From where could they get oil and food if there is a naval blockade?

Our entire system needs to be torn the fuck down and be replaced with something entirely free. I don’t even give a fuck about people abusing the system at this point.

Make a lemmy community and make people subscribe who want change.

Make a lemmy community and make people subscribe who want change.

For China, there exists a bigger risk than losing business. The USA could do a naval blockade. China cannot survive that without Russia. They won’t sacrifice their security for short term profits.

I don’t really disagree with you. To me the Polynesian backstory highlights that it is all just politics.

If you like to argue the history of history then there most likely are no records of Polynesians in Taiwan but there could have been.

from migrations out of Taiwan between 3000 and 1000 BC

The oldest attested Chinese writing comprises a body of inscriptions produced during the Late Shang period (c. 1250 – 1050 BCE), with the very earliest examples from the reign of Wu Ding dated between 1250 and 1200 BCE.[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters

You seem to already have half of it. Dschingis Khan has fought slavery and given the debate about nuclear bombs, used violence wisely.

Pol Pot, I don’t know if there is a reason to justify the killings.

Stalin, you can either go the way of his education, which means that his cruelty is rooted in a Christian upbringing. Or you could look at the disclosed CIA Stalin memo that reveals that most of his image is western propaganda. Or you could look at the decline after him and realize that whatever he did (or at least most of it) was necessary given the circumstances.

Taiwan is historically Polynesian.

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Southeast Asia and are part of the larger Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, with an Urheimat in Taiwan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesians

Taiwan is not only staging ground but also prevents Chinese access to the Pacific during times of war. It’s the only place for a deep water submarine base for China.

Lol, and you don’t see a way for China to fix this?

China doesn’t need exports for their economy. The Chinese citizens can perfectly consume everything on their own. Countries only have to export to finance imports. In China’s case, it would be enough to export to the countries that deliver the raw materials.

China will be friends with all those countries because Colonialism will make those countries prefer China over Europe. China is even pushing the Monroe Doctrine and becoming friends with countries in South America.

It’s not China that needs friends but Europe. For some reason, we are ignoring Bismark again and are on our way to isolate us in preparation for the next global war. This time not only Germany, but all of Europe.

This sounds impressive without anything that is existential for China. All commodities can be replaced if China pays a small premium for nonwestern sources while the rest of the world buys from western sources.

Airplane parts are inconvenient but China is starting to build their own aircrafts. If sanctions start, they will be able to create knockoffs for all necessary spare parts. But they also have a highspeed rail network, so they won’t be worried too much.

At this point in development, pressuring China will only accellerate the full independence of China. It would be Huawei on a national scale.

The dangerous part is that many former colonies won’t side with their former masters if they get the opportunity to break free.

How would you want to pressure China? China is exporting nuclear power plants to Britain and electric cars to the EU. They are an advanced country that does not need western technologies. Unless you do a naval blockade, China doesn’t need us but we need China.

Oh, I thought it was a self own. Thanks.

You can support their decision making by evicting them once they are out of money. There is no need for social security money once people have other options.

It makes sense if she means to diss people with tattoos.

She says “can turn” in comparison to “doesn’t”. That comparison is not balanced.

I thought this was a quote.

As an observation, it is literally right. There is ‘Christian’ as a path of spiriitual growth and ‘Christian’ as a gang. That golden cross is a gang symbol and works as such. Spiritually it would be wooden. Golden, it shows membership of the Christian gang.

Tattoos work in the same way. Japanese know and treat them accordingly. At the very least tattoos of normal people make gang membership less despicable. If everybody marks themselves as non-normal, society changes.

This is not an argument against tattoos. They are just more than a fashion symbol, while those can already be spiritually influential, as many women on diets can attest.

Citation needed. In the age of disinformation, spreading quotes without a source is a sin.

Look closer. At least two of them don’t make the point you want to make.

A 2004 meta-analysis of reports in Current Directions in Psychological Science gave an overall estimate of around 0.85 for 18-year-olds and older.[16] The general figure for heritability of IQ is about 0.5 across multiple studies in varying populations.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

But for sure this is about black, brown and unsettling white people.

reduce public bureaucracy,

If you know German, here is an article about reducing bureaucracy by the public prosecutor of the CumEx fraud.

https://feddit.org/post/13098300

People have to be convinced to go on a general strike. USA spent $5 billion in Ukraine, so with 10 times the population it will take $50 billion to get things going.

You always trade billionaires. People don’t act on their own so there is always essentially one rich group fighting another.

The fascinating thing is that there is no billionaire group opposing Trump. So there must be a convincing argument to keep everybody in line.

Yes, I would think so. But then there must be a plan, a convincing plan that is more advanced than enslaving everybody, all the while nobody is leaking it.

I am not happy with any explanation so far.