Eldritch

Yep, the eagles covered this last week. It’s fucking ridiculous. But that described where were at.

It’s finally reached full puberty.

I live nowhere near Arizona, but I have some personal experience with something kind of similar. A local minority franchise owner had hired most of his cook staff from various South American countries all of them undocumented and basically none of them spoke any English. They were all cook staff and lived in a motel down by the river. He would buss them to work every morning and back every night.

When authorities got wind, it’s basically what he was charged with. Trafficking etc. The irony is that he wasn’t getting rich doing it. The guy himself worked his ass off every day. And the biggest crime is that his worker’s weren’t allowed to be here legally. They all got deported and I think he went “back home” as well. And the community was poorer for it.

I’m all for ending slavery and similar conditions. But that’s coming down from the top. Often these undocumented want to be here so bad they will go through things most Americans couldn’t imagine or appreciate. And they deserve better than they get for sure.

Should be this.

If the stories his niece told were 100% true, you are spot on.

If industrialization raises up a population, financialization plunges them.

Exactly, that’s why China’s economy is slowing.

Corporations in the US are seeing the highest profits they’ve ever seen in history. Wage theft has never been worse. Income disparity is widening more and more every year without any prospect of redistribution in sight.

Definitely, similar is happening in China as well. It’s why larger chunks of their youth aren’t participating and feel they have no place.

Corporations in China, however, are folded into the state as soon as they get too large. Corporate profits are collected by the state and redistributed to the population. China has many more protections to prevent it from choosing greed and sacrificing the working people than the US.

Which is largely meaningless as they exploit workers as hard or harder.

I want what’s happening in China to happen to us in America.

It did and is. The good bits happened over 60 years ago in the US. But we’re rapidly approaching the lack of press freedom and social surveillance China pioneered. Even as they’re approaching our inequality.

In tank space sure. But not in any non-hypocrical space. Again everything you implied about China could be said about the US.

However, it was industrialization brought up living standards. Not any particular party or ideology. In every different government and economic system industrialization has been pushed, it has benefited the population. And industrialization doesn’t make up for the oppression and abuses that said parties or ideologies commit while industrializing.

The fact that industrialization raised the standard of living in the US doesn’t justify their theft of my ancestors land or culture. Or the enslavement of blacks. It certainly doesn’t excuse or justify China’s oppression or cultural erasure of the uhygers. Tibetans or Hong Kongers as well. If you think it does or deny their abuse you’re just a hypocrite. 🤷

Nearly everything you mentioned there could be said about China as well though. So, how? In what way does it make China look better? Serious question. And not a defense of the west out the US.

Considering the source, federal authorities. I wouldn’t trust it. Probably the reason this doesn’t make sense, is because they’re making up bullshit. Trying to perpetuate a narrative.

Anything is possible. But something like this coming from the “left” isn’t something historically common in the US. But something many at the federal level have wet dreams about.

Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.

¿Why not both?