Erik

Enjoy the ride.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

The Patriots season

[Trev Reporteraport @incredelman_11]

How this season has felt as a Patriots fan 😭

[autist @litteralyme0]

Me losing all my humour and social skills the minute someone I don't know joins the conversation

[Erik @Erik_tsa]

@yhprumsslaw Summertime sadness

[LUIS FERNANDO @LFUGALDE7]

Yo odiando todo el año a Alana

Yo cuando Alana representa a México #LaVeladaDelAñoV

[Martinalgui @MartinoliCuri]

1% de probabilidad

99% de fé

[Out Of Context FIFA @oocfifa2026]

HOY

River vs Monterrey

[Peseteiro @jpeseteiroDT]

Toda Sudamérica yendo a defender el área de Botafogo:

[Erik @Erik_tsa]

@BRICSinfo Israel's bitch

[Rhevolver @Rhevolver]

Yo toda la temporada de Liga MX: qué chingue a su madre los Rayados, pinches cogeprimas, equipo chico

Yo también el sábado que le metan gol al putísimo River Plate:

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

The speed at which people are pivoting from immigration experts to geopolitical analysts is breathtaking.

[cob @sillierdeadite]

movie of the year

[Rendy Jones @rendy_jones]

I’ve seen thousands of films and the music tribute in SINNERS holds as one of the best scenes I’ve seen in my entire life. Three viewings in and I’m still at the edge of my seat, mouth agape, tearing up in pride. Haven’t felt that way since Spider-Verse’s ‘Leap of Faith’ scene.

[Luis Arturo Herrera @RealArturoH]

Conozco a varios.

[Erik @Erik_tsa]

@yhprumsslaw Is any fucking bitch in the room with us right now?

[best of carrie coon @bestofcoon]

the white lotus (2025)

[VAMOS MEXICO 🇲🇽 MUNDIAL 2026 🏆⚽️ @eltri_united]

People forget how good Chicharito was in his prime

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President https://t.co/VXRNYuVFdc

Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things."

But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why, according to him, globalization was a failure.

Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very much to maintain them, to institute a system of permanent economic hierarchy where rich countries would maintain their hold over the most profitable sectors while relegating poor countries to perpetual subordination in lower-value production.

This is basically all you need to know to explain 90% of U.S. foreign policy these past few years: colonial thinking is alive and well, and America's shift of strategy in recent years - away from the previous "Washington Consensus" of "free" markets towards a much more overt attempt to contain and restrict China's development - stems precisely from this mindset.

From semiconductor export controls to investment restrictions, these policies aren't about 'national security' in any genuine sense - they're about trying to preserve a global economic order where, simply put, poorer nations know their assigned place and stay there. At the very core, that's the "China threat": a China that stepped out of the economic lane assigned to it by the West.

It's deeply ironic when you think of it: a global game allegedly designed to "spread market principles" worldwide is being abandoned precisely because it worked too well. When China succeeded better than expected, the response wasn't to celebrate the validation of the game's effectiveness but to change its rules. Precisely because the real unspoken game - but now clearly stated by the U.S. Vice President - was to maintain global inequality, not eliminate it.

All in all, in case they hadn't yet gotten the memo, this sends a very clear message to the developing world: economic development will require challenging a U.S.-dominated economic order that views their advancement as a threat rather than a success. Which incidentally is why Vance's words might actually help accelerate the very redistribution of global economic power he laments, pushing more nations to recognize that genuine development requires strategic independence from a system intended to keep them in their place.