Then it wouldn’t click though, as a capacitive sensor is not the same as a button. If you engineered something like an optomechanical switch it could still fail at the mechanical part.

You could however use a touchpad instead of a mouse.

Why

Taylor Swift.

Schmitt (Germany)

Or Müller (=Miller)

Fixed

Weird al explained it well

Where?

Why not codeberg?

^please ^donate

I’d love to see some screenshots

Well, this is why I suggested we’d start to eat the rich™ globally.

Yeah, I think that’s mostly it, isn’t it?

Ah, got it. That’s oversimplified. Obviously the money needs to go to education etc, and money isn’t the only instrument of class warfare.

Socialism isn’t taxation under capitalism like you seem to think it is

I never said that.

I didn’t state Switzerland is purely socialist, but that I prefer concordance democracy as a subtype of socialist democracy, which is the prevalent in Switzerland, in contrast to the type of socialism prevalent in China.

Obviously China is consensus based as there is only a single political party. But China does not employ concordance democracy, which I prefer to a single party system.

Can you please also define what “liberal” means to you?

I covered all the usual bases liberals use when declaring China isn’t socialist.

But I’m neither a liberal nor declaring China isn’t doing some kind of socialism. It’s not a socialism I personally like but that’s my preference, I prefer the so called concordance democracy over a party system in general. The only country I know who are doing this often is Switzerland, but they have other issues (like high cost of living and xenophobia/lack of diversity).

Thank you, I see where your definition differs from mine 😊

Yeah, I also got confused by the recommendation of southern Germany in particular based on the mentioned criteria.

Germany is great in many cities in most, if not all of the criteria, but awful in others. I’d specifically try to avoid southern Bavaria (Nürnberg and Bamberg are fine), southern parts of Baden-Württemberg (apart from e.g. Freiburg) and most of Eastern Germany (Leipzig counts as “eastern” but is very progressive, for example).

There’s quite a good overview of the values and issues of most Bundesländer by Brofessor Stein.

Then how do you define imperialism? What criteria need to be met exactly?

But where did I say China and the West are equal? I didn’t even pass any judgement.

You can’t compare whole countries objectively, it always depends on your values and criteria. I just asked for clarification on the initial statements made by Cowbee.

You made the unbacked claim of “Chinese imperialism.” The onus is on you to prove it.

I read all my comments again and no, I didn’t. At least I can’t see where I did. I simply disagreed with your definition of imperialism and noted that the definition I disagree with would fit China aswell. I’m of the opinion neither the EU nor Germany nor China are purely imperialist in my understanding of the word, apart from the aspects I already stated. This is basically an appeal to purity by myself, but I know I’m being pedantic and that’s fine with me.

I never claimed the US wasn’t imperialist, or that China was imperialist, I just disagreed with your initial claim Germany is participating directly in imperialism, while they aren’t, in my opinion. If your opinion differs, that’s fine, but stop trying to misrepresent my actual arguments. 🙄

If we’re going by the burden of proof laying on the initial commenter: the onus is on you to prove what you said initially.

China is in the developing stages of socialism.

Let’s hope for the best! Currently it looks like there’s a single party system devoid of meaningful opposition and capitalism is running rampant as long as it serves the party’s interests, but maybe they’ll eventually become a real democracy.

Inevitably, this will lead to de-globalisation and I think this can be a good thing, as long as the world powers including China finally do something about climate change and other man-made horrors.

Thanks for all of the links, you did great work and provided interesting food for thought. I looked at some of them and choose to not engage further with this. I don’t really understand where you’re coming from as you refuted points I didn’t even make – like equating the existence of billionaires with the absence of socialism and similarly, conflating outsourcing as the single criterion for imperialism.

I disagree but you have nice graphs, I hope China keeps developing into the right direction.