A few other related ones:

• The confirmed cia program to start the crack epidemic and use it to profit off of and impoverish black communities in the US. Read gary webb - dark alliance for more on that.
• The historical and still ongoing spread of alcohol to native communities in the US.
• The CIA pretty much took over the majority of international drug trade after ww2 via the helliwell plan(modelled on Chiang kai-sheks program) , and used it to fund their covert ops. A lot more on that in williams - operation gladio.

For sure, their space program feats and plans are incredibly exciting, and things we might see in our lifetime. There’s a hopeful star-trek-esque optimism about space rn.

I’m not sure about teachers salaries, I’d have to look it up, but I do know teachers are well respected societally.

So who told you china is trustworthy?

The Chinese people. Non-anecdotal evidence, from an anglo source:

• In contrast to low US political approval ratings, 96% of Chinese are satisfied with the national government (Edelmans 2016). World Values Surveys says that 83% think the country is run for their benefit rather than for the benefit of special groups. A Harvard research center study of long-term public opinion survey finds that > 95% of Chinese citizens approved their government. How is this possible in a one-party state? (TED talk by Eric X Li)
• The real wage (IE the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) has gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country. This is staggering considering it’s the most populous country on the planet. The US real wage by comparison is lower in 2019 than it was in 1973.
• CGTN documentary - China’s war on poverty

No one knows what the story is yet?

The west just keeps passing the baton to see who will fail next at conquering eastern europe. France fail, germany fail, USA/NATO fail, now germany’s up to bat again.

Ah yep thx.

The most racist thing I’ve seen in a long time.

She also publicly thanked the founders of the Atlas network, a US right wing think tank and likely CIA front whose purpose is to funnel money to North Korean defectors, venezuelan opposition figures like herself, the Ukrainian military, the anti-communist Cuban opposition, the anti-lula brazilian opposition, and probably a lot more ultra-right groups.

He was a murderous imperialist and he should be tried for war crimes.

I feel like at least half of the peace prizes have been given to pro-western / color revolution “dissidents” since the 60s

Commet and cinny are already discord-like ui’s for matrix.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

“Gonna need to see a source from a white country before I’ll believe anything positive about China, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba. If it ain’t white, it ain’t right.”

• Average anglophone media enjoyer

Yep, this happened over the past few months or so to DDG. Nearly every result is AI-generated blogspam. Its almost unusable now.

Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

• Godfree Roberts

From here

It’d be great to see a coalition of countries oppose the US bombing campaign in latin america.

Someone put jack up for a PR rep now

No they don’t use sql views, they’re built using an in query (which we still have to see how performant that’ll be, and is pretty much the same problem as subscribed communities, needing to sort and filter based off joined data)

You can see them in action here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3521

Multi-communities are already completed in the back-end, and front end will be done shortly.

I miss living in a desert town. Such pretty, vast landscapes, and beautiful fauna.

Redditors have no concept of what the democrats are: a controlled opposition party in a one-party capitalist empire.