For sure, Tokyo and Hong Kong are incredibly walkable cities but not at all accessible. Though maybe it's gotten a bit better in the last decade or so.
A disability activist in Tokyo used to document how it was nearly impossible to use basic public transportation in a wheelchair: no ramps onto buses or subways, no elevators, scary big gaps between the platform and subway car that his wheel could get stuck or fall in, et cetera.
crowd was full of people from Portland and surrounding areas, unconfirmed reports that a small handful were from Idaho.
Felix pronounced "Oregon" incorrectly, and was jeered loudly for it.
there was a somewhat expected extended riff on the Oregon Trail video game, and a very unexpected extended riff on the Portuguese.
for reasons I will not divulge, Matt got incredibly excitable about fast food and made an absolutely ludicrous claim about the regional fast-casual Italian chain Fazoli's.
All in all the experience completely exceeded my expectations.
In one of my Chinese classes I learned the term dandao daodan 彈道導彈: ballistic missile. Quite a tongue twister!
It's absolutely insane to claim that China doesn't have the military capability to execute either an amphibious invasion, carpet the island with ICBMs, or both at the same. But why would China ever do something like that and have the entire international community turn on them when they can just opt for cold war proxy brinkmanship instead?
I know I'm almost wilfully missing the point to say this, but it's pretty much common practice in reporting to say a given crime is at an "all-time" high without any statistical evidence. Gotta keep that suburban anxiety ramped up to justify those police budgets. It just so happened that it came back to bite them on this one.
What I'm trying to do is articulate a trajectory of theory to practice, rather than practice to theory.
I acknowledge it's a bit slippery--dare I say dialectical? I would also point out that "any kind of sustained way" is the crucial distinction I am making. "Any kind," as you truncated it, is very different and I think too generalzed.
Is the work of political theory through dialectical materialism carried out in any kind of sustained way anywhere besides Vietnam?
Xi Jinping, for example, is obviously a Marxist and has a Marxist outlook, but he is not a theoretician. He is motivated by realpolitik rather than theory -- the latter comes afterwards and is generated by others to justify whatever the CPC does. (Not a criticism, just a general observation.) On the other side, you have works like the Coming Insurrection that are programmatic but haven't actually been implemented.
Currently Vietnam seems like an exception in regards to an ongoing Marxist project that bridges the practical and theoretical.
To be honest your take sounds like vicarious accelerationism. The US leaving isn't good but a confirmation that its entire Afghanistan occupation has been an obscene waste of life. The Taliban taking over as an anti-communist theocracy is also not good. All of this is bad and moving to a 20,000 foot viewpoint to admire the grand sweep of history has more than a hint of first world entitlement and indifference.
side note, the ccp vs. cpc thing strikes me as the same kind of language politics as native american vs. indigenous or african american vs. black. Does China have a published position on it or is this a western distinction?
Lack of supply is where the head of government does not have the votes to pass budgetary or essential legislative measures.
For the Democrats that's the absolute sweet spot. Nothing makes them happier to do nothing and then shrug and point fingers. See: the legislative philosophy of the entire Biden administration.
Caitlyn Jenner as governor is going to be a trip, y'all.
Kanye's going to realize that the presidency is only fit for psychopaths and the mentally enfeeble, governorship is where it's at for narcissists with a platform like himself.
For sure, Tokyo and Hong Kong are incredibly walkable cities but not at all accessible. Though maybe it's gotten a bit better in the last decade or so.
A disability activist in Tokyo used to document how it was nearly impossible to use basic public transportation in a wheelchair: no ramps onto buses or subways, no elevators, scary big gaps between the platform and subway car that his wheel could get stuck or fall in, et cetera.