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like others have said your best best would probably be taiwanese citizenship then you can go to china easily

wow, this is getting ugly. good on Ben for walking away

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Not sure what the details are but my understanding is that China essentially doesn't let its bourgeois run away with their money

It was a slow process. It started when I worked as a server and was first exposed to the desperation of working people. I met people who had to work a dinner shift after spending the first 8 hours of the day sweltering at a brutal roofing job to make ends meet. People fighting over shifts because otherwise they couldn't feed their families. Outside the restaurant I'd regularly see undocumented landscapers get chewed out and let go on the spot because the boss wasn't happy with how the flowers looked that day. The icing on the cake was when the "owner" of the entire shopping complex showed up one day, fat and happy, worth 9 figures. It hadn't dawned on me until that day that someone actually owned the property I worked in. After that experience I got a corporate job and was completely dumbfounded how different the working environment was. It started to sink in that something was deeply wrong.

My politics have always been heavily focused on the environment though. The real nail in the coffin has been waking up to the fact that capitalism will have us go extinct if it's profitable to do so. I bought into the neoliberal ideal of trying to "shop green," and that's when the cracks started showing. I finally came to my sense and realized that I am at the mercy of whatever the markets want to produce, and most of the "green" companies are just trying to juice profits, further feeding the beast. I started reading up on energy company investment plans only to realize the energy transition under capitalism is a ruse because they will pump oil as long as it is most profitable to do so and neoliberal governments are incapable of putting forward the level of investment and market controls necessary to change that. As Luxemburg famously said: it's "socialism or barbarism."

feel better comrade

I'm interested to hear how this person intends on fomenting a revolution with the vanguard of the global proletariat without people like Hakim? Who exactly are these people? I mean if there is in fact some secret global society of hardcore Marxists that sounds awesome, sign me up.

I'm sure you must be right that a civilization with 15% of Earth's population and thousands of years of history has no "long term potential," whereas the pieces of it imperialists have tried (and failed) to break off, like Hong Kong and Tibet, somehow do have "long term potential." The only thing inhibiting "long term potential" here is your hubris and myopic worldview.

imo having a global lingua franca will be better for global solidarity more than it enables soft power projection in the long-run

ah yes, another “flourishing” democracy 🤡

Sadly this is just not weird enough to hold water as a real alien. i.e. this could easily be an animal. Alien phylogeny is probably gonna be way different than what we have home-grown over here.

China still has the competitive production costs because its labor productivity grew in lockstep with wage growth. So one operator making 10x as much product can be paid 5x as much wage and be cheaper per unit than an operator in a country where they make 1x product and are paid 1x wage.