@redbtkn it's true that the vn government plays a strong role in the economy, but the similarities end there. they showered foreign investors with subsidies, signed on to as many FTAs as they possibly could, and started by focusing on light industry before moving up the value chain
@redbtkn vietnam's agri policies are genuinely something we should emulate, but it irks me whenever natdems claim that their industrial policy are anywhere close to the model of national industrialization that you hold up. if anything it's the complete OPPOSITE -
In ~400 years, some overrated intellectual will say that the United States of America were neither United nor States nor American and feel so annoyingly smug
People are dogpiling this 15 year old kid for having a typical 15-year-old-kid crisis. This is what I mean when I say, most ppl's online activism doesn't stem from empathy, it stems from CONSTANTLY being on the hunt for someone who "deserves" cruelty because it strokes your ego
nood kayo next year sa women’s world cup where the filipinas are qualified! just because the federation wants to abandon the team doesn’t mean we should
This is not AI. This is a real picture of a Ukranian woman tied to a pole being beaten and humiliated after being tortured by occupation forces possibly from North Ossetia. Occupation depends on systemic violence towards the occupied.
just learned two things from a pair of bengali guys in the gym changing room:
1. it is possible to passionately disagree about the subject of air fryers
2. there is no bengali word for air fryer