“The western world” in politics doesn’t usually refer to geography, but to the high income euro-amerikkkan countries who benefitted from hundreds of years of theft (much from the countries you mentioned), who based themselves on individualism, private property, and capitalism, and prided themselves on their opposition to the collectivist policies of eastern countries.

This is why Cuba for example is not considered part of the western world, yet japan and south korea are.

Marxists also generally use the term “global south” or “the periphery” to refer to lower-income / exploited via unequal exchange, even though there are some “middle” / lower income countries in the global north also. It gets confusing I know.

These are all incredibly weak justifications wrapped in legalese, that’s really just a thin posturing as to their position, which is white/western supremacy, and refusing to hold themselves accountable for hundreds of years of ongoing theft. The EU also refuses to vote for the condemnation of nazism using the same type of legalistic justifications.

I don’t have time to go through each of their sentences, but someone easily could ala the style of Marx’s critique of the gotha programme, because there’s hidden meanings and psychology behind almost every sentence that requires a paragraph.

Basically this one

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap

Okay then, we’re taking all your stuff. When your kids want it back, we’ll say:

there’s no meaningful benefit to be gained by looking backward rather than forward.

No probs!

Capitalists control the political system of the US. Its not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.

What health-care systems it used to have, were only to quell decades of worker struggles fighting for equivalent health care systems the USSR was putting in place in the 1920s.

5 star meme. Reminds me of this one too:

I do not like them much

Nobody’s perfect, but you’ll get there.

Syncthing was made for this and has been around for almost a decade now.

What’s your normal standard of trust that a hosted, open source project is running the same code that they’ve made public?

Its a centralized service, you have no idea what code they’re running. You can’t host your own.

Also they went a whole year one time without publishing any server code updates until they got a lot of backlash for it. Still, since its centralized, it can’t be trusted to be running what they say they are.

Give me ssh access to their centralized server so I can verify this “sealed sender” idea is working.

Otherwise this is a “trust me bro” claim.

We know it’s an op, RFA does damage control for signal:

Libby Liu, president of Radio Free Asia stated:

Our primary interest is to make sure the extended OTF network and the Internet Freedom community are not spooked by the [Yasha Levine’s critical] article (no pun intended). Fortunately all the major players in the community are together in Valencia this week - and report out from there indicates they remain comfortable with OTF/RFA.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

• In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.

Same. The idea that organizations create a barrier of clueless acolytes to shield the sociopaths at the top from the workers at the bottom makes a lot of sense. I tried to read the whole book he made out of these essays but it wasn’t as great as the main ideas.

Matrix is also missing.