Pissing off the rest of Asia in 3... 2... 1...

Japanese demilitarization post-WW2 kept relations stable and happy. What will this do?

It's not an admission of intent, but an admission of fact: that your statement was false.

Nazi wannabes with 13% of the vote...

I mean, it's not like China is only working with AfB. They recently invited School to Beijing.

I mean... It's not like there's not a standing invitation for Germany's current government. Is building diplomatic ties not permissible if the party isn't currently in power?

Better fucking tell the Republicans to get out of Canadian politics, then.

Aren't conservatives supposed to be, y'know, fiscally conservative? Why turn down a more affordable option for power generation?

We need to build crappy public housing. Crappy, so homeowners don't get mad at us "decreasing their property values."

Just copy-paste commie blocks out in Mission and run frequent train service into the city. Out of sight, out of mind, but effective at sustaining massive housing supply (on the order of tens of thousands of people) with minimal cost due to prefabrication. Concrete is cheap, so use it.

Lemmy needs a refpost system where you can choose to post articles to different instances that link together.

You then can get all the benefits of centralization without necessarily being centralized.

Lemmy.ca is the superior instance and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

The entire principle of reasonability lies on accepting that other interpretations of facts exist. Removing those who question the prevailing interpretation is harmful for democracy, harmful for journalism, and harmful for freedom of speech.

So... It's Lemmy's problem for not exposing control over emoji size? Sounds like a feature that should be pretty easy to add.

Is creating echo chambers really desirable in our current political climate? Democracy is built on a foundation of free and open discourse, not in censoring opinions that we don't agree with. All that does is polarize and radicalize people even more.

You can lose half your working population if your workers can be more than twice as productive... which they can, given advancements in automation. That's why South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Germany punch above their weight despite also running headfirst into demographic collapse.

Must be forgetting about Finland, whoopsie.

Isn't this what our judiciary should be for?

China built an economy on consumer electronics and smartphones. That industry is currently seeing a significant slowdown because of a mild recession in most of the world. Now, people are shocked that their economy is slowing down?

Is everyone who disagrees with you a bot with an army of bots?

Get over yourself. Lemmy is neither large enough nor significant enough to attract that kind of attention. Is it that hard to believe that there are different people with different beliefs?

You're the reason democracies in North America are becoming increasingly polarized and radical in their beliefs.

Why do we keep on looking to build echo chambers? Having discourse is an essential component of a healthy democracy.

Neoliberalism has been a failure for the actual population. It's decoupled economic growth from improved quality of life. Meanwhile, social democracies in Europe are showing that other models are practical and viable.

Except official data doesn't look good? They haven't gaslit shit, they've been reporting slowing growth, decreasing exports, and deflation.

WSJ literally wrote an article "this is what I think China will do and that's why China bad"

What the fuck kind of journalism is that?

The US needs to be #1 in the world and they'll do anything to achieve that.