parents migrated to another location. The fact that you can’t recognize stripping someone’s ethnicity away from someone because they weren’t born in there families homeland is just another form of forced assimilation, and is incredibly racist.

mandarin in university level ABC

Again, utilizing an acronym to other delineate someone from their ethnic heritage is disgusting. Especially considering that I doubt you’ve ever had to deal with navigating the social stratification of being an immigrant.

Accosting a Chinese person for not being Chinese enough is just about the most 4d chess move of racism a white dude can pull off. Congrats.

Also a two party system with the one they consider being centrist having an ethnic supremacy wing.

That’s mostly result of being occupied by a militant fascist nation who tried to do several decades of cultural genocide.

The people’s power party’s version also has an ethnic supremacy wing, but for the Japanese. The new right movement somehow has some weird Koreans that want to restore imperial Japanese power in Korea.

amphetamine promotes dopamine release, it doesn’t inhibit reuptake.

Amphetamines are also DRI…

“The following are a selection of some particularly notably abused DRIs: cocaine, ketamine, MDPV, naphyrone, and phencyclidine (PCP). Amphetamines, including amphetamine, methamphetamine, MDMA, cathinone, methcathinone, mephedrone, and methylone, are all DRIs as well, but are distinct in that they also behave, potentially more potently, as dopamine releasing agents (DRAs)”

Amphetamines are dopamine releasing agents, but they also affect dopamine re-uptake.

I mean, coke is basically an amphetamine with a shittier half life. They’re both stimulants with a dopamine re-uptake inhibitors.

Coke is just the shittier and less ethically sourced option.

Says the dude who’s spent this whole time defending a free market economy?

You can’t defend the free market and then be aghast when the free market decides plastics are profitable.

Oh, nope. Rereading it, you’re totally right. Just a little of my dyslexia seeping in lol. My bad!

Yes, exactly why I said it’s a platitude. It’s thoughtless and trite. I’m saying: consumption is not ethical, no matter which system. There is no ethical consumption.

That’s a false dichotomy…even if we agreed with your definition of all consumption being unethical, it wouldn’t mean that there aren’t different levels of unethical practices used to produce those consumables.

All consumption being unethical does not mean that all forms of production are equally unethical. If that’s the case you wouldn’t really have a problem with sending the kids back to the mines.

It paints consumers as mere puppets or robots who are unable to make choices or decisions that could lead to a reduction of suffering.

Can you point to a time in history where a general boycott of a dangerous or harmful product was successful without the help of government intervention?

Any other system created by humans is flawed and infected the human disease, doomed to create suffering and torment.

And apparently that doesn’t happen under capitalism? Then what exactly are you bitching about plastic for?

“ethical consumption” in any other living system is wishful thinking. It doesn’t exist.

Again, your argument is based on a forced false dichotomy.

Not to mention that it seems like you are really just a libertarian angry at consumers for participating in the “free market”.

You can’t simultaneously believe that the free market is the best way to regulate the economy, but upset at the people for their consumption habits in a free market.

Yeah, and helping feed people wasn’t exactly his original motivation for the haber-bosch process either. During the late 19th century empires were running low on natural sources of nitrates for making gun powder, as the British had held a near monopoly of the guano mines in South America and India.

Judging by this, his time as an artillery man for the prussians, his combustion research after he finished the haber process, and his over all obsession with creating weapons of war… It’s pretty safe to assume fertilizer was an afterthought.

Fritz Haber for example

I mean… Haber isn’t exactly a giant of morality and ethics. He did invent most of the chemical weapons utilized in WW1, and expressly defended their use as weapons.

That doesn’t explain it, Gotham has been doing crazy shit since before pfa were really a problem.

My theory is that the Wayne family originally made their money like any other organized crime family, utilities.

I propose that the Wayne family committed a historic amount of fraud in the early 20th century by installing cheap lead piping throughout the city’s water supply.

The Wayne parents knew the family secret but were killed in a vengeance plot. By the time Bruce found out, he had already been drinking the leaded water for years, so his solution of personal violence was also batshit crazy.

Imo the Batman is a crazy fail son that is doing his best to avoid a Purdue pharma like class action lawsuit. Driving him to become more and more violent towards the citizens he is trying to “save”.

We’ve been fascist since our founding.

Lol, something can be bad without being fascist. Words have meaning.

What do you think manifest destiny was?

Colonialism.

Where do you think hitler got his ideas from?

Italy, America, Prussia, Britain, Napoleonic France, the Russian colonization of the east… it’s almost like this is a nuanced subject or something.

Im involved in my community. I refuse to pay back my student loans, I refuse to pay federal taxes.

Lol, the refusing to pay federal taxes either means…you are lying (most likely), you don’t have a job, or you will eventually be going to federal prison. My money is you are lying.

Electoralism and democracy are failures.

And bitching online has been real successful for you?

If you’ve given up on nonviolent means, why aren’t you organizing a violent revolution?

take way too much comfort in your illusion of choice.

What an edge lord. I’ve never seen someone be so proud of doing less than nothing.

I’m guessing that you, like everyone else who was comfortable voting third party… Are young, white, and male. The specific group that has no skin in the game, so they really don’t see how things can get worse. In fact, I’m sure you’ll have even more rights to do nothing with once Trump is elected, good for you.

Must be nice to be privileged enough to not even engage in harm reduction.

What’s gonna change? We’re gonna magically stop supporting fascist imperialism?

Lol, the American system is hot shit, but it’s not quite yet a fascist empire. That’s like a German socialist in the 30’s claiming that the Weimar Republic is fascist, so you might as well vote for Hitler.

The US has been at war for all but like seven years of it’s existence.

That’s not how fascism is defined… If it was, the fucking Soviets would be fascist.

We live in a false “democracy” where people are given the illusion of choice when in reality we are like a capitalist version of the USSR. The corporations run the state.

And your solution is to give away what little control we are allotted to a politician who wants to make it all worse?

How are you helping this scenario at all? What mutual aid are you giving, what support network are you organizing. Seems to me you’re just whining about it all while actively making it worse.

Nope, I expect absolutely nothing to change.

Okay, so you were speaking dishonestly before when you were attempting to validate your opinion?

We live in a one party system with false choices. It’s theatre

That’s simply untrue. First of all, domestically the parties vary immensely in policy ranging from healthcare, labour, race, and gender. And while I would agree that for the most part Dems and Republicans generally agree in foreign policy, that is not always the case.

The most relevant being how they interact with Iran. The whole reason Israel felt comfortable with doing an ethnic cleansing is because the Trump administration ended the Nuclear agreement. Israel’s motivation isn’t just to commit a genocide, but to rope America into an all out war with Iran.

History shows that the liberals gladly work with the fascists.

Some liberals will, some liberals won’t. The idea is to sway the liberals into a popular front with leftist against fascist. You know the thing that kept fascism from spreading to France after Italy and Germany.

Because to social democrats and liberals, protecting class interests supersedes protecting lives

Except there are dozens of examples throughout history that negate that argument…

Where do you think leftist come from…? There is no other choice than to work with liberals, as that is how leftist are created. The vast majority of leftist were liberal at one point, even the fucking Soviets started with a popular front.

If we blanket reject working with liberals for common goals, there is no one to recruit from. It’s almost like mutual aid is a central tenet of leftist organization…

Please actually read a book at some point and stop regurgitating bad leftist takes from fucking tick Tok.