GreatSquare

joined 2 years ago
[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 17 hours ago

One of the four stars on the Chinese flag represents the petit bourgeois. Changing people's minds and dragging them away from reactionary movements was part of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think we have to recognize that classes like petit bourgeois and big bourgeois exist just like the proletariat in the US. They can have conflicting interests . Revolutionaries need to understand how to treat each class differently so they can unite to end imperialism and the state can evolve into socialism.

Private businesses can build the productive forces of society IF it is directed towards actually productive activity.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the content slop era that has overtaken the postmodern era of art. Rather than a postmodern artist borrowing from the past, questioning their own artistic identity, critiquing traditional art etc. , the content slop machine just cranks the handle for itself.

The artists are gone or decentered, and the audience is left to consume the slop and be unmoved or be just mildly occupied for a few moments by this imitation of life.

And the now disenfranchised artists/training-data-donors are left asking where can they get their cut. Like a blood donor, your bag just goes into the system - they don't write your name on it.

All I am thinking is when this bubble will pop...

 

The New York Times does Anti-China Propaganda. Who woulda thunk?

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 week ago

Blood from teething? It can happen. Soft chew toys only.

Should not leave for too long in a crate. Puppy should associate the crate with a happy place. They have to be slowly introduced to it in brief periods.

Diarrhea does happen when they are getting accustomed to new foods. Certain breeds are very fussy when it comes to food. My dog can't handle fatty meats. I wouldn't advise diapers. Can use puppy pads. This is the potty training period. Just have to regularly take them outside and supervise while inside.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

China is and has been Argentina's biggest soy customer, so I am not sure what the US expected. Argentina is struggling right now with a currency collapse so exports are really important in creating demand for pesos.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Bessent said US is looking at all options apparently.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/bessent-says-all-options-on-table-to-steady-milei-s-argentina

Milei will run to any country for help at the moment. It's all short term fixes, jerking the finance wheel side to side when the car is already rolling over. As others have said here, it's a structural problem and austerity will never fix it.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This article is from 2024. It's even more hilarious now. The peso has dived downwards despite the past few days of dumping $1B US dollars to save the peso.

The economics YouTubers are having a field day over it at the moment. E.g. Sean Foo https://youtu.be/QJ7sVr1XP7I

(The bad analysis from certain other YouTubers is looking pretty embarrassing right now. E.g. https://youtu.be/5V2nOOd36Cs)

Bailout, here we come. The US will pay for it 😜.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is why the world cannot rely on capitalism to solve an environmental issue. Capitalists are only motivated by profits. Seeing that they can't compete in a market, they just leave.

Expect the same shit if AI profit projections turn bad.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

For companies and investors caught in the fray, it’s been “total misery,” says Dan Wang, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab and the author of Breakneck. China’s model relies on “a lot of state power, a lot of consumer power, but not very much financial investor benefit,” he says.

So sad. They can't make money out of addressing climate change so they aren't going to invest.

How about not having a climate disaster in the future by reducing emissions (unlike the US where emissions are still going UP while China's emissions are actually reducing)? Is that worth investing in?

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

He did a (permanent) mic drop before your debate even started.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently Kirk was hit just as he was smug-answering a question on the topic of shooting deaths, so I imagine the comrade was thinking :"Wouldn't it be ironically great if Kirk was shot right .... OMG! YIPPEE!"

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)
 

Not sure why Coinbase would fix the UK economy but the ad is a good laugh.

view more: next ›