That story needs to be rewritten, now that we know what really happened. What really happened is that after WWII, the US implemented the Bretton Woods system, which said that other countries could protect their own markets and jobs with tariffs as much as they liked, while the US would maintain low tariffs at the expense of its own working class. The US Navy provided free security for shipping at the expense of the American taxpayer. It was a gigantic bribe to say on the "good guys" side during the Cold War. You could be admitted to the system, but you had to do what America said to oppose Communism.
The Japanese took full advantage, dumping their cars on the American market, making a mint, while prohibiting American companies from selling in Japan. All with the approval of the US government. They piled regulation after regulation after tariff after tariff on American cars, and it worked. Japan's economy skyrocketed while Detroit crumbled. It's funny to think today that the word Detroit once had the meaning of muscular American strength, while today it is the epitome of a failed city.
Nobody knows this story today, and it's time it was told. The "Nipponese vehicles were so quality they clobbered Detroit purely on merit" is an outright lie. They didn't allow American vehicles to be sold in their market and the American working class paid the price. Even a quarter century after the Cold War ended, this outdated system is still around. The Soviet Union is long gone but America still lets the world profit handsomely while ruining its own people.
College age kids from good Western colleges are suddenly acting in a manner that resembles Red Guards during Mao's cultural revolution. They identify what they perceive as an ideological enemy, they organize shaming sessions and they try to take him down by any means necessary. Group identity overtakes good sense. If you're not with us, then you're against us.
So, you get to sit in judgment of the Chinamen. Your hood is over there, Grand Wizard. "But I'm not racist!" And yet, you're saying the same things that they do. Not so different.
Western things had already been expelled. The Cultural Revolution was an attempt to murder Chinese culture. That's literally why it was called the Cultural Revolution. Chinese characters? Outdated and the new Latin alphabet can serve to allow our people to communicate. Throw out the wisdom of the ancients, why do we need it? Our modern progressive theories can explain the world much better. Burn it all down and bury the ashes, so that nobody can be contaminated by these old thoughts. Pull down the statues, ban the books written before the modern age, and beat up all the priests. The Red Guards were basically Antifa with government backing. How did it work out? Let's ask the Chinese.
"We cast aside our three core ideas - Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism - and that was a mistake. We were taught Marxist revolutionary ideas from 1949 to 1978. We spent thirty years on what we now know was a disaster."
-- Zhu Zhongming, Shanghai accountant
China still has yet to recover. You know how old Chinese ladies are so tiny and short? It's because when they were children in the 50s and 60s, they didn't get enough to eat and their growth was permanently stunted. You know how Chinese people are rude, selfish and spit everywhere? This is from the Cultural Revolution that taught that manners are bourgeois and respecting your family meant that you were an enemy. This will eventually fade, but it will take another half century shake off the toxic effects.
China knew damn well what they were doing and did it anyway. They polluted the fuck out of the environment with smokestack industries that could have been done differently and cleanly. But they just didn't care. They wanted power and wealth, now. The Communist government had all the patience of a three-year-old staring at a marshmallow on a plate.
Why would it be unexpected? The American Right has been trying to get untangled from foreign wars for a long time. We think are two kinds of wars America should be involved in: those which threaten our existence, and these should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Rip out the enemy's heart and drink his blood. The other kind is the kind we don't participate in at all. This is the Jacksonian tradition in American politics. Read this essay to find out what it's about. You think it's a coincidence that one of the first things Trump did was install a portrait of Jackson in the White House? And then the mainstream media lied and said he removed the bust of MLK?
It just shows that Slashdot is too small and meaningless to bother with shadowbans. Like it or not, Facebook/Twitter/Youtube are today's public square. Instead of being publicly owned, they are privately owned, and their owners are banning conservatives all over. This is why they need to be nationalized, for the protection of our country. We can't have a discussion when one side is silenced.
When Right wingers do not like how the community is managed, they build the alternative one. When Left wingers do not like how the community is managed, they expel everybody who disagrees with them and take measures to shut them up (1st amendment is a huge obstacle in this, but where it doesn't work - e.g. big private platforms like Facebook and Twitter - the Left routinely works the moderation mechanisms to silence conservatives and eject them from the platform completely, even though there are easy mechanisms to avoid reading offensive posts forever, and they are routinely successful). Surely, the correct conclusion from this is that the Right is the group that has authoritarian tendencies.
The whole idea is to leave the past behind. Turkey before Ataturk was a static, backwards culture. Ataturk brought Turkey into the modern age, with women's rights, mandatory public schools, suppression of religion, and all that good stuff. If the people had still been able to read the old texts, there would have been more resistance to feminism and other progressive ideologies.
Ataturk was a tremendously positive secular influence on Turkey, which lasted almost a century until Western powers insisted on elections, which to nobody's surprise (except the Western powers) elected an Islamist government. Now Turkey is looking to the past instead of progressing to the future.
Because we didn't know any better? There was no science proving pollution was as bad as it was. We didn't even have an EPA until relatively recently. Moreover the "but Jimmy's mom lets him do it" argument is a stupid one that was debunked by your mom back when you were a kid.
Right, which is why we need to disband NATO, yesterday. Smart people have been saying for a long time that the sooner we stop spending money on a massive military to maintain our global hegemony the better. I had hoped Obama would be the one to do it but he couldn't make it happen, he was too worried about something bad happening on his watch and not getting re-elected. Trump was blocked from doing it by the administrative state. Well, we can always try again. Let Europe pay for itself, it can well afford it.
So, when will you be leaving? Oh, what's that, horrid old America is preferable to a country that implements your left-wing ideas? Oh, my my, what a conundrum.
Because without energy, you'd be shivering in the dark. Maybe you're OK with living a primitive lifestyle, but the rest of us aren't. In fact, you can live a primitive lifestyle right now by moving into a less developed area of a less developed country. What's keeping you here with all the psychopaths?
Are you 19 years old or something? We literally have preferences for blacks and Hispanics. I think it might be time for you to leave America, it's stressing you out and you're hallucinating fascists. If you're a leftist, you'll want to go to a country that implements your policies like Bolivia, Venezuela, or Cuba. Good luck and I hope you learn a lot about the world.
Gosh, maybe the globalists in the US government shouldn't have pursued policies deliberately designed to ruin the American working and middle classes? Because that's what's happened. All this job-destroying globalism didn't happen in a vacuum. It wasn't some inevitable natural process. It was deliberate enemy action, designed to ruin our people while enriching distant, hostile countries.
Comparing Americans to the Nazis sure does feel good, doesn't it? Puts the blame on them instead of the perpetrators.
Donald Trump is such a terrifying fascist dictator that literally nobody fears speaking about him on any platform.
THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)
Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.
Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?
Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.
The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:
This is a photo of Matt Taylor. He was watched by millions as he landed his robot on a comet, while wearing an exploitative sexualized shirt.
His shirt says to girls watching from their elementary classrooms: Science is not for you. You shouldnâ(TM)t be an engineer sending robots into space.
His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object, and not a colleague.
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
Shitting on America, praising authoritarian China. Tell me again why we subsidize European defense despite Europe being well able to pay for itself? With "friends" like these, who needs enemies?
It's just a reaction to the endless criticism whenever America does something virtuous. A thousand comments immediately point out that America's not perfect and doesn't deserve any praise while so many problems remain. Now it's China, but suddenly it's okay to applaud them despite China's horrible record. A double standard.
There's already a word for it: cracking. The fact that Slashdot editors apparently aren't aware of this - well I was going to say it was disgraceful, but sadly it's what we all expect.
So white Westerners get to judge Chinese society and decide what's best for it? Jesus Christ, do you people even know the history of you doing this? It wasn't pretty. China had a revolution and kicked you people out and began deciding for itself what was best. Notably, they decided that collectivism was preferable to individualism. You're preaching individualism as a one-size-fits-all solution for every culture. Typical know-it-all Westerner, sitting in judgment of 'inferior' cultures.
Lots of Chinese women get pregnant and quit their jobs. It's not considered a bad thing there. The idea that a woman's career is more important than her family has only taken hold among high-achieving women - most of whom can't find husbands because their standards are unrealistically sky-high.
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That story needs to be rewritten, now that we know what really happened. What really happened is that after WWII, the US implemented the Bretton Woods system, which said that other countries could protect their own markets and jobs with tariffs as much as they liked, while the US would maintain low tariffs at the expense of its own working class. The US Navy provided free security for shipping at the expense of the American taxpayer. It was a gigantic bribe to say on the "good guys" side during the Cold War. You could be admitted to the system, but you had to do what America said to oppose Communism.
The Japanese took full advantage, dumping their cars on the American market, making a mint, while prohibiting American companies from selling in Japan. All with the approval of the US government. They piled regulation after regulation after tariff after tariff on American cars, and it worked. Japan's economy skyrocketed while Detroit crumbled. It's funny to think today that the word Detroit once had the meaning of muscular American strength, while today it is the epitome of a failed city.
Nobody knows this story today, and it's time it was told. The "Nipponese vehicles were so quality they clobbered Detroit purely on merit" is an outright lie. They didn't allow American vehicles to be sold in their market and the American working class paid the price. Even a quarter century after the Cold War ended, this outdated system is still around. The Soviet Union is long gone but America still lets the world profit handsomely while ruining its own people.
College age kids from good Western colleges are suddenly acting in a manner that resembles Red Guards during Mao's cultural revolution. They identify what they perceive as an ideological enemy, they organize shaming sessions and they try to take him down by any means necessary. Group identity overtakes good sense. If you're not with us, then you're against us.
One can only hope that this generation grows the fuck up out of this madness, otherwise there are dark, dark times ahead. "Fuck free speech!" one group of social justice advocates recently told Vice Media, as if this justified the growing belief among university students that conservatives should be prevented from speaking on college campuses.
So, you get to sit in judgment of the Chinamen. Your hood is over there, Grand Wizard. "But I'm not racist!" And yet, you're saying the same things that they do. Not so different.
Western things had already been expelled. The Cultural Revolution was an attempt to murder Chinese culture. That's literally why it was called the Cultural Revolution. Chinese characters? Outdated and the new Latin alphabet can serve to allow our people to communicate. Throw out the wisdom of the ancients, why do we need it? Our modern progressive theories can explain the world much better. Burn it all down and bury the ashes, so that nobody can be contaminated by these old thoughts. Pull down the statues, ban the books written before the modern age, and beat up all the priests. The Red Guards were basically Antifa with government backing. How did it work out? Let's ask the Chinese.
China still has yet to recover. You know how old Chinese ladies are so tiny and short? It's because when they were children in the 50s and 60s, they didn't get enough to eat and their growth was permanently stunted. You know how Chinese people are rude, selfish and spit everywhere? This is from the Cultural Revolution that taught that manners are bourgeois and respecting your family meant that you were an enemy. This will eventually fade, but it will take another half century shake off the toxic effects.
China knew damn well what they were doing and did it anyway. They polluted the fuck out of the environment with smokestack industries that could have been done differently and cleanly. But they just didn't care. They wanted power and wealth, now. The Communist government had all the patience of a three-year-old staring at a marshmallow on a plate.
Why would it be unexpected? The American Right has been trying to get untangled from foreign wars for a long time. We think are two kinds of wars America should be involved in: those which threaten our existence, and these should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Rip out the enemy's heart and drink his blood. The other kind is the kind we don't participate in at all. This is the Jacksonian tradition in American politics. Read this essay to find out what it's about. You think it's a coincidence that one of the first things Trump did was install a portrait of Jackson in the White House? And then the mainstream media lied and said he removed the bust of MLK?
It just shows that Slashdot is too small and meaningless to bother with shadowbans. Like it or not, Facebook/Twitter/Youtube are today's public square. Instead of being publicly owned, they are privately owned, and their owners are banning conservatives all over. This is why they need to be nationalized, for the protection of our country. We can't have a discussion when one side is silenced.
When Right wingers do not like how the community is managed, they build the alternative one. When Left wingers do not like how the community is managed, they expel everybody who disagrees with them and take measures to shut them up (1st amendment is a huge obstacle in this, but where it doesn't work - e.g. big private platforms like Facebook and Twitter - the Left routinely works the moderation mechanisms to silence conservatives and eject them from the platform completely, even though there are easy mechanisms to avoid reading offensive posts forever, and they are routinely successful). Surely, the correct conclusion from this is that the Right is the group that has authoritarian tendencies.
The whole idea is to leave the past behind. Turkey before Ataturk was a static, backwards culture. Ataturk brought Turkey into the modern age, with women's rights, mandatory public schools, suppression of religion, and all that good stuff. If the people had still been able to read the old texts, there would have been more resistance to feminism and other progressive ideologies.
Ataturk was a tremendously positive secular influence on Turkey, which lasted almost a century until Western powers insisted on elections, which to nobody's surprise (except the Western powers) elected an Islamist government. Now Turkey is looking to the past instead of progressing to the future.
Because we didn't know any better? There was no science proving pollution was as bad as it was. We didn't even have an EPA until relatively recently. Moreover the "but Jimmy's mom lets him do it" argument is a stupid one that was debunked by your mom back when you were a kid.
Right, which is why we need to disband NATO, yesterday. Smart people have been saying for a long time that the sooner we stop spending money on a massive military to maintain our global hegemony the better. I had hoped Obama would be the one to do it but he couldn't make it happen, he was too worried about something bad happening on his watch and not getting re-elected. Trump was blocked from doing it by the administrative state. Well, we can always try again. Let Europe pay for itself, it can well afford it.
So, when will you be leaving? Oh, what's that, horrid old America is preferable to a country that implements your left-wing ideas? Oh, my my, what a conundrum.
Because without energy, you'd be shivering in the dark. Maybe you're OK with living a primitive lifestyle, but the rest of us aren't. In fact, you can live a primitive lifestyle right now by moving into a less developed area of a less developed country. What's keeping you here with all the psychopaths?
I'd bet the real reason is that the wallpaper division lacks political power inside Microsoft, and are easily brushed aside.
Are you 19 years old or something? We literally have preferences for blacks and Hispanics. I think it might be time for you to leave America, it's stressing you out and you're hallucinating fascists. If you're a leftist, you'll want to go to a country that implements your policies like Bolivia, Venezuela, or Cuba. Good luck and I hope you learn a lot about the world.
Gosh, maybe the globalists in the US government shouldn't have pursued policies deliberately designed to ruin the American working and middle classes? Because that's what's happened. All this job-destroying globalism didn't happen in a vacuum. It wasn't some inevitable natural process. It was deliberate enemy action, designed to ruin our people while enriching distant, hostile countries.
Comparing Americans to the Nazis sure does feel good, doesn't it? Puts the blame on them instead of the perpetrators.
Donald Trump is such a terrifying fascist dictator that literally nobody fears speaking about him on any platform.
THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)
Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.
Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?
Well, the last time we had an earth-shaking announcement about a comet, the story wasn't the comet. This article buries the lede and doesn't address the real story here: what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when he made the announcement? Because we know, from direct empirical observation, that that information is more important than humanity literally landing on a comet.
The spokesman's description of the difficulty of the Rosetta mission? "She's sexy, but I never said she was easy." The reaction was immediate:
"His shirt says to women in STEM: I have no respect for you as a professional. When I look at you, I see a sex object."The Bad Astronomy blog said: If you think this is just a bunch of prudes, you're wrong. It's not about the prurience. It's about the atmosphere of denigration.
Speaking for the highly respected The Atlantic, journalist Rose Eveleth brilliantly captured what that shirt represents in a community that continues to struggle, if not outright fail, to respect women: No no women are toooootally welcome in our community, just ask the dude in this shirt.
The spokesman broke down in tears the next day and apologized. He said, "I made a big mistake and I offended many people and I am very sorry about this."
If you can force a rocket scientist, celebrating the accomplishment of a lifetime, to cry and grovel and beg forgiveness on international TV for wearing a shirt, you are not unempowered.
Huh, I wonder what kind of treatment caused people to react like that?
Industry-wide blacklists, cash bonuses for condemning wrongthink, calls to summarily fire white men accused of bad behavior, calls for âunfair' (the exact word used) treatment of white men, openly booing the presence of white men, employees using company mailing lists to plot violent antifa actions" etc.
Shitting on America, praising authoritarian China. Tell me again why we subsidize European defense despite Europe being well able to pay for itself? With "friends" like these, who needs enemies?
It's just a reaction to the endless criticism whenever America does something virtuous. A thousand comments immediately point out that America's not perfect and doesn't deserve any praise while so many problems remain. Now it's China, but suddenly it's okay to applaud them despite China's horrible record. A double standard.
There's already a word for it: cracking. The fact that Slashdot editors apparently aren't aware of this - well I was going to say it was disgraceful, but sadly it's what we all expect.
So white Westerners get to judge Chinese society and decide what's best for it? Jesus Christ, do you people even know the history of you doing this? It wasn't pretty. China had a revolution and kicked you people out and began deciding for itself what was best. Notably, they decided that collectivism was preferable to individualism. You're preaching individualism as a one-size-fits-all solution for every culture. Typical know-it-all Westerner, sitting in judgment of 'inferior' cultures.
Oh look, a feminist is infuriated. How unusual.
Lots of Chinese women get pregnant and quit their jobs. It's not considered a bad thing there. The idea that a woman's career is more important than her family has only taken hold among high-achieving women - most of whom can't find husbands because their standards are unrealistically sky-high.