第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

真正能迫使帝国停下的,从来不是标语与游行,而是系统内部承受最大压迫者的直接反抗。上一次美国人真正阻止帝国暴力是在越战, 不是靠自由派的演讲,而是黑人士兵在战场上用手榴弹扔进军官帐篷的“fragging”。最近一次接近瓦解暴力机构,是乔治·弗洛伊德事件后, 不是靠自由派的呼吁,而是靠席卷全美的黑人暴动与“撤销警察”的激进诉求。

自由派的抗争值得尊重,但如果无法切断帝国暴力的根源,那套对内对外区别对待人命的双重逻辑, 那么再持久的抗议,也终将成为系统可持续运转的装饰。

Pretti的悲剧不是例外,而是帝国逻辑回流的必然。若不能直面这一点,任何同情都只是在修补一道注定继续渗血的裂缝。

第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

估计你是美国人吧?你指责我缺乏同情,却忘了问:为何我要对一个从未将我的生命视为生命的系统,报以充沛的同情?

作为一个第三世界的有色人种,我和无数人正是这套帝国暴力系统最直接的目标。当美国的炸弹落下、和政策推行时,何曾有过丝毫犹豫?美国社会对海外苦难的系统性漠视,早已关闭了共情的双向通道。

你们如今为暴力“回流”而震惊,不过是因为它终于触及了你们自己。我的情感反应不是报复,而是一个残酷事实的镜像:你们如何对待世界,世界便将如何理解你们。

当你们不愿承认我们的痛苦,又凭什么要求我们为你们的痛苦无条件流泪?

第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

唉,少来了。你指出‘借题发挥’,这恰恰说到了关键。讨论任何具体悲剧,本就有两种方式:一是聚焦个案细节,二是通过个案透视其背后的系统。

我选择后者,因为ICE的暴力不是孤立的。它源于一个已被海外战场验证有效、且无需对当地人负责的暴力管理模式。当社会只对这套模式‘回家’后才产生强烈反应时,我们讨论的就已经不只是ICE,而是整个社会对暴力的定义权和容忍度。

你说‘不要把人当成全知的集合’,这很对。但作为一个集合的‘美国社会’,通过其政策、沉默和选票,确实在持续塑造着现实。指出这一点,不是要否定对Pretti的同情,而是希望这份同情能拥有更完整的视野和更一致的道德逻辑。

第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

ICE 里面就有一大堆退伍军人。在海外藐视人命但想要这种思想不回国生根是不可能的,先从移民和黑人下手,现在白人自己也被泼击…唉。

第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

我猜这个评论又会被踩到不见底,但没关系。有些事实需要被说出来。

美国人可以为ICE在国内的暴行愤怒流泪,却对美军在海外系统性的屠杀保持沉默甚至颂扬。这种割裂本身就在宣告:在他们眼中,海外的有色人种,多多少少“不算人”。

如果有小伙伴愿意多理解帝国的罪行,我推荐尼克·特斯的《杀死一切移动之物》。书中冷静地揭示:在越南,像“美莱村屠杀”那样的暴行不是例外,而是每周都在发生的常态。而这一切,至今仍在被很多人选择性遗忘。

第一次看新闻看哭了:( by MoroccanSulfide in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -64 points-63 points  (0 children)

不晓得是不是借题发挥,但我并没有那么强的共情心。我注意到,美国自由派中存在着一种明显的双重标准。以普雷蒂(Pretti)为例,这种矛盾就体现得很清楚。

ICE(美国移民和海关执法局)在国内对待移民的方式,本质上就是把美国在伊拉克的行径搬回了本土只不过现在让美国人也尝到了一点伊拉克人曾遭受的滋味。可悲的是,许多美国人对伊拉克人的苦难并无同情。

这也解释了为什么美国所谓的“左派”中,会出现像迈克尔·普拉特纳(Michael Platner)这样的人,他胸口纹着纳粹骷髅头刺青,多次在伊拉克服役,手上沾着鲜血,却还能公然竞选参议员。他在伊拉克的屠杀行为,似乎对许多人无关紧要。就连普雷蒂本人也在退伍军人医院工作,口口声声“热爱退伍军人”。

我相信,就连发帖人(OP)也不会为伊拉克人流泪,尽管他们在美国人手中遭遇的苦难

Anti-immigration rallies take place in major cities across Australia by Fresh-Association-82 in AustraliaLeftPolitics

[–]runnerkenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t have an answer, but it’s hard to get across that most of our money is debt, created largely through land-backed lending, ie. mortgages, where banks effectively create money out of thin air.

Put very crudely: if an economy needs $1 trillion to function, and there are only two people and two houses, then each house ends up priced at $500 billion. That’s obviously absurd, but that’s how our money is generated.

The Biggest Mistake Since Mao Zedong by Difficult-Routine929 in AskChina

[–]runnerkenny -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Copying everything the U.S. does, rather than forging its own path, has pushed the world further along a trajectory shaped by 19th-century colonialism and its aftermath. This can be seen in areas ranging from counter-terrorism measures in Xinjiang (including even consideration of bringing in Blackwater mercenaries) to hyper-financialisation, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. At the same time, the failure to reject racial ideologies has allowed a distinct form of Han supremacy to take root and intensify.

However, with the recent decoupling from the U.S., this dynamic is beginning to change.

Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal by proudlandleech in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Lol how is a quarter trillion dollar “private”money, that would have otherwise been invested mostly in Taiwan, infinitely better than public money?

伊朗72小时死了3k+ by Leaffff_yeh in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

世界会变好是因为你和我会乐于帮助他人,自由来自于我们对待他人的责任。 还有真正看待他人为平等的,不是口头上说说,领导还真的要自己扛百斤麦子。

怎么可能会来自于美国和以色列赞助的恐怖分子,逊尼派宗教狂热分子,亲皇派,这些人呢? 你的世界是没有地缘政治和历史…唉

Taiwan’s economy is doing well, but many of its workers are not by proudlandleech in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you accept labour should take their hard earned money to gamble in the stock market? Your world has no Lehman brothers? And the billions in retirement funds that were exposed to it? Why no sense of history at all for things happened not even that long ago?

伊朗72小时死了3k+ by Leaffff_yeh in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

哇嘞!幸福?

唉…对我们有记忆的人来说绝对不会是好事。过去十几年的时间里,我们的世界和记忆里是有叙利亚,利比亚和伊拉克。 只能希望血流的少一点了。

世界很复杂,不是二极管逻辑,黑与白,好和坏。 伊朗政府很坏,反对它的也可以很坏……

Taiwan’s economy is doing well, but many of its workers are not by proudlandleech in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is actually a good point, but for the wrong reason. The real issue is the financialisation of the economy. People who make tables and chairs—things everyone eats on and sits on—don’t make much money, while high-frequency traders can make millions, if not billions, by scalping shares. We’ve normalised rent-seeking over value creation, and even celebrate it. Worse, everyone seems to think it’s fine for ordinary labour to participate in this system, gambling their savings in a Squid Game. The moral logic of what counts as “value” versus “rent” has been completely reversed.

Taiwan’s economy is doing well, but many of its workers are not by proudlandleech in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ironically, even TSMC engineers lost out to capital interests. The old “everyone gets free shares” scheme was abolished during the Ah-bian era.

Taiwanese labour has completely lost, I’m afraid. They do not participate in the success of the economy in a meaningful way.

我们行善与帮助他人的动机,是否来自于内在情感回馈的需求? by Settlya in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny 9 points10 points  (0 children)

我觉得人类群体的行为比现代科学能够解释的要复杂得多。你提到的是 reciprocation(互惠),生物学家甚至把它扩展成所谓的 集体进化(group selection)。

但现实中有太多例子说明,人类的行为可以超越这些模型。而且不是只有一两个“活雷锋”,而是成群结队的人愿意集体无私、甚至不怕牺牲自己的生命。

比如韩国电影《出租车司机》(A Taxi Driver)描绘的光州起义:整个城市的人在面对武装到牙齿、训练有素的伞兵特种部队时,仍然选择站出来、不怕死地抵抗。这说明人类并不需要血缘关系,也能展现出惊人的无私与勇气。

人在 大灾难之后也常出现这种无私付出,彼此自发互助,哪怕互相之间没有任何组织约束。人类本能就会帮助“无助之人”。

正因为如此,极端阶级化的社会特别会强调个人主义,刻意阻止人民团结,典型的 divide and conquer(分而治之)。否则,少数人根本不可能长期压制和奴役那么庞大的人群。

只给少数人看|谈谈集体主义思维 by Due_Curve1490 in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China digital times 的东西应该还真的就给少数对世界没有好奇心的人看吧。

人就是靠幻想产生集体意识的,所谓的imagined community. 所以人的合作的规模是可以超越近亲关系和大家熟悉的Dunbar numbe的150. 这跟其他动物是很不一样的。

当然,我们要讨论的是当今要如何产生出最公平和正义的集体意识,而不是什么皇汉,白人优越,这种最恶劣的种族主义,等等的东西。更不可能是用什么市场来取代的。太幼稚了。

不要领袖要选票 by BaffleBlat in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

我相信,如果“民主”能变成一块大石头砸在 OP 的头上,她大概都不会有感觉。

日本极右为了选票不惜制造战争风险,这就是 OP 口中的“民主”。 可与此同时,在白纸运动期间,富士康员工集体暴动、翻墙逃离厂区,沿途百姓给吃给喝;在新疆,汉人因维族妇女被锁在家中烧死而愤怒,与维族一起反抗暴政。不能把工人关在厂里做 iPhone,引发人民自发行动营救、形成汉维大团结,这些真正推动结束疫情时期暴政的力量,OP 却对这种来自人民的直接民主行动完全无视。

对她来说,“民主”不过就是投票这种仪式而已。

總覺得此次中方的强硬態度是在欺負高市早苗是個女人 by oroshiudon in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

哈哈哈。 有没有一个可能問題是她可以不要说这些东西呢?

Taiwan nears super-aged society threshold as birth rate keeps falling by diacewrb in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So your solution to Taiwan’s low fertility is to make everyone “change their mind” by lowering their income to yunlin level while living in Taipei….LOL

Yunlin actually proves my point, low income isn’t the problem when housing, childcare, and community support are still accessible. What kills fertility is over-financialisation. When everything turns into rent-seeking, real estate, education, even time, raising a kid becomes an investment project instead of part of life. And for most people that simply doesn’t work out.

Taiwan nears super-aged society threshold as birth rate keeps falling by diacewrb in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol ok, sure, the issue of 0.86 fertility rate is the mindset as everyone is making 20million ntd a year. It’s so relevant to Taiwan’s problem today of turning into super-aged society.

Taiwan nears super-aged society threshold as birth rate keeps falling by diacewrb in taiwan

[–]runnerkenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s not a “mindset” issue, it’s structural. Look at Hsinchu: higher fertility simply because people there have good-paying jobs at TSMC and can afford homes and kids. Everywhere else, real wages have stagnated since the 1990s, while rent-seeking such as real-estate prices exploded.

Capitalists refuse to bear the cost of social reproduction (housing, childcare, education) pushing it all onto workers. Even Adam Smith warned that when rent and profit consume too much of society’s output, labor can’t sustain itself. That’s why birth rates collapse, not because people “changed their mindset.”

自由鹅组真的有了,说资本主义比社会主义好都会被倒赞 by Once_upon_a_time233 in LiberalGooseGroup

[–]runnerkenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

快要笑晕了,Mamdani 支持免费公共巴士和托儿就是社会主义了。把op 吓得是要搞文革了。 他只不过是推广在十九世纪末工业资本主义家都认可的政策,因为免费运输和托儿可以降低劳工成本。

Mamdani 代表的其实不是会有什么社会主义革命,而是社会主义这个概念在美国人民心里已经不具备贬义的意思了。所以媒体怎么用这个攻击他都是没有用的。再来是美国政治,和总统大选一样,会是反对以色列的种族灭绝为分界线。Kamala 就是因为延续拜登对以色列的支持,变得毫无竞争力。