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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whole milk also often called "Vitamin D Milk"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

How can you guys get any work done around the house if you're constantly swapping shoes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Immediate back taxes on everything prior

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My impression is informed primarily by visiting several small and medium sized businesses across China. What I saw in these industrial regions was an incredibly widespread entrepreneurial spirit. Everyone wanted to get ahead and have their own business. When the money gets really big, I don't have direct experience, but it stands to reason the autocracy takes control. Greedy pieces of shit who Elon it up like Jack Ma find this out when they get too big for their britches.

As I'm sure you're aware, many democracies around the world are largely performative (see e.g. USA) and based on fear, lies, and social engineering. Nothing and nobody in the world could honestly achieve a 90 percent favorability rating, and having observed thousands of workers in China I cannot believe such a number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The most obvious flaw in your narrative is the assertion that China maintains a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is patently false. China is an autocracy of the party elite, with one man at the top. A dictatorship of a dictator. The fact there may be high level power games and intrigue among the upper echelon doesn't significantly change this. It doesn't matter that Xi happens to be the dictator du jour.

What this means for day-to-day life of the citizenry is something very divorced from socialism or communism. There are some elements of safety net and job placement, but just beneath that is a hyper-capitalist libertarian hellscape punctuated by fearful, feigned, and forced reverence of the party. As long as businesses play along and grease the right wheels the exploitative accumulation of wealth is sanctioned and encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People who constantly drive new cars are fucking psychos. Why would you ever get rid of a car just because it's 10 years old?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To achieve its originally intended purpose the Senate should only be able to legislate on interstate matters, not be an equal to the house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mmm mmm... Don't you love the taste of supply chain optimization?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's ok. The "clean" ones are dripping with invisible toxic cleaning product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Throw in a little massive income and wealth inequality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Now joined by Not-Saruman

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

So you think $1800 per migrant for a bus ride is an efficient and fair use of taxpayer dollars? You think dumping them in six specific Democrat-led cities is a fair distribution? You think migrants looking for a better life are a burden to be shared and not an economic and cultural benefit?

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