Elevating Kim Jong Nam as some poor detefector who was killed for speaking out is kind of funny given he was a CIA asset. And on all those who "disappear" for speaking out you wouldn't happen to have a source? Ideally one that avoids the ROK defector industrial complex, ROK tabloids or RFA. "It is known" isn't really enough to assert claims like that
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The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.
Iran's strength is that even with its old stock of short-medium range missiles and cheap shahed drones they can already strike through multi million dollar interceptor swarms.
Iran's trump card is that they have stocks of Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles in reserve and that the USIsrealis are already running out of interceptors.
Also again if the gulf are "selling" under monopoly conditions to Russia and China who support Iran they will absolutely be getting cents which is economy crushing when you rely on oil if China or Russia buy from them at all when they already have massive oils deals with Iran. This is massive speculation that it will happen at all as again I pointed out already their production capacity has been targeted and some of it is already shut down.
He's just making his Nazi grandfather proud.
We're back to this point which is as I already pointed out is ruled irrelevant by the fact that when 2 countries hostile to the west hold complete control of flow from the region they get to set the price. "Market price" isn't real in a monopoly situation.
Outside the fact that the USIsrealis barely have enough stockpiles for themselves. Iran is striking the gulf production capacity. Qatar for example has shut down it's LNG. Do you think smuggled oil if any even is smuggled (big speculation) will be getting a fair price?
So? That's completely different than what your post is suggesting. Even if Chinese or Russian vessels "smuggle" gulf oil it's not really relevant. Do you think they'll be bailing out the west with it?
Look, I'm rural minority. I've filled the forms. I've seen the wage gap. I know the barriers. Saying it has flaws isn't news. I said that already. But pretending the land-use rights, the homestead eligibility, the hometown fallback don't materially change a worker's risk calculation? That's idealism. That's ignoring the concrete for the sake of a slogan. You can critique the system and acknowledge its positive material effects.
I've just realised I've replied to you on another comment. I don't have time for people who brag about targeting random Chinese players in games, buying into propaganda to dehumanize us, then show up pretending to champion Chinese workers' dignity. So I'm just going to stop here and leave it at this.
More on 996: it only became a "major" phenomenon around 2016–2019. It was ruled illegal in 2021. That's a 3–5 year window, most of which the government spent doing the groundwork to draft enforceable legislation. Comparing that timeline to Europe's decades of labor law development isn't a fair metric, it should be about trajectory, not starting point.
On worker rights: yes, China still has gaps. However it's important to note it's rapidly moving in the right direction. While China is tightening overtime enforcement, expanding social insurance coverage, and piloting portable benefits for flexible workers, many US and EU jurisdictions are eroding protections through austerity, gig-classification loopholes, and weakened collective bargaining. Improvement vs. decline isn't a tie.
To add to that is the hukou system. It's extremely flawed in it's own way, no question. But for rural hukou holders, it does guarantee land use rights and homestead eligibility, a subsistence buffer that doesn't exist in the same form in the US or Europe. It is a structural fallback against total destitution, which changes the risk calculus for work.
On China's gig economy: platforms like Meituan and Didi are now included in pilot programs requiring occupational injury insurance contributions, and several provinces have issued guidelines mandating minimum earnings floors (tied to local minimum wages) and rest periods. Enforcement is uneven and rollout is gradual, but regulatory pressure is moving toward protection, not extraction. The "worst exploited kind" framing ignores that China's gig workers generally retain rural land-use rights, face lower cost-of-living baselines in hometowns, and operate under a system actively testing mechanisms to curb platform abuse, not one that universally treats them as independent contractors to dodge all liability.
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To start China is supporting Irans war effort.
China not wanting to get into a hot war with the US is bad? You people are so unserious. How many Chinese citizens should the PRC sacrifice in a meaningless dick measuring contest with the US to satisfy you people. And before you say Israel isn't the US that's just not true Israel is effectively the 51st state any act of aggression against them will see American retaliation.