NoneOfUrBusiness

Free markets are a myth. Every country on Earth regularly interferes in the market to align it with its interests; China just does it more. That’s still not communism, because you can’t have billionaires (or private property in general) under communism. China under Mao was communist, but under Xi? No way. The Chinese government exerts significant control over its economy, but the primary driver of economic growth is still the private sector. China isn’t doing anything fundamentally different from what any Western capitalist state could do if they got their act together for five minutes.

First, what’s a “communism?” Second, China is capitalist as hell; it’s just capitalism under an authoritarian regime rather than under a democracy.

First, no editorialized headlines. Second, I have no opinion on the guy but he’s sounding more just wrong than evil here.

Bill, stop trying to make nuclear happen.

Why tho?

Renewables are here to stay and solar is as close as we will get to ‘free’ energy.

Why not both?

I really don’t think university professor job openings will be a major feature of the next few years.

I did, still not sure why this is supposed to be a problem beyond a general money in politics thing. “Nuclear companies do PR” isn’t really a surprising statement.

Lmao what the heck is a nuclear propaganda lobby?

Also, by stopping nuclear power Germany had to increase their carbon emissions by ~400% while also spending more than half a trillion euros so… uh… yeah.

Will a banker do good things? Y/N.

Eh, I’d argue that the dominant religion in the modern West is nationalism, not Christianity. Whether that makes them “fake” aside, Christianity is simply not a useful framework for understanding these people’s behavior.

My point was more that you lose if you get anything to the right of an outspoken progressive, and given the speed of Trump’s consolidation of power the amount of loss is essentially unchanged. Therefore, better on someone who might realistically be an outspoken progressive is the optimal move. It’s kind of like “you can get bitch slapped, or you can toss a coin and you either get bitch slapped extra hard or get a cookie.” The damage is being done either way, so you might as well bet on the cookie.

Imperialism does tend to boil down to just murdering people.

Keyword here is “accused.” Neoliberal media likes to accuse leftists of Bad Things™.

From what I’ve heard Canada doesn’t even have an EV industry to protect.

From someone with absolutely no horse in this race I feel this is looking a gift horse in the mouth. No matter how bad he turns out to be (which, yeah, I don’t think I’m convinced he’ll be a principled anti-imperialist in office), he’s not going to outdo establishment democrats by much. The way American democracy is going it’s worth the bet, I think.

Tourism is a cancer and generates nothing but misery for the people living in beautiful places.

It also generates money (through tourism-related jobs) for people living in those places. I get your frustration, and governments should absolutely be doing a lot more about overtourism, but plenty of ordinary people benefit from tourism.

China is worse at home (for now, give it a year and it’ll flip), but abroad the US no-diffs.

Or, alternatively, every taxpayer is giving them $200. For reference this is almost three times the amount of his aid cuts from back when.

I mean that makes sense; realistically a weaker yen will lead to more tourists going to Japan. What I’m saying is that Japan’s problem is more tourists, not worse tourists, which is what the parent comment implies.

Tourists not knowing courtesy or basic human decency isn’t restricted to any economic class. Japanese tourist hotspots have suffered from this since forever.

They are open to maybe discussing potentially reaching a consensus about the 1967 borders.

You’re exaggerating, but also sure, why do they need to go any further? Compromising beforehand is never a good idea, see: PA. Speaking of which, PA isn’t a tragic victim; they’re an active collaborator. The only thing they do is keep Palestinians under an oppressive dictatorship and fight what little Palestinian resistance exists in the West Bank. That’s why they have no legitimacy; their current program is one of submission, not “peace.”