@azureScapegoat Imagine spending your twilight years desperately attempting to whitewash your own real contribution to politics. He must struggle to live with himself. Gorbachev’s retirement is depressing, just not as depressing as his material legacy. And we all live with that.
@leastsquared_@guilherme94jose Thiel fleshes it out in his own writing. He is a libertarian to the extent that he believes that capital should be free to expand, but he now recognises that to enable this the State must be drastically expanded. Liberalism and Fascism both seek to defend capital at root.
@dhvanil@Pontifex you mfers look at a genuinely well-spoken person and think it's AI because AI told you so. holy fucking shit open up the damn schools
An old clip of Starmer's "replacement" Andy Burnham, promising to head straight to Israel "as his first foreign trip" if elected as leader
Starmer 2.0 confirmed.
@After__History I don’t know about Suny but Kotkin has chatted loads of shit about Stalin. He’s better than Montefirore but all these lot are much of a muchness
Pep Guardiola is much more than just an unbelievable manager.
He spoke up for the people of Palestine, Sudan and Congo while others looked away.
Pep used his platform to defend our shared humanity. That will never be forgotten. Thank you, Pep.
Xi Jinping is putting on a clinic:
“The whole world is watching our meeting. The International situation is turbulent. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together.”
The Thucydides Trap is the structural tension that occurs when a rapidly rising power (China) threatens to displace an established ruling power that is in decline (US).
By mentioning the Thucydides trap, Xi Jinping is signaling that China is the new leader of the free world and what’s remarkable is, unlike the U.S., China achieved this without dropping bombs, waging endless wars, or spending $1 trillion a year on its military.
Instead China became the leader of the free world by investing in its people with housing, education, health care, and the best modern infrastructure in the world, and investing in its neighbor countries through its Belt and Road Initiative, which has funded ports, railways, and energy networks across the Global South.
The US became a “superpower” through endless wars, corruption, and selling out its own people to the billionaire class while China became a superpower and surpassed the US by building trade and relations with the world and investing in its people instead of wars. Americans would be wise to take note and then change our corrupt government.