I live in Germany. Merz is absolutely a Nazi. Just because Russians are saying something does not automatically make it not true.

I think they realize it’s quite unlikely to “make it” as a musician.

A lot more children from developing countries tend to want to be teachers because education is not taken for granted there (even when it has been universally available for a couple generations like it is now in China, the times in which it was not are still in living memory…go back to the 1960s and 70s and you still had many people in especially rural China who had very low levels of education). Education is seen there as a noble profession helping people on the path to a better life, and they look at teachers not too differently from how they look at doctors.

By contrast, developed countries tend to take education for granted, and young people see that education is not really that necessary to become rich, powerful and famous, and the most glamorized people in the society tend to be either some kind of entertainer, sports or pop star, or rich entrepreneurs.

You need manufacturing capacity to enable a green transition. Solar panels and wind turbines have to be made somewhere. Without cheap energy there is no manufacturing and no green transition. The only other option would have been buying Chinese solar panels, but Europe also chooses to antagonize China and place import restrictions and tariffs on its products at the same time they cut themselves off from Russian energy. Therefore Europe’s “green transition” is a wishful thinking, it simply won’t materialize. Europe is just becoming more dependent on expensive US fossil fuels.

How convenient to fall back on arguments about self-determination only after the island spent decades under a repressive military dictatorship, and then decades under a US controlled “liberal democracy” with US controlled media and an education system that brainwashed and indoctrinated entire generations of people to see themselves as different from the mainland. Why was the issue never put to a referendum? Why are sympathies with the mainland still harshly repressed and any talk of reunification suppressed?

Neither the EU nor the US are the world’s police. They have absolutely no right to unilaterally declare themselves the world’s policeman. Only the UN has the right to impose sanctions.

I mean, that’s like…whatever. It’s irrelevant, it’s ancient history. Hong Kong has moved on and China has moved on. I wouldn’t waste any effort debating that point with libs. Let them make whatever comparisons they want. What’s important is that there is organized resistance.

Has the western MLs been fully infiltrated by chinese/russian bots

Is this a joke?

WTF do I do here.

The only thing you can do. You continue to educate, agitate and do your best to try and organize. Organization is the most powerful tool that the proletariat has at its disposal in the class war. Political natural selection will take care of the anarchists and their obstinate refusal to organize. Effective strategies that can demonstrate success will win the support of the masses while those tactics which go nowhere will fail to win support and will remain irrelevant.

Not all NED funded protests of this sort aim at regime change. Some merely serve the purpose of applying pressure on a comprador regime that may be getting too comfortable and independent minded, to ensure they remain loyal, make them feel insecure in their position and understand that, should they step out of line, the US can immediately activate its regime change apparatus and do to them what was just done to Nepal. Is that what is happening in the Philippines? I don’t know. I don’t think we have enough evidence at the moment to draw a definitive conclusion. Time will tell.

Lol, yes it is, i bet people who don’t speak German and try to read a translation are very confused. But it’s still frighteningly accurate and applicable to present day German politics, just replace Ebert with Scholz. Written in 1919 but sounds like it’s talking about the Groko of the 2010s or the Ampel.

He’s about to set a new high score in your favorite game.

Or maybe this one:

NATO doesn’t need to go to the trouble of actually putting MiG-31’s in the air themselves to stage a false flag. It’s not like they detect these planes by sight. You just need to fake or slightly alter a radar detection. You can just put out false data. Who is going to have the ability to verify whether Russian planes were off course by a few hundred meters? You have their word against Russia’s and who is the MSM going to believe?

Russian planes fly through the corridor over the Gulf of Finland all the time. This is nothing new. Afaik Russia confirmed they were there, they just denied that they went anywhere they’re not supposed to. Whether or not that’s true i don’t think matters, it’s not going to change the West’s narrative.

Now, Ukrainians grabbing some downed Russian styrofoam drones and sending them over Poland for a false flag is one thing. I’d say that is at least plausible considering there are some open questions about the range of Russian decoy drones that aren’t exactly consistent with drones launched all the way from Russia and somehow, whether accidentally or deliberately, making their way all the way into Poland. But whole warplanes? Nah.

Let’s not go into unrealistic conspiracy theory territory when there are far simpler and more plausible explanations that fit just fine. It’s good to be skeptical, especially when we know that the West is waging a huge propaganda war, but it’s also important to remain grounded in reality if we want to be taken seriously.

Russia’s MFA denied it, but even according to what Estonia itself put out, the violation was Russia barely grazing their air space over open water:

Russia has to get to its Kaliningrad territory somehow, and they won’t always perfectly thread the needle in the Gulf of Finland, that’s just a geographic reality. It’s happened before and it will happen again, with ships or planes. The Baltics need to get over their butthurt.

So this is another big nothing burger just like the Poland drones story. Of course the Euros are using it to fearmonger and saber rattle, but they do that with everything involving Russia. They always love having an excuse to talk among themselves and feel important.

And yes there are some who are desperate to draw NATO into direct confrontation with Russia, but that’s not happening. The Europeans are useless and the US have made it clear they have no interest in that, their resources are already overstretched as is.

Seriously, why couldn’t they have put a picture of Nasser up instead?

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Neither do i, for the record. But we have to acknowledge that we are not in their position, we don’t have all the facts available, we don’t have all the data they do, we are not privy to their internal discussions, and so we shouldn’t think that we know better than them how they should run their country. If we did that, would we be any better than the western chauvinists who want to dictate that every country should adopt our liberal model?

We can only judge by looking at the results, and so far, looking at where China is now vs where it was 40 years ago, the results are not just good, they are amazing. This doesn’t mean there aren’t significant problems and contradictions within China, partly as a result of the very same policies which got them to where they are today. Sooner or later these contradictions will have to be resolved. How, i don’t know. That’s for them to figure out.

The simple answer is: because it’s working. Why would they abandon a policy that has been and continues to be incredibly successful? That’s not to say there haven’t been issues that have come up along the way, such as the massive corruption problem in the 90s and early 2000s, or the real estate bubble, or the out-of-control private tutoring industry.

Whenever such an issue appears which starts to seriously threaten social stability and negatively affect the positive trajectory that China is on, it is addressed and dealt with, as the aforementioned issues were. Other more minor issues are handled in a less top-down way and left to local governments to experiment and find the best solutions. China’s approach is less ideological than maybe we would like and more practical, result-focused.

In addition to the general trend beginning in the late 1980s of decentralizing and delegating responsibilities to local governments, higher education in particular is a field where China has experienced a real revolution over the past 30-40 years, with an explosive growth in the number of students each year, and that can be hard for a government to deal with in a country as big as China while still maintaining high academic standards that let them compete internationally. For comparison:

China produces more STEM graduates each year than the entire Western world combined, and currently graduates about 12 million people each year in total, and yet its per capita GDP, even adjusted for PPP, is still lower than that of most European countries. So there is a huge amount of competition for a still not that high number of higher education spots considering the immense population size.

The way they currently deal with this challenge is by providing a lot of grants and scholarship programs for citizens from lower socio-economic or ethnic minority backgrounds, while letting those who can afford it pay their own tuition. Also, compared with other tuition systems it is still relatively cheap, because universities also receive extensive public subsidies, and because the vast majority of the system is essentially state run.

Here’s a 2018 research paper on how financing of higher education in China has changed over the years: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325171750_Higher_Education_Financing_in_China

As with everything in China if the current system starts to no longer be fit for purpose they will adapt and change. I can definitely foresee them going toward a tuition free model like some of the European countries if the current model begins to cause social issues, or impedes their technological and scientific advancement. I am definitely all for it, but China tends to be very conservative when it comes to making major changes when there is not a pressing need for them.

Decolonize your mind!