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  • China already has slaves of it’s own, people who have a rural hukou. It creates a permanent legal underclass of exploitable labor with basically zero rights.

    What I’m talking about is pretty simple, in China you’re registered in the province of your birth, or parent’s birth. This registration is called a hukou, and is pretty much impossible to change except in cases of extreme wealth.

    Your hukou determines what social services you have access to. Social services in China are paid for at the local level, and are only available to people who have a local hukou.

    The problem is that there are no jobs in the poor provinces, and if someone moves to the city for work, they have zero access to the social services that their taxes are supporting, unless they pay out of pocket.

    These migrant workers have no labor protections, no unemployment, no local schools for their kids, except for criminally underfunded migrant schools, that are not free.

    So you have about 15% of the population of China who you hear about, living upper middle class lives with free social services, supported by the exploitation of everyone else.


  • The most over roasted slop around, sure. There’s a reason why that place serves pure diabetes, their black coffee is kinda gross.

    maybe the coffee is gross so that it can pair with the diabetes. That much sugar needs a very strong flavor to offset it.

    Or Starbucks just uses the absolute cheapest beans on the market and then burns them for that truly consistent char flavor, which they then have to turn into diabetes to make palatable.

    Either way, it’s just not good.



  • Maybe it’s the fact that every Chinese citizen is registered in the province of their birth, and can only draw social services in the province of their birth. All social services are paid for at the province level, and rich provinces do not subsidize poor provinces.

    Citizens are legally barred from changing this registration except in cases of extreme wealth. The thing is, there are lots of jobs in the rich provinces and no jobs in the poor ones, so you have a permanent legal underclass who is exploited to make the lives of about 15% of the population seem pretty good.

    That 15% is the ones who get free healthcare, unemployment, and generally all of the workers rights. The rest get shit all.



  • It wasn’t an accident. There’s a great podcast called 5-4 that has gone through some of the worst decisions in history. They talked about Citizens United, and how Roberts had to stretch the truth to come to that decision. He’s done that a lot, he does the Roberts two-step, when he first upholds a law that he doesn’t like, but makes up some shit about how there are “questions” about it, and then his allies in the broader Conservative movement then bring a lawsuit that specifically targets one of those “questions” so that Roberts can overturn the law.

    Thomas does something similar, except it’s even more egregious, he will write an unhinged dissent or concurrence that makes bonkers legal arguments that may or may not be fully related to the case at hand, and then when he’s up to write for the majority, he’ll cite his own arguments in those dissents and concurrences. Those documents have zero legal weight, but he cites them as if they were settled law.