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  • China may participate in the capitalist market system, but it maintains a centrally planned economy and all the banks and major financial institutions are state owned. It’s impossible to be a complete Marxist economy in a global capitalist system. I also disagree in that China is clearly demonstrating a unified nation building project for many years now. Of course there is corruption and malfeasance, but overall the government has created massive gains for the average citizen. On the other hand, the Chinese are very good about hiding the landscape of their factional powers. Presumably those factions remain within the confines of the CCCP, and not with some oligarchs, as demonstrated in the case of Jack Ma. The extent to which a cabal of techno feudalists have taken root in China is unclear.




  • No NGO operations, nothing except handing the Kurds and some protesters weapons. The Kurds just took the weapons and refused to fight lol. The Americans knew the protesters would be slaughtered after that. They knew all of this shit would fail. They don’t care because they succeeded in their top priority: close the Straight of Hormuz.

    The wealthy aristocracy that really runs the west, the “billionaire/Epstein class”, if you will…They don’t care about how this affects the average citizen at all. They are insulated from economic hardship. They are only concerned with maintaining global “full spectrum dominance”, and stopping the flow of resources to China in order to stop the rise of the multipolar world.

    Keep an eye on Indonesia/Straight of Malacca.
















  • Gates9@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldA true prophet
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    19 days ago

    I saw Limp Bizkit and Cypress Hill at a free show around 2000. Everyone, EVERYONE was there for Cypress Hill. When LB played they were booed thoroughly. At one point, for some reason, Durst decided to crowd surf. He returned to the stage with no shoes and no hat, cursed at the crowd, and stormed offstage. After a few minutes of confusion “Hits From The Bong” started, Cypress Hill took the stage and started hitting an 8 foot bong, while performing. Order was restored.