It's pretty funny when you consider how many top people in SV are Chinese, Indian, or Russian and speak English as a second or third language.

> You can add Noam Chomsky

That's because Chomsky is a genocide denialist, he especially and famously called victims of the Khmer Rouge liars.

Chomsky's had his fair of controversial takes but he never called any victim a liar

Lucky you, since I know you love links, here’s the rat-bag’s own site[1].

> Specifically, refugees questioned by Westerners or Thais have a vested interest in reporting atrocities on the part of Cambodian revolutionaries, an obvious fact that no serious reporter will fail to take into account.

There are several other quotes where he implies refugees are lying. And if you’re good at digging through library archives there’s a recording of him saying it more directly in an interview some time around 1977.

Chomsky’s a huge piece of shit and carried water for the Khmer Rouge.

[1] https://chomsky.info/19770625/

the sentence immediately preceding:

> While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary.

Thanks for proving my point.

This is throat clearing. He very specifically says the refugees are telling the Thai and US interviewers what they want to hear (e.g. lying). He says elsewhere in the article that reports of local party leaders executing people displaced from cities are unfounded. He bends over backwards in several places to discount refugee accounts.

> While these reports must be considered seriously, care and caution are necessary.

I'd also point out that when the killing fields were discovered, he refused to acknowledge that the early reports from refugees were correct. So he never took them seriously. Why carry water for this piece of shit? He also denied that Serbs were carrying out massacres in the Balkans. His whole thing has always been covering for the crimes of any anti-Western scumbag.

So the Chinese government making retirement unaffordable, making it impossible to invest in equities, under funding pensions, and then attacking the last thing people can invest in for retirement savings is what won Gen Z?

You're so conditioned against socialism that the only life plans you will consider are gambling your life's savings on a speculative asset, or working until you die. Not every country is constrained to these 2 options. Many of them would love for you to visit.

You'll note that I specified that China has no real broad pension system that can fund people in retirement and instead leans on the cultural norm of children taking care of their parents in old age. The (socialist) one child policy made this mathematically infeasible as 2 working adults now need to care for a child and 4 parents. The solution that Chinese people cleverly devised was to invest often at the behest of local party officials in property development, which aided in rural Chinese moving to cities, another CCP socialist policy. Then XI does a giant rug pull and attacks peoples' property/retirement savings.

Maybe look at the actual facts before trying to tun this into some dumb socialism vs not socialism argument.

The person who built this directly cites Terry as the inspiration.

Well there are plenty of countries that aren't facing those conditions now, or in the recent past and still have shitty economies. It undersells how hard it is to build a strong economy and therefore undersells how hard Poland has worked.

being in the trade union helps, especially when for most part it was "cheap labour" for that union

You can provide cheap labor inside of a trading block and still be economically a mess, Mexico comes to mind and Turkey was sending workers to parts of Europe starting in the late 1940s. Poland did a lot more than just supply cheap labor, and it really undersells all of the work they've put in to develop their work force, education, economic policies, and so on.

I don’t find that to be a very compelling argument.

> The impacts pushed a delegation of California lawmakers to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide financial support to the fruit growers.

Seems like the opposite of the free market. Large farmers are usually the first people lining up for a government handout, and their representatives are regularly anti-market types.

We have 2 anti-capitalist parties right now that shower largess on on their favored interests.

only one is pretending not to be one though… during the NYC mayoral election there was a single GOP politician who wasn’t publicly crying about mamdani (as if anyone cares what congressman from some shithole state thinks about it) which is just so comical. republican party is more socialist (when it needs to be) than china

They’re selectively socialist.

Isn't that most socialists?

that is the best kind of socialist

It’s inevitable that some country would do it, but not inevitable that any given nation would do so, except maybe the CCP.

> "let's hire my buddy, I already know him and trust that he really has good taste and judgement"

We're back to the startup gold rush again then I guess, well if it weren't for those pesky interest rates.

I like you already.

In ruby it used to be common to ssh into a box, attach to the console and edit files from the REPL and rerun the code to see if your patch worked. I haven’t touched it in years and I doubt many people do that anymore.