AHopeOnceMore [he/him]

The de-industrialisation process deliberately targeted union-heavy industries, so union density was rapidly drained - faster than anyone could unionize every other industry. Unions are still highly relevant, the powers that be have just placed them on the back heel and won the propaganda wars for a generation that was coasting off imperial spoils and white supremacy.

That system is breaking down and younger generations are seeing the relevance more and more often.

Harumph, I'm a REAL worker. I go to work at the sparks and steam factory.

Okay fair but little Jesus pictures on hats are kinda funny, you've gotta admit.

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The US' political economic system is built on a house of cards that is carefully maintained by imperialism, itself backed up by financial and military weapons. China is undercutting the financial weapons by simply existing with its productive capacity, its refusal to let the finance sector balloon, and forming more equitable trade relationships with peripheral countries.

This is correctly perceived as a threat to the US-dominated status quo, as it provides an alternative, and more appealing way of running a country, one that isn't subservient to the US, and therefore will lead to less extraction by the US and its allies.

This will eventually lead to economic crisis for the US from which it cannot recover with its first line of attack, its financial weapons. The US has hollowed out its productive capacity in order to reap profits through imperialism, it can't just turn inward and exploit its populace to escape (though it will try). That leaves actual military weapons.

On the long term, that's why the US' current movers and shakers want a hot war. An alignment of bourgeois and state interests.

Over the short term, the US is trying to "contain" China. It wants to do trade wars, prevent other countries from making mutually beneficial agreements with China, apply sanctions, and otherwise limit their productive growth. To do this, it needs to manufacturer consent for why China and the Chinese people are deserving of punishment. So we also now see official state sinophobia, racist and orientalist speech and terrorism, and a general push for "China bad" vibes. The new cold war won't work if the public isn't propagandized into supporting the destruction of China.

Charles, trying to kick the football

You should assume that it does. Facebook already has a system foe sending bulk messages back to itself from the recipient, allegedly so that abusive chat can be reported. They could just use that to remotely retrieve whatever they wanted.

Indoors: all pests but only pests. They'll take over and get you sick / very unhappy if you don't deal with them thoroughly. Flies included - they tend to cross-contaminate, as they lay eggs on gross things, then land on and eat food you later ingest. If you have a pet that poops indoors, they're gonna create a fecal-oral route, a very common vector for pathogens.

Outdoors: only the ones actively trying to hurt me like hornets, horseflies, etc.

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lol yes

You are required to label all Yakubian Devils for what they are, in fact.

She is holding an invisible sheet of paper.

Impressive that his one example in the false equivalency on antisemitism involved, in total, arresting 37 people.

Let me explain

Yes, absolutely. There's a mix of renters (separate housing), free housing, and then dorms/barracks-style living at the factory, usually with free food.

Slums are concentrated urban poverty housing, usually extra-legally and cobbled together from low-quality materials. China does have some of this for migrant workers that do not have authorised housing, but it is at a vastly lower scale than peripheral countries that went in other directions (not run by commies). It's also the exact kind of thing that China addresses on a regular basis. The fact that I qualified with "unauthorised" is meaningful here - China provides free or subsidized housing to the vast majority of migrany workers. There are also very active programs to reduce and eventually eliminate migrant work.

China Observer fuckin lol

Teslas, BMWs, Mercedes, Audis, Porsches, and Ford F-150s in particular tend to be the biggest offenders. Basically all status symbols, which makes sense.

Operation Unthinkable is a go!

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