@TheAtlantic@MichaelSchuman "The Atlantic" is a manufacturing juggernaut for production of noxious Zionist, imperialist, and colonialist Western Elite Class talking point pablum. It's so tedious and predicable.
Just so everyone is clear, the gripe here is that China is destroying the profits of the western bourgeoisie, because they are forced to make their products cheaper to compete with Chinese competitors.
This is the central argument of 100% of all western economic analysis of China. The more affordable China's products, the more it destroys their monopolies and their profit margins.
As always, the purpose of such propagandists, as well as their "elected" governments, is to make the interests of the bourgeoisie appear like the national interests of their respective countries. It's the first rule of bourgeois economics: What's good for the bourgeoisie is good for the proletariat.
@m4h007@never_oppressed@AssalRad Time to rethink the assumptions of progressiveism. “Progress” imposed in a system of runaway finance capital and limitless tech is a fast track to the oblivion of humanity. Progressives themselves have no understanding of this, and that makes them extremely dangerous.
@TPSpindel You’re a hardcore Zionist who cheers dead Palestinians children and Iranian schoolgirls. You use your account to link Ukraine and Israel…and you’re right.. the Zio-Nazis are fighting the same (evil) cause.
There will be no agreement between Iran and the Trump regime until it stops the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon and Gaza. Iran knows that the West supports this genocide and that only the Islamic Republic and its allies stand in their way.
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I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.
Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.
“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"
"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was RAPED by one of the soldiers"
"Other people had guns inserted inside them"
ISRAEL DID THIS TO INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS FROM THE GLOBAL SUMOD FLOTILLA.
@SithHaters@MKell79@Mericamemed The deer has no legal or moral obligations. He is above and apart and accountable to no one. That is what we mean by doing God’s work, taking the wheels out from under these demons like no mere man can do.
John “Bomb Bomb Iran” McCain, hardcore Zionist, neoliberal, neocon warmonger and bomber of peasants. A privileged dolt who married rich. A man of man of multiple scandals and a legendary asshole with a violent temper….you American elite class liberals and your fairy tale fictions. Pure rot.
Americans in my comments section are always asking "what's the solution?"
Not seeming to grasp that the decline and dismantling of American dominance is already the solution, not a problem that needs to be solved.
What's the solution to consequences?
Acceptance.
@adamemedia1 I’ve done it since my very first text message some fifteen years ago…It’s a way of softening what might be taken otherwise as an abrupt or cold ending to a thought.
The 22-minute monologue that begins this show offers clear, compelling proof that Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
It's then followed by a harrowing interview with Dr. Maynard and the atrocities he saw in Gaza.
Anyone denying the value of this is either a fraud who doesn't believe what they say about the Israeli/US genocide, or is very dumb, or both.
Democracy only spread because it was the best system for producing compliant trading partners.
A democracy has elections. Elections require parties. Parties require financing. Financing requires capital. Capital has interests. So by design, every democracy in the world has a built-in mechanism that ensures the people with money have disproportionate access to the people with power.
You don’t need to bribe a dictator and hope he stays in power. In a democracy, you just fund both candidates and own the outcome regardless.
This is why US spent the Cold War toppling democracies that elected the wrong people Mossadegh in Iran, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo and replacing them with dictators who were more “stable.” Stable meaning: predictable to capital.
The genius of it is the aesthetics. Democracy looks like self-determination. It has flags and anthems and moving inauguration speeches. People will die for it. But the operating system underneath is remarkably friendly to concentrated wealth arguably more so than overt authoritarianism, which at least makes the power visible.
The most honest political scientists will tell you: what actually spread after 1989 was markets. Democracy was the packaging.
And the packaging worked so well that the people inside it genuinely believe they’re free which is the final, most elegant feature of the system.
A cage you can’t see is the strongest cage ever built.