the latest BRICS summit recently completed

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    I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle. Germany for example has a lot of social services (universal healthcare, unemployment securities, etc.) and is still doing exceptionally well.

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      I think that is also a very one-sided view on this issue. The truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.

      Centrism is a religion

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        Centrism is rejection of political extremes. It is nuance and critically questioning everything. It means criticizing your own side. Contrary to popular belief It is the opposite of being a coward, because everyone will hate you.

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          Rejecting political extremes on the basis of being extreme, and not the merits of the positions (or lack thereof), is the opposite of nuance. It’s substituting critical thought for a rejection of the idea that one can both differ from the median viewpoint and be correct, which is logically absurd.

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          No, centrism is the uncritical acceptance of the political extreme that is currently in power. It rejects nuance on and critical questioning, because that might lead to believes other than the current status quo.

          It is the certainly not the opposite to being a coward, and it is synonymous with being intellectually lazy; like relying on thought terminating cliches such as “the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle”

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      Germany is also imperialist. The countries that rely on imperialism have higher metrics by plundering the global south. It’s kinda like looking at life expectancy of the rich vs the poor in any one country, the better metrics of the top come at the expense of the bottom.

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          They don’t, really. Russia has like 6 of the world’s top 500 companies, it couldn’t rely on the same financial expropriation even if it wanted to simply because it utterly lacks the financial capital to do so. China is a production-focused economy, and the large firms and key industries are state owned. Even if we took the ideological aspects of Marxism-Leninism completely out of the picture, China is more economically incentivized to build up multilateralism so it can sell its products to the global south, and not rely so much on the US to offload its production to, as the US is constantly unreliable due to it wanting more capital penetration into Chinese markets (which the state rejects).

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                What do you respond to “Fuck X” , if thats what you’re talking about? Otherwise I have stated my reasoning. If one side isn’t willing to give up anything, it isn’t really a discussion

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                  What facts did I disagree with? Are you operating with a different concept of what imperialism means, ie a semantical difference but not a logical one? Or am I wrong about Russia having relatively small financial capital and thus lacking the capacity to practice imperialism in the same way western countries do? Or am I wrong about China’s large and key industries being state owned, and their economy incentivizing multilateralism in order to sell more?

                  The first would be a semantical difference, not a disagreement with facts, the latter 2 would be if you could provide evidence to the contrary sufficient to outweigh what I said.

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                    This is just going to result in me pulling up a source that you don’t deem reputable, only for you to pull up a source that I don’t deem reputable.

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              i like how you use the incel mascot; never seen a freudian slip as a comment before.

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                You are confidently wrong, pepe the frog is originally from a stoner comic. Besides, I am married, so the whole incel thing doesn’t exactly check out.

                Edit: Very revealing how absolutely everything I post is downvoted by default, despite this comment being irrefutable fact.