first one must define reality… if by reality you mean being alive and interacting with the world, then beliefs, even if going against fact, affect reality.

yes. it’s akin to blow up an aircraft carrier.

don’t worry about it. in internal elections the far-right is gaining ground.

of course he is lying. how do you sell furniture if you are homeless? what furniture do you have to sell? where is it stored? how do you transport it?

lots of questions that make this account dubious at best.

i have no idea.

it means you’ll have to be a registered member to have access after it goes private.

lmao.

yeah the other commenter forgets that one is not only writing an answer but also engaging in a larger conversation. let that one be a constructive one.

i always try not to and am always sorry if i come out as such.

i count ukraine war victims as murdered by putin. either russian or ukranian.

nah, the collective trauma of perestroika gave origin to putin. only in its chaotic environment would someone that is at the same time political leader, criminal leader and oligarch leader come to be. russian people do vote for putin and his party. criminals either work for him either get exiled(see wagner group), sometimes its even worse to them and their family. oligarchs either nut up or shut up, bought by the relative safety of their families living in western europe.

addressing the reactionary bullshit comment, i can only infer that admitting the mistake of perestroika is a disturbing experience for you. but i recommend adam curtis documentary “hypernormalization” to understand putin and a part of the russian zeitgeist.

you expect to much, from your own first comment.

germany is doing the same. so i guess confidence isn’t being destroyed between those two. but is was talking about the american isolationist trump.

not more intelligent, more educated. there is a distinction.

the worse political export the us has is the bi-party system. it does way more damage to any political system than the liberal capitalism. lobbying comes a close second.

it matters. one is an accelerationist the other is a conservative of the status quo. neither are going to improve anything but one will try his most to destroy any confidence.

but only one of those groups has a massive backing from the worlds biggest corporations. our safe space doesn’t come with private jets filled with hookers and cocaine.

but go head, they need you to defend them here, someone has to.

indeed you are correct. i’m giving the party way too much credit. but i do that for every gov in power.

mostly bordering countries, just like the us. laos, cambodia, vietnam would be the origins of said immigrants.

being a autocratic state, the party will enact whatever policies it deems necessary. see the one child policy for an example. state propaganda will do what is needed. in fact, a huge class of people without citizenship, some class to be opressed, could even be a boon to maintain the party in power.

like i said before, china has options. the west doesn’t. and because china has options they can maneuver better the chaotic future that awaits all of us.

yeah but our demographics is helped by immigration theirs isn’t. they still have that window open to use. we don’t.