• RadicalYogi@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    I guess it depends in which bubble of the world you live in. My own perception is that China is my only plausible hope for a world leader able to replace bad industries (AI, Coal, Petrol), capitalism and have foreign policies that are not dead-centered on pushing everyone else down for profit and undermining democracy.

    I guess it explains the other comment you got about Republicans. For me the USA (and their Israeli friend) are by far the biggest threat to world progress and sustainability. (The USA basically never having been on the “good” side of history except when they eventually joined in on WW2).

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      7 days ago

      China increases Coal and Petrol use every year and are second only to the USA in AI, and they helped put the Trump admin and the AfD into power.

      Everything you just said was bullshit. China is the source of the things you called evil.

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        China still burns the most coal and permitted record new capacity last year, but in that same year it added ~300 GW of solar and ~100 GW of wind, oh and the world needs their production chains to deploy renewables. Just in case you were not arguing in bad faith.

        Which is “second” in AI is debatable, but I salute the open-weights releases from their top models and their general efficiency compared to the brute force approach seen elsewhere.

        I’m not saying China is perfect, but they basically can’t be a worse world leader than the US was, and in these years we are having, I’m glad to at least witness the fall of the US empire and see how the world might heal from it…

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          7 days ago

          I’m glad to at least witness the fall of the US empire

          Classic example of you Tankie fucks promoting the Trump admin.