Yogthos

A sentience trapped in a prison of meat. Made in USSR. Capitalismus delendum est! ☭

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2024-09-03 16:04:16 UTC

#gaza
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2024-09-03 15:44:31 UTC

Turns out all the talk about China's railways being unprofitable was just inability of western commentators to engage in long term thinking.
China’s state owned railway operator now posts net profit of 1.7 billion yuan & an increase in passengers by 18.4% to a record 2.1 billion passenger trips over the first half of 2024. Its debt ratio dropped from 66.2% to 64.6% vs prev year.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3276871/chinas-railway-operator-brings-gravy-train-posting-profits-and-lowering-debt-ratios (https://archive.is/z7eZG)

2024-09-01 20:08:51 UTC

French libs right now
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/064/099/801/902/113/original/a224aff1db3d5254.jpg

2024-09-01 18:24:40 UTC

A great illustration of how China's high speed rail is making domestic flying obsolete.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7bltO9Rjg

2024-08-29 14:16:46 UTC

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having grown up in USSR and then lived under capitalism fro the rest of my life, I think communism is actually very good in practice.
I care about systemic change that improves the lives of the majority in tangible terms. I don't care about chasing after Platonic ideals of human society.

2024-08-29 12:56:20 UTC

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2024-08-28 03:42:18 UTC

If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called "un-American" during the Trump administration. The lesser in action evil everybody.
#us #politics
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall

2024-08-27 21:24:18 UTC

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2024-08-27 20:48:41 UTC

AMLO announces a pause in relations with the U.S. and Canadian embassies.
“Canada almost seems like an associate state”
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/035/949/694/956/192/original/6d2eefde333df62d.mp4

2024-08-26 21:01:13 UTC

While Signal messages might be e2e encrypted, people tend to forget that the platform collects phone numbers of its users, which can be used to identify people.
This makes Signal an effective metadata collection tool that resides on a central server in the US.
By cross-referencing these identities with data from other companies like Google or Meta, the government can create a comprehensive picture of people's connections and affiliations.
#signal #privacy
🧵

2024-08-26 14:34:48 UTC

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sure, but even using this sort of a reductive measure we see that pretty much only significant changes are happening in China. This effectively invalidates the whole notion that people like Steven Pinker peddle that liberal capitalism is actually improving the standard of living.

2024-08-26 14:09:13 UTC

Poverty reduction in China vs the world as a whole. Pretty much all the poverty reduction globally is happening in China.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-poverty-thresholds
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2024-08-26 13:57:26 UTC

rules based world order in action
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2024-08-26 12:55:42 UTC

The notion of "freedom of speech" without the ability to manifest as tangible change amounts to nothing more than a license to emit pitiful sounds.

2024-08-25 22:42:07 UTC

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what I increasingly realize is that you're debating a subject that you have an incredibly superficial understanding of.

2024-08-25 22:23:50 UTC

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you realize that Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, China, Nicaragua, and DPRK exist right bud?
All of them without fail continue to tangibly improve the lives of the people while western anarchist continue to do their grandstanding. 😂
Yeah, let people decide. That's what the dictatorship of the PROLETARIAT literally is.

2024-08-25 21:41:17 UTC

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again, why do you think that this "most natural state" of society quickly disappears as societies grow. This is in fact how small primitive societies function. Yet, without fail, as they grow in complexity, they start developing mechanisms for central planning, authority, and delegation.
This happens for exact same reason that complex organisms develop nervous systems and brains.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

2024-08-25 21:39:26 UTC

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oh look another pampered western lib

2024-08-25 21:21:23 UTC

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not only that but you expose your ignorance without realizing it, because if you learn a bit of history then you'll find out that famines were happening in Russia long before USSR and were one of the main drivers of the revolution. What USSR managed to do was to put an end to famines.
I guess being ignorant is kind of a requirement for subscribing to anarchism though.

2024-08-25 21:19:45 UTC

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it's been tried lots of times, that's the whole problem. People tried making anarchism work at the start of the 20th century, Zapatistas tries with a bit more success in Mexico before folding, and so on.
Perhaps you should do a bit of reflection on why it is that anarchism can never get off the ground.
Meanwhile, you really might not want to use US as an example here bud, people are starving in US today https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html

2024-08-25 21:05:30 UTC

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and what have you accomplished with it exactly?
What have any anarchists accomplished over the past century?
Last I checked, capitalism in the west is stronger than ever, and now many western countries are flirting with open fascism.

2024-08-25 20:29:35 UTC

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and that's precisely why you fixate on freedom of speech over other rights that are far more important to people who don't have access to basic needs such as education, food, shelter, or healthcare.
There's a reason why anarchism is only popular among western liberals, while Marxism-Leninism is the ideology of the Global South.

2024-08-24 21:54:17 UTC

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you can promote fascism though, which is why it's on the rise all across the west now. The reality is that you already live in a tyrannical regime, you just don't care because you are not personally affected by the tyranny.

2024-08-24 21:50:00 UTC

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all I'm saying is that these are intellectually lazy arguments that nobody should be floating.
The discussion of why USSR failed is certainly beyond the scope of a mastodon thread. Spoiler is that it's got nothing to do with anything you said here.
Meanwhile, anarcho communism is just an outgrowth of liberal idealism, and the only thing it's accomplished in over a century is to block actual positive change in the west.

2024-08-24 21:37:57 UTC

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not only that, but every society recognizes that limits on freedom of expression are in fact necessary. The fact that westerners think they've got the balance right, while everyone else got it wrong further exposes western chauvinism.

2024-08-24 21:35:11 UTC

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focusing on freedom of expression at the exclusion of all else is such a quintessentially liberal perspective.
Actual freedoms include things like from poverty and the fear of illness or a lack of financial security in old age. These are tangible, real-world freedoms that directly impact our quality of life.
It's time to reevaluate your priorities and recognize the true value of actual tangible freedoms. Only once those are met can there be a discussion of maximizing personal freedoms.

2024-08-24 20:05:08 UTC

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I grew up in USSR, but yeah tell me more about how I was oppressed.
Meanwhile, quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. Even the CIA acknowledges this. but here you are.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5
And let's just see what George Lucas has to say about freedom of expression.
It's so pathetic to see how western "left" continues to carry water for capitalism today, rejecting real world solutions.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/018/790/875/736/070/original/f8a24b51805d9e90.mp4

2024-08-24 19:29:19 UTC

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actual democracy that's possible in the world as it is today is the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Marxism-Leninism provides a clear path towards achieving that which has been proven to work time and again.
The value of Lenin is precisely in that he has addressed your arguments over a century ago, and provided a template for achieving real meaningful change that improves the lives of the working majority.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

2024-08-24 18:39:11 UTC

Lenin on the Moon, Soviet Union - 1960. This was the future we deserved.
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2024-08-24 16:36:02 UTC

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the part I find interesting is the deindustrialization aspect. Never in the history of humanity has there been an empire that's so utterly dependent economically on its adversaries.
US simply lacks the industrial capacity to fight a war with China right now. That doesn't mean US leadership won't try to start one of course, but once they do I really can't see how they go about pursuing it.
The scary part is that US regime may resort to using nuclear weapons once it realized its defeat.

2024-08-24 15:48:11 UTC

Despite high tariffs against Chinese-built products, the United States imported record volumes of manufactured goods from China in July.
Policymakers expected that after years of high tariffs and sanctions, that supply chain managers would be moving supply chains out of China, and bring them home.
The opposite happened, and imports from China are not merely larger than ever, but are accelerating relative to countries most friendly to the United States.
#economy #us #china
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/017/779/821/085/500/original/ec1a70fddd77ec5f.mp4

2024-08-23 22:08:47 UTC

It's striking how these ideas were once openly discussed among Western societies just over a century ago. Yet today they are deemed radical and extreme. This serves as an example of how swiftly societal trends can change, demonstrating the power of social norms and the anchoring effect that leads us to confuse familiarity with what is reasonable and sensible.
https://www.marxists.org/history//canada/socialisthistory/Docs/Leninist/WP_Manifesto_21.htm

2024-08-22 04:18:38 UTC

More than 28% of Americans are searching for new jobs — the highest rate in a decade.
People’s fears of losing their jobs are at the highest point in a New York Fed survey’s 10-year history, even as the unemployment rate remains low.
#us #economy
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/28-americans-are-now-searching-new-job-highest-rate-decade-rcna167368

2024-08-21 01:21:34 UTC

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2024-08-20 00:24:22 UTC

#US children are being allowed back to school with #COVID19 if they don’t have a fever. The Academy of Pediatricians suggests older children may be able to manage “mild diarrhea” at school. A diarrhea scale is provided to help decide.
https://fortune.com/well/2024/08/19/covid-guidelines-sick-kids-return-school/
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2024-08-19 18:54:48 UTC

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2024-08-19 01:19:22 UTC

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meanwhile there is zero evidence for Chinese businesses robbing DRC or anyone else, time to update your script
https://www.eurasiareview.com/
ttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3745021
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/sri-lankas-debt-trap-and-the-vultures/
https://theconversation.com/china-and-africa-ethiopia-case-study-debunks-investment-myths-177098
https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-debt-trap-claims-in-africa-stem-from-us-rivalry-study
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/08/20/china-forgives-debt-africa/
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/broadband-business-formation-and-economic-growth-in-the-global-south-assessing-chinas-impact/
https://www.lse.ac.uk/iga/assets/documents/research-and-publications/FDI-in-Ethiopia-Crescenzi-Limodio.pdf

2024-08-19 01:17:23 UTC

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you're just regurgitating burgerland propaganda here
China has a tangible plan for becoming carbon neutral, and it's being achieved way ahead of schedule https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
China leads the world in wind and solar, with twice as much capacity under construction as the rest of the world combined https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-continues-to-lead-the-world-in-wind-and-solar-with-twice-as-much-capacity-under-construction-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined/
coal use in China is consistent with the transition plan https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-climate-pledge-is-largely-consistent-with-1-5c-goal-study-finds
Finally, China has entered structural decline in emissions https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/

2024-08-18 20:43:34 UTC

China's electric car market is booming, causing a shift away from traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, especially those from German automakers.
This shift highlights China's focus on technological advancements, driven by its investments in research and education, especially in fields like battery technology. The US and Europe failed to develop new strategies to stay competitive in the face of China's growing dominance in manufacturing and #technology.
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/08/17/20-years-of-policy-initiatives-by-china-have-created-a-manufacturing-technology-colossus/

2024-08-18 14:18:13 UTC

In 2011 German GDP was about twice as big as GDP of California, now they are about the same.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-24/california-poised-to-overtake-germany-as-world-s-no-4-economy
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2024-08-17 22:51:12 UTC

it's that same map again
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2024-08-17 14:15:18 UTC

iVerify discovered an Android package, Showcase.apk, with excessive system privileges, including remote code execution and remote package installation capabilities, on a large percentage of Pixel devices shipped worldwide since September 2017.
Showcase.apk came with Pixel firmware included in Google’s OTA image for Pixel devices
Just imagine this was a Chinese phone from any manufacturer, like Xiaomi, Huawei or whatever - could you imagine the outcry?
https://iverify.io/blog/iverify-discovers-android-vulnerability-impacting-millions-of-pixel-devices-around-the-world
#security

2024-08-16 15:34:36 UTC

U.S. colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations.
Some of the new rules include banning encampments, limiting the duration of demonstrations and allowing protests only in designated spaces.
Can't have students get in the way of a genocide.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-colleges-revise-rules-free-speech-hopes-containing-anti-war-demonst-rcna166866

2024-08-16 00:05:38 UTC

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is it really though, or is this an idea that transcends any single government?
https://theconversation.com/digital-id-will-go-mainstream-across-australia-in-2024-heres-how-it-can-work-for-everyone-219406

2024-08-15 14:57:40 UTC

In this new regime, Australians will be mandated to present identification for online activities, while law enforcement is granted permission to scrutinize their social media accounts, including confidential messages, which will be linked with their social credit scores.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/966/620/074/742/723/original/0055a4c491a72788.mp4

2024-07-31 15:38:00 UTC

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2024-07-31 14:20:32 UTC

Japan is on the verge of a $400 billion fire sale of U.S. debt. This could break the back of the Treasury market and devastate Americans’ finances.
#us #economy
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/31/boj-raises-benchmark-interest-rate-outlines-roadmap-for-trimming-bond-buying-program.html

2024-07-30 17:47:37 UTC

Now, I'm no expert, but it seems to me like there were some events that took place in the mid-20th century. Maybe some revolutions overthrowing capitalist regimes or something? It's almost as if people deciding that the working class should be in charge led to mass poverty reduction and standard of living improvements really took off after that. But hey, I could be wrong - maybe it was just a coincidence.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/07/5-myths-about-global-poverty
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp84b00274r000300150009-5
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2024-07-24 12:55:28 UTC

Just imagine the media coverage we'd see if the circus that's been taking place in the US for the past two weeks was happening in China, or any other country the west considers an adversary.