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China has more mosques than the US, and Xinjiang is majority Muslim.

A) state capitalism isn't a thing. The vast majority of industries are just socialist. They exist without profit motive exclusively for the benefit of the Chinese people. The private sector industries interact with the outside world and make up less than 40% of GDP. It's why 'chinas house market collapsing' has made exactly zero people homeless and has caused exactly zero people to not have a job. The private luxury housing market collapsed, which makes up a tiny fraction of all housing, and mostly just exists for foreign investors.

B) China allows nonessential capitalist markets because capitalism is a required stepping stone of development in industry, and it makes imperialist powers like the US and eu far less invadey if they can make money off you.

C) it'd be great if China's goal was degrowth but that's not really fair, and that's simply not their goal. Their goal is a good life for every citizen, utilizing capitalism to build industries that later become nationalized, unionized, and by extension less wasteful.

The ussr proved you can't skip the wasteful capitalism stage of development, even if you provide an okay life you'll eventually get some asshole that sees America's array of twenty billion brands of cereal with the same ingredients and use that as some flimsy way of saying socialism sucks. That's why dengism has worked better than the ussrs approach, and why China's current approach is beating out every other country on growth, increase in quality of life, increase in education rates, while reducing the number of billionaires in society.

They're also the world leaders in fusion research, as well as the world leaders in solar, wind, and hydro generation both by current power supplied and new power installed.

They just have way more people than the entirety of the West combined and are aiming for complete elimination of poverty. They need all that power to achieve the lower middle class euro quality of life they want as a standard for their poorest.

So just another day?

Just starting to feel? Credit card debt reached new high by every measure under Biden, while consumer spending consistently declined and homelessness soared.

Don't get me wrong the shit economy has accelerated and the rich and middle class are finally feeling what the majority of Americans have been feeling for half a decade, but the economy has been shit. It's one of the main reasons Biden/Harris completely lost the trust of the lower class when they always bragged about 'the economy'.

For Texas, that's their choice. They actively choose that, and have the freedom to do so. The US isn't making them. They aren't oppressed.

As far as Taipei, in any group of people you'll always have some people complaining about something. There are fewer people pushing for an independent Taiwan than there is pushing for an independent Texas.

Yes. Lemmy is a collection of little dictatorships that all share the contents of their domains.

If you piss off someone, you'll be permabanned much quicker than even the bad site. The good part of this is you can just pick another instance and ignore that.

You will find communities and even entire instances that fundamentally disagree with your existence, no matter how benign and agreeable you are. It's good to just set up a few accounts to continue enjoying your time even when a random rich piece of trash finds an issue with you.

How is Texas oppressed by being a state?

As far as Taipei, it's not oppressed, the opposite. It's allowed to control itself under the guidance of the government, as it always has. That's the definition of an autonomous region.

'the economy' being the stock market.

Better China than the West. At least slavery is banned in China.

Is Texas oppressed?