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Empires usually end up collapsing under their own weight due to sheer incompetence and arrogance.

Has there ever been any incident where Huawei was illegally stealing information from foreigners and transmitting it to the Chinese government? Or is this another case of projection? “The Americans do it, so the Chinese do, too!”.

They’ll change their minds if the US manages to attain them.

The unpleasant reality is Russians, like the Chinese Americans have never, in all their long history, existed without authoritarian rule. They are culturally inured to it. They actively seek it. They’re broken, as a society, and only dissolving their society will cure them.

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Two pictures.

At least we’ll finally get some fucking health care and the oligarchs will get guillotined

You and I both know that is not going to happen. Perhaps, by the end of the century there might be some progress.

Around 18% of the 2022 US GDP was healthcare expenditures. In comparison, around 6-7% of the 2022 PRC GDP was healthcare expenditures—despite having a population of more than 4x that of the US.

It’s too late. The grasp of finance capital on the US’ state of political economy is so strong that the ruling elite scoff at the notion of even providing some crumbs of the pie, i.e., imperial super profits, to placate domestic labor.

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Apparently, he fell while jogging.

https://twitter.com/CGHuangPingNY/status/1699536953312481688

An actual pocket telescope.

The resolution of the camera on the Mate 60 Pro is astounding. There’s a short video on Twitter X of a side-by-side comparison of the Mate 60 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it’s shocking to see just how far Huawei has come.

https://twitter.com/ch_taliyan/status/1698194618486247835

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Western propaganda is just really lazy, nowadays. No doubt that it’s a symptom of neoliberalism-induced brain rot.

I don’t think that we disagree. Because, for the reasons that you have provided, competition will produce almost-indestructible monopolies as a natural consequence, and those monopolies have a tendency to use their extensive power to destroy and buy out potential competitors and seek for quick, easy ways to accumulate wealth; notably, through rentier capitalism.

This is literally what’s happening right now; at least, in the US.

“Competition is good because it leads to cheaper prices for consumers”, doesn’t really work since it neglects the union of the state and monopolies to artificially charge higher prices for items of the same - even worse quality; while hindering competition that has the potential to change the status quo.

I mean—the US is trying to prevent the world from cooperating with China, Russia and other major economies because they know that they are incapable of competing due to their decades-long crusade of neoliberalism. Another example is the fossil fuel industry stalling for time against the wave of the renewable energy era; or the automobile industry lobbying against efficient public transportation.

The point is that the major neoliberal powers don’t want competition to exist; they just want rent-seeking sectors that can earn them a treasure trove of money as fast as possible.

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