thiagoharry

6 ms·

31.
by thiagoharry 1y ago
He is the founder of modern China, who ended the century of humiliation and restored the country's independence. Yes, it was messy. But what the west was doing against the country and the previous situation was not better.
32.
by thiagoharry 1y ago
> But, "the economy" is generally just a descriptor for what people need/want, and what they're willing to do for it. It’s not exactly about what people want, but rather what capital needs to grow and increase its val
33.
by thiagoharry 1y ago
In Americas, the country with more famines is Haiti. In the world is Somalia. Both were victims of capitalist countries, they were never socialists.
34.
by thiagoharry 1y ago
> Dubious” charges against Lula? — He was convicted of accepting a seaside apartment as a bribe for helping the OAS construction company get lucrative deals with state oil firm Petrobras. Yes, since nobody yet proved that the apartment w
35.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Most of these cases were about former chinese areas that were occupied and stolen by the west. Suddenly, when China wanted them back, western countries begun caring about democracy and freedom. Compare this with current western powers which
36.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Money and property do not exist by themselves. You can grab, use, and carry things — and at other times, you may not be holding or using anything. Beyond this, concepts like "my money" or "my property" are social constru
37.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
I did not know that having most of your industries run in part by government under five years planning was a neoliberal method.
38.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
> I agree, losing reserve currency status would make American gdp / living standards to come way closer to Europe Why do you think that the standard of living would become better after losing reserve?
39.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
> Do you know that showing ANY anti-war symbol in Russia against the invasion of Ukraine will get you arrested? Like students protesting against Palestinian genocide? > Do you know how many Tibetans put their lives on the line to orga
40.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
For most things, they already produce better and cheaper products. And they can buy from obter countries, It is just in US that Trump tarifs are applied.
41.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
> That seems a bit unfair to pin it on Hegel. Most of the damage could have been avoided if people like Mao were champions of liberal values. however the fact that he was in a position of power at all was because he came from a rather ba
42.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
In Brazil, during the 80s there was a service called "telegame". A user could use an Atari 2600 cartridge connected to a modem to download games from a catalogue of 150 diferente games.
43.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Communism, as you described, is an ideal. An horizon, a direction to walk. Therefore, it never was achieved, and it is not expected to be achieved in any short term. So, it does not make sense saying that only after abandoning communism Chi
44.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Yeah. And China will also colapse anytime soon, as they say since 90s. Some discourses are just propaganda. Specially at war time.
45.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
My take: at scale, "more ethical" and "less greedy" are illusions. Corporation are not people, they are systems where, to succeed at large scale, being less greedy and more ethical is detrimental. Therefore, these good c
46.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Sure, US propaganda do not exist. Not in Hollywood. Not in games. Not in social media and news sources. Makes one wonder then how people got so propagandized.
47.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
So, letting divergent opinions from other countries and from different entities is like being punched? You know that most world uses social media from foreign entities, right? Curious how until few years ago, when there were no relevant com
48.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
How? US propaganda, propaganda from big techs from US oligopolies will continue unchallenged and strenghtned, as they blocked a source that they apparently do not control.
49.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Because it will not happen. And cannot be enforced. No, im not arguing this because US already uses more propaganda than China. I was asking why americans are so afraid that chinese propaganda will be so more powerful than the Inês that the
50.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
And China propaganda is so powerful that US propaganda cannot counter this, even within US borders, following rules chosen by their own country, US propaganda is losing. What makes Chinese propaganda so powerful, even in the form of silly 3
51.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Therefore, this power to influence younger generations should be restricted to US government and US big tech Corporation. They know what is best for them.
52.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
> In short, these platforms are places for manufacturing consent. The only sense in which banning one is anti-democratic is that it's selectively applied to tiktok instead of to all such platforms. Which should be a major concerning
53.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Sure. People older than 30 also dislike when the government tries to censor their access to some media.
54.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
And this is why most countries should ban Facebook, Twitter and US social media.
55.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Yeah, at this age,they need to be fed only with US propaganda, just to be sure. Too bad that another country produced a better product to that demography.
56.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
For the same reason that capitalism also developed by means of violent atrocities, genocide and murder. And it also would do all this again whenever this is needed to maintain itself, so any competing system would need to defend itself in a
57.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Telling a long story do not transform it in true. Your story is more based on western ideology in propaganda. Notice that it was not able to neither explain nor counter the facts that supports my version: * The west is very afraid when a co
58.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
This is not what history tells. What we get is: the only time that western hegemony was threatened by non-western countries in modern times, they followed a variation of Marxism with revolutionary origin. Countries that did not followed thi
59.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Yeah, I was thinking more in Europe and some countries in Latin America, which I know more. Not in Eastern Europe, where after the end of Soviet Union, a shock treatment were applied, creating a free market without any restrictions.
60.
by thiagoharry 2y ago
Yeah, it is true for some definition of "a lot", but still is a minority, a number of countries much smaller than what should be according with that opinion. Nonetheless, it is funny how before US had the urge to do the same to co

More ›