first one must define reality… if by reality you mean being alive and interacting with the world, then beliefs, even if going against fact, affect reality.

don’t worry about it. in internal elections the far-right is gaining ground.

of course he is lying. how do you sell furniture if you are homeless? what furniture do you have to sell? where is it stored? how do you transport it?

lots of questions that make this account dubious at best.

trust is very expensive these days. that applies to accounts of incidents of antisemitism as well. considering this is a hot subject you do well to be skeptic about what you don’t witness.

i have no idea.

it means you’ll have to be a registered member to have access after it goes private.

lmao.

yeah the other commenter forgets that one is not only writing an answer but also engaging in a larger conversation. let that one be a constructive one.

i always try not to and am always sorry if i come out as such.

we shall seize the means of communication.

i count ukraine war victims as murdered by putin. either russian or ukranian.

nah, the collective trauma of perestroika gave origin to putin. only in its chaotic environment would someone that is at the same time political leader, criminal leader and oligarch leader come to be. russian people do vote for putin and his party. criminals either work for him either get exiled(see wagner group), sometimes its even worse to them and their family. oligarchs either nut up or shut up, bought by the relative safety of their families living in western europe.

addressing the reactionary bullshit comment, i can only infer that admitting the mistake of perestroika is a disturbing experience for you. but i recommend adam curtis documentary “hypernormalization” to understand putin and a part of the russian zeitgeist.

germany is doing the same. so i guess confidence isn’t being destroyed between those two. but is was talking about the american isolationist trump.

the worse political export the us has is the bi-party system. it does way more damage to any political system than the liberal capitalism. lobbying comes a close second.

it matters. one is an accelerationist the other is a conservative of the status quo. neither are going to improve anything but one will try his most to destroy any confidence.

indeed you are correct. i’m giving the party way too much credit. but i do that for every gov in power.

mostly bordering countries, just like the us. laos, cambodia, vietnam would be the origins of said immigrants.

being a autocratic state, the party will enact whatever policies it deems necessary. see the one child policy for an example. state propaganda will do what is needed. in fact, a huge class of people without citizenship, some class to be opressed, could even be a boon to maintain the party in power.

like i said before, china has options. the west doesn’t. and because china has options they can maneuver better the chaotic future that awaits all of us.

yeah but our demographics is helped by immigration theirs isn’t. they still have that window open to use. we don’t.

oh we’ll buy it. we’ll buy it because we are desperate for good consumer markets and china is that. also demographics is way worse in the west.

see this post about raising the retirement age to 71 in the uk. https://slrpnk.net/post/6418235

of course adjustments will be made. but one can’t really say that chinese economy is going to crash when no examples of a 1.5 billion people economic power existed before.

and lets not forget that when demand rises for ev’s in western economies, considering the production capacity of the chinese market even high tariffs won’t make a dent on their exports. the eu is not ready to supply demand of ev’s by 2035. unless the state invests directly into car manufacturers just like the chinese gov is doing.

also another thing no one expects is the opening of the 1.5 billion consumer market as a bargaining chip by the chinese gov as a way to consolidate their position on the global market.

imho, the chinese gov has a lot of market solutions they haven’t used but that can be activated and negotiated in record time.

edit: just to add their increased car exports are to russia, which is not that good of a consumer market with everything going on there, but it could teach them a lesson on how to corner non western markets. the complexity of the global economy favours the chinese at this point in time. they have more options than the western world.