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Meanwhile in the real world:
Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition:
Professor of Economic History, Robert C. Allen, concludes in his study without the 1917 revolution is directly responsible for rapid growth
Study demonstrating the steady increase in quality of life during the Soviet period (including under Stalin). Includes the fact that Soviet life expectancy grew faster than any other nation recorded at the time:
A large study using world bank data analyzing the quality of life in Capitalist vs Socialist countries and finds overwhelmingly at similar levels of development with socialism bringing better quality of life:
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.
This study shows that unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths. The first quantitative analysis of the association between deindustrialization and mortality in Eastern Europe.
Romania, the inustrialization of an agrarian economy under socialist planning
If we accepted the arguments that humans are selfish, then it’s an argument for communism and not against it. We should be creating social systems that encourage socially positive behavior and inhibit socially destructive behavior. Capitalism is like taking a drunk to a happy hour at the bar. The fact that people keep repeating this trope shows complete and utter lack of critical thinking on their part.
111·1 day agoHow does people living in a province of China having mainland residency permits divides their loyalties again?
China’s growth was projected to be at around 5%, so even taking a full 2-3% hit would mean the economy would continue to grow. And as you rightly point out, the governance in China is very effective, and they have been preparing for this eventuality for a long time. The most likely scenario is that trade will be redirected, and the government will directly support parts of the economy that are affected by the decoupling.
Exports to US account for roughly 2% of China’s economy, it’s clearly not significant for China
just do a trade embargo at this point 🤣
The offer to Europe is a poisoned chalice. Europeans are expected to betray China, gut food safety laws for toxic US beef, and pray America doesn’t knife them in the back with pharma tariffs mid-negotiation. The EU still deludes itself that 90 days of tariff pauses mean goodwill, as if the US hasn’t spent decades sabotaging allies. We’ll see if European leadership understands that when the dollar collapses, America will drain Europe’s corpse first.
This move makes perfect sense to me. It’s just a naked protection racket at this point, no need to pretend there’s a diplomatic aspect to it.
3·4 days agoand China happens to be a giant, and rapidly growing, semiconductor market https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/semiconductors/china
Good news is that the real world has a way of asserting itself in the end.
lmfao incredible to see that people still guzzle propaganda about Russian army being on the verge of collapse when even US intelligence admits it’s far stronger than before the start of the war in every conceivable way
the US really wants to have direct control over all energy coming into Europe 🤣
The whole framing is absurd to be sure, but the fact that even these chuds are now acknowledging that China is winning is itself notable. It’s no longer possible to keep peddling China collapse narrative, and they’re starting to have to grapple with the fact that China is visibly going from strength to strength.
It’s so transparent too.
this is what sniffing glue does to your brain kids