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Very very plausible. Even if we accept the claim at face value, it just proves that their interests align.
And right wingers in the US will continue to lump them together with Iran even though Iran is their biggest counterweight in the region, cause muslims are scary and all totally the same
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I honestly dont trust it. All from 2 israeli sources and not even like 1-2 years ago Assad was talking about how horrible nazis were and how NATO incorporated them into their network in europe with operation gladio after pretending to be against fascism. I expect this is just another hit job trying to paint anti Zionists as holocaust deniers and nazis. The Israeli media and govt has shown how quick they are to lie about even the most obvious shit, saying things like calendars with days of the week are lists of hamas members and that palestinian school books are in English with dedication pages to terrorists.
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Most organizations have flags/symbols, if you're familiar with the Saudi flag its pretty similar. Imo fatah and PFLP have cooler flags
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He should go back to clash of clans and stay outta politics
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Yes and its important when doing this to always order on really good sales. I just ordered a full kilo for the first time in case the KCPA fails and Congress uses it as an opportunity to ban kratom. May sound paranoid but that's exactly what happened in Louisiana locally, they had a few parishes propose a KCPA and it failed and turned into a ban wave all across lousiana parishes.
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Animal agriculture is worse for the climate than all transportation combined multiple times over. You talk so arrogantly about something you know nothing about. Transport is 2% ish global emissions animal ag is over 12%.
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According to my grandpa, Bernie Sanders is a Maoist.
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Few reasons as an American I'd never move to Hawaii-
First, I'd feel like such a dirty settler dude. I know I already am one, but they're under such direct occupation and so vulnerable. I'd feel the same as moving onto an indigenous reservation.
Second, very vulnerable to natural disasters and when shit goes down they get little federal assistance except to keep the military and corporations going.
Lastly, it's just expensive as fucking hell, and I am broke and don't see that changing in the foreseeable future.
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Idk anything about whoever Helali is but that FinBol stuff was legit and the screenshots were pretty bad.
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That subreddit is basically r/ElizabethWarren so insufferable
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This is exactly why US wants things with China to pop off ASAP. They themselves know and cannot deny the decline of their empire, and simultaneously they cannot deny China's rise. That fact alone guarantees there will be a point that once reached, the US has no shot of taking down China.
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Wym world has flipped? There has been a pro-russia sect of the Republican party ever since the USSR fell. A group of US rightists wanting to put the brakes on the Russia proxy war so that they can go full speed into a war with China is not the world flipping.
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Honestly ashamed to admit I never knew quite how large DPRK's military was. I almost feel like the stats I'm reading are off, they say US military has 1.4 million active personnel and DPRK has 1.3 million. By numbers (not funding) they have the fourth largest in the world. On one hand it's depressing they need to put so much manpower to militarism, but at the same time I understand they were absolutely forced into this and I have massive respect for the everyday solider/vet in DPRK that is willing to risk everything to preserve their sovereignty and socialism.
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I am not sure if research quality takes this into account, but I gotta add that the insane degree of conflicts of interest in the US massively taints their pool of research. And in the US it takes zero effort to avoid noting conflicts of interest so even research that looks clean requires deeper digging. For example, some researchers used to get paid a ton of money by big tobacco to create studies where tobacco appears healthy. But as long as that money wasn't super recent or explicitly for the study they don't need to disclose it.
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Man I wish I could remember that Parenti quote about how the imperialists always say two contradictory things. One second the scary commies are a threat to the entire world and could take over the US, the next they scream about how socialism can't succeed with anything.
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I am so tired of this trope of "good times make weak men". Just the whole idea that if we dare make things "too good" people become weak. When it's obvious in reality no country is made stronger with masses homeless, starving, suffering in the climate crisis, etc. It may just be cause I live in a right wing as fuck area but I hear this endlessly in various forms and it gets old so fast.
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I agree, I genuinely think if US would have let them join NATO China would have never been able to take the left turn it has since Xi has been in power. US would simply have them surrounded with missiles and they would have total dominance over their economy. The USSR I'd argue was fairly unique in being able to survive in the way it did and with such a degree of self-sufficiency. They had about all they needed- tons of fertile land, endless energy, etc. I don't think even China or a more advanced India could do this, China needs allies to pose any threat or gain any true independence from the western economic system.
I feel like I'm missing something here. US doing that would have made them much stronger against China. I mean just imagine how much more robust the European economy would be if all the gas going to China was going right to Europe. Though in typing that out I may have answered my own question. Is it really just because US wanted to European market to themselves? This seems incredibly short sighted.
I really do not know much one way or the other, I just discovered "e-stonia" which seems to be the prototype of this. Also was reading about how leaders at the world economic forum were talking about doing this with Ukraine ASAP. I am not inherently opposed to the general idea, in fact, China has made many similar steps of transferring away from paper money, making official shit be able to be done online, etc. And in that context it seems to be an obvious progression of a society that's more and more online and advanced with tech. My skepticism comes from the fact that so far this seems to be a political tool in capitalist countries and especially for international capitalists. They are making "digital countries" where people can get an ID and become an e-resident and do business over there, basically opening the economy to anyone that can afford it. I also have seen the WEF talk about using it to create like a metaverse where you can visit Ukraine- a made up version of Ukraine to fit their imperialist narrative where donbass isn't being shelled and where Crimea is owned by Ukraine. This just seems so fucking dystopian it makes me entirely skeptical.
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My brain had a party after being on it 3 weeks- had a grand mal seizure and never took that shit again.
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The foreign ministry in China is putting out straight heat lately.
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I was HYPED when Ben Norton came out saying his media outlet is gonna be hosting Hudson every other week. And thankful he introduced me to Radhika Desai!
But we all know everyone in mainstream media will ignore this and keep fear-mongering about it. The US always does this. Make up some wild lie, repeat it endlessly until people buy it, then years later quietly admit it was all BS a single time.
It is my understanding that class conflict is seen as the primary contradiction at least in this epoch of history. My question is, what are the new contradictions that formed under socialism thus far and what would be the theorized contradictions under communism? What was the primary contradiction during primitive communism? Or perhaps my questions show a fundamental misunderstanding, which if so I would like corrected. Thank you!
Out of all the cold war history, this is what I've researched least and honestly I'm left kind of perplexed. What drove the Khmer rouge? Was it a force for evil or was it just really stupid with a good heart? They did things like abolish money, which alone is incredibly interesting. The more I look into it the more it looks like this disaster was the result of mainly sino Soviet split, as over 90% of the foreign aid to the khmer rouge was from China with USSR backed Vietnam eventually stepping in. Then after Vietnam steps in and attempts to set up a worker's state, China prevents them from being recognized at the UN, which set the people's republic up for disaster from it's inception, never being recognized then falling like a decade later. I absolutely need to do a deep dive on the sino Soviet split, it seems for that period Chinese foreign policy was awful. The USSR was revisionist as fuck, yeah, but it's a hell of a lot better than the US, Mujahideen, and khmer rouge. I feel like I MUST be missing something here. Did the USSR force China into these stances?
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This is a first episode of a new series on geopolitical economy by Dr Michael Hudson and professor Radhika Desai. This episode explores the geopolitical economy of the new world stage, namely a rising China and Russia alliance and a decline in US economic power which together are leading us to a world that is multipolar. We are not just returning to the bipolarity of the cold war, or the capitalist multipolarity we saw in world war one where imperialist powers divided the world amongst themselves. We are speeding towards a world where the strongest economic player is a country led by a communist party, where economic relations with the rest of the world are based on win-win deals and total sovereignty for all parties involved.
This is some collapse type shit, is US openly prepping for WW3?
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Looks like things are heating up in eruope, does anyone know what's up? How likely is NATO intervention?
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Awesome short video from Cuba on the day of local elections. Perfect to share with friends who can't get past cold war propaganda that Cuba has no democracy.
I saw some meme of him talking online about being against Israel and people calling him anti-semitic, I looked him up and Google tells me he is universally recognized as one of the most brutal modern dictators as leader of Uganda in the 70s. Immediately I thought oh this dude may be based, but on Wikipedia it mentions he gained power through a coup and was initially pro-west. It continues by saying after that he drifted away from them and was backed by totally evil "regimes" like the Soviet Union and East Germany. And that he was like shunned by the UK for declaring himself "CBE", conqueror of the British Empire. He was a Pan africanist as well, which leads me to seriously wonder if he was all that bad. Was this dude just a useful ally to the Soviets or was he a serious anti-colonial fighter?
Ive read so many conflicting things about modern Rojava/the Kurdish part of Syria and this aspect seems vital. Are these long term imperialist allies? Generally I see it discussed in the context of the modern occupation of Syria, where the YPG is helping the US steal Syria's oil. I really don't know much about it outside of my country's current occupation and my interest was sparked by that True Anon guy who went and fought there. At that point I thought it was just imperialist but when he started talking against the US propaganda against Assad, fake gas attacks, etc it made me think there may be more to it, and perhaps not another Kosovo/Yugoslavia type situation.
I have seen some of their stuff around, it is recommended a lot for me when watching anything related to Ukraine. I first saw them in relation to the stuff that was happening with Gonzalo Lira, and because of that I've always assumed they weren't worth taking that seriously. They were promoting Lira this dude known for red pill sexist bs and when I looked them up I saw they had a news app with a description talking about "traditional values" which was a huge red flag for me and I've ignored them since. But today I go to watch The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong, and he had them on. I'm about 20 minutes in so far and honestly this has me interested in them. They're covering that recent video of a EU official talking about how Europe is a "garden" and the global south, Russia, etc are "the jungle" and shit. Surprisingly to me the first response was one of the Duran guys talking against European supremacy and colonialism and the like and how they exploit the global South. I looked up Alexander Mercouris and the first article I see is about how Asia is the future and US empire is dying. Maybe it's just me living in the US, but I've never heard a right winger talk like this. What do you guys think?
This is a concise answer I found online, but it only confuses me more. "Because profit can only come from human labour, as more and more capitalists invest in the new machinery the average labour time required to produce each commodity falls. This is what makes the rate of profit fall, as the ratio of surplus value to investment falls across the whole system." My understanding of this paragraph is that as machines play more and more a role in production less human labor is needed to produce the commodity, but I dont get how that lowers profit. My first thought it, don't machines allow more money to be made? As capitalism develops we are reaching a point where 90%+ jobs in some industries will be replaced by machines, needing less people and less overall investment for the profits you're getting. The entire reason is that it makes more profits right? Employers at least in the US save a ton just from not needing to pay for employees healthcare and other benefits, there are a lot of incentives in replacing people with machines. I am sure these questions sound totally moronic to you comrades who have read capital volume three, but I hope you can see where I'm coming from and let me know what I'm getting wrong. I would really like to understand this, but it's pretty intimidating to get into and wrap my head around some of this stuff. Thanks guys.
