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And yet they never catch up. Why do you think that is?

The goal is to keep them weak and dependent, not help them stand as equals with France and Germany.

Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

It’s not the smoking gun like the title claims, but it is another piece of evidence in the pile.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

It isn’t to help them catch up, it’s to keep them limping along without collapsing entirely, while at the same time keeping them dependent so they don’t think of trying to escape. It has the same function as the IMF/World Bank.

They’re also living longer - smog has been greatly reduced and they have access to better healthcare than ever before.

That was just a sensationalized story - they sealed the extra doors on a building but left one open, so they could do controlled screening. I think it was actually just that one building too. They didn’t weld people inside buildings to die 🙄

As a result they had one of the best COVID responses in the world and saved countless lives.

Life in China is immensely better now than it was in 1999, what are you talking about?

In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy

It’s just a way for the wealthy metropoles to turn poorer members of the EU into neocolonies. Yeah, it’s great for rich Europeans! Not so much for everyone else. Without the ability to deficit spend (because they lack currency sovereignity) they are forced to do austerity and privatization. It’s just financial imperialism.

It’s a bad system and it will collapse.

There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It’s the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.

Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren’t)

Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.

The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else’s currency sovereignty to Germany and France.

And death to the US.

The end of the US empire.

Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.

Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.

I guess? But it’s also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I’m doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

I consider my appearance to be armor. I put on makeup and cute clothes and style my hair so I can face the world. Helps my social anxiety.

Also, totally doesn’t take that much time. 20 minutes max once you get into the habit of it.

If lab grown teeth give me better reception then I’m all for it!