The Economist would like to offer you a job…
They think if they keep singing Rule Britannia long enough and loud enough, their empire will magically reappear.
(The linked video is excellent, unintended self-parody btw.)
I’m cackling in public…
Come back here and I’ll bite your leg!
I mean, it is Laurence Fishburne
Or just gaslight them into thinking they don’t really need those things.
yewtu.be also has a progressive mobile app!
Yep. At best they could argue that these decisions come with opportunity costs - China could have made more profit by allocating its money elsewhere.
I always understood it to mean the “cost” is just more capitalist accumulation. “They could be enriching their/our bourgeoisie, but instead they do this?!”
And here’s a much shorter article with some good info as well.
I haven’t read the whole thing quite yet, but this looks good. It concludes:
The Lao PDR, as a developing nation, still has a long road ahead in its pursuit of socialism. However, by pursuing socialism without entering a period of full capitalism, building the socialist-oriented New Economic Mechanism, and continuing the development of economic reforms on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, the Lao PDR, with the LPRP at the helm, has accomplished more in the past five decades than would have seemed possible in 1975.
4.2 / 3 = 1.4
4.2 + 1.4 = 5.6
If anything, the screenshot is underestimating the fourth quarter.
Short photo essay on Guryong Village.
The illegal(!) encampment grew up on private land in 1988, when many people were forced out of their old Seoul homes ahead of the city’s Olympic Games.
Killer Kamala: “Choke yourself! Choke yourself with my hand!”