I definitely agree with your message.

do you have any idea how to improve?

Sorry, i’m not good with memes. I’m a bit of a boomer in regards to this online culture stuff. I leave the meme production to the youngins.

I get what you’re trying to say, but i’m not sure the meme format fits the message. We’re not rejecting the above in favor of communism, because all those things come with communism. You said as much in the title but the meme itself could still be misleading to someone who doesn’t read the title.

i love you warmongers

ah yes, we “warmongers” who warn against bombing the energy infrastructure of another country because we don’t want a war

a nuclear war caused by China

talks about Russian-Chinese pipelines getting bombed and then claims that the resulting war would have been “caused by China”… 🤡

It’s one thing to bomb the pipeline of a completely cucked and subservient vassal state like Germany that will just meekly take it and say “thank you sir, may i have some more”.

It’s another to do it to a sovereign nuclear superpower like China. At that point you’re declaring war on one and a half billion people who produce one third of the entire world’s manufacturing output.

Good luck and have fun with the consequences.

After Tiananmen they can’t believe in #1

But they did. For a long time they still believed that they could do achieve their goals in China via a slower more subversive approach than the overt 1989 color revolution attempt, via gradual elite corruption and infection with liberal ideology.

This is why up until the “pivot to Asia” happened you still had fairly positive coverage of China in the Western media and cultural sphere. In the 90s and 00s China was portrayed relatively positively in the media. The war propaganda faucet to demonize and dehumanize Chinese people in the eyes of Westerners was only turned on relatively recently.

If they really thought there was no hope of regime change after 1989 they would have started this much earlier when China was much weaker. They didn’t because they didn’t understand China (they still don’t) and they deluded themselves into thinking things were still going their way.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power

Well, that is how they think. But that’s not the point that was being made. The point is that the logic of capitalism made it impossible for them to resist outsourcing to China, because the profits were too juicy to pass up. China understood this and took full advantage of it.

By the time the western elites noticed their catastrophic strategic mistake it was too late. Now they are panicking and for the last decade or so have been scrambling to try and find a way to reverse what has happened before the window of opportunity permanently closes.

Hence their increasingly reckless and self-harming escalations, with Ukraine, Taiwan, now Iran… They feel they are out of time and nothing is working anymore so they have to constantly take crazier and crazier gambles in hopes of digging themselves out of the hole.

Minimalism is a psyop to encourage more fast turnover consumerism, similar to the “fast fashion” psyop. Throw away things then buy more then throw them away again to buy more again.

Even after they became affordable for the masses people still historically cherished possessions like books and passed them on to their children. They are not disposable, consumable commodities and i’m not going to let anyone gaslight me with their new age faux philosophy into treating them that way.

I’d rather re-read a book i’ve already read five times before, than buy a new book every other week just because i enjoy reading a lot and i’ve stupidly thrown away my old books.

If space becomes a problem i just expand my e-book collection instead (and in a way such that i actually have the file on my computer, not rented from some online service that at any time can take away my access to books that i bought and was supposed to own).

Why wouldn’t they? The imperialists make propaganda in pretty much every language. Media is a soft power battlefield. Would you have Russia just roll over and not fight back? Yes they are at a massive disadvantage in terms of reach and resources, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try.

I completely agree with you. Another thing is the perpetual doomsaying on the news mega every time something let’s say “interesting” happens also gets quickly tiresome. There are a lot of good posters there but also some that just keep repeating the same thing over and over, whether it’s hyper-criticism of China or projecting their own insecurities and/or wishful thinking onto the global south. The western left needs to get its own shit together before criticising others.

This. They tailor their content to suit the target demographic. If you make English language media for an Anglo audience you are inevitably going to end up adopting either liberal imperialist talking points or reactionary social-conservative ones, else you will remain extremely niche.

For obvious reasons a Russian media outlet cannot take the liberal imperialist position. However we also see the other option happening with CGTN America, which is much closer to Western liberal media in its tone and positions than the actual (international) CGTN.

This also has to do with the fact that they have to hire native English speakers to host or translate their programming, or to advise them on how to market to western audiences. Depending on who they choose to hire, these people will also come with certain biases.

Definitely not the latter and probably neither (i mean, yeah, the internet will be faster in ten years but not necessarily because of this). What this means is more secure encrypted communications which is not just about national security or privacy, it has economic implications because of how electronic financial transfers are conducted.

Reducing Tibet to the Dalai Lama also seems somewhat inappropriate.

Agreed. It is indeed extremely inappropriate to reduce Tibet to the Dalai Lama and his fellow feudal theocrats. Which is why we don’t consider the conflict waged against that tiny ruling elite to be an aggression against Tibet as a whole. It’s why we celebrate the liberation of the overwhelming majority of regular Tibetans from feudal serfdom as the liberation of Tibet, because it is they who truly represent Tibet, and not the former ruling caste.

CIA spies aren’t civilians.

First two points are valid. Third is not. “Junta” or not, Myanmar has a legitimate government and co-operating with them as they would with any other country’s government is absolutely in line with China’s policy of non-interference. Especially since China has a vested interest in maintaining stability in South East Asia, they are definitely not going to be sympathetic to western backed insurgencies. The deposed government before the junta was stacked full of NED graduates by the way. China would be absolutely stupid to actively support a return to power of western puppet compradors who would purposely block regional economic development and co-operation and turn Myanmar into another anti-China proxy instead.

You know, i’m not envious of their living standards, even though they are better than mine. I’m glad for them. The part that actually almost makes me angry is how well he understands western societies. He understands us better than the vast majority of us do ourselves. And certainly better than we understand the other way around.

I spend a lot of time making an effort trying to educate and inform myself not only about the society that i live in but about others too, China in particular. And i still feel i have no hope of understanding China to the level that this guy understands the West. What kind of superhuman education do they receive over there and why can’t we have it?

What about Tibet and Taiwan?

What about Taiwan? Has Beijing already liberated Taiwan and we just haven’t heard of it? What exactly are you referring to? If anything the Taiwan situation shows an incredible amount of restraint on their part. Any other country would not be so patient if a vital strategic part of its national territory was allowing hostile foreign powers to militarize and occupy it. China continues to insist on peaceful reunification.

And what about Tibet? Didn’t Tibet sign a treaty acknowledging it’s a part of China? Were you expecting China not to defend itself against British and American armed violent separatists trying to re-establish a feudal theocracy? Next you’ll tell me China is aggressive because it doesn’t allow ISIS to establish a caliphate on its territory. A week long police action against separatist insurgents hardly counts as a civil war.

Could we also ask the indians (1962), the vietnamese (1979), and russians

It’s telling that you had to go back to before 1980 to find a conflict China was involved in. And none of those wars were started by China, unlike the US’s wars of choice. Even in 1979 when China was, in the opinion of most of us here, on the wrong side, they still technically only responded to an attack on one of their allies. The fact that they picked the wrong ally is sad but it doesn’t exactly show aggression on their part.

With regards to India, again, China showed incredible restraint. India helped the British and Americans arm violent separatists in Tibet and then launched incursions into Chinese territory. China defended itself and could easily have stayed in the parts of South Tibet they briefly occupied in that skirmish. Yet despite having a very legitimate claim to that territory China made the good faith gesture of pulling out of South Tibet and giving it back to India.

As for the Sino-Soviet border disputes, who exactly are you blaming for them? Are you saying they were all provoked by China? And what did those actually amount to? Basically nothing happened, they were the result of stupid political tensions, nothing more. To compare these nothing-burgers to the US’s full fledged wars, regime changes and sponsorships of terrorist insurgencies and brutal military dictatorships is beyond dishonest, it’s ridiculous.

You are clutching at straws here bringing up history that many of us here weren’t even born when it happened. Show us anything in the last 40 years where China behaved even remotely similar to how the Americans and their Euro lapdogs have done and continue to do.

Biden didn’t just arm Ukraine, he basically directly involved the US in that conflict. By giving satellite intel, targeting data, planning for offensives and routes to avoid AD, logistics, training, virtually everything came from the Americans and the Europeans except for the bodies thrown into the combat. Even to call it a proxy war is almost an understatement. And Trump is continuing to do the exact same.

Same for enabling the Gaza genocide. They don’t just give bombs and weapon systems. The US and Europeans all fly spy planes over Gaza and use their satellites to give the Zionist entity intel that enables them to target doctors and journalists, strike hospitals, food and water supplies, and commit countless other war crimes. This is their genocide as much as it is the “Israelis’”.

Germany is an industrial powerhouse.

Not for much longer the way things are going.

I don’t think the shape matters that much, so long as it’s some kind of rectangle. Because sure, odd angles and curves may look fancy from the outside, but they are a nightmare to actually furnish since most furniture relies on straight lines and 90° angles.

Also the problem with commie blocks with less than 8 floors is that, at least in older apartment buildings, sometimes they wouldn’t build an elevator unless there were 8 or more floors. Regulations are different now in most countries what with accessibility requirements, but that’s only for newly built ones.

At the end of the day it depends on the density of the urban space that you’re trying to provide housing for. If it’s very dense you may have no choice but to build very tall.

For me i’d say the most important criteria are what the neighborhood is like and how big the apartments are. If you have everything you need on a daily basis within walking distance, good public transport, and the apartments are not too cramped (2-3 rooms), then i don’t care too much about the rest.

Perfection.

An alternative search engine that doesn’t just search Western propaganda news outlets?

Exactly.

Also does a bunch of other things but that’s not important right now.

Main thing is, it’s a search engine that is not censored by the West. Google for instance will simply never show you certain sites that have been deemed in the West to be enemy “disinformation”, instead it will spit out dozens upon dozens of clones of the same MSM articles on sensitive political topics.