lucian1900

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by lucian1900 5y ago
The US government is capitalist. It primarily operates to defend the profits of large corporations. Yes, under either Democrats or Republicans, although the industries each represent only partly overlap.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
We don't, we just use the term accurately: information spread with the purpose of convincing. It doesn't have to be incorrect, lots of propaganda is entirely accurate. We label our own efforts as propaganda, too. The dominance of
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by lucian1900 5y ago
That's the dominant liberal propaganda, yes. It doesn't necessarily match the historical record, especially in different countries. The same propaganda holds Churchill in high esteem despite the Bengal Famine and his general enthu
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Considering liberalism (and thus capitalism) is currently dominant, who would make such a neutral assessment? [edit] Also, it's Communist Party of China.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
We don't. Stalin and Mao both made mistakes, the common assessment is ~70/30. Sankara and Castro made fewer mistakes. All led movements that drastically improved the lives of millions of workers and that is why they are held in hi
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The current default has effect anomalies, but doesn't raise serialization errors. It's possible to write software that relies on READ COMMITTED and behaves correctly.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Not only is that slow, but it raises errors programs aren’t currently handing. It would be incompatible to change.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
You can run that many Erlang processes or more. Millions is typical of green thread implementations.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
I guess the Chicago police murdering black communists fits too, although I hadn’t thought of that initially.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The US decided to Chicago all of Chile because of what they did with Cybersyn: workers nationalising industry and planning production centrally. Denmark will be fine.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Both can be true, and likely are.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The NED has been a CIA front from the beginning and it consistently funds opponents of US empire. It is possible that groups accepting NED funding aren't aware of this, but being a candidate for such funding means the CIA finds such a
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by lucian1900 5y ago
An interesting podcast on the topic: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/streetsweeper/id156430...
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Swift and Kotlin are partial matches. Sadly, that’s about it.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Police unions aren’t labour unions. Police break labour strikes, not join them.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Surely I can critique the collective behaviour of a particular public forum without excluding myself from it? Different fora differ drastically in behaviour, after all.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Exactly. Even the barest minimum of anti-imperialism gets pushback. Western chauvinism is quite something. It's more noticeable if you're in any way "Eastern", even European.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
And also non-Chinese people that support the PRC, like myself. Many of us are communists, but not all. The trend on HN is indeed quite clearly anti-China and anti-communist, so Chinese propaganda is definitely less successful than that of t
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by lucian1900 5y ago
GDP isn't a measure of human development or happiness. Cuba has lower infant mortality and higher life expectancy than most countries on the same continent, despite the brutal (and illegal) blockade by the US. They're doing a grea
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Cuba is under an almost complete blockade, that’s why it’s poor. And despite this blockade, it’s doing better than many other central and South American countries that are capitalist.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
He and his wife were assassinated during a military coup. Assassinations are a pattern during coups. Neoliberalism also has nothing to do with debt. It attempts to increase profit rates through privatisation, deregulation and austerity meas
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Cows are useful.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Canadian finance capital own a great deal of the worldwide mining operations, if not a majority by now. They extract a great deal of value from poor countries through unequal exchange. New Zealand is a less prolific exporter of capital, but
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by lucian1900 5y ago
“Western” is a shortcut for the dominant alliance of imperialist countries: US, UK, most of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Materially also Israel and Japan, but rarely in rhetoric. The concept is used both to critique the i
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by lucian1900 5y ago
The week starts on Monday in most of the world. Date & time APIs must match local reality.
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Countries that were historically exploited and remained under siege by all capitalist countries after their socialist revolutions can’t be expected to have the same productive forces as the established industrialised countries that oppress
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Austerity to destroy public services is good? Deregulation to reduce worker and consumer rights is good? Privatisation to destroy publicly owned production is good? Almost every country the IMF has imposed its terms on has higher levels of
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by lucian1900 5y ago
True, often other lenders with even worse rates and terms show up first. It’s how entire countries become owned by a few foreign companies. IMF loans primarily come with horrible terms: privatisation, deregulation and austerity. Same with E
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Poor countries are forced to take loans with usury rates, often from the likes of the IMF. Countries that refuse get propaganda, coups and invasions. It’s not just the US that does this. [edit] Libya was selling oil independently and offeri
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by lucian1900 5y ago
Norway did participate in the invasion of Libya to destroy their competition and continues to export capital at usury rates at gunpoint. Different, but not qualitatively.

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