As far as I know, there is no neo-Nazi song that is illegal in the US. I can buy Mein Kampf, I can sing whatever I want.
Back when Substack wasn't banning Nazis, more than one person told me that that was definitely the right way to do it, and pointed to laws in countries like Germany that prohibited Nazi content as an example of a good approach (sometimes, for some reason, claiming incorrectly that the US had the same laws).
When I said that those laws would invariably classify speech that the ruling party didn't like as "hate speech," they told me I was talking pure nonsense and that they were only classifying actual hate speech, so there was no problem.
Guess which country in the Schengen Area has classified speech against Israel as "hate speech" and prevented a doctor from coming to a university and giving a speech on what he witnessed in Gaza.
The point is not that Nazi songs are okay. The point is that people are going to sing what they want to sing, whether their songs are good things or bad, and that laws telling them they can't is (a) a big waste of time in the big picture (b) a lot more likely to be used against songs that are on the right side of history than the wrong side.
I have no knowledge about songs being banned in the US or not, but I disagree with your assessment of laws being a waste of time. I’m not if favor of a police state whatsoever, but I would consider attending concerts of some right-wing rock bands as a first step towards radicalization.
Hence, preventing those from occurring where possible might keep gullible people out of the influence of radicals, or in the worst case, help keeping tabs on potential future offenders by being able to charge them with something.
Yeah, I mean, I agree on principle sure. If I was running the music festival I would probably take that attitude sure. The issue with when it becomes the law, is that it's never going to be you or me deciding what might be the first step towards radicalization and what needs to be kept away lest it influence people; it'll always be people who think the Palestine protest songs or Rage Against the Machine are the first step towards radicalization that we really need to be looking out for. So better not to give them the power to shut down the music they think is dangerous.
aaagh, too broke to read the news! Thanks for the archive link.
The truth is the US doesn’t care about minorities. Not saying that China does either. Nobody does. All minority cultures will die out in a century or so 🥲 🫠 🙃
China was a third world country a few decades ago. Her thoughts about China are very out of date. Regarding smog, Beijing’s AQI is typically 3 to 4 times London’s, already a pretty smoggy city.
Regarding the street food being clean, there is an illegal practice of using gutter oil; the government has cracked down on it, but it’s still rampant. You could get cancer 20 years later if you choose the wrong vendor.
As for being a progressive country, one of my favourite webcomics was effectively shut down because the author, a lesbian, wanted to include lgbt content such as the leads kissing.
No country is perfect. But, I still have more faith in China than in the U.S.A. You could compare the gutter oil problem to Flint, Michigan; and the U.S. is losing its mind over LGBT people too.
Who would have predicted that the company actually making electric cars would outperform the company that just does YouTube videos of Joe Rogan firing a tommy gun at a pair of digitized truck nuts?
To provide context to the article: There is a proven dynamic relationship between trade openness, foreign direct investment, and industrial economic growth within economies, and this is true also for China. There is strong evidence for this (for example, see here).
A significant portion of China’s GDP depends on foreign direct investments, and the Gini coefficient, a metric for economic inequity, is 0.45 in China (for comparison, in most European countries it is between 0.3 and 0.35). It is commonly said that any Gini above 0.4 bears a high risk for social unrest.
GDP is a garbage metric in the first place, and even moreso when you try to apply it to a mixed economy like China’s. GDP considers rent seeking and the real, productive economy to be equivalent. It’s absurd.
If you look at the gross national product accounts of the United States, they depict America is getting richer and richer when people have to pay higher rents. And richer and richer if you own a home and your housing price is inflated. In the national income and product accounts, they say that if a homeowner were to rent out his house to himself, what would he charge for the rent? Well, as rents go up, as if housing prices go up, GDP goes up.
One way to accelerate GDP is to fall behind in your credit card accounts. If you fall behind in your credit card payments, then your interest rates go up from 19% to a penalty rate of 29%. The GDP accounts say that that is providing “financial services,” and GDP goes up.
Oh no, “the economy”. Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders!
Only the capitalism-brained worry about flat or falling properties values, because they can only think in terms of profits. And that’s why most Americans can no longer afford a house.
you do realise that impacts everyone right, jesus christ.
Only the capitalism-brained worry about flat or falling properties values
thanks for the compliment
And that’s why most Americans can no longer afford a house.
they cant afford a house due to a variety of reasons such as minimum wage not being increased, less housing owned by people rather than companies, etc… not because they ‘think in terms of profits’?!? wtf is this rant.
China Plans Millions of Low-Cost Rental Homes in Equality
MORE FUCKING HOMES??? CHINA HAS MULTIPLE UNPOPULATED FUCKING CRUMBLING CITIES DUE TO THIS CORRUPTION LMFAO. FIX YOUR BIRTHING RATE AND WORKER ABUSE AND UYGHUR GENOCIDE HAHAHAHAHA. funny, theyre rent homes - same type of shit capitalists loooovveee.
you do realise that impacts everyone right, jesus christ.
How is “everyone” affected, and if not everyone, then who specifically and how?
UYGHUR GENOCIDE
The Uyghur genocide has already been debunked several times over, but go on, while America is providing material support for a real one in Palestine as we speak, and Guantanamo Bay and other black sites are still in operation.
you hear that guys! youre all free to go from your forced incarceration!!! sorry about the also forced sterlisation though whoops, glory to the superior han chinese race! yeah mate fuck off no one believes that 💀
yeah, obviously the us is also commiting genocide. if the us commited a billion genocides, that doesnt change anything about china commiting this one. thats what we call deflection. if trump rapes 26 women and biden rapes 1 woman, bidens actually a stand up guy apparently by deflection logic (not saying biden has or hasnt, no one but him and tara knows that however trump is definitely a serial rapist)
Yes, China incarcerated people from terrorist cells that were setting off bombs & fires & assassinations & abductions in Xinjiang. What country wouldn’t?
Credible evidence of forced sterilization has yet to be presented. And it’s not going to be, because it’s pure American propaganda.
Yes, China incarcerated people from terrorist cells that were setting off bombs & fires & assassinations & abductions in Xinjiang. What country wouldn’t?
all happened to be of the same ethnic group and in the millions, how convenient
Credible evidence of forced sterilization has yet to be presented
mutilated genitals just randomly occur then, dumbass
all happened to be of the same ethnic group and in the millions, how convenient
Yeah, terrorist groups have sometimes been known to form in that manner, or have you forgotten America’s War on Terror?
People were not incarcerated in the millions, not by a loooooong shot. Nor were there millions of terrorists. The CIA/NED can only prop up so many nutjobs. Where are the satellite photos of these prisons holding Gazan-numbers of prisoners? There aren’t any. Has Bell¿ncat been asleep on the job? Anyone can travel there and see for themselves, and talk to the Uyghurs themselves, and see that this is all bullshit.
mutilated genitals just randomly occur then, dumbass
Where’s the evidence of the Chinese government mutilating genitals, dumbass. There isn’t any, and there never will be. There is a history of it in some Muslim groups, however. Note that I’m not saying that any Muslim groups in Xinjiang have a history of it; it’s simply not something I’m knowledgeable of.
Tell me more about the fake Uyghur genocide that the US fabricated while they facilitate an actual genocide in Palestine.
Where are the photos? There are none.
Have you been there? Their high speed trains are the most high technology transportation I’ve ever taken. Imagine getting from Vegas to Denver in 3 hours, in luxury. I’ve only been to one first tier city, and even the lower tier cities are more developed than any in my entire state.
As I said, I’ve only been to ONE tier 1 city. Most of my time was spent in poorer, less developed regions. Even with that caveat, every city(specifically city, not village or town) I went to was more developed than my own states cities. Even the rural areas had train routes directly through town and hospitals within 15m at most.
There’s poor areas definitely, but, it’s not 2000 anymore.
yeah yeah i know and thanks for the clarity but one train in one city just isnt a good metric yk.
Even with that caveat, every city(specifically city, not village or town) I went to was more developed than my own states cities.
the states are notoriously in bed with the car industry. try europe instead.
There’s poor areas definitely, but, it’s not 2000 anymore.
warning (this is a rant):
it’s nice to see the development but chinas expectations have become delusional, having that sort of constant rapid expansion never lasts for any society and now that their whole ‘cheap labour with lots of factories’ dynamic is eroding due to economic and competitive shifts, im curious where theyll go. its birth rate is horrifically low and china is doing jackshit to convince couples to have kids, the work hours are only ‘regulated’ in paper and never enforced beyond propaganda leading to multiple counter movementa. im very curious about where china will go. also with taiwan, a bursting housing market, tech sanctions, covid damage. in short, it doesnt look good for china and all it would take is one solid 4 year US administration (thats a big ask in fairness, if both contenders die maybe lmfao) to leave them in the dust.
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