Would be interesting to get an understanding of the income distribution at Huawei, or at least the median comp. Without it, it's hard to say whether Huawei is better than a company like Amazon with an aristocratic techbro echelon and a huge number of warehouse slaves, which still may work out to have a high average comp.

Not OP, but I think the BRICS+ are seeing continued development of productive forces (e.g. BRI; financing via the BRICS new development bank for industrial development [and not predatory credit issued for the purposes of lowering prices of export commodities thus stifling development]), while the G7 is unable to break free from neoliberal post-industrial services which have very limited real economic benefit, and in the case of Germany and presumably other west European countries, actively deinduatrializing.

I can't point to exact sources but this is Michael Hudson's bread and butter.

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Welcome comrades. Some advice: be outwardly open minded but internally critical of what is shared with you here. There are comrades here who have a good knowledge of some powerful but subtle philosophy and history; try to be open to it, but know that it will take work to understand and make use of it. You'll get the most out of our community by coming to learn, not just to join team tankie.

Couldn't have said it better. GZ and Norton serve different purposes to me.

Hell, the Duran ppl, who iirc are paleocons, have extremely useful analysis in certain areas. I think they're very mistaken in other areas.

At some point recently I freed myself from ideological bloc discipline as it relates to media sources and just started sampling broadly and making up my own mind according to my values. It's liberating.

Worsening standard of living as a result of 40 years of cuts to social services as neoliberal economic policy seeks to manage the contradictions of capitalism in the u.s. Basically the u.s. deindustrialized itself at the hands of monopoly capitalists which savaged the working class.

Tl;Dr class war

Tony blinken seems like the third position of a human centipede of ideology, like an absolute yes man team player with no independent thoughts. He's like the refined cream of the professional managerial class. All that, or he's just extremely dumb.

Sovereign like when American neocon Victoria nuland picks your country's next president?

A+ meme, and also I'm in fact looking for sincere ideas/resources for how to be a parent trying to raise little comrades. Anybody got anything that comes to mind?

And the reports of Russia using cluster bombs come from bellingcat and HRW.

They also still say nordstream was blown up by anyone but the u.s. and that epstein killed himself

"Blinken huffed his own farts for 3 hours or more, while Xi scrolled til tok and at one point appeared to have a separate meeting in the presence of Blinken, who did not appear to notice".

But seriously, wtf is the point of Blinken wasting a trip for the same old tropes and denials? Just to reinflate some anti china talking points for a few days?