Rewatched Dark Knight Rises and witnessed Bane setup revolutionary tribunals, proletarian militias, free political prisoners, and abolish local authority
the reason why i've discarded the "u.s. vs. china" framing is because its totally useless at this point
china is intersted in building civilization and taking it to levels we have never seen before as a species
the u.s. (& west as a whole) just wants to maximize nominal GDP
two different projects, two different outcomes
The older I get, the more I realize that most things in life are just...boring
Traveling is boring after you've done it enough. Making music is boring, taining is boring, writing is boring, and even being in love is boring after a while
But one thing I haven't been bored of - yet - is showing the world to my kid
NOTHING is boring to her, which also means introducing anything to her is fun for me
Maybe the only thing really left for a man to do - raise kids, show them the world.
The Gorilla Moral Code simplified,
for those who need reference.
We must wage 5 years Inner Jihad upon ourselves comrades, and fight off the sins that plague our hearts.
We must find our moral compass
for American Communism.
Facing adversity we utter,
“Allah Cosmos Xi Jinping”
The last homegrown blockbuster of the summer is coming to Chinese theaters in a few days, and it’s about a Chinese restaurant owner in an unnamed Middle Eastern country whose life is upended by the invasion of (clearly) US forces. Very curious how this one’s gonna turn out…
Copying today’s China is a fool’s errand for most of the global south because we have to copy them from what they did since 1949:
-smashing the old state apparatus and hence removing the elites vested interests
-expropriating the landlord class
-nationalizing the finance system
There are plasma entities in the upper atmosphere exhibiting lifelike behaviour.
NASA knows this, and has studied it.
The Russians know this, and have studied it.
A fourth domain of life?
WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.
It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill free college, 0% down home loans, low-interest business loans.
It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.
It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.
That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.
You want a higher birth rate now?
Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.
That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.
A la izquierda, el metro de Nueva York hoy, inundado de agua y a punto de colapsar tras unas intensas lluvias.
A la derecha, el metro de Moscú, construido por la URSS en 1935, con el concepto de ser "un palacio para los trabajadores" que cada día toman el metro.
Los restos de una civilización avanzada a su tiempo frente al colapso del capitalismo.
📍NEW:
A $300 Houthi drone, dropping a homemade mine munition onto a $10 million Saudi Arabian American M1A2S Abrams tank, resulting in the ignition of the tank's ammunition.
Idk how these MFs can aim such an unbelievable hit.
The most accurate drone-dropped munition that I've ever seen.
MF dropped it from the stratosphere, right on the turret bustle ammunition compartment.