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Even from beyond the grave Mao keeps throwing capitalists to their knees.

To think there was a time Labour was pretty respectable given its place in the Lion’s Den of capitalism. It even had a mini-revival under social democratic Jeremy Corbin.

What’s with the spooky scary skeleton?

Of course the US government can still simply nationalize it and resell it, but it would force the US government to show how government actually works when it desires to.

What is there to say? There’s no evidence Yiyosaki was wealthy until he started making money from his books, courses and MLM. And his “poor dad” was actually pretty wealthy.

Yes, and no. The US still has a massive pool of might to pull from hypothetically, the issue is a cultural rejection towards putting boots on the ground among the civilian population. Without a VERY convincing narrative, a significant portion of the zoomers will become radicalized… and they know that.

Which is sad/funny because the American federal government really can’t run out of money. It could hypothetically run out of resources, sure, but US dollars can buy any raw material anywhere and even then the land we stole from the indigenous nations happens to be some of the most resource rich in the world. The government could easily spend tens of trillions to create bleeding edge infrastructure and simply chooses not to.

will do whatever it takes

Except bring back well paying union jobs to make it here again.

Wouldn’t be the worst back-stabbing the US has done.

I feel more like they’re testing the waters, the good thing is that the average person in the West is losing more and more confidence over the inherent “superiority” of US American led power by the year. There was a moment in the beginning of the war that it might have been possible to mobilize NATO nations to send boots on the ground but a lot has changed in these 2 years.

It’s basically the “chronically online effect” but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I’m old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for “deviant” sexual acts with children. I call it the “colonizer effect” where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by “blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc” and if there isn’t anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.

What I do with my body and personal property is none of your business, comrade.

Hilarious because the USSR literally freed Ukraine from being part of Russia since they (especially Lenin) felt they were a distinct enough people group to deserve their own nation. It might make sense if Putin had invaded Finland for example.

I was always told I was a boy, and it just felt correct, never do I not see a male figure in the mirror nor feel feminine/girly, and I am for the most part “manly” in the way I go about my life. I’m quite fortunate that I don’t see the need to pontificate on the issue very much.

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The most used answer in a political scientist’s toolbox is “it depends”. Stalin’s decision to not antagonize the US after WW2 was intelligent given that the USSR was fried after the Revolution, Civil War, invasions by the West, and obviously WW2. They were simply not capable of fighting and needed years of peace to build up, even if that meant being unable to help in the revolution in Greece and the Civil War in Korea (at least not sending troops). Khrushchev’s decision to put the barrel of the nuclear gun pointed at America’s dick in the September Crisis (aka Cuban Missile Crisis in the West) was boneheaded and an unnecessary escalation. Every nation, no matter how repugnant has the right to self-defense from foreign nations. But Russia pushing back on NATO is totally valid, even if invading Ukraine isn’t good, I don’t know what other realistic options they had.

Right now the US is caught flat-footed after the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, with two neo-military base puppet nations (Israel and Saudi Arabia) being rebellious and not following the US’s commands exactly, a string of very unpopular US leaders, their government showing cracks in its stability, an economy that is languishing from a recession they cannot recover from. So it is the most opportune time to press hard on them. Not to mention, the PRC continues to grow and is even mending bridges with Vietnam (a potential ally the US has been courting heavily for decades now), as BRICS+ expands in size and importance.

Doing too much studying, my brain is frying.

There’s 1.5 billion Chinese people, the idea that for whatever reason some will want to move here is just a matter of math. I have some Chinese bros, and the youth that do move here aren’t economic immigrants, they legitimately like the US. Why you’d try to block these people is beyond me.

It used to be that the US shocked me by how effective they are in their evil, now I’m puzzled by the boneheaded decisions they’re doing. By all means, don’t interrupt an enemy making a mistake… but the elites drank the Kool-Aid.

It didn’t used to be that way, capital has become so powerful it actively threatens capitalism.

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