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“Corruption” is when you do things that American capital doesn’t like.

The US doesn’t have allies, she has interests.

• World’s Biggest War Criminal Henry Kissinger

I haven’t gotten around to watching the Wandering Earth films just yet but the book is incredible. It’s “just” a collection of short stories, but the Chinese author’s (Cixin Liu of Three-Body fame) perspective on possible futures and critiques of the present is so refreshing.

GT claps hard. Their snark towards the west makes me feel warm inside.

In Germany refugees from places Germany helped destabilize like Syria were being evicted from their government financed accommodations to make room for Ukrainians. We were paying for Ukrainians to take taxis wherever they wanted to go. Many communities and employers requested donations for Ukrainian families in need. Jobs were created for Ukrainian refugees who weren’t qualified for the positions offered. All well and good, we should support all refugees in such generous ways. The story looked very different in 2014 when the majority of Syrian refugees were coming. There was very little such community assistance, the fledgling neo nazi political parties took advantage of the situation in quite the opposite way, and white Germans still view (PoC) refugees as freeloaders.

IIRC in the US it’s basically controlled by the Silicon Valley intelligence contractor Oracle. One of the top staffers at TikTok Canada is a “former” intelligence agency employee.

The whole thing is fearmongering and in some form protecting the market share of the US social media companies which are more fully integrated with the US intelligence apparatus.

My partner recently got a prescription for fucking salt water (4% sterile saline solution) which she couldn’t get at any of our local pharmacies. I can imagine a couple reasons for some issues but this seems more like a complete supply chain collapse.

Get some quality handmade Japanese carbon steel knives, and learn how to use them and sharpen them. I’m filled with joy every day simply by chopping vegetables.

Honorable mention to Eglin Air Force Base as well.

As much as I wanted to watch this show (I’m a total space nerd) I just couldn’t get past the incredibly heavy handed American exceptionalism and red hating.

Also, comments are quarantined because of tankie infestation? Fuck that noise. USSR won the space race, boots on the moon or not.

The German military is absolutely useless. The kit doesn’t work and the soldiers are right wing extremists. It’s in such bad shape that the €100B in additional military funding approved in 2022, more than double the standard annual budget, won’t even suffice to get the Bundeswehr into fighting shape.

I guess nobody told him Germany has like two functioning tanks.

Not the majority though? I thought he was “just” the largest landholder, but only with a single percent of the total.

Yeah, he’s a mixed bag. Sometimes you’ll get very pointed analyses of global economics, sometimes it’s just bs. Apparently his family were Trots so maybe that’s part of it. In part he’s right, in that productive capacities need to be built up and developed, but his insistence on the necessity of “mixed economies” and in some cases industrial capital is definitely off.

I’m reading Caliban and the Witch at the moment and that’s a big part of what the author talks about. Not just how that imposition happened in the colonies, but how it happened simultaneously in the “colonial core.”

Can’t speak to all theory, but the US government hired Michael Hudson to teach them how Superimperialism works in the 1970s. Apparently the CIA used the book as a manual on how to do dollar dominance better.

I’m sure Blackrock have their best people on it.

Westerners are incapable of viewing relationships with South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia outside of the lens of colonialism and imperialism.

IIRC Haiti still owes the French reparations for having won independence.

Also when you point out that Russia was more than willing to sell gas to European customers the whole damn time all you get is a “nu’uh no they didn’t” followed by the head being stuffed into the sand.