Yes and no.
My next prediction is Syria will become the battleground btw Israel and Turkey, and gets torn apart (if not alrdy).
Btw, call me a conspiracy theorist, but one day differences btw EU (DE) and Turkey will come to a head, and that's when EU joins the game.
Thank you, algorithm, for having me see these two posts in my feed in one scroll and enjoy this eureka moment realising how liberalism murdered all the serious political movements so that a bunch of LARPers get to dance on the graves to please the oligarchs.
Liberalism is larp.
Reacting to reactionaries will only make you a reactionary as well. The correct way to respond to this brand of Nietzschean proto-Fascism is take physical fitness for its own sake and salvage it from fascistic perversion
🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”
She says the left should not try to beat fascists “at their own game” by becoming “fitter, more eugenic.”
“In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.”
She closes by arguing that revolution is not “a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies” and that the very idea is itself fascist.
And it's 100 percent correct.
Capitalism depends on exploitation of men who are doubly free, i.e. legally free and free of property, which pushes them to participate in competitive labour market in order to make ends meet.
The US only became capitalist after the Civil War.
Some Chinese account on here said that slavery & segregation retarded the American South’s economic development in a similar way the caste system did to India and honestly calling the South Indian is better ragebait and slander than anything I’ve seen an american come up with
Remember all the fake "third-worldists" who blamed China for not helping Venezuela?
As I have been saying, China needs to see the will to resist among LATAM states; you can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped.
#ULTIMAHORA
A los venezolanos les están metiendo toda la verga y lo están agradeciendo. No mames, tenía otro concepto de ese pueblo perro son cobardes y agachones
The scariest thing to outsiders about what is happening to America isn't necessarily Trump's destruction of it, it's the lack of any opposition to the destruction of America.
Refugee and disabled children will be removed from mainstream education in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt if the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wins the imminent regional election.
The AfD’s manifesto sets out plans for a major educational overhaul, which would decrease the number of comprehensive schools in Saxony-Anhalt. It states that the “inclusion experiment has failed and must be ended” ⤵️
https://t.co/Dcr7NqlCeg
NEW: Iran has reportedly been invited to join the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye.
Mehdi Rahimi, head of the Iranian parliament’s official news agency Khaneh Mellat, told Al-Mayadeen that Iran received an invitation and that “the matter is under consideration.”
For now, however, the invitation has not been independently confirmed by Iran’s Foreign Ministry or senior leadership, nor publicly by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Türkiye.
@travel_que44756@OopsGuess look. another self-loathing Chinese who thinks Japan and NATO will invade China and compares another Chinese's mom to comfort woman.
Miriam Adelson-owned Israel Hayom reports that Israel has “studied” how NATO’s Article 5 works and claims that Israel could attack Turkish troops without triggering NATO intervention.
Miriam Adelson is a pro-Israel megadonor who has donated millions of dollars to Trump’s election campaigns.
Notice that the logical conclusion of Kotkin's theory is quite racist; if you attribute everything to the people, then differences in economic performances are largely due to differences between peoples as well.
One thing I tried to push Stephen Kotkin on:
Okay, you say that China saw decades of double-digit growth not thanks to the CCP, but because of the hard work and entrepreneurialism of the Chinese people.
But India also has lots of hard working entrepreneurial people. Why does India only 1/4 of China's GDP per capita (despite being roughly equally as wealthy as recently as the 80s)?
Even if the explanation is simply that the CCP simply got out of the way of the market often enough to let growth happen, that is still so rarely done, especially in developing countries, that it should count to their credit.
One of the most interesting charts I've ever seen is this: Different countries' rate of economic growth post-1960 are NOT predicted by their GDP per capita in 1960. Which means that in the median case, there *hasn't* been catch-up growth or convergence.
Countries like China, which experienced decades of double-digit growth (and have huge regions like Shanghai and Guangdong which are about as wealthy as a Western country), are the exception to the pattern we've seen in most developing countries, not the norm.