It is and they have a lot of progress to make. Nobody thinks any socialist project is a utopia.
In any case, you don’t understand how the idea of paying less than a thousand dollars for a month long hospital stay is mindboggling to Americans. Like that’s “You’re declaring bankruptcy” expensive here.
And no one owns a home at all in China, it’s all leased.
Only in the cities, rural land is owned outright, but I think they have to jump through some hoops to be able to sell rural land.
In cities, it’s a 70 year lease, and the owner has first right to renew. If you don’t own the property by that logic, then you don’t own property in any place that has property taxes.
Also as Yogthos alluded to, China doesn’t have eminent domain, they can’t just take your house like in America. This has lead to people who refuse to sell having highways diverted around their house, parking lots, and in 1 case, a shopping center surrounding the house.
Looking it up, it’s unclear how much jesters were respected for having political competency that kings and court would listen to vs how much they were were entertainers who were permitted much greater liberty with content because he was non-threatening and affected nothing.
We are also controlled by 1 party with total dictatorial control, but in typical American extravagance, we have two of them; the party of capital, and the other party of capital.
Rednote and discord coming in with steel chairs.
Not everything! For instance, we don’t wear shoes to bed.
Americans have jesters privilege. We can say anything we want as long as it doesn’t matter. As soon as the government thinks it might matter, they have a million tools to silence you.
I could be misremembering, but I can see dbzer0 content so I guess both instances came to the same conclusion lmao.
.ml banning the dbzero admin instead of defederating will never not be funny.
“The users are fine, it’s just the admin”
Oh, I just mean the lemmy community, I don’t use Reddit.
Communities made around hating a specific thing are always awful.
Except FuckCars because that’s really just pro-urbanism.
It’s Hello, in chinese.
You don’t work merely for your own survival under capitalism, most of your labor goes to supporting the capitalist class (and bombing foreigners to keep resources cheap so those capitalists can make even more money).
Half a century ago, working in a grocery store was enough to buy a home, raise a family, and put a kid through college. The job did not get less productive, if anything each worker produces more than ever with automation, but a greater share goes to the capitalist class, both through stagnant wages and increasing costs.
Well at least designer was still there. The same one who mandated the use of procedural generation to make Oblivion’s dungeons and Skyrim’s radiant quests.
Damn, your dad liked a communist Muslim trans man’s policy? Sounds pretty based.
Turn it around on him, mention the deporter-in-chief’s record deportations, that even Trump didn’t beat. All the African and middle-eastern countries the patron saint of drones bombed. All the poor folk the banks gave predatory loans to that he taught personal responsibility to by letting the banks take their homes. Making a speech blaming poor outcomes in black communities on fathers not being in the picture is every racist conservative’s wet dream. It’s much harder for your dad to admit he didn’t like Obama’s policies.
You don’t get to the left until you’re anticapitalist. Since it’s MLK day, here’s MLK coming to the understanding that the liberals who pretend to share his goal are no less of an obstacle than the klansman because both the liberal and klansman condemn any means to achieve his goal.