Exactly, it’s the whole “black lives matter” vs “all lives matter” thing all over again.

None of them attacked innocent civilians in Cambodia: Kissinger bombed innocent civilians in Cambodia. And then after it became known that Pol Pot was a genocidal lunatic, the west started supporting Pol Pot AFTER it became known what he did until his death, while the communists attacked and deposed Pol Pot.

It’s always the same: the west murders indiscriminately people in the global south and then act all innocent when this radicalizes the survivors.

Edit: you also mention Vietnam. What Kissinger did there was also monstrous.

Kissinger bombed hundreds of thousands of innocent Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian civilians, and they gave him a fucking peace prize because he finally stopped.

He is responsible for Pol Pot’s rise to power so he’s indirectly to blame for Pol Pot’s regime. You can’t bomb a country to hell and not be responsible for the aftermath.

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According to cbs, crime is down significantly since 2010, from 1.2 million registered crimes in 2010 to 806k crimes in 2022. Of course that doesn’t give the whole picture. CBS also reported 47% less murder/killings compared to 20 years ago.

Maybe the migrants are more visible now than they were, maybe it’s more concentrated in certain parts of the country. It’s no secret that the government is really mismanaging the situation.

But that wasn’t the point of my initial remark: punching down, blaming the people that have the least power, that’s doesn’t make sense and isn’t fair.

I’m afraid of this becoming a slippery slope. Suffrage (both active and passive) are very important rights that should never be infringed.

You can see the slippery slope in action in America: mass incarceration is being used as a way to take away voting rights from black people. Any loop hole will always be used by the people in power to remain in power.

It’s not hard to predict that the right would classify “socialism” as “lying about the economy” and try to take suffrage away from socialists, or whatever they consider socialists that day.

What kind of safeguards are you thinking of? And doesn’t that go against the right to make yourself electable?

Always easy punching down…

Depends on what compromises he needs to make in order to form a government. The 3rd and 4th biggest parties are also right wing, so I don’t think he needs to make many, unfortunately.

Yeah, why don’t they just let the Israelis commit genocide them peacefully?

But capitalism specifically favors the greedy and individualistic. It’s no surprise that if you base your society on capitalism, people will get more greedy.

On top of that, capitalism enables some uniquely capitalistic evils, such as commodity fetishism and alienation.

Also, some consider capitalism inherently unjust, making it an evil in its own right.

A thing can’t be weak and strong by the same metric, indeed. That’s why this article has to call China’s economical strength a miracle, as well as so weak it is about to collapse, otherwise the contradiction would be too obvious.

I am not defending China, just pointing out a crappy argument.

We’re becoming more and more fascist in the west, with politicians like Trump, DeSantis and so on. This article from Reuters is part of this shift to the right and that’s why I’m pointing it out. Fascism is a bigger risk to our way of life than China is.

China’s economic miracle? I don’t believe in miracles. I don’t believe articles that talk about miracles.

China is both a dangerous enemy and they’re about to collapse. The enemy is both strong and weak. Umberto Eco called that one of the characteristics of fascism.

The trains and subways are already very full. Just making things cheaper will not be enough. We need to massively invest in new lines and more frequent trains everywhere.