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Funny all the so called capitalists have an issue with Adam Silver trying to do his job and make money for the NBA.
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n0el wrote:Funny all the so called capitalists have an issue with Adam Silver trying to do his job and make money for the NBA.
I forgot that a core tenet of capitalism was that you aren't allowed to criticize people
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Mfw I told people some time ago that the Chinese system is very similar to Nazism/Fascism and nobody agreed.

Now I see other people making the same comparison. It's basically Nazism without the Aryan myth.
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Also, Apple supporting the Chinese government's position, by taking down apps which show the locations of police stations in HK:



Got an iPhone, cuck? Or any crApple gadget? You're supporting China's policies, if so. :blush:
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Dolan wrote:Mfw I told people some time ago that the Chinese system is very similar to Nazism/Fascism and nobody agreed.

Now I see other people making the same comparison. It's basically Nazism without the Aryan myth.
It's fascist for sure. There's no democracy and the government backs the business interests of the elites rather than the people. Not to mention they have concentration camps of Uighur Muslims....
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Exactly.

If you look at how their system works, at things of substance (not superficial stuff like whether they have a cult for military uniforms, flags and swastikas), it's actually very similar to fascism.
Except maybe they're not as expansionist as fascists and nazis were. And the whole racial purity mythology is missing too.

Otherwise everything else is pretty much there: a single party system, a leader that is now "elected" for life (it's actually picked by the party elites from their own ranks), the economy is not managed by the state directly but the biggest firms are required to subordinate their interests to those of the party, mass censorship, propaganda that revolves around a cult for the leader and the nation, mass surveillance and punishment of those that step outside certain political boundaries, concentration camps for certain ethnic minorities, etc.
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kami_ryu wrote:argh, can we just say that South Park is not as funny as it used to be?
I think the cynical portayal of the ridiculousness that is modern life is more funny than the 'dumb' humor that southpark used to have. I might not laugh as much but I sure do enjoy southpark a lot. Southpark is today what caricatures were in the past.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
kami_ryu wrote:argh, can we just say that South Park is not as funny as it used to be?
I think the cynical portayal of the ridiculousness that is modern life is more funny than the 'dumb' humor that southpark used to have. I might not laugh as much but I sure do enjoy southpark a lot. Southpark is today what caricatures were in the past.
Caricatures still exist, you always see them at fairs and whatnot
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kami_ryu wrote:argh, can we just say that South Park is not as funny as it used to be?
I think it's better. The latest episode was great. I loved the punchline. The first episode of a season last year about school shootings was one of the best episodes in the series IMO.
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Google siding with the Chinese govt too:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/10/r ... lay-store/
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Smdh can we just embargo China already? I don't see why Indonesia or Latin America can't do what China does for us. I feel this mix of cringe and embarrassment when these major companies go out of their way to be friendly to the CCP, and a second great depression is preferable to having to *snap* every fortune 500 company into my cringe compilation.
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Because it’s not about cheap labor anymore, it’s about a customer base.
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It hasn't been about cheap labour for some time already. For companies producing electronics, it's been more about proximity to Southeast Asian supply chains. A huge proportion of components in electronics are produced in Taiwan, South Korea and China. So if you want to produce a smartphone, the optimal circuit for production is to have everything shipped and assembled there, because of close proximity and no need to go through all the logistics to have it all shipped back home.

But yeah, recently China has been shifting its economic model. They realised they can't keep their population living on low wages forever. It's also because they want to become less dependent on USA/foreign sales for their growth. It's a post-2008 thing.

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