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- Comment on Is South Korea "Over"? Is Japan on the verge of "Collapse"? Do these narratives have real evidence or just exaggerating/fearmongering? 22 hours ago:
It’s always click bait, but sometimes* it’s based on real problems that could lead to those things. Let’s take three examples because I like to piss off sycophants everywhere:
Gordon Chang is a racist far-right white supremacist that uses this supposed Chinese ancestry to doomsay about China, and has done for literally decades. He has always been wrong. Every single prediction he has ever made. Every single one has been proven wrong. He has not ever had a single thing he has ever published come true.
Despite this, he is one of the US Media’s foremost experts on China, having been featured by every single major media outlet for the last nearly 30 years. Nearly every single story you have ever read on ‘China’s imminent economic collapse,’ or ‘The Chinese Stock market just collapsed,’ or ‘China’s economy is a paper dragon,’ or ‘China just ended their real estate market,’ or ‘China has five years left to kowtow to western demands before it collapses,’ is based on his work, as well as a select group of others that claim to be experts on China, have published work on China for decades, and have never once gotten a single prediction correct at any point in their careers.
Why is this narrative being pushed so hard and why does half of lemmy (and easily 70+% of western audiences) still fall for it day after day, year after year, despite the link I used being TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD?
Well one, racism, but two, if western media allows the concept that another way of life could work, and is working better than the current status quo, those that benefit from the current status quo might lose something. So hundreds of billions are spent every single year making sure that headlines from people like this keep coming. Constantly. And no one is allowed to question why or point out that their predictions have always failed to come true and are based on nothing more than the ‘feeling’ that communist rule leads to failure and suffering.
This is real. This is real data. Japan’s population has declined every single census for two decades now. The average age of Japanese citizens is only going up, and it is going up exponentially quickly, suggesting it is not just a lack of new births, but also a lack of resources to keep younger people alive longer. Thought honestly, I repeat myself.
Now why does it get so much news coverage, especially in the west?
2a. Japan is what a lot of racists want the west to be. As a far-right ethnostate dedicated to profit and social order above all other possible concerns, it is a blueprint for how a lot of western fascists want the west to be. Similar to Israel. So if it is failing, then that means that ideology might be a failure – liberals who do not want fascism like pointing this out, and point out the ‘solution’ is immigration and more open borders which solves the totally random and not at all concerning declining birth rate. Which ignores the roots of the problem.
2b. Racism. Japan is failing not because of its socioeconomic system or politics; but because the japanese cannot handle the superior white idealized socioeconomic system; and clearly white men need to come in and save the Japanese from themselves, both through ‘marriage’ and through taking over the government. Don’t worry, it’s not miscegenation if it’s white people doing it.
The UK is collapsing. Literally. Its economy cannot survive the next ten years on its current trajectory, as reasonably predicted by people who were against Brexit.
But it’s not because of immigrants. It’s just capitalism again. And it’s being blamed on immigrants because of racism.
- Comment on Rage bait ravings 1 day ago:
Protect your neck.
- Comment on How come Lemmy/Piefed users seem to have a consensus of like "green mario" is the solution to this and that, but simultaneously oppose death penalty? 2 days ago:
The shortest answer is that violence is inherent to every political system, in fact, that is the sole purpose of politics, to determine acceptable violence in a society, and who controls it, and who doles it out.
This includes more extreme violence like killing.
Anyone who has seen the mistakes the state has made and will continue to make will be against the death penalty - not because of the violence, as I can guarantee you they support violence in other ways - but because of the accuracy. In a perfect world wherein we know there is no possible way to redeem someone and we can guarantee a perfect conviction, very, very few people would be against a state-led death penalty.
Now Luigi, and all vigilantism directed towards the top, or mass killers in general, is the same thing. It’s unpopular when it’s against unjustified targets that have a margin of error. Luigi’s target had no margin of error. He was directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. It not only was public knowledge, he received money for this, he received prestige and recognition for his kills. So of course people cheered on the killer of the mass murderer. That’s natural.
- Comment on A new GOG Galaxy is coming in 2027 with full Linux support 3 days ago:
But will it actually fix the numerous games that still ship with outdated dependencies without providing said dependencies?
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 4 days ago:
You understand comments are public, so it makes no sense to lie about previous interactions, right?
In any case, yes, this explicitly is propaganda, specifically nazi propaganda. Circa 1930s, repackaged in the 1960s.
Tankies are the violent authoritarian
Define either of these words in a way that excludes any state that has ever or could ever exist. You can’t. Every single state is violent, and it is authoritarian. The entire concept of politics is to decide who has the monopoly of power, and for what it is used.
wing of socialists,
All socialists are violent because:
who believe liberals, landlords, bankers, intellectuals, etc. should be put to death. Stalin, Mao, etc.
Besides liberals and intellectuals, both of which are not including in the list of ‘victims’ of ‘violent’ socialists, all socialists should want the deaths of landlords and bankers.
They cannot be reformed, see the Kulaks who chose to kill themselves rather than pay their workers a wage and collectivize their land.
They’re kinda like fascists as far as loving violence and purging their undesirables except the boot is a different flavor:
The only possible way you could believe this is if you think all violence is bad, which makes you a naive, ignorant child; but the common reason to state this is to equivocate violence based on immutable characteristics, and violence based on mutable characteristics. Which is what nazis are want to do, in order to justify their unjustifable actions.
Practically every single adult on the planet accepts that violence is necessary. The only disagreement is to whom and to what extent said violence should be done. Pretending this isn’t the case is again either ignorance or intentional theatrical naivety.
“We will live in a utopia if you merely give us the power to kill everyone we dislike!”
What is your solution to people with unlimited wealth, no morality, and a psychotic devotion to harming society?
You can’t imprison them forever if you’re a poor country. You can’t send them to the fields to try to reform them, they are physically incapable of it at that point. You can’t let them live free, otherwise you will spend half your hard earned resources on defending against them from within and without.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 4 days ago:
That’s the nazi propaganda being dogwhistled, yes.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 4 days ago:
Tankie is just anyone to the left of burning orphans for warmth. It’s also a nazi dogwhistle.
- Comment on Could a normal person make an actionable run for president? Or just hold a local office with a criminal background? 6 days ago:
Assuming the US, the only restrictions for the US presidency on paper is that you are 35 years old, you are a US citizen from birth, and have not previously held the office for two terms.
For local offices it’s *generally the same idea, with slight variations on age and sometimes residency.
In actuality it depends on how much money you put in versus how likable you are in general, for all elected offices in the US. Attractive people tend to fair better in elections than unattractive people; people with money tend to fair better than those without; people with strong long-standing (generational) local connections tends to fair better than those without. It also doesn’t hurt if you meet with business leaders that would be affected by your position in order to ‘make assurances’ they won’t be restricted or taxed.
To snark your question; the current sitting US president is a convicted felon, whom if it were any other class of person, would be in jail for life without parole. It hasn’t seemed to stop him.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
You really have the reading comprehension of a child. There were farmers in agrarian China that could read better than you.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
The term ‘violent authoritarian communism’ is an oxymoron and did not ever exist, it is an example of nazi propaganda. Just as the other things I listed, which are inherent to the beliefs that would be inferred from someone writing ‘violent authoritarian communism.’
I’m sorry AI has rotted your brain past the point of basic English skills, but I hope you get better in the future comrade so that some day you may be smart enough to be a socialist.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
(I hate violent authoritarian communism e.g. Leninism, Stalinism, and Maoism, but not Marxism),
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
Sure, the simplest explanation is that if you think Stalin was unelected or had unlimited power, or that Mao was a dictator for whom everyone contemporary to him unquestioningly followed, you fell for nazi propaganda. Stagnation breeds fascism, and when nazis cannot win, they will settle for stagnation; the easiest way to foster stagnation is to say that the extreme left and extreme right are the same, so we should pick a third way, a reasonable, moderate, centrist approach, that just so happens to set up economic and social tensions that can easily ferment into and have clever nazis foment fascism.
The Red Scare, which is what most of you tend to base your propagandized version of history off of without even realizing it, had exactly one purpose. Protect capitalism, and foment fascism. It has done immeasurable harm in the US especially, where it is responsible for more deaths directly than the totality of all wars fought by the US on every side combined, but more harm has been done to the minds of those that will repeat the premise of this propaganda, the core ideas, as if they were their own conclusions after reasonably and logically reviewing the ‘evidence.’
To tie it from ‘obvious the fascist CIA worked to take freedom and power away from the American populace on behalf of the capitalist class,’ to ‘the CIA are nazis;’ one merely has to consider the timing of Operation Paperclip, and the nazi sympathizers in the US government that were against fighting the war from the start; many of whom curiously later either joined the agency or were a part of oversight committees on the agency.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
Yeah you can definitely do the physical act of saying that you love nazi propaganda while disavowing hitler. It doesn’t make your position logical nor does it make you seem like less of a nazi.
- Comment on and they wonder why reddit stock is tanking 6 days ago:
Yeah, anti-communists tend to love hitler, you don’t have to repeat yourself so much.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
Sometimes I forget that Americans exist. Then people like you pop up and remind me.
The United States government, since the mid-1800s, and especially since their pets committed genocide in china in the 1940s, has spent more money spreading sinophobia than on propaganda against any other nation. www.jstor.org/stable/48823948
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
I miss when nazis were scared.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
The 1960s called, they want their incredibly outdated job hunting advice back.
- Comment on How come in the trucking industry they are very against carrying a gun? Some area's my sister went into in new york I would have carried an AK-47. No offense NY. 3 months ago:
Are you going to memorize the carry, transport, and self-defense laws of every state on your route?
Are you going to be paying the attorney’s fees on behalf of your trucking company and your client and both of their insurance whom all will be sued by any survivors or their families when you shoot someone?
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 3 months ago:
Starfield kinda killed positive views of Bethesda. Fallout 76 shortly before that essentially eliminating most of the good will they had.
Beyond the technical failures inherent to those titled, even more so than the average Bethesda title, the writing, the story, the atmospheric story telling were all just… bad. Not a single glimmer of what made Skyrim or their previous titles great could really be found. Fallout 76 felt like the most obvious and pathetic cash grab in game release history, being practically unplayable for the first six months of its life… which for an online game is ridiculous; and Starfield legitimately felt like what a dev team that were fans of Skyrim might produce. It felt like a third-party rip off of Bethesda’s style.
Don’t get me wrong both games have their fans, and honestly the hate is overrated as both games are competent, they’re just not good. They’re just not Bethesda games.
Add onto that the fact it’s been 15 years since a significant elder scrolls title was released; because let’s face it no one remembers Blades, ESO is its own thing entirely, and I had to actually google ‘elder scrolls card game’ to remember wtf Legends was called; and you have a recipe for absolute disappointment. Most of the people that worked on Oblivion and Skyrim are gone from the company. The new batch have not made a popular game in that time besides Fallout 4, which is still viewed by half the fallout fan base as the worst fallout game despite Fallout Tactics existing.
The negative outlook is because we aren’t likely to get more of what we like. Especially given Todd Howard’s obsession with using AI. This is much more likely to be a corpse wearing the skin of a beloved franchise than anything worth playing, all for the low-low price of $80+ USD, if not $100+ USD.
- Comment on It's that time of the year 3 months ago:
Sweating your balls off in the summer almost makes you wish for a New Vegas Remaster.
- Comment on WTF Alibaba! 3 months ago:
They finally got him.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 3 months ago:
Teflon, or PTFE, is a type of PFAS, and is the most famous and most numerous contaminant in that family and the most likely contaminant to cause PFAS-related cancers in the developed world.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 3 months ago:
since we can’t really absorb molecules that long and it’s already literally everywhere.
I’m curious how you came to this conclusion. PFAS and PFOS stay in your body for an incredibly long time and can accumulate quickly. We have no easy way of processing them out, and yes we absorb them into our longer term cells like muscles and fat.
It’s an incredibly important health problem the world is facing, as every variant of PFAS and PFOS causes cancer. and there is no medical way to remove PFAS once its in your body. The absolute best you can do is lower (you can’t eliminate) your exposure over time and hope the build up isn’t enough to trigger cancer growth before you get cancer or die from another source of industrial pollution.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 3 months ago:
No one wants to deal with HR to get things posted externally, I promise.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
A) This is Klei’s EULA. You get the same thing if you download their games through the Humble Store.
B) Steam quite famously does not remove games from those that have bought them. They will remove games from the store when they violate rules, but paid content has never been removed from steam accounts. e.g. :
- Comment on Are Edward Snowden and Jeffrey Epstein assets? 3 months ago:
Edward Snowden? No. This borders on the “oh the draconian satanists have to disclose their evil deeds to clear their karma before their deaths” level of conspiracy thinking in order to make sense.
Jeffery Epstein objectively is Mossad agent, which does mean he worked with the CIA.
- Comment on How come no one has taken 'A Hero's Journey' and applied it to the bible? Would this not give more evidence to work of fiction or non fiction? 4 months ago:
I have to disagree there:
- The Ordinary World,
Baby born to poor people in a manger
- Call to Adventure
Three wise men show up and proclaim him the messiah and help guide him
- Refusal of the Call
A literal 18 year time skip between age 12 and 30
- Meeting the Mentor
Assumed why he returned from this time skip as a rabbi
- Crossing the Threshold
Gaining his first disciples and preaching
- Tests, Allies, and Enemies
Judas
- Approach to the Inmost Cave
Acceptance of Judas’ betrayal
- Ordeal
Obvious
- Reward 10) The Road Back 11) Resurrection
I mean 9 10 and 11 are the same here. Dude came back from the dead.
- Return with the Elixir.
He was said to grant boons to his former disciples before he left the second time.
- Comment on Sony 4 months ago:
A) If you think this is AI generated and are not just making a rage-baiting pun reference, you’re a silly billy wittle buddy who needs to be given a raspberry.
B) Games used to not need patching. Even games that were patched later had an on-disc version you could always install and play. And games were in fact better for it. A game going gold meant something, now it’s just a release day with a 0 day patch to be even slightly functional.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I could have, but what would be the point? According to IQ supporters you’re low IQ and low T for not being able to back up your assertions in a ‘debate.’ I’m just working at your level.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
If you disagree with someone’s assertions, bring sources, you low IQ low T soy boy.
