I don’t know what his sentence was, but death sentences in China are almost always “with reprieve.”

But they can and do. Previously:

What if I told you that our federal taxes don’t go toward food stamps at all, and in fact pay for nothing?

• The United States can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Former Fed. Res. Chair. Alan Greenspan
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela?

China is authoritarian. No not like that.

I can’t restore comments that were deleted via “Remove Content,” so in this case, no. They’re the comments that don’t show up in the modlog. It’s an outstanding bug.

Sorry, friendly fire.

The word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.

It’s a quote from the eponymous Pink Floyd album.

Because as far as I can find, the protests were nonviolent until the army was sent in to clear the square. When protestors blocked the army a standoff ensued, which was eventually forcefully broken as per the CCP’s orders.

The people in the square left peacefully and without the use of violence. There was no “standoff” in the square. The violence occurred in other neighborhoods, not in the square itself. You can find contemporaneous Western media coverage confirming this, because there were a lot of Western media there at the time. It’s well documented. That’s why we say that the “Tiananmen square massacre” is a myth, because it wasn’t in Tiananmen square and it wasn’t a “massacre.” The military didn’t kettle peaceful protesters into a square and indiscriminately mow them down and crush them under tanks.

That seems like a big leap of logic, though I just got here and may be missing a key piece of the puzzle.

I have no idea what’s going on here.

Where’s the evidence that they’re actually @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com and not some fascist doing false flag shitposting? Because newsflash: fascists lie all the time and want nothing more than to kill socialists, which is why they always come for us first.

We used to do imperialism.

We still do, but we used to, too.

Mostly no. That’s more Hollywood fantasy than real life.

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Reason: Breaks rule 1

Reporter, the first rule of Lemmy is you don’t make false reports against site admins’ posts.

BlueAnoners are as credulous as Trumpers when it comes to US imperialism, which is a bipartisan project.

Yes. This is covered in one of the YouTube videos I posted in this thread yesterday.

“Coming into power” is putting the cart before the horse. The odds of regime change don’t look good, and what would replace it hasn’t been decided. I doubt “crown prince” Reza Pahlavi is still a serious contender.

I pointed out that you couldn’t pretend defending the working in class when denying its agency.

There’s no evidence of us denying the agency of the working class, but Western media have groomed you to believe it. Previously:

Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of ‘Agency’ Discourse and How Media Chooses Which ‘Voices’ To Center

We discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
• https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War#Weapons_of_mass_destruction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_rape_allegations
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeonmi_Park

But you understand that everything you linked are examples of why a govt can’t actually print infinitely

We already agreed on why governments don’t print infinite money.

and can’t just pay interest to rich people

We know it can because we know it does. The wealthy buy US Treasuries for risk-free returns on investment.

Also it’s a red flag to me that all of your sources are youtube videos.

The reason I link to YouTube videos is because most people don’t read. They’re not going to read Karl Marx or Michael Hudson.

You’re still mistaking a state with monetary sovereignty for a business. It’s nothing like a business or a household or even a province or municipality. Money works completely differently at this level. Previously:

What if I told you that our federal taxes don’t go toward food stamps at all, and in fact pay for nothing?

• The United States can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Former Fed. Res. Chair. Alan Greenspan
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela?

TBF most of us used to be liberals, and we have no more wits now than we did then.