MeowZedong @ MeowZedong @lemmygrad.ml

(Any/Comrade, Tankie for the unserious)

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Oh that's gold.

I guess it just depends on what your metric is.

Unfortunately one of its leading metrics is its contributions to human suffering. It certainly is the best system in the world at spreading suffering.

You give too much credit. I think it's pretty safe to assume no one but socialists and historians care (or know) enough about Deng and Zhao outside of China so they aren't likely to weigh in. Now if the question included the tinyman trigger-word, you'd have people jumping all over this post saying China bad and quoting Wikipedia until their fingers bled.

The treatment the plant in the picture received is called "air layering" that is used for propagation. You wound the stem you want to propagate, then wrap it with something moist. This leads to roots developing on that stem while it is still attached to the larger plant.

I'm not familiar with using this method to induce fruit production and it didn't look like they used air layering in the paper.

Here's the paper in the meme.

Yeah, oops.

Either way, the labor movement stuff was very active and applicable during his time too. That stuff began in the 1800s.

Lots of credit being given to Teddy here without mention that many of the New Deal reforms were actually given as concessions to a well organized and highly active labor force. Unions won these reforms through their sweat and blood. A tale as old as time.

Is every good thing Teddy did the results of this? No, but a hell of a lot of it was the spoils of class war won by labor struggles. This was literally the golden age of the US labor movement, workers were striking constantly and in new and creative ways. They were usurping the power of capitalists and the bourgeoise US government to an extent never seen before or since (with the exception of the Black Panthers perhaps). Much of the organizing was led by socialists, which is why they leaned hard on the unions to get rid of socialists with McCarthyism and the red scare 1.0. WWII weakened the US labor movement a bit in terms of manpower and coercion via nationalism, but by no means did this slow their roll. If I remember correctly, there were even more strikes during the war than the years between WWI and WWII. If you think the fight for universal healthcare is relatively recent, it's because you haven't learned about US labor history. Workers were fighting for this from at least the early 1900s. I mention this because it was an eye-opening moment for me the first time I heard it mentioned casually when talking about strikes in the 1920s and 1930s.

USians idolize this war criminal due to successful historical revisionism, making it look like he was just a "great man", a good ol' boy with stereotypically hypermasculine behaviors that made some good reforms out of the kindness of his heart and the strength of his moral character. Every story you read about this man is dripping with this mythos. He was no exceptional, he was practical in the sense that he saw that concessions were needed to appear the labor movement, but would he have come to these reforms and made the changes without all of this pressure? I doubt it.

Idealism and massive propaganda efforts poisoning the US education system are largely to blame. Those in the US aren't taught this shit in school and the books that cover this topic in detail aren't known by most. Sorry, I'd like to drop the names of them, but I don't own these books and would need to do some digging to find them again. Our local workers alliance covers this in their labor history presentations each year and has copies they lend out, which was my first exposure to them.

Pressurized cylinder?

But the sticker covering up Made in China says it was actually Made in USA. This is why we say USA is #1: it's on the top!

I'm curious about the scalability of this method, but it's a bit outside my experience. Seems like it would take a lot of energy to implement?

Leather is a bit easier to keep clean IMO. Brush/wipe them off and put shoe trees in them at the end of the day. Takes 1-2 minutes.

White is harder to keep looking nice, but a small amount of upkeep each day keeps them looking sharp.

Omg, the blue sky comments made me want to hurl. All this over a filibuster to stop nothing? Couldn't have pulled this shit when it actually would do something, I guess.

They still dump a lot of money into denying the genocide of Armenians. It's only ideologically consistent to support other settler colonial projects.

How am I supposed to identify all the unmarked containers of clear liquids if not by smell? You want me to drink them now??

When you said glove boxes, I was thinking about all the times I hit my head on the glove boxes and Kim wipe boxes that were mounted to the front of our hoods above the sashes.

You probably meant actual glove boxes, but it reminded me the corners of our glove box holders fucking hurt to bump your head into and I should move them someday.

It's not clear that this affected the decision to drop the bombs let alone the sole reasoning. Frankly, there was little justifiable strategic argument for use of them at that point in the war aside from as a form of intimidation against the Soviet Union. More likely the US would have dropped the bombs regardless and it was used as a justification after the fact: "the Japanese were barbaric, so this justifies our barbarism!"

I imagine it would be fun to be a politician in this position: take the vacation, then double down on climate action, tax whatever industry this denier has ties to for funding of the climate action, and bring the climate denier up on charges of bribery. Even if it wouldn't be effective, the proceedings and their reaction would entertain me.

And Snatch

That very much sounds like a moment for self-reflection.

Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).

This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.

I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.

If you're cold, they're cold. Let the lions inside.