And in Gabon the general has just been elected with more than 90% of the votes(, after the bloodless military coup two years ago, which ended 53 years of ruling by the western-supported Bongo family), nobody talked about it, and when that happens i assume that it’s because the winner of the elections favors the western interests.
https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/1909688859157225826

On tariffs, i found that interesting : https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1910512816253263904

As well as this comment : https://x.com/ZhaiXiang5/status/1909985319753036112 :

It was probably never his goal, he just want companies to move outside China in order to hurt it, even if they’re still outside the u.s.
They don’t care about being united in diversity, so if we(sterners) “lose”, i hope that we’ll be treated as awfully as we are/‘have been’ treating others, not that any other country diverse&powerful enough(, able to threaten the u.s.,) will be authorized to emerge again.
When they destroyed the u.s.s.r. they made sure to destroy Yugoslavia, encourage separatism inside the Russian Federation, and support anti-russian forces in ex-USSR countries, after giving “friendly” advices that had the worst economic consequences.
And we(sterners) don’t even have a good reason for ruling supreme, there’s nothing to compare since we have no public plan for the future, no assumed alternative to offer except an ahistorical&amoral modernity promoting selfishness and a capitalist-owned representative democracy with a varying attachment to freedom(, less concerned about comparing it with Freedom than the alleged situation in “regimes”), to the point that we’re even hiding these reasons for desiring hegemony at the expense of a peaceful diversity, and lying about other countries.
The alternative to our attacks would obviously be to work together, but some diversities/differences aren’t tolerated and a war for hegemony is the only plan/future for these mindless brutes, i can only pray that the just/virtuous/good side will win. I don’t know if they will but they deserve a better world.

Some graphs from https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1909399503821848951 and https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1909404626459541622 :

«20% of China’s GDP is manufactures exports.
65% of that is domestic value-added.
20% of that final demand is from the US.
Total exposure to U.S. demand is 0.2x0.2x0.65=2.5%. »

Here’s what domestic value-added means :
If China exports a $100 phone, with a $20 screen imported from Korea, and keep in China the other components, the design, logistic, etc., then the domestic value-added would be 80%

If 20% is manufactures exports, here’s a detail of the whole : https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports-by-category (, more here or there if you pay)

EMs : Emerging Markets
These two graphs show that the chinese exports are increasingly being reoriented towards emerging markets.

Consumption (white) : Finished goods like food, finalized products, etc.
Intermediate and capital : oil, machines, etc.
Others : transportation, etc.

This seem like the value(, labor, components, knowledge, …,) put into a product, then exported towards a country(, e.g. Mexico,) before being re-exported towards the u.s.a.
Meaning that even something imported from Mexico may contain some value from China.

Not always ultra-informative to just dump graphics, I first thought it’d have been less pointless, sry 🤷.

Obviously, the People’s Republic of China will retaliate, that’s what anyone would do and the americans knew that, perhaps that their main strategy is once again to bully other countries into submission since that’s unfortunately our main strategy t.b.h. when looking at the past decades(centuries), the stick has been much much more preeminent than the alleged carrot :

Donald Trump also said that he apparently wants to increase the military budget by more than 12%(, from the current $890 billions)

Surprisingly enough though, it gives hope, i saw that yesterday : http://youtube.com/post/UgkxKV5A2xenSTBiUQDWCjY1E1eW2cbKETNV

Edit : more here : https://archive.ph/Jrn5z

Would you like some more pie ? https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2019/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart

Or here : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trump-global-tariffs-charts

These graphs don’t add much, but they’re not worse than the ones cited above, so why not 🤷

Yeah well, fuck David Ricardo(, it’s obvious that we should buy&produce locally, his counter-intuitive results are only valid from a consumer viewpoint, not taking into account the jobs created, the taxes collected by the state, the more secondary enterprises benefiting indirectly from a good economic health, …), he was only used to justify a neo-colonialist “free trade” locking “poor”(exploited) countries into selling raw materials, as well as selling the ownership of their companies/mines/‘natural resources’, etc.
Their invaluable ressources were formed over (hundreds of )millions of years and are now sold over a few decades at a very low price set by the market according to the competition(, which isn’t the case for the more advanced manufactured products with less competition, such as selling planes instead of t-shirts).
So fuck David Ricardo, and these countries should ABSOLUTELY agree together to form an economic(&military because coups would follow,) alliance to raise in a concerted manner the prices of their raw materials, who should be at the very least 10, if not 100, times higher, and then use that money to manufacture these objects themselves. But they won’t, tsk, so w/e.
D.Trump is right in his desire to get back american companies in the u.s.a., even if he only did so once he stopped benefiting from it, the u.s. is too powerful to be oppressed for such decisions, unlike :

• Haiti in the 1980-1990s, who tried to protect its rice, but the unholy trinity forced them to give up on that measure, and Miami’s rice quickly took over, assholes ;
• Before the 1980s, Ghana produced its own clothes, but because of the western SAPs, they were forced to buy clothes from Europe and Asia and lost their textile industry ;
• In Argentina during the 2000s, Kirchner also tried some protectionnism like China, but as usual the unholy trinity came to order people around, the US, EU, and Japan added to the criticism of the WHO, and commercial pressures forced them to change their mind ;
• Tanzania also tried to do the same for its agriculture, etc.

I won’t forget that the People’s Republic of China was the only non-western aligned country to ever emerge since the colonization(, South Korea and Japan’s rise were only strategic, we helped them at our expense like Israel or Taiwan), and also one of the only ones who refused to follow western advices/orders(, i still consider them protectionnism even if they complied — unwillingly in 1842, 1858, 1860, … ; willingly in the 1980s — with our demands on tariffs, because they :

• subsidized their economy ;
• ‘obtained, through explicit demands of real partnerships unlike the more submissive(trusting?) global South,’&‘are now improving upon’ western technologies, as well as creating new ones(, they were faster) ;
• had reglementations such as forbidding foreign investments in some sectors past a certain percentage ;
• favored local companies for state projects ;
• …
  They’ve demonstrated the unprecedented success of their system/‘set of conditions’, and should be imitated by the Global South if it’s indeed better/‘validated by these last decades’. And the chinese civilization has only just started to marvel us if you also like techno-scientific discoveries).

Fuck Ricardo.

More arguments here, among many books.

mass graves

feels like a dissimulation, not only of war crimes but also to prevent the identification of the victims’ status(, children, women, elderly, humanitarians, …), and a body count of the operation.
They wouldn’t have been found if Israel didn’t communicated the location.
So many bulldozers and yet many more lies, they’re even killing patients in hospitals, and have destroyed everything :



« Has not Moses given you the law ? Yet not one of you keeps the law. »
And « As they approached, Jesus said, “Here comes an honest man—a true son of Israel.” », but religion for them is a cultural thing, and they continue to consider themselves victims(, revelations/civilizations came afterwards and honored the legacy of an unworthy little land, yet they rejected it even though they should have disappeared&‘be forgotten’ if not for them). There’s no reason for antisemitism to exist if we’re all atheists yet they still believe that it’s around and that having jewish friends is now somehow compatible with antisemitism(, jews were anti-christians and anti-muslims as well, they just weren’t in power).

At least « two allegations of sexual violence in kibbutz Be’eri — widely reported in the media — were unfounded. », and https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-can-bear-israels-systematic-use-sexual-reproductive-and-other.




https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1906344566308958466 and https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1902504823326703982

They deny any humanitarian help :



Abu Tawila among others :

See also Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh



More than 100.000 israeli subscribers :

https://archive.ph/iF1rz

https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1903138235309506716
https://x.com/KhalilJeries/status/1903835805686133149
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1904289208912789968
etc., that’s only part of what followed the end of the “ceasefire”, a unilateral massacre of “guilty” civilians from planes like we(sterners) are used to.
Accusations are nice but solutions are better, there’s no way that pro-palestinians countries will allow Palestine to disappear, and they’re too powerful&numerous to be ignored, so Israel may bring down its deserved downfall for refusing to share “their” lands.

If the current territory covered by Israel and Palestine was splitted into three between christians, jews, and muslims, then it’d be more easily accepted(, by the israelis,) if the shares were 33% jews, 16.5%+16.5% christians, and 16.5%+16.5% muslims, the five territories with Jerusalem as their capital(, perhaps with a slightly larger territory than currently). The goal of uniting one day in the future as a common territory with three governments may even be stated along with the redrawing of the borders(, and even end up with only one if the three religions of the Book ever fuse one day, Jerusalem/Israel/Palestine would be even more symbolic).
If Israel ends up with a territory of ~9.500km²(, sharing the rest with the two other religions of the Book), they should ideally also be offered a second country of less than 20.000km² somewhere in the world, accepting the location because of their shared ‘presence in’/‘ownership of’ the Sacred Lands. In that case, no need for the division 33 // 16.5+16.5 // 16.5+16.5, a simple 33//33//33 would do. And if it’s spitted 50//50 for jews//muslims, then a second territory of less than 15.000kms² would be enough.

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What’s the cause ?

Their desire to have a state. Feel free to consider that desire illegitimate, i’m done with that discussion on my part.

Because you can stop the crime by resolving its causes.

You won’t find any anti-palestinian here, so don’t mistake me for someone else, we’re on the same side, but i’m just believing in an issue that would satisfy both Israel and Palestine, while you believe that we’re forced to choose a side.
Now it’s up to me to prove that such alternative(s) exist. I’ve already discussed it in greater length on Lemmygrad and other social medias, and i’m a bit too busy&lazy to do a mega-synthesis here, at least this evening, but i believe that there are other options.

instead of a piece of the coast of Germany

I don’t understand, wouldn’t that be colonizing Germany ?
And european colonizers can go back to Europe, but israelis can’t go back in a country where they’ll speak hebrew and have their own laws, which is why i mentioned the re-creation of Israel inside the west(, that’d be in the worst&‘less imaginative’ case i.m.o.)
(i’m not criticizing your desire to de-westernize the world though, and would also like much more diversity among nations than currently)

Lemmygrad is a refuge for those who don’t want to argue on other communities, so i won’t insist.
(and your argument isn’t less extreme than zionists{jews or not} desiring Palestine’s destruction ; but, even it it’s far from the only alternative from my point of view, suffice to say that you wouldn’t mind an Israel whose borders would be within the u.s.a. or the e.u.)

Israel’s destruction is the only acceptable alternative then ?

Would you forgive or talk around these atrocities ? https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities.md.
If you do then you’re an hypocrite ; if you don’t then you’re probably an anti-imperialist like us.
This useful list was made by the same @dessalines that made Lemmy.

Here’s just one example of what you’ve accepted : We’ve supported dictatorships in Hong-Kong(, they couldn’t vote until 1985), and Taiwan.
For South Korea as well(, Rhee Syngnam from 1948 to 1960 ; Park Chung-hee from 1961 to 1979 ; and Chun Doo-hwan from 1980 to 1988).
We also supported the dictatorship in Myanmar, and Suharto in Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, etc.
We also supported the authoritarian South Vietnam(, 1955-1963).
And we’ll remember the Khmer rouge, but not the authoritarian and western-backed Lon Nol.
We(sterners) also supported the military regimes in Thailand, anything but communism. Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore was also considered authoritarian.

That’s only in Asia, which we abundantly bombed as you know because it was our duty to stop the freedom of choosing communism. The dozens of dictatorships that we supported or (helped )installed in South America and Africa are a bit more known, but not that much.
We’re against communism more than tyrans, and aren’t invading because we have the moral duty to free these populations against their will, it’s just propaganda. Hitler probably had other arguments that judeo-bolchevism to fabricate the consentements of the germans to war, we(sterners) are using liberty, and it doesn’t really seem like we have a second argument so we’re going all-in on this one.

Lemmygrad users are denying atrocity propaganda, and don’t want to close their eyes on our support to every anti-communist dictatorship.
They’re dreamers of a better world, not afraid to think by themselves, and see like i do that we’re surrounded with conformists believing every single thing they’ve been told, who would have thus developed the opposite point of view if they were born in the other country.

Look, i don’t like dictatorships either, and consider reddit worrying, but atrocity propaganda is a classic, we have many arguments to debunk our lies, almost all of them ignored by the rest of the population while we know your arguments. Our debunking is also the point of view of these governments and their population, who also know our arguments while we ignore theirs, not that our attacks are hard to understand anyway, the debunking necessarily take a bit more reading/understanding.

We’re dreaming of a better world, and arguing why it’d be desirable.
I can demonstrate why their political polls are genuine and their happiness outstanding, and why their propaganda isn’t as bad as you think it is, use Rednote, Douyin, or other apps if you want to see what chinese people are like.

Am i right to understand that you have a problem with authoritarianism, and not communism per se, may i then ask by curiosity about your opinion on libertarian communism, or anarcho-communism ?

The salaries of socialist leaders is much lower than in capitalist-owned countries, e.g. aligned with the median salary, more than enough to revert your argument, they’re not here for the money but to serve. Corruption(, from the wealthy,) is also taken much more seriously than in our societies who even legalized lobbying anyway.

And do you see the problem in accusing me of hypocrisy and whataboutism at the same time ?

All the while, seemingly completely unaware of the profound comedic irony and dissonance of their professed political stance, their moral posturing, and the depravity of their willingness to side with the most blood-soaked, murderous regimes and psychopaths in history.

You’re describing yourself supporting the west, who’s been mostly the only responsible of wars, genocides, support to dictators, …, since the colonization. The extent of our interventions isn’t taught in schools or medias, and didn’t stop in 1991.

If you believe in the atrocity propaganda demonizing our declared enemies, and the duty to bring them freedom, i’ll continue to prefer living with them peacefully, in a world that would protect them&us

Not much to add

If we end this discussion with an author’s recommendation each, i’ve found Michael Parenti pleasantly surprising.

And, besides more censorship on t.v. firing the last persons kinda leftists, shamelessly instrumentalizing an antisemitism that deeply traumatized jewish families, there’s more censorship on the/our Internet, or chatbots will also have to align with what our government deems to be wrongthoughts. That’s only for today.

Accusations that could be thrown at the center(, if you keep in mind that we’re downplaying our authoritarianism/manipulation/control for ourselves and allied countries, but are over-estimating or even inventing it for countries we dislike).
For now there’s not a lot of internal dissent but it’s already too much for them, so their reaction would probably increase with it.
And i.d.k. if you’re an american, but you only have two political parties and it already seems too much, i’d never have guessed that D.Trump could have won with such worldwide unified campaign against him, there’s a troubling lack of diversity on the net and in medias that isn’t reflected in the polls/votes. And this criticism of populism as if it was a bad thing, …

Direct democracy then.

What they said is that the proletariat is in charge forever, not capitalists/bourgeois/‘the wealthiest’ anymore.

You can trust our capitalist-owned medias on whether they succeeded or not.
To only give one example that’s not known, you’ve never heard of their imperative mandates, only about their fake elections that seemed worthless(, see #25 here)
Not only can our capitalists buy medias, but they can also directly give money to candidates they like, and we’ll sanction/invade the countries that don’t vote for the right person, our system isn’t a model, if only because it needs so many lies to be sustained.
Capitalist-owned countries from the global South think that they should imitate our model to be wealthy, when it’s that model that perpetuates neo-colonialism.

The problem is that the u.s.s.r., the People’s Republic of China, and other socialist states, were too attacked by foreign actors to establish a direct democracy, so it was only direct in some cooperatives, and Lenin stated that reactionaries were powerful enough to justify having a strong state.
It’s not in the communist “d.n.a.” though, on the contrary since ‘the final state of socialism’/communism is a stateless society.
The gulags only existed in a period of crisis when they endured wars after wars until WW2, but we abundantly talked about it when they were already closed. If repression and control of the population was as pronounced as we say they wouldn’t have been dislocated, just ask a chinese person about their social credit score or other lies if you ever meet one.
Et cetera…

And islamists/muslims/theocrats are the best, no distinction between the spiritual and temporal, i won’t trust a faithless civilization or faithless people, even if most of them are great people.

Also, i honestly don’t really mind if we(sterners) end up with “anarcho”-capitalism, feudalism, or whatever, diversity is good, as long as (people live there willingly and )we don’t prevent other countries from choosing another path, which can be done, we could at least try to conceive a system which would made wars(, and covert actions, sanctions, …,) completely impossible.

Thanks for the reply though, ++

As long as you don’t censor us, which a decentralized Lemmy can’t do in comparison to Reddit.
The government is way more worrying though.

Hard to imagine that it was only a few years ago(, before E.Musk bought Twitter,) that we were denying the influence of governments on social media censorship, and said that “private companies aren’t censoring, because they’re not the government, if you don’t like this platform just change/leave”. It has changed and now we’ve quickly accepted that states should enforce (more )laws all over the/our internet. And many don’t see that our fact-checking is unilaterally biased, etc.

Someone from programming.dev may have heard of the declaration of the independence of cyberspace , among others.

Like hate speech(, e.g. against Israel/Ukraine/…, or in favor of Palestine/Russia/Iran/…, debunking/denying the uyghur/bosnian/… “genocide”, etc.)