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Part of me thinks this is so they have an easy way to drop prices after people get used to everything costing more

This is a technique commonly employed by Sisi in Egypt so while it’d be surprising that America sunk that low that quickly I can see it happening. And by the way, yes America is now being compared to Egypt out of all countries so… Uh… Good luck.

Oh yeah.

It’ll be funny if this is how WWIII starts and we get EU + China vs US + Russia.

It seems it went hard in the other direction with conspiracy theories and what not, but mostly yeah.

Again, I won’t argue that colonial wealth didn’t contribute to the rise of Western Europe, but it was Europeans who invented the steam engine, developed thermodynamics as a science and put half a continent’s worth of resources and intellect into the industrial revolution. Colonialism is only a contributing factor that came after the start of the industrial revolution. Hell, France for example barely had any colonies during the early industrial revolution and that didn’t at all impede its industrialization or rise to power. If you look at, say, Ottoman history you’ll see that the thing European countries had and the Ottomans didn’t wasn’t wealth but rather ideas.

Which is why many in the developing world feel that China’s rise to prominence is the West’s chickens coming home to roost.

As someone from the developing world (specifically the Middle East), we are salty about colonialism, but many of us also recognize that if we don’t learn from the history of colonialism and what allowed Europe to conquer half the world (including us) we’ll always be on the bottom rung of the world. There’s a lot more to learn from the rise of Europe than “fuck colonialism”.

I mean yes, true, but it was capitalists who made smartphones and computers. I’ll just link my other reply here.

That’s late stage capitalism, which only really started in the 80s. Early to middle capitalism is a mix of both panels. I’ll just link my other comment here.

Honestly, not really. Colonialism made Western Europe wealthier for the time period, but it was investment in science and technology that gave the West the industrial and technological advantage that sets them aside from the rest of the world (other than China) today. There are very few non-Western non-China countries where appreciable heavy industry takes place that isn’t resource extraction-parallel like oil refinement. There are also very few non-Western non-China countries with the industrial capital and technological knowhow to, for example, make smartphones.

You’ll notice that I keep including China as an exception here, which is because China noticed the importance of these things and went ahead to develop/steal these, and it’s because it was able to obtain these things that China is the global giant that it is today.

*Late stage capitalism can’t innovate. The industrial revolution and internet revolution, among others, were fueled by Western capitalists. Adopting capitalism early on is about 75% of the reason the West is at the top of the modern world order.

And if China increasingly becomes the place to go work if you’re an ambitious researcher or developer, it’s not hard to see where that leads.

Is that a thing? I know China’s research sector is large and growing, but I never heard of it attracting foreigners.

“The accusations/obsessions over DeepSeek using H100 sound like a rich kids team got outplayed by a poor kids team, who weren’t even allowed shoes,” tweeted Jen Zhu, an AI investor, “and now the rich kids are demanding an investigation into whether shoes were used instead of training harder to improve themselves.”

This is amazing.

Their most likely to succeed strategy would be pursuing victory through the Israeli court system (which was relatively on their side, leading to the attempted “court reform” power grab that was the political story in Israel prior to October 7). Their next best bet would be Israeli politics moving away from the current right wing nationalist coalition.

Just gonna say that the problem in Israel isn’t just the current right wing coalition. Israel has been an Apartheid Nazi state since its founding in 1948, and before that it was always meant to be an Apartheid Nazi state. That aside, this was the plan after the Second Intifada ended in 2005, but here’s the thing: The peaceful resistance project failed. It’s over, peaceful resistance from the inside will never bring change for Palestinians. At this point the PA’s only role is to enforce Israel’s Apartheid on the Palestinians of the West Bank. I’ll also point out that the Israeli court system is a dead end because the West Bank isn’t governed by Israeli civil law. It’s governed by Israeli military law as a military occupation. The court system you’re talking about explicitly doesn’t protect the Palestinian occupied territories.

In fairness to the PA, Palestine has an approximately 0% chance of winning a war against Israel. And an approximately 100% chance of them getting blown to pieces if they ever had an attack successful enough for Israel to fully mobilize against them (see Gaza).

The Gaza war has been/was an absolute disaster for Israel so if anything the violent resistance route is much more effective than whatever the PA is doing.

But at least it has a plausible chance.

It… doesn’t. The last time Israel had a leader willing to engage in good faith negotiations was in 1996 during the Oslo accords, and they killed him for it.

For something to qualify as genocide, the special intent „dolus specialis“ is a key requirement. Killing people is not sufficient.

You can look up South Africa’s case at the ICJ for instances of said intent. That North Gaza starvation/extermination plan on its own qualifies as genocidal intent.

An issue is that Amnesty International and Ireland expanded the definition of genocide for the case of Gaza specifically.

People defending Israel are claiming that; why are you stating it as fact?

Hamas has repeatedly stated that killing all the Jews is an objective of theirs.

They haven’t though. They consider the destruction of Israel an objective of theirs, but at least as of 2017 they officially don’t want the extermination of Jews.

Thankfully I managed to get away (sort of) but yeah, that was not a fun time.

The socialism they’re talking about here is a USSR-style central planned economy, just to make that clear. That sort of environment is absolutely hostile to foreign investment for many reasons, not the least of which is the corruption that will take decades to fully erase, if such a thing is even possible. For a demonstration of what that means today look at Egypt, which isn’t socialist but has many of the same problems due to the military’s encroachment on the market. The problem is that it’s impossible to compete with a state that doesn’t want to let you compete, so you’re at the mercy of the government in a way that tends to repel foreign investment.

Fine, then let’s rephrase it as “Israel subjects Palestinians to Apartheid”, which is just a fact and there’s really no way to get around it.

The response to your link would be: Are Palestinians allowed to use those hospitals in any significant numbers?

This guy also considers the second intifada to be a genocidal campaign (lol what???) so they’re too detached from reality to be taken seriously either way.

Apartheid does have a definition, though.

Well yes and no. Leftists have a massive division problem, always had and probably always will. The whole numbers thing doesn’t matter much when those numbers are like oil and water.

Okay let me just ask: How old are you? I wanna know how long till you can get away from this menace.