People like me take great pains to avoid coming across as antisemitic in our criticisms of Israel, and then Jewish Zionists go to these events all “Yes we Jews need to be actively manipulating western institutions in order to deceive everyone and control society.”
There was no wash board on the track, the percussion was created by myself, I used a cabassa, foot stomp on a piece of wood & mouth percussion. The rhythm was emphasised by me playing a Gibson acoustic guitar without using a pick. Paul King emphasised Mike Cole’s stand up bass part by playing a glass jug, Colin Earl played an acoustic grand piano & I also played a 1960 Fender Strat with my fingers through a 1963 Marshall top as well as singing the two vocal tracks. The recording took place in Pye Studio one on an 8 track machine through a Neve desk & Tannoy monitors
The Atlantic is hysterical because China refused to become the economy the West wanted:
cheap labor forever,
low-end factories forever,
a consumer market for Western brands forever,
and never a serious industrial competitor.
Now China makes EVs, solar panels, steel, machinery, robots, and advanced manufacturing products at scale — and suddenly affordable goods are a “global threat.”
Please.
The West subsidizes banks and calls it stability.
Subsidizes weapons and calls it security.
Subsidizes farmers and calls it protection.
Subsidizes chips and calls it strategy.
But when China supports real industries that produce real goods for real people, it becomes “distortion.”
So no.
China is not taking everyone down.
China is exposing how little the West has left once cheap moral lectures stop working.
@A_Sober_Drunk@HunterBiden@hpmcd1 stfu. who's business is that? bill WIlson got kicked out of running aa because he advocated a real cure for alcoholism (LSD)
From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.