All of them have turned into chickens

Marx and Engels where both reviled by the mainstream liberals during their own time. Only in the late 20th century was Marx made like this kind demsoc grandpa that only stood for co-ops and liberal values who would have hated Lenin and Stalin “who obviously misunderstood him and Engels”. It’s also partly because of things like the new left and frankfurt school, Marx has his name slapped into everything from animal rights to art critique and other things that have nothing to do with class struggle and that has taken the edge off in the eyes of the liberals.

It’s however absolutely right that all the bad communists, the vile dictators and authoritarians are those who stood up to the west and capitalism, fought the porkies, won, didn’t get couped afterward and actually built something resembling real socialism. People like Lenin and Stalin are hated precisely because they succeeded and didn’t get crushed by the forces of reaction.There is also the radlib phenomena where they are allergic to any contradiction in real living world. The further a revolution goes the more contradictions and problems there are to work through. So you can really be pure and represent “real socialism” if you never really tried or got a chance to put anything into practice or died a martyr at the early stages with untested ideas. If you succeed and have to test and develop stuff, fight and compromise you become a dirty creature of “not real socialism”.

Money spent=/=production or productive capacity or performance.

Everything in the west is just really fucking expensive, because defense industry is a racket meant to make profit not weapons.

Eu doesn’t have the weapons to replace the US, much less do anything more. All action by EU and European Nato is at best a political stunt to make US and Trump to change their minds.

I mean US sanctions will force companies to use it, if it ever becomes real. Think like Huawei wanting to sell stuff to Russia, but US threatens to kick any bank out of swift that trades with Russia. So then they would have this Brics-$ to circumvent that. That’s the whole point. US is sanctioning so many countries that there is a need for alternative, not that USD/swift is bad system for those using it. USD needs replacing because it has become a Washington’s geopolitical sledgehammer and a chokepoint to free flowing world trade. Even Putin said that only reason they have been reduing dollar usage, because they have been barred from using it, not because they are particularly eager to do it by itself.

Companies would want it because it would a one way to secure their profits and nation’s would want it because it frees them from the unilateral sanction sledgehammer.

“Brics currency” would go around the problems of gold, becausse they have been planning for it to be tied to a “basket of goods” like oil, wheat, gold, etc. It has always been about solving the balance of payments issue among the member states, without using the dollar or gold. You are right that an Euro-like currency would be bad for Brics countries economies because of their development levels’ but so is Euro stifling for most the EU countries, but I digress.

It’s really difficult to even start to build even an Keynes’ Bancor like global reserve currency, much less some “Brics Euro” to be used within the countries (which was never in the cards to begin with btw). However this American sanction obsession is very much creating the need to replace the dollar worldwide. Under Biden one set of countries were sanctioned, and now Trump is sanctioning pretty much everybody else that Biden didn’t sanction. US itself is the main driver of de-dollarization, not Brics. Who the hell even wants to live with a US gun on their temple anyway, even if you are so called “US ally”. Now Canada and Europe are getting slapped punitive tariffs on, because the administration changed, countries therefore can’t have just one main way to do global trade.

I haven’t been on NVIDIA for a while so i couldn’t tell for sure. I know that nvidia raytracing works on linux, but I’m not sure how it goes with the open drivers. If the noveau performance and stability is still somewhat lacking in general, then if both open drivers and raytracing are important to you then AMD is still the better bet.

Do you play a lot of games with ray tracing, or do you care about that stuff? If you don’t then AMD, it’s better bang for the buck for rasterization and works better on Linux.

Sikäli kun porukka siirtyy ostamaan Temusta asioita, joita ihan yhtä hyvin olisi voinut valmistaa Suomessa, sieltä ostaminen kurjistaa tätä maata. Työttömyys tulee pitkällä tähtäimellä kalliimmaksi kuin tuotteiden kalliimmat hinnat.

Jos protektionismia haluttaisiin toteuttaa oikeasti niin Suomen pitäisi irrottautua EU:n yhteismarkkinoista ja alkaa kontrolloimaan tuontia ja tulleja tehokkaammin. Ei voi vaan sanoa, että ongelma alkaa Temusta, tai edes kiinan krääsäkaupasta.

Lisäksi miksi Suomessa ei tuoteta mitään johtuu ihan siitä että täällä on kaikki rakenteellisesti kallista tuottaa mitään, varsinkaan mitään bulkkitavaraa. Enkä sano että se vaan on näin Suomessa, eikä se muuksi muutu, tai näin vaan on koska Suomi on jotenkin kehittyneempi ja kallis hintataso on se mikä siitä täytyy maksaa. Näin on lähinnä siksi koska sijoittajat, pankit finanssimarkkinat vetää tuotannon joka asteella täällä liikaa välistä ja siksi maa, vuokrat, asuminen, jne. on kalliimpiaa ja siten vaaditaan korkeampia palkkoja ihmisten perus toimeentuloon. Siten tuotanto on kalliimpaa, eikä esim vienti vedä. Eikä ihmisillä edes jää niistä palkoista sen enempää rälläysrahaa käteen, eikä varaa esim kuluttaa kallista kotimaista tuotantoa, kun se menee kaikki kalliiseen asumiseen, kalliiseen ruokaan, jne. Sitten ihmiset ohjaantuu peienellä budjetillaan ostamaan Temusta tavaraa, kun se on kerta halpaa.

Olen havaitsevinani, että ihmiset ostaa joskus turhaa krääsää ihan vaan sen takia että se on halpaa.

No tää on ihan oikea havainto, ei vaan johdu temusta.

Antakaa nyt yksikin muu syy että tää yleinen “Temu-viha” ei ole vaan sitä että suomalaiset verkkokaupat on persekipeitä, kun eivät saa toimia välikäsinä ja vetää välistä, kun toimittavat täysin saman tuotteen samasta Kiinalaisesta tehtaasta, mutta 30% kalliimmalla? En oikeasti jaksa uskoa että tässä olisi oikeasti kyse jostain kuluttajansuojasta.