american cultural imperialism is pretty prevalent in the western world. everyone known american music, wears american clothes (jeans), speaks english, has american military bases etc

The ABC of Communism - Nikolai Bukharin, Yevgeni Preobrazhensky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_(psychology)

yes that is one topic i found really hard to understand when first reading asian communists, i only knew the european definition of patrotism which is chauvinist and almost always ultranationalist

When I try to explain this to people, they usually say "Why should we care about other countries? We don't need to pay for their expenses! It's theit fault that they let themselves be exploited, we also didn't have outside help." and I dont know how to respond to that...

well, the gdp before 1950 is really negligible and probably mostly based on estimates (bc of the few data points on this chart and bc china wasnt unified). qing economy was really bad and outdated, also the usa wasnt in a constant state of civil war and external invasions in their home territory 1870-1950. not to discredit chinas incredible economic growth, i think more states should copy this model, but a country with that many people would probably experience gdp growth under any system that industrialises and has peace and a working government. maybe not as fast, but still. compare india to china in the same timeframe and you will see how enormously faster chinas growth is, even though they both started from basically 0. and ppl still say socialism doesnt work haha

It's The Economist, what do you expect? They have always been the same. Even Lenin wrote about it: "The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism." (Lenin 1915)

i love orange pi, i own another model, but unfortunately their newest software for the SBCs is often only uploaded to chinese cloud services which you cannot access without an account :(

nah proton funds hongkong protests

or southern lebanon but idk if that is still true after israel attacked them

I still don't quite understand why they shut down USAID, wasn't it one of the most influential ways for the US to spread their propaganda?

What is even the point of decentralised product boycotts, when has this ever worked without government legislation?

What is the point in building these battery parks? To cover power outages?

well the counter propaganda for this kind of thing is usually the "he was brainwashed" argument and some people will believe it

capitalism is pretty successful in destroying the world wdym

Isnt deepseek based on qwen? at least the distilled models?

Theyre not outdated, just not the newest version. All packages work

sync is disabled by default but can be enabled