Overall the Chinese are somewhat known for pragmatic approaches, why chasing illusions in this case? The total number of readers and writers can’t be that huge can’t it?

Probably enlightened despotism giving way to regular despotism. Facing economic problems, and having shed all pretense of being socialist, the Chinese ruling class likely needs a scapegoat for the country’s troubles.

That’s… hopeful…

I can’t stand that this piece of shit gets to dictate what most of the world does in their own fucking countries…

Eh, the only new thing to most of the world is how obvious he is about it.

Do we really need celebrity gossip here?

At that point you might as well just go full socialism; 1000 people is just a mid-sized factory.

This isn’t the community for discussion-type questions. You have asklemmy and politics communities for that.

Tax wealth, not income.

I’d imagine it’s just the argument for capitalism. You know, profit incentive increasing efficiency and productivity and all that. Now this stuff is true to an extent (though a lot of politically active Lemmy likes to pretend otherwise), but all the good stuff happens before a single person reaches a billion dollars so if that’s the idea it would pretty much fall flat on its face.

Yes, they passed Obamacare, a Republican policy thought up by Heritage Foundation. Also note that they only passed the ACA when they should’ve damn near rebuilt the country from scratch. If this is the kind of policy Americans can expect when the Democrats have a trifecta and a massive grassroots movement, then you’re basically making my point for me, but that’s beside the point. The bigger problem is that they kept the filibuster and keep keeping the filibuster when they could’ve abolished it twice. Keeping the filibuster is a choice, so the whole talk about a filibuster-proof majority is nothing more than “sorry I shot myself in the foot so I can’t come help you even though it’s literally my job, now give me more money”.

I used to call her mama but now I mostly just use her name. My family is weird like that.

In China? No way.

Sucks to be the small minority of anti-genocide Israelis, but yeah you reap what you sow.

Mostly yes, but the point is that the filibuster is/was their excuse for not doing shit to help the people when they could. DNC party hacks like to say “but they didn’t have a filibuster-proof majority!!!” when people point out that the DNC has done exactly zilch to remedy America’s long-term problems, so it’s important to remember that keeping the filibuster was a choice by the DNC made for that purpose.

This shit again?

I mean yes, when did I say otherwise? Israel is at fault for creating this terrible situation, and the people exploiting that situation for their own gain at the expense of Palestinians are also at fault. These two things can be true at the same time.

I get what you’re trying to say, but Hamas is not just a resistance organization; they’re an oppressive terrorist regime on their own right. If not for Israeli aggression they’d have been overthrown three times over.

If Zionists had any real leverage they could use to control states Spain and Ireland (and to a lesser extent France under Macron) wouldn’t be outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights. The guilt trip is definitely part of it, but also don’t underestimate the scale or pervasiveness of Israeli propaganda. I mean, unless you’re exceptionally educated on Palestinian history at least half the things you believe about the so-called conflict are probably Israeli propaganda., irrespective of what you feel about Israel. I hate to admit it, but they are good at this stuff. Their major Western ally status gained during the Cold War is also not helping.

So we agree they should’ve done away with the filibuster?

I’ve seen evil before, but what the actual fuck?

Decades of state propaganda. It’s a lot easier for a modern Westerner to feel like the system works and just needs a nudge than it is for a worker in the interwar period or a black person in the 60s.