Meanwhile these people say the same thing about immigrants.
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Then there's litterally noone to rely on anymore. Any seemingly actual Left doesn't have power.
I don't know.. democrats always rolled over the past few years and used the increasing crisis as fundraising opportunity.
Don't you get it? This one was one of the good ones. /s
Keeping these friendships going could combat their radicalization, but I'm not faulting you, I also cancelled friendships over this.
Damn.. belligerent is an understatment at this point. They're outright thugs, encouraged by the protection by the US.
But then you can't call the US a liberal democracy in any way as they aren't hands-off at all. Time and time again they meddle in other countries' business to exert influence and power and to advance their interests.
Israel itself was created by the West as Palestine was a British colony before and the US has since given more support to Israel than they would usually grant an ally. The continuous protection (political and militaristic) makes Israel almost a vassal state of the US. This is the real reason why "liberal democracies" have not reacted much (yet, hopefully).
They only logged the IP. That's metadata. IIRC Apple refused backdooring its phone encryption. That's a lot more invasive.
Really? I'm not convinced the Chinese government acts in the interests of its people at all. That's probably the biggest reason I can't call it Socialism. Just because government influence is stronger than in the West, the economic system isn't completely different.
But isn't the means of production still mostly controlled by capital owners? Sure, some industries are influenced by the government, but that is also the case in the West. The plan is certainly more detailed for China, but to me Socialism always meant labor is controlling the means of production. How's that the case when an elitist single-party government influences the capital owners?
Yeah, duh: making immigrants and politicians the scapegoat works best when people are unhappy with life.
To me it's extremely transparent however that neoliberals and conservatives have defunded and weakened our institutions so they can no longer fulfill their responsibilities. This leads to dissatisfaction which the extreme right blames on immigrants and correctly on neoliberal politicians.
That this leads to women voting for patriarchs, Jewish people for descendants of Nazis and second generation immigrants for racists, is so frustrating.