Yeah there was that ridiculous talk from Bessent that Chengang got removed from his role. He sure did. He got removed upwards. I think in some places they call that a promotion.
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One of the founders of Pakistan wrote in a 1930s poem: democracy was a costume placed over feudalism when the common man became a little self-conscious.Then saw a video of Prof Micheal Hudson on the Prof Glenn Diesen channel, and he was saying too that the United States is going from neo-Liberalism or neo-Imperialism to neo-feudualism.
That was rather interesting. Prof Diesen, we can see the wheels in his head turning, but he did not fully grasp all the details Prof Hudson was discussing.
Then read some other stuff, and listen to people, and that first hand knowledge, finally it kicked it, that that is the reality now, probably for the majority of people in Canada and America, particularly the young, that they do indeed live in a feudalistic setup.
It was meant to appease the commoner, giving him a sense of (fake) importance and control so he wouldn't rebel. The feudalism never ended. It just became hidden. When the feudal lords had good control, they could hide the system well. Now, they're losing the levers of control, hence the latent feudalism is resurfacing.
manqiangrexue
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It would be especially underhanded and pathetic to pick on small countries that simply don't agree with it, but potentially successful if China actually depended on these countries for anything. Unlike the US, however, Chinese power comes from within. American power comes from subjugating others. So at this point, America's just taking out its failure-induced rage on little countries cheering on China thinking that China relies on others like the US does.
As far as strategy goes, the only strategy in bullying Venezuela is soothing Trump's base. He has become deeply unpopular because recently China has handed him his ass at every single aspect of the trade war and even his own farmers are enraged that they have all their soybeans rotting in collapsing storage tanks and then he gives Argentina $40B and imports their beef. It's to the point that even the usual Trump defenders are absent in social media posts when talking about these things. But when they talk about Venezuela, their bullying little eyes light up again because there, they can once again feel like the old USA that pushes little helpless guys around. He needs to look like a winner somewhere and it's nowhere with Russia or China so Venezuela's his last option.
It would have been the same a long time ago because China never relied on Iran or Venezuela for anything. Now, it's impossible for the US to take on China and Russia and it was always going to be this way. China is a country of 1.4B STEM majors and the US is a country of 330M lawyers and finance majors. Why would the US be able to stop China from overtaking?
LOL Only for Anglo countries that depend on the Western reputation to shield them from being correctly understood as garbage. The truth is, for the majority of the world, China is far far preferable over the US, even countries that don't realize it due to American media control. When China comes, they get hospitals, roads, airports. When the US comes, they get war, robbery and death.
Yeah, they came to take advantage of China but China took advantage of them harder. Marvelous reversal.
We like reading this because it's basically watching your enemy stew in regret. Victory is not delicious if the enemy is not in pain.
No one ever tried to help us, only to take advantage of us when they think they see oppertunity. But anyway, you know what they say: Capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with.
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It was more sinister than that. All commoners lived on rent - the feudal system made ownership impossible except for the aristocracy. You worked the land, owned by somebody else, for life; the owner kept the produce and profits, and gave you some income with which you pay the owner for living on his lands. Blood-sucking oppression!
That was in Europe (and colonies) and Indian subcontinent. Mughal emperor Aurangzeb abolished this feudalism in 1700s, punishable by death, and saw his empire reach it's zenith. He is the guy hated the most by Hindus today (you can see why). British came and restarted it in full swing, and it is openly prevalent today (not even hidden, but the original open form).
Speak of the devil.. the poem i quoted is titled "The Devil's Conference".
It is very hard to get users and all their clients to move to new software, which is why you need Americans to force everyone to do so all at onve lol
You cant seriously be comparing difficulity in learning a new software interface with building RE refining at scale?
plawolf
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i would claim the opposite relationship. the period that modern democracy sprang from was an era where the emergence of industrial technologies increasingly eroded the monopoly of force held by the aristocracy. industrialization resulted in the democratization of force, because weapons became ever cheaper to produce and easier to use, forcing the aristocracy to first parley with merchants, and ultimately with the peasants. the advent of the mass-produced automatic infantry rifle in the mid-20th century marks the height of this democratization, where even a peasant child in the ricepaddy could strike down the helicopter or strike aircraft.
it was the emergence of high technology that has reversed the balance of power. those who control high technology have disproportionately more lethality than those who don't. feudalism re-asserts itself because it can.
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