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[–] [email protected] 121 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why is Winnie the Pooh dressed like a sexual predator?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

The two are hardly mutually exclusive....oh, bother....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hear there's a major sex-pest issue in the pro-china industry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

sex-pest

I keep seeing this term, can you translate it to American? Is it referring to anyone obsessed with sex, or specifically people who commit sexual assault?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I've heard it used, as an American myself. Sex-pest is someone who is bothersome towards others, typically in a harassing way with some thin layer of plausible deniability, in the expectation or hope of getting reluctant sex out of someone else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 106 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If factories in your country have suicide nets, maybe you aren't doing socialism right.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If factories in your country have suicide nets, maybe you aren't doing domestic governance right.

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think both premises are well-justified by the presented evidence. That is to say, doing either effectively makes suicide nets vanishingly unlikely.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (17 children)

Not making a point here, I just like numbers:

China has a population of ~1.4 billion

China has 698 billionares

China has the one billionare for every 2,005,730 people.

United States has a population of ~340 million

United States has 724 billionaires

US has one billionaire for every 469,613 people.

Edit: I like numbers. I don’t like Reddit/Lemmy formatting.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I think it'd be better when adjusted for GDP.

China gdp: $17.96 trillion

China has 1 billionare / $25.73 billion GDP or 1 billionare / $18.22 GDP / capita

US gpd: $27.94 trillion

US has 1 billionare / $38.59 billion GDP or 1 billionare / $114.88 GDP / capita

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Ohhhh numbers. Very yummy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't a lower number of billionaires to a higher amount of profits be more favorable to everyone except billionaires? So that particular example actually favors the system in the USA, oddly.

Of course, GDP only accounts for excess goods and services sold to other nations, which for the USA includes financial services like trading platforms and exchanges, heavily skewing their actual production capacity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think so, yeah. Also, billionaire means anything more than 1 billion, right? It might help to look at how much wealth they actually have; for example, if one nation has 1 billionaire (with $30 billion) and another has 30 billionaires (each with $1 billion), I wouldn't argue that the former is especially better off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yup China has the fastest growing billionaire and millionaire class. It's no more socialist than America but we need a boogy man, as long as that antagonist isn't capitalism the wheels towards the cliff will keep turning.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's an authoritarian country where labour unions are illegal and the ruling party is dominated by wealthy billionaires. They spew out xenophobic propaganda that claims that foreigners want to repeat the humiliations of the past (over a century ago) and therefore they need strongmen to protect the people.

We probably should just call them fascists, but since they say they're socialists we believe them. Fascists would never claim to be socialists, they're known to be super honest about that kind of thing.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Post this at another instance that I shall not invoke by name, watch yourself get deleted and maybe even banned.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

No way, tankies would never do this /s

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All the .ml users showing up to explain that actually real socialism is supposed to produce billionaires, because of reasons.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean you could argue an end goal is every person having the effective wealth of a billionaire in terms of being able to have what they need right when they need it and being able to enrich their lives without worry for losing money that might be needed for an emergency later, but that specific stretch point is so far into a post scarcity future it is only a slight exaggeration to say it's literally the "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" meme but as an actual civilization.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

the “Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism” meme but as an actual civilization.

We have that. It's called The United Federation of Planets.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Can you provide more context? Im very confused after skimming the first few paragraphs

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's a stupid comment practice where they claim ownership of their comment and place what they think is a binding and effective license against AI using that comment.

It literally does nothing. This is the modern equivalent of making a post on Facebook to assert that you have rights and control of your comments there.

Beyond the tools for editing and deletion you have no such rights in the Fediverse and it's a good way to demonstrate you don't understand how anything works.

Nothing stops anyone or any entity from indexing, ingesting, or scraping federated content.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They put that link in all their comments. It's got nothing to do with what they say.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Oh lol, thanks for clearing that up

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Truth is, the number was once well over 698.

Ask Jack ma what happened.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Socialism: A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

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