You used an operative word there, “never”.

I don’t know your relationship with your dad, your socioeconomic status, your age, your ability to change people’s minds. Etc. But if you really think that the answer is “never”, then you have a decision to make. Whether your dad is worth maintaining a relationship with or not. Would you still spend time with your dad if you never talked politics again?

If you’re young, your dad might not have a kind of respect for your ideas compared to if you were older. That’s just how it is with parents, that will come with time. Maybe you can convince him of these ideas in 10 years, when you’re older, he’s older, and the world has gone even more to shit, And maybe he sees the systemic problems behind it.

If you’re wealthy, your dad probably has the same mentality that most people who are wealthy have, which is that they deserve everything that they have, and fuck everybody else. I don’t really know how to change those people’s minds.

If you guys are not well off, then you can try to leverage regular socioeconomic talking points. Getting him to understand that the system is rigged and that kind of stuff.

It’s important to spend our time in places that matter the most. Maybe your dad will never understand. Accept it and spend your time on other people you might know.

Yeah, even Apple had to walk that one back. Although you do have to pay for the more powerful machine to get those ports. It’s just an Apple thing to do. Take away a cheap thing for everyone and then make you pay handsomely for what you used to get by default.

It is kind of fascinating to me that yes, the clean energy websites tend to be synophobic as well. But at least they will factually admit that China is ahead of the West in so many ways.

The first reason it’s fascinating is that the people on these sites still can’t get over their synophobia, even though time and time again China seems to be doing the right thing. It just confuses and bewilders them, and instead of sitting down and really reconciling with that, they just repeat phobic nonsense.

The second reason it fascinates me is that these are the scientific resources that liberals are supposed to be pointing to to determine where clean energy and the right decisions are being made. And when you point them at these resources they kind of still deny it, like they will say sure China’s ahead, but at what cost, or sure China’s ahead, but they’re still in the authoritarian state. Or China’s only ahead in these ways, but not those ways. Of which they are wrong to say that, but at least this one particular source might not point that out. It’s denialism at its most fascinating.

I’m sure to a lot of people on here thinks this is obvious, and not really comment worthy, but being a communist for about a year I’m still wrapping my head around a lot of the hypocrisy of the West.

Of course, the current pace is not indicative of future trends, but if the pace keeps up like this, they are three years away from billionaires owning zero dollars, which is pretty crazy.

Go Xi go! Go Xi go!

Yeah, they said all the cities looked ugly with parking lots so they just “pretend all parking is underground” and igore the costs/upkeep with something like that.

containership traffic through the strait fell by 67% and tanker traffic has dropped by about 50%, according to Windward, a maritime-intelligence company.

OMG, I didn’t even catch that they said it was ineffective and then said that traffic has dropped out nearly 50%.

Nothing to see here folks. We’ve only had to drastically reroute all of our ships. But, truly, nothing to see here.

Damn that copium is strong.

Man, it must be great living in such a simple world, where you can just be a normal fucking person, then vote, and all of a sudden you’re fighting fascism!

It’s like a delusion of grandeur. In fact, I think that’s exactly what it is now that I think about it.

Feels great to be able to fight fascism without ever having to pick up a kalashnikav.

Very well said!

If suburbanites in California are painting their grass green for their HOA’s, does that count as being part of the conspiracy theory?

California is communist theory confirmed!

After thinking about it for a while, not having any special knowledge, but being in the tech field, I feel like this is the most likely scenario.

In the States, where can you find old stuff from the 90s anymore? That was before I was using the internet heavily, but things like GeoCities and other meta websites have gone down or basically only exist in archives now.

I realize that the article never said that China is purposefully pulling these websites down just that they seem to be disappearing. This is conspiracy theory code for we’re just asking questions. But if I had heard an American say, hey, why are these old 90s websites coming down? Isn’t that suspicious? Isn’t our government being totalitarian? I would definitely just say no, that’s just how the internet really works, Things come down, nothing lasts forever.

Something something China’s plan is just to wait for the USA to collapse something something.

What in the stupid incoherent argument was that…

Okay legit is there any evidence of slave labor? What do the libs point too when asked?

When i did some searching the only thing i could find was the job placement program that people go through after the education centers in xinjiang.

Obviously they are all closed now, So there’s no good excuse there now. Even gm failed to find forced labor in xinjiang recently.

But anything else? Or just your standard sinophobic stuff?

Thank you, comrade!

God damn, Thank you for putting that boneheaded lib in this place.

Western libs are all confidence and no intelligence. We are the most propagandized people on the planet, and most people are so uncomfortable with the word “propaganda” that they refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

At the beginning of this conflict, I was a western ib all the same and though I didn’t speak about it online, I supported Ukraine. It took a lot of keeping my mouth shut and listening, and learning history, and just not being so over confident, to finally come to the understanding that the West is causing this problem, not trying to solve it.

Lame.ee is the fucking worst.

Thank you for being willing to speak out and being the voice of reason.

I always go back and forth on this part, because protesters with a handful of guns greatly outnumber the police with bigger guns. So, in theory, the protesters would win, but not without major losses. The police station example is a good one.

But I don’t know if it’s worth escalating until we’re actually ready to start a revolution. Any escalation will eventually be outdone by police, right? The only way we can possibly win is by sheer numbers and organizing. That would necessitate a massive amount of organizing. And until we’re ready for that, we’re just gonna get squished.

It reminds me of the BLM activity in the Pacific Northwest in 2020. I mean Seattle literally had multiple city blocks that police weren’t allowed to enter. But eventually it falls.

But I don’t know. I feel like my thoughts around this are wrong in some way. It also feels like the left has been tricked into peacefully protesting and we’re just having a hard time getting out of that.

In my local organizing, it’s pretty tough because it kind of feels like everybody is so damn hesitant to actually piss people off or be too inconvenient or something like that. Nobody wants to block a bridge or shut down a plant or anything like that because everyone is so afraid of the optics.

they are now trending back in the other direction.

There are certainly people who call themselves communist that miss this point too!

S4A sadens me, he does lots of great work turning communist texts into audiobooks, but then latches onto one aspect of china that blinds him to the truth. China used capitalism to beat the west at their own game, and now they get to change the rules.

That quote is so relevant every time a Western politician opens their stupid mouths about China.

Westoids literally think it’s Lord of the Rings there! They took the orc comments too seriously.

Sweet, all we need is a new Bolshevik revolution and the Sino-Soviet split will be undone!