The cause being what?

They murdered thousands of people in cities across China. Footage and imagery are very easily accessible all over the internet, and you’re also arguing that there was no trade degredation between China and other nations after 1989?

Present it

In the thumbnail is the Tiananmen Square Tank Man.

Are you claiming a globally televised event which lead to a complete breakdown of trade relations across the world in the 90s, didn’t happen?

History can only be made once, but you get to revise it every single day.

EDIT: To clarify I am mocking the Russians for re-stalinization.

Idk you seem pretty stoked about it

Exhibit A

Look, the USA are no saints by any metric, but on a comparative scale to actual dictatorships you’d have to be a concaveman to think they’re one of the baddies.

The part that normalizes mass murder.

Lol nah, it could just be coincidence, but imagine this hypothetical:

If the only two times you hear a phrase like “you should buy white tires” was from Joseph Stiglitz and a demon whom wants you to off yourself, and the demon said it first, how would that make you feel about the message?

The fact that it is one of their main talking points or assertions while attacking the USA shows there is some nuanced truth to the statement.

You seem really upset about me discussing how genuine this sentiment is and where it leads. Are you feeling defensive about something?

Hurrhurrhurr yes comrade us americans, we should learn to accept Xi Jinping into our hearts. /s

What a stupid analogy.

No but it is an article whose headlines use the same words as pretend-anarchist/socialist dictatorships when they try to stoke flames online to promote political division and violence.

Jfc I feel like a skipping record, how do you not understand the context of the conversation you’re in? Did you get dropped off in the middle?

Ah youre right, FCC just regulates telecommunications lol my bad must have been a little foggy.

FTC oversees securities exchanges, primarily. Things like the stock market.

I wasn’t calling Joseph Stiglitz a dictatorship, I was calling Russia and China dictatorships and they often use the same words to different ends. The fact that this is crossposted to Hexbear and lemmy ML isn’t doing the post any favors, either, those places are flowing with pro-CCP propoganda.

As much as this can be a productive conversation analyzing the faults of the system we live in to reform and fix it, it can also be used as justification for voting against our interests, violence, and subterfuge. It’s unfortunate, but that is our context.

Well you can find various FCC lawsuits going back decades but nobody ever talks about any of that stuff.

Investigation report form March LINK

April actions LINK

2 days ago LINK

Also they sued to stop the Albertsons Kroger Merger LINK

Everything else I said was pure assertion on my part, but the point still stands

In the USA, the FTC is actually taking grocery store chains to court over collusion and price fixing, presumably will target specific brands once more data gets released via the court proceedings.

So there are government officials doing things about it, but nobody ever seems to give them any fucking credit and every few years we vote in new politicians who gut the agency.