The market of ideas is not the battleground of Imperialism. The US struggle against the PRC over Bytedance is the US Bourg trying to enforce the International Rule that large corporations outside of the US are not allowed to exist outside of the public exchange. Americans need to be able to buy it up, whenever they want. This is also how the US exerts national domination over the Bourgeoisie of other nations. They can only invest in certain things on the continent, like real estate (which there are talks of banning Chinese nationals from owning land), and tech companies (inclusive of entertainment infrastructure), to keep the bubbles in both growing. They store their wealth in the US, under restrictions, so the US can remain liquid and clip coupons.

This is similarly why some European big whigs are calling for liberalization of pensions so they can be spent on militarism, which as we know from books like Palo Alto, the STEM sector in the Imperialist nations and militarism are two sides of the same process. Imperialism is Scientific Capitalism. 401k funds are also workers giving their wages straight to International Capitalism without going through the government.

Sure, but this is an excuse and a diversion. So are the anti-Comm and Sinophobic excuses. The reason why TikTok is facing an attempted force buyout is because the US-led Bourgeoisie wants to bring Bytedance into the stock market for the biggest IPO in history.

Something that the CPC blocked from happening in 2021:

US based firms like Blackrock have huge stakes in private Bytedance, they want to force an IPO so they can make dozens of billions at least. The American employees who own significant private stock also stand to benefit from a force takeover of Bytedance. The Tech Industrialists in California are in a win-win if the state is to be weaponized as well, TikTok goes public and they buy pieces of it up or TikTok is banned and their software cartel holds firm.

Remember which banks collapsed last year? The ones that deal with startup-to-IPO schemes? TikTok is the dream company for the IPO industry that is US Tech and California banking.

LMFAO they got him because he went to the 8chan birthday meetup with gamergaters. They crosschecked that with the Gab leaks and mfer used his real name behind his RedPanels account.

Brody argues that, despite the substantive public investment, disclosing too many details about the city’s dealings with a developer could jeopardize the city’s ability to make deals with private businesses in the future.

“We’re looking at developers’ bank accounts,” he noted. “This allowed Mr. Paterakis to finance the project without revealing confidential information,” he said.

Still, Brody maintains the city had to assist Paterakis to mitigate the difficulties of building close to the water. Among the challenges he cited was the construction of a slurry wall to support bulkheads that now anchor the Four Seasons Hotel.

This is basically, the whole basis of Bourgeois Dictatorship.

Remember what else the state is doing to accelerate private interests: https://therealnews.com/baltimores-downward-spiral-of-poverty-disinvestment-and-over-policing

This type of “investment” is constantly occurring, it’s these cities trying to become “global cities”: settler outposts to attract the international bourgeoisie as a place to spend their blood money. Where do their “tourists” get their money? Exploiting their home countries through collaborating with Imperialism. These developments’ profit streams are through Gulf Oil money, Post-Soviet resources, and East Asian manufacturing giants, super exploited migrant labor, and African and American Indigenous semi-peasant exploitation. This is what “slum clearing” entails, make room for the bourgs. This is how all of the famous urban neighborhoods of Europe that all of these settler-cities aim to model were also made. US Imperialism is crystallizing itself into the built environment of the of the US and Canada.

Native where? If to the Americas you would only really get native pollinators like bumble bees and butterflies, unless a honeybee farm or feral hive is near you and they need the nectar, even then they might not even be adapted to get it.

Getting native pollinators is a GREAT thing.

lmao go back to 8chan anon, it’s clear you’ve learned english from those weeb crackers

suffer by her side

you’re an incel and it’s obvious

You’re a youtube comment lmao fuck outta here

you’re a massive loser lmao

OP is not going to torture themselves by staying friends with a person they had feelings for lmao. You can actually, readjust your perception of people. You’re showing the same thinking that men and women can’t be friends despite both of those being entirely cultural institutions.

You thinking normal advice about how to build friendships and setting boundaries is a “lib salad” is telling for how you view relationships and other people. You called me a lib while professing Conservative Liberalism.

It’s great that you provided the type of advice OP is avoiding from their male friends

Sibling have you seen the submarine drama lmao, that’s was sign number 1.

The US-CA-UK-AUS-NZ bourgeoisie is essentially unified. The Canadians and Aussies mine, the Brits finance, the Americans fix the markets, and they’ll all move to Kiwi-Occupied Aotearoa when WW3 starts.

You say “time is running out”, now I don’t know your situation with your body, but if you’re simply thinking of “checkpoints” that others around your age have achieved or pressure from family/culture then you’re probably letting patriarchal conjecture infect your perspective of relationships.

It seems like you have a good friendship with this person. Keep being dependable and expect the same from them, and respect their boundaries. It sounds like this person would have a lot better advice wrt to dating women than your other friends, cherish that. You admire this person, admiration is a friendly emotion too and you can funnel that energy into building the friendship without intimacy/sexual undertones.

You’ll be alright. Remember that you don’t gotta impress folks all the time 😂, if you can try to not stress yourself with how you’re being perceived in the moment, it can go a long way to ease social anxiety!

btw for all, Chunka Luta Network library has the text and the audiobook available https://mega.nz/folder/cuMwjRyK#eDPayQSdYFwaCh9qr8zzPw

hellscape

Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris covers the creation and life of Stanford University and its role in Colonialism (and its Colonial roots). It’s a hella long read but great at showing you that Academia is a pivotal arm upholding Colonialism and the Bourgeoisie.

Yes the article is incorrect and it seems a lot of reporting is playing it safe by using neutral pronouns, but I’ve heard passed on info that Nex preferred the masculine pronouns.

Edit:

Could come off as conflicting information, but it wouldn’t be unexpected that a young person would be still coming to understand their presentation in their environments

Nex used he/they pronouns according to his friends btw. JSYK when talking about this tragedy moving forward.

Flames of Liberation lecture on Baathism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJzwzdM8sE

Baath of Iraq Self-Crit on problems with their relationships with Nasserism, the CP, and the Kurdish movements: https://www.marxists.org/history/iraq/baath/index.htm

The split is seemingly bigger than it really is. Nasserists are viewed by the Baath as too focused on Arab state power, disregarding the non-Arab groups (like the Kurds) and differences between Arab nationalities (Syria and Iraq have much more complex polities than Egypt). The Baath of Syria split with the Iraqi branch due to ideological differences in trying to understand class dynamics (they are very different, and Syria is much more complex). The Communists in the region had a weak line on the Israel Question due to influence of French and English CPs. None of this was unbridgeable and much of it was bridged, but due to circumstances on the ground and miscommunications and opportunism, there was a lot of violence to these struggles which all sides regret.

As for Yemen I’m not sure what the differences were, it’d be best to seek out the writings of the groups involved during that period. I’m going to conjecture that MLs in power have similar views to the Baathists as Scientific Socialists, that they sought to develop their specific place as a bastion of anti-Imperialism rather than a utopian immediate Unity that disregards the concrete, specifics.

It’s China time, the Imperialists are done playing with Ukraine.

Anna Louise Strong, she also was a journalist dedicated to sympathetic reporting on the Soviets for American audiences.

btw is there a feature of alt text for images on this site?