PugJesus

Firms driven by transient investors act as entities independent from society entirely. Each one is focused only on maximizing profit to please investors; the investors, likewise, are only interested in the next quarter, because at any given time they can take their investment and sell it. They are simultaneously putting money into renewables, but only insofar as it is profitable; as long as fossil fuels (still the larger portion of energy generation in most places) are more profitable, they will put more money into it. A self-feeding cycle which starves renewables.

The thing that is sometimes misunderstood by a disdain for the owner class is the incoherence of the owner class. They don't make plans. Even their alignments are only because of common interests (such as 'let the ultrawealthy investors make more money from their shitty investments'), not ideology or long-term plans.

The Communist Manifesto is linked in the sidebar - good and a pretty short read.

Honestly, if someone wants me killed, that's generally the least of my beef with them.

I don't remember the names of most interchangeable tankie fuckwads, but I presume, from the mention of NCD, that this is the one that opted to call the Tiananmen Square massacre as perpetrated by "CIA militants" fighting with the glorious PLA who were only heroically defending themselves against Amerikkkan aggression.

"Socialists are routinely assassinated"

Damn, is it 1970 again?

The simping for propaganda and totalitarian surveillance of the population is amusing, in a grim, dark, "Fascists are so fucking braindead" kind of way.

It's welcome here!

Facts don't matter. All up and down this thread is just utter disregard for any aspect of reality that contradicts the narrative.

We're not any smarter than the fascists, apparently. Just less morally repugnant.

There are definite parallels, but I think they relate more broadly to the general behavior of authoritarian states rather than being exceptional comparable as policies. ICE is currently being used as to scapegoat 'foreigners' using bureaucratic violations, real or just percieved, to justify expelling them from US territory, with probably the ultimate goal of extending this to citizens and the general operation of a secret police on US soil. I would compare this more to internal Israeli policy for the first few decades of its existence with regards to Palestinians - the goal is expulsion, using a legal gray area (that is, nonetheless, plainly and unambiguously morally abhorrent) to engage in a form of ethnic cleansing.

China's current policy resembles more the Residential Schools of the US and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, wherein the culture of a native society is stomped out by a mixture of violence, relocation, sterilization, and economic and political pressure, with the end-goal of either reducing their numbers to the point of being entirely marginalized or exterminated, or eliminating their culture and ethnic existence by force. Or else the Turkish treatment of the Kurds and other ethnic minorities in the mid-late-20th century. The goal is the destruction of the ethnicity itself, not just its removal from valuable territory.

It's hand-drawn, just mocking GenAI pics.

Though AI pics sometimes still have trouble with text.