Semjeza

Maybe, tell me your progressive policy party and we’ll find out.

And which political party has a remotely progressive policy line?

I’ll assume you’ve already taken to heart that the PRC invaded the PRV in 1979, as part of the Sink-Soviet split to punish Soviet allies in East Asia after Glasnost (this part of history is quite complicated, so it’s OK that you got it wrong, we should all be learning all the time).

Taiwan, or the RoC if you prefer (since that’s the name that some countries continue to recognise it as a nation under) , was indeed fascist (and certainly totalitarian) under Qiang Kai Shek, especially post retreat to Taiwan, (although not Imperial - the Imperial of China ended in 1911, and could only arguably be said to start again in 1959). However, with Lee Tung Hui’s reforms and the end of dictatorship that changed, opening up the country, ending the death squads and brining about an opening up and freer press. And to preempt your criticism of the wave of 本生人 having been US educated, where would you expect them to have gone? The PRC? Or a nation trying to build ties with it? Japan and the PRC were pretty friendly at the time, so that would’ve been out too.

And since you notice that Vietnam, Philippines are indeed not a threat to the PRC, maybe you should reevaluate what I mean by: “Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam are about as much of a threat to the PRC as Palestine is to Israel.” (with its iron dome, vastly superior firepower, and being on an entirely different scale of military capabilities, although to be fair to Vietnam, they did beat both the US and PRC in a war.)

Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam are about as much of a threat to the PRC as Palestine is to Israel.

A better response would be that China hasn’t started a war against them since them since it invaded Vietnam in the 70s, and it’s small border wars with India are more mutual wars.

If you’re instead advocating that Azerbaijan isn’t attacking Armenia, sorry for the East Asia spiel, I’ll go and be shocked by your position for a while.

I’d foolishly overlooked the considerations of what kind of line was drawn on the space side. That’s a really good point.

Thanks for the polite, pernicketty, chat.

Your are indeed technically correct (but I maintain that as the worst kind of correct, who trusts bureaucrats?), but the added information that that section details as once/if women married, their finances, assets, bank accounts became their husbands.

So while unmarried and widowed women could do banking, meaning that women could - social pressure and expectations made it difficult to impossible for the majority of most women’s lives.

You are correct in the bar of “a certain subset of >1 women could open bank accounts” was true for, potentially the entire history of banking in the US/thirteen colonies. (When was the first settler bank set up in N. America? Probably a Spanish one in the Caribbean, but British people probably didn’t use that one.)

We are mostly in agreement, just drawing the line either when first crossed (fair and valid) or when all could cross (racial discrimination aside (and that’s a big aside)).

Salutations and respect to a fellow lover and encourager of persnicketiness.

It’s a good link, busting the myth clearly and with good sources.

However:

1862: First state (California) allows women to open bank accounts regardless of marital status.

But that’s still a century before female cosmonauts, so I’m just being pernicketty really.

Denigration of the lumpenproleteriat… Those most excluded from the system are best able to imagine life beyond and outside it and build support networks not based in capitalism.

Putting (some) of the workers in charge of the means of production doesn’t solve the problems, it merely ameliorates them for a while a new ruling class emerges from the revolutionary vanguard while switches places with the previous ruling class.

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

Despite, not because.

Europe has it due to how strong Socialism looked post Second World War. Neoliberal Capitalism has been eroding it as best it can.

Think of “memes” as condensed ideology.