If I were taught this version of Jesus, I would likely be religious. Also, did Sankara write any books?

If this is a quip to say “now those who can, will hide their neuro-divergence to protect themselves , and it will seem like there are fewer” then I agree.

But I think what you are saying is “now all the fakers will back track! Hahaha gotcha!” Licks boot.

If so then, disrespectfully, go fuck yourself

So we have clear examples of American bullying. Do you have examples of Chinese bullying?

So Stalin helped kill a buttload of Nazis which is nice.

And saying “under Chinese rule” is a weird way to state it. I mean, of course the Chinese people should rule themselves. Unless you’re butt hurt about China resisting the western colonial powers and murdering a bunch of capitalists.

Given the bad faith of your comment, I feel no need to elaborate, clarify, or provide nuance.

Are you doing a bit?

Otherwise in short: socialism is when the businesses, organizations, economy, and government are owned democratically by the workers.

When these things are owned or managed (either undemocratically, or with limited democracy for the workers) by the wealthy owning class, also known as capitalists or those who dont work but rather live off investments and property, that is called capitalism.

For example:

You and 3 friends own a business equally, making decisions together, and choosing what to do with the profits. This would be more of a socialist enterprise even if its for profit.

Alternatively:

You start a business and hire 3 staff. You pay them a wage, but you make all of the decisions about the business and its profits. This is more of a capitalist enterprise.

You can roughly apply this to other organizations, including the government.

Now, a country “being more socialist” would have more democratic control by the workers. A country being more “capitalist” would have more control by the wealthy capitalist owning class.

If the politics and economics are dominated by a workers democracy, you could consider that country socialist. If its dominated by the wealthy, then it would be a capitalist country.

In either set up, there is no guarantee of any particular social policy, only some that are more likely to pass.

Under socialism, people may or may not decide to have universal healthcare, just like under capitalism. However, the people making the decisions under the two different systems are different, just like their class interests. So, it is more likely that when people make democratic decisions under socialism, they would choose universal healthcare (also known as socialized healthcare). Under capitalism, those making the decisions (the capitalists and their sympathetic politicians) can use their wealth, power, and influence to access healthcare no matter what. So they may choose to forego universal healthcare because it takes away from government capital that could support capitalist investments, and private healthcare is another opportunity for capitalists to profit.

In short:

You are wrong. Please have a bit of a think, and don’t be afraid of words like “class”, “capitalism”, etc.

Wtfldr;

Fuck off, or learn something

Bruh

It would be better to compare the cost using average wages, or even minimum wage. Where I live in the west we could get about 282kg of eggs permonth on minimum wage (pretax), and in some Chinese provinces (minimum wage varies) you could get 340kg.

Yes, you can choose to decorate eggs OR potatoes. Why not apples! This is true freedom. No shegingping telling you what you can and can’t decorate!

+1 capitalism

I started reading and was like “okay, sure buddy” then I remembered I have developed a lot of the same skills, including tracking wildlife.

And then I remembered the time I learned to identify clay deposits and to separate out the clay so I could build stuff with it.

So I thought: “wth, this is so weird! Ohh, they have ADHD too… That explains a lot”.

I wasn’t diagnosed at the time, when I was learning to find clay, but that should have been a sign lol

Because clearly the worst thing that could happen to a man, is to lose to a woman …

Whats wrong with you?

Theres someone at my gym who basically says this, and explicitly says “pretty much all University professors are Marxists” though he never can tell me anything Marx has ever said, other than “everyone should be paid the same”.

So… Yeah

I’m pretty sure thats the only reason anyone ever did. The US used military and economic power to ensure folks negotiated.

How, in your opinion, is China behaving as a bully?

They can definitely sell them elsewhere, and if companies threaten to abandon ship, while I am just hypothesizing here, China likely has a legal way to seize the factories to prevent the loss of productive capacity.

If we assume he and his administration are stupid, ya maybe they messed up. But if there was a thought involved, having every piece of land subject to tariffs means there will be fewer loop holes to avoid them.

For example, changing your business address to one of these islands.

I think its liberation from the yoke of the American empire.

The “easy” thing to do is retreat inwards. Regardless if you’re organizing or not, now is the time to lean into friends and family. With love and support, we will always feel much safer to take the actions we need to.

No one said zero publishable results. Besides, to get to the stage of a publishing scientist (I mean a primary investigator) you have gone through a Bsc, Msc (maybe published, but definitely a thesis), phD (usually 1+ publications), post docs (at least 1 which may last between 6months and 5 years, and would be expected to publish), a probation period at a University/Research Institute or other organization (where you would be expected to publish).

So if you make it through that entire process and are incapable of publishing, the entire system failed you.

That is the argument, but when those with more publications get more funding than those with better publications, the drive is to produce more.

Don’t get me wrong, there are still good publications out there, but the incentives and pressures move the needle to the quantity side. How do you measure goodness? I dont know. But what we are doing now isn’t working, which is evidenced by, well how everything is going at the moment.

Of course we could moralize it and say something like “ohh well scientists are just greedier and lazier than they used to be” but that is thought terminating and no solution can be found that way.

Basically what you said: those with the means get a fire sale during market crashes. So even if it isn’t the intention of the policies (unlikely) its still what will happen. And the rest of us (super majority) are worse off, more desperate, and will probably work for less pay.