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Sure, ships can try to go around. But most of the other gaps are not viable for large scale shipping as they are too shallow and the Indonesian sea is not calm nor does it have developed ports for shipping at large scale. Most of the shipping will have to go all the way around Australia.

Additionally piracy has not been eradicated in the Strait of Malacca, which is only 2.5km wide at its narrowest point. The routes through the other straits feature considerably more piracy and you can bet on the US quietly boosting the pirates.

I think you underestimate the harm that raising the cost of energy in the country will do to Chinese manufacturing, European manufacturing essentially collapsed as energy costs became economically unsustainable.

I think you're underestimating how significant this would be for China due to its manufacturing.

I haven't really done the math but how many millions of barrels can Iran and Venezuela even supply? I am suspicious that they would not be able to fulfill China's existing needs:

All of this is somewhat moot, China recognises this problem itself and is aiming to completely electrify the country to get off oil entirely. My point however is that moving to the socialist mode before removing the vulnerability would be a bad move. They should get self-sufficiency first. Luck of geography meant the USSR was able to fully provide everything it needed within its own borders, China doesn't have the same circumstances.

Alright I take back what I said in the mega about Maduro needing to stop public appearances this is a pretty strong point.

Sure, which is why the west is setting up the chessboard against China by assaulting them.

The west doesn't actually have to take them over either. If they block the Malacca Strait they cut China off from most of their imports. 80% of China's oil comes through the Malacca Strait

Yeah something like that. But in that representation then you'd be putting anarchism somewhere at the center of the authority axis.

Two axis in a class conscious compass could be authority on the Y axis from the prole vs bourgeois perspective and economy on the X axis again from the "for the proles" and "for the bourgeois" perspective.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics would be somewhere in the middle on this axis while full higher-tier communism would be the furthest left.

Bottom right and top left would still be meme ideology.

I actually really like the concept of "for the proles" and "for the bourgeois" being the basis of the axis, it neatly illustrates how socdems are more for the bourgeois than for the proles, both in authority and economy.

You interact with AI the same way a manager interacts with an employee.

It is not that surprising that working class people hate the shit, whereas everyone in management and up like it. The worker interacts with the brush by holding it and making beautiful art, the manager interacts with the artist by saying "hey artist, make me an art".

The exec doesn't actually make anything and this fits right into how they usually interact with people to make things. They also just expect it to get better, and like a fairly average employee they're willing to give it time to improve which is something they do already for employees that aren't always great.

Ahh yes I see where you're coming from now

why shouldn't it be time to take those big strides away from the capitalist mode?

Mostly because of dependency on imported resources. They need to get the country off oil and uranium imports for energy security in the event that they are cut off from international markets if they take the socialist mode. They import 70% of their oil needs.

I doubt there will be a re-run of the CR. It would take a lot more coalescence of the dissatisfaction to get there,

More importantly, it would require organisation. The actual CR had the country's strongest revolutionary organiser agitating it on a backdrop of far stronger student organisation that had been inherited from the actual revolution.

They are not as organised anymore and they would be doing it all themselves without experience and without that agitating voice.

I do not actually see a difference in level of authority exerted by the capitalist state or the socialist state.

They are not different, the difference is merely who the state serves and who the state uses its authority against to oppress. The socialist state is essentially just the bourgeois state with power seized and flipped until capital can be defeated.

I suppose in that sense from the proletarian's perspective it is less authoritarian. But from the bourgeoise perspective it is considerably more authoritarian against them.

I'm confused, where did you read they could stand? The cage they describe is 2foot by 2foot and prevents lying, sitting or standing. That's 24inches by 24inches. The dimensions are probably identical as these are rough estimates by prisoners interviewed. This is the important part of the article:

The four men interviewed by Amnesty International, as well as Florida-based organizations, told the organization about the ‘box’, described as a 2x2 foot cage-like structure located outside in the yard of “Alligator Alcatraz” where individuals are sent for punishment. Individuals are put in the ‘box’, their hands are shackled and their feet are attached to restraints on the ground. They are unable to sit down or move positions, and are forced to remain there for hours in the heat with hardly any water or protection from the sun, heat and insects. According to a man seeking safety, “People ended up in the ‘box’ just for asking the guards for anything. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.”

This reads to me as identical to the CIA box but as an exposed cage in the middle of a courtyard in the baking sun.

2x2foot cage in the middle of the prison yard where everyone can see, exposed to both sun and insects, some people spending as long as 24 hours in the box

It is worse than the CIA one, which is indoors and not a cage but a closed box instead.

People are being put in it just for asking for something from the guards.