We want to put a permanent end to the genocide against Palestinians, and we have to think of realistic strategies that can allow such a goal to be materialized in the future.

Well we for a ceasefire because of trump, and there is no sign Kamala would have pushed for such a thing.

hypothetically, if you got in early enough on this and sold within an hour or two, you could probably stand to come out with a return, couldn't you?

yes I have an oversized faith in their ability to navigate the times, but some of the analysis about the neoliberals within China having a lot of influence raises concerns. If we are seeing China doubling down on foreign investment in the country, potentially opening back up to the likes of Meta and Google, pushing pro-Musk narratives domestically, there are a lot of reasons to wonder if the rot that has taken down so many nations will take a toll on China.

I saw a video of Mr Beast saying he was just exiting a meeting with "a bunch of billionaires" and he is going to buy TikTok. Regardless of who it ends up being, it does look like TikTok has reached an agreement with Trump to sell half the company to Americans in order to stay online in America, and I can only imagine how it will change the narratives people will have access to moving forward.

@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net hopefully this trend continues and we can see the shift you speak of coming to fruition faster than I was expecting

The right to strike may have been removed but I have seen plenty of examples of strikes happening since then. It's not like striking doesn't happen in China

yeah that makes sense. all in all it sounds like any of the systemic discrimination you are describing is endlessly better than the systemic discrimination here in the US. I don't hear about people being murdered walking the streets, poisoned by their own drinking water, beat up by police, enslaved in prisons, denied access to life saving health care, denied access to education, denied access to housing. This is what systemic discrimination means here. It sounds like what you are describing are very small issues in comparison.

Oh sorry I thought you were saying systemic discrimination against LGBTQ people, is that not what you were talking about?

Can you describe what you mean by a ghetto? What are the conditions, etc?

Can you give some details about what the abysmal systemic discrimination is?

I would just put an alert on Slickdeals for them and wait until a good deal pops up that has comments verifying that they are good

Ron Unz is a fascist and his website is a disgusting place

I've been thinking about this idea lately, since one of your previous comments on the topic.

I think it could make sense that China maintains it's current position as the means of production for the world, as exporting that role to the majority of available non-socialist countries would mean the greatest odds of handing it back to the control of foreign capital.

By China maintaining trade surplus and a strong control over global manufacturing as well as natural resource allocation, it can provide the strongest guarantee to itself that it can strike decisively and precisely when the moment is right.

When a new technological breakthrough is found which can catapult progress forward, China will be able to have it built in a few years because of the way their economy is currently functioning. Only China is in a position to, say, actually design and then make a scalable fusion reactor and build a dozen of them within a few years to then cut off the need for fossil fuels entirely. This is one of thousands of potential examples of technology that is being worked towards which, as soon as we find something that actually works, needs to be scaled up massively as quickly as possible, but you get my point. No one else is going to be able to actually figure these things out and then make them real on the scale necessary while also defending themselves from all sides by 5 eyes and improving the average citizen's life year after year. Being able to do these sorts of massively scaled, expensive, and innovative projects as quickly as possible is the only way to lower the coming death tolls from climate disasters and protect not only China but the world's future.

When disasters strike, as they will more and more, China will be able to not only help their people more effectively than everyone else, but we see in the case of COVID that they were able to keep their economy stable when all others were heavily impacted. Huge populations in China will need to likely be relocated during the next 40-80 years, which is a really short time that most of us will be alive to see. Their economy in it's current iteration and relationship with foreign capital supports this position, and as long as imperialists stay meddling, it seems wise to maintain course.

Then there is the BRI which needs a lot of money to essentially help accelerate the ability for the undeveloped world to develop, which will also further squeeze the foreign capitalists themselves. The only way for the investments into BRI to be most likely to pay off is to ensure that a lot of capital can flow to other countries with no guarantees aside from better deals on natural resources which mostly benefit you if you are a manufacturing hub. You need to be able to absorb billions in losses for when the US orchestrates a coup in the country you invested in and destroys what you've invested in. At the same time, China is maintaining a fantastic balance of livelihood growth, with more and more Chinese citizens being more and more satisfied while still maintaining the working conditions the undeveloped world.

It costs a lot for a nation like China just to have to engage in a world with the US, and I think the Chinese can see the US shuffling off to die in the cave and knows better than to prematurely turn it's back until it is clear that the predator can no longer strike. China is preparing for a shift that has not arrived yet, but is coming swiftly and I think China is consistently keeping up with being in the best position possible to leap forward at every opportunity without exposing itself to potentially fatal attacks.

I think your analysis of how China must shift it's economy in order to progress along the road to socialism is true, but it is not of the current moment and won't be until we firmly enter the new era. I think we will see this type of shift begin to happen in two or three generations, after the fall of imperialism at it's own hands, a world of disasters which no one is prepared for, and then the rebuilding of a socialist world from the ashes under the leadership of China. Assuming nothing catastrophic happens by then which drastically changes China's position as a communist nation, I don't think the CPC is on the wrong trajectory, even if it feels like things aren't happening fast enough most of the time.

Here's a TikTok boba lib talking about going to xiaohongshu to promote Taiwan independence: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT212Edxd/

Another good example of selling the switch: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT21NeGJ3/

Also good to raise awareness on TikTok side of things like this guy: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT218penQ/

Ethnicity is just a group or subgroup with distinct cultural features. Nothing to do with minorities or majorities aside from how being in either group influenced their particular customs. There are majority ethnic groups and minority ethnic groups

I said the same thing about New Orleans after Katrina. Why are we witnessing catastrophe which is unavoidable and then throwing people back into the unavoidable catastrophe zones? People aren't supposed to live in certain places, and trying to force the issue not only makes a living hell for the people that inevitably get caught in a natural disaster, it also has detrimental effects on the surrounding ecosystems

Check out William Faucher's lighting tutorial on YT (and his other content is very useful as well). If you can get good at lighting and creating cinematic looking shots it really goes a long way to making any animation look higher quality.

Humble bundle regularly puts out asset bundles and educational bundles for UE which are great ways to get a lot of assets affordably, as well as useful tutorials.

The UE documentation is pretty great, and they have some tutorials you can download for free from the unreal marketplace which will teach you the basics. There are a lot of good YouTubers with free tutorials as well.

I would also suggest getting used to sequencer and focusing on animation as it is a fun way to get comfortable with the engine, and has a lot of market value for jobs. Games need animation, but also movies, shows, music experiences (the Vegas sphere is all UE), fashion, automotive industry, and more.

Yeah that's the major issue. They do this vigilante anti-homeless fire starting and then say "see the homeless people start fires, they deserve to be eliminated." After years of organizing in unhoused encampments I know that most encampment fires in my area are not the fault of the people who live in those encampments. Some are, but most are not