Us Europeans are being lorded over by the US and yet we don’t have ban to electricity to follow the Amish way of life, just because that’s the most backward part of the US.

We’re now living in a time where the US is telling us to tank our economy time after time ‘just to spite the enemy’, while China’s economy is growing 5+% per year.
That’s not sustainable.
At some point the people of Europe will be looking up at China and Russia for having an industry and commerce instead of letting everything be bought out by the US.

Moreover, our human rights are extremely selective and are based on the protection of the two ruling classes of capitalism, the lawyer class and the merchant (aka as donor) class, having replaced the clergy and nobility that came before. Human rights is just one way for the laywer class to justify their actions, which primarily serves the merchant class On top of that, none of those in power are even in Europe anymore. The donors class is all (Anglo-)American and we’re obligated to follow “international law” or “agreements with NATO” no matter what you supposedly voted for.
The moment competition shows up from China, in the US, not even the EU, then those rights the rest of us are supposed to have are immediately thrown out of the window, or for us Europeans, six months later.

Freedom of trade?

2000: “That’s what has made the US the most powerful nation in the world!”
2025: “National security threat!” “IP theft!”
“No ZTE routers, Huawei phones, or inexpensive BYD cars, for you. Sorry.”

Freedom of the press?

2000: “Freedom of speech what the US has and other countries don’t.” 2025: “Fake news!” “Ruzzian Chinese propaganda!”
“No more RT for you. Sorry. And soon we’ll be curtailing TikTok (US), Xiaohongshu (Taiwan) and any Asian cinema as well. (US)”

Human rights?

2000: “You’re allowed to protest about anything.” 2025: “Protesting genocide of Palestine by Israel is anti-semitic and thus illegal. (UK)”

Oh!? Well this is my head-cannon of the diffences…

US Communists - Just buses? Are you kidding me? We need at least 50k km of highspeed rail, make rail travel free for all, even tourists! And seize all gigafactories and data centers to pay for it.

US Democratic Socialist - Let’s do what Europe does* and provide free bus passes next to free healthcare.

US Progressive - Let the free-market decide for men. Free bus passes only for people of minoritized identities and only if the bus will combat climate change, so diesel buses are out of the question.

US Liberal - Let the free-market decide. Free bus passes if you can prove that you’re using it to go to work.

US Right-wing - Rob the poor blind! Those who don’t contribute to society, should be punished for it. And no buses. If you need a ride, buy a car. If you can’t afford one, then get a job you filthy commie! Also, it’s the rich that contribute to society, so it should be the poor who should pay the most taxes in order to help those who keep the US economy thriving.

US fascist - Transportation should be free for everyone, but especially for the native Americans. We believe in the power of the native Americans. And this all the fault of the rich. So kill the rich, kill the rich, kill the rich…Juice! Buses are part of their (((globalist elite))) agenda, the agenda of “you will own nothing and be happy”. Look up who runs the WEF. Pay good attention to their ((( affiliations ))). So let us native Americans, who speak English and aren’t brown, unite against the Khazarian (((billionaires))) and their brown globalist allies. We should provide free bus passes for non-native Americans however, under the condition that they’re run by ICE and only with destinations outside of the US.

• Very few countries in the EU provide free bus passes, so this group would actually be more to the left than EU social democrats and more close to EU socialist parties.

At what point is someone wealthy using gapminder levels of income where level 1 is earning $2 a day, level 2 is $8, level 3 $32, etcetera?

And at what point is a person in power?

Is Zelensky in power? Xi Jinping?
Greta Thunberg? John Oliver? JT Chapman? Karl Marx? The admin of this site?

You mean the effect of the Milgram experiment where people tend to follow authority as long as they think the authority is legit? And what the leading authority of the Stanford experiment has been accused of doing?

No they wouldn’t.

Even the capitalists are behaving differently and more humane compared the fuedalists of the middle ages.

That’s actually the main reason why communism and socialism even exists, as a prediction to say what will come after capitalism to the naysayers saying that there’s no such thing as social progress.

And the only Bobs left have trouble saying ‘yes we can’ or ‘no we can not.’

I actually don’t know. I’m not that well-versed in communism, but I’ll try to make a suggestion:

Marx never said to force communism, an envisioned futuristic system, to happen, the same way that one shouldn’t force capitalism in the year 900, during the time of fuedalism if some visionary would predict such of type of governance to happen in the year 800. Even if you think capitalism is better than fuedalism, trying to implement it by introducing ballot boxes, constitutions, parliaments and such, likely would get you killed by the nobility and/or clergy, because you forgot to increase the increase the power of the merchants first, so that they could revolt, with lawyers by their side, or better said in front of them, against the old powers.

Trotsky wanted to implement a world government or capitalists will do everything in their power to try to destroy it.
Stalin wanted to develop socialism further in the Soviet Union into a better working model for other countries to emulate.

Furious debates ensued on who was on the right track.

As guards?

“Lions are the boys and tigers are the girls.”

Sorry about that.
The internet didn’t exist yet and I hadn’t seen a tiger in a while.
The “no mane” part started to confuse me as different species.

People who choose to suppress a growing power with the idea that they can easily win,
then make it look like they’re the victims when the victims decide to fight back,
with the ones standing up to themselves becoming stronger and stronger over time,
and the suppressing people choosing to never negotiate a losing battle/war
apart from demanding that the winning party makes concessions to let them win,
deserve to die through the consequences of their own actions.

Bonus points for those people who fly banners of freedom and progressiveness
while their organizers get paid by doing the bidding
of oppressive conservative foreign agents
who want their country to regress for their own gains of power.
And while displaying their wicked pop-culture chants, posters and gestures,
are often demanding their government to retract a reasonable proposal such as
‘murder, and that includes any incel strangling his perceived girlfriend to death,
should be made illegal, even if you’re on a vacation’
or ‘stop taking money from foreign agents’
that are mild copies of laws from said foreign agents’ country.

And even more bonus points for the appointed new leader
legitimized through a so-called international award of good behavior.

And I say this because while all the hypocrisy is absolutely infuriating,
to top it off by trying to chop off the hand and head
that tries to give you mercy, then there’s no redemption,
only more and more defense against
a more and more deadly risky liable escalation

Trade Bitcoin.

Oh you mean like as an experience?
Watch anime?

He’s responding to your nonsense.

Baby don’t hurt me.

Tsk tsk!

This selfhu-miliationland-culture^* apparently
needs to keep looking up to the language where it’s main country
is currently sliding further and further towards fascism.

^* Wordplay on the Netherlands and humilation

It’s been my experience throughout the years.
I haven’t personally heard “I have nothing to hide”
since Huawei phones started to become banned in my country.

The moment they became popular they went from
“I’ve got nothing to hide” to “I’ve got nothing to hide, but this is different. Huawei is subject to the Chinese State.
Those other phones are made by our allies. We may have found time after time again that all phones of all our politicians have been tapped by the US and it’s true that no matter how hard our best security experts searched for listening bugs in these devices, they found diddly squat, but if you own one of those Chinese phones and think you’re not being listened to, than you’re being naive. Naive naive, !be scared!, naive national security naive.”.

Yes and the manual install taught me how to deal with DEs refusing to start without having to do a full reinstall.
It’s such a pleasure to be able to save your setup no matter what the issue, apart from the time I accidentally erased my hard drive with a sudo rm -rf * command that was supposed to wipe a USB drive.

When it was Obama listening in on their phones, westeners agree.
When it was Biden or Trump listening in on their phones, westeners went quiet.
When it’s Xi selling phones unbugged, westeners grab your phone throw it on the ground, pour gasoline over it, light a fire, scold you and threaten your life.

EndeavourOS if you’ve never used Linux before.

Arch if you’ve played around with Linux, but want to learn some more basic terminal stuff so that in case your Desktop Environment breaks down, you know what to do to get it back up again without a full reinstall.

It’s also missing the “Uyghurs in concentration camp” picture.

https://lemmy.ml/post/37946260

Nou ja zeg!

Dit zelfver-nederland-cultuurtje moet blijkbaar
nog altijd blijven opkijken naar de taal waar het hoofdland
op dit moment verder afglijdt naar het fascisme.