Saurok

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

McCarthyism never ended lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Biden actively pushed for and got more weapons sent to Israel that enabled all this. If "just didn't do shit" is actually doing lots of shit that was bad, then sure he "just didn't do shit".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Do you have a source so I could read more about it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

What happened in 1984?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The social credit score stuff is basically a Western myth. There was some local level rumblings and plans, but most of it has been unpopular or axed. The only thing that exists at a national level for individuals is the equivalent of a credit score in the US and western countries. I believed this narrative at one point, but then I delved deeper. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/22/1063605/china-announced-a-new-social-credit-law-what-does-it-mean/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No worries, it's okay to be skeptical! Especially in this day and age when this could be some deep fake, Photoshop, or AI imagine. I get it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Damn, guess we'll have to cut the "defense" budget, oh nooo. Maybe that'll encourage them to pass their audits.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The entire point of a protest is to disrupt and inconvenience people, including civilians. Protests have no teeth otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You're probably telling them something they're already viscerally aware of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, just saw this. The answer is at the expense of the global south. Those social democracies still have companies that profit off of the labor and resources of the global south.

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