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Elon Musk does at least appear to believe his own Kool Aid though, so I don't find him quite as loathesome as Bezos
Its a very fractional difference though
EDIT: or maybe Musk's "lets just re-invent public sector projects privately!" makes him worse. Yeah actually I think that makes him worse
Its a very fractional difference though
EDIT: or maybe Musk's "lets just re-invent public sector projects privately!" makes him worse. Yeah actually I think that makes him worse
Musk is just infuriating really. Like that soc dem kid in my first year uni class that has never said one pro worker thing ever but still considered himself a social democrat. If you just like to be seen as a caring person without being one, then you are an opportunist and we already have an ideology for that it is called Liberalism.
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The Canadian media has been exploring the idea of expropriating US drug patents in response to the US tariffs. Mostly the intention would be to keep this in our back pocket in-case Trump escalates the trade war. But what if we just like, expropriated the patents anyway, eh? And maybe other countries can join in on the fun too.
I was Reading about an Amazon plant that has US patents, and the Brazilian university couldnt use the Brazil plant properties because of that.
Uggghhhh. Fuck that cunt.The leader we didnt wanted, but we have
What happened now ?
I can't believe I actually liked Elon for a minute but then he turned into a batshit capitalist. Reading the first handful of chapters of his bio makes all his tweet that much more sweet
Well trying to look at the good side, at least he thinks he's a socialist, to assume as a socialist is hard since there's a bunch of hate. It would be easier to talk to him about this subject, than the traditional anticommunist businessman. Since its a trade of Idea between peers of different opinions than an evil enemy , he should be more receptive to discuss these ideas.
But sure i don't have Hope in that. Just talking my mind.
But sure i don't have Hope in that. Just talking my mind.
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In a stunning move Neoliberal Capitalist moves into the lucrative field of porn by producing the most erotic forms of public masterbation, a biography.
Are there any particularly *jizz* worthy quotes.
Hey guys, do you know of any good games that essentially follow a socialist view/critique of society? I think that'd be interesting to play through.
JK thats all the game have of critique (ff9)
Ff7 is very critical to the capitalism, but isnt socialist he never says what avalanche wants to replace the system for. Either way Its very traditional war of classes and Very radical.
(Probably Someone at old Square readed marxist theory)
Bioshock also is a critic to ancap.
Assassins Creed syndicate there's a brief introduction of unions with Marx as a character.
But a 100% pure socialist game would probably be an Indie game i believe.
There is some interesting takes on class and power in FF Tactics. More Machiavelli than Marx tho.
I have no particularly love for the FARC but it looks like Columbia is going to reignite the civil war.
My knowledge about colombia IS limited, but i Will try to think by what is usual now about latin America, If i have to put my money on something i bet:
- think tanks with Far right ideas and anti communism helped that, Also there's USA money and Intel that helped those think tanks. Basicaly propaganda.
- since guerrilas were active Its not hard to propagate those ideas.
-president is an USA boy, more US than latin, the high class with money loved that and Gave tons of money to him.
- i would think middle class is divided, more to the Far right i believe and in support to the high class, due to the propaganda.
Brecht:
"There's nothing more similar to a fascist than a scared liberal."
(Liberal in the european Sense not US)
I'm right in my guesses?
- think tanks with Far right ideas and anti communism helped that, Also there's USA money and Intel that helped those think tanks. Basicaly propaganda.
- since guerrilas were active Its not hard to propagate those ideas.
-president is an USA boy, more US than latin, the high class with money loved that and Gave tons of money to him.
- i would think middle class is divided, more to the Far right i believe and in support to the high class, due to the propaganda.
Brecht:
"There's nothing more similar to a fascist than a scared liberal."
(Liberal in the european Sense not US)
I'm right in my guesses?
I dunno know what to think of this China stuff....
On one hand, state censorship is real bad
But on the other hand, China has been rising for so long, It's hard to imagine China laying down so America can rise again.
This South Sea saber rattling can fuck off
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On one hand, state censorship is real bad
But on the other hand, China has been rising for so long, It's hard to imagine China laying down so America can rise again.
This South Sea saber rattling can fuck off
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It's going to be interesting. The experience of WW2 and The Bomb were the largest deterrent to direct national confrontation. But the end result was the complete political vacuum that is Russia and China. Where as the US was unable to exert significant influence in either country's political spheres. Now that Russia has recovered from the collapse of the USSR and China has, for real this time, "stood up", they're going to re-exert themselves in the avenues that they can.
In the past the world was divided between a duopoly of political hegemony - between the US and USSR. Now we're going to see a three front formation.
I doubt anyone will be motivated into direct super power confrontation, but the world isn't as vulnerable to proxy wars like it was 50 years ago.
In the past the world was divided between a duopoly of political hegemony - between the US and USSR. Now we're going to see a three front formation.
I doubt anyone will be motivated into direct super power confrontation, but the world isn't as vulnerable to proxy wars like it was 50 years ago.
I think Its 4, Europe with germany is acting differently than US and Russia.
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Anyways what I wanted to say is corruption is inherent and inevitable when it comes money and power and I have not read a word of the communist manifesto or whatever karl marx has written but it's by what I've experienced in my life that makes me come to the conclusion and when I try to figure whose worst in terms of human rights in term of America vs China, both are awful in different ways and I wonder if some of that of what comes from that kind of thinking is propaganda from western media. and basically what my line of thought about both countries is my right to vote is precious to me as a disabled person in a red state and my right to vote should be seen as an encouragement for a progressive future but with a two party system I can see how it's easy to see both parties as awful and I genuinely wish third parties were a thing.
Mainly my thoughts of america are we can do better then this, people just have to start caring for more then people like themselves or their skin color, and when we make America a more humane place to live, we could actually do better then china.
But that's my half baked opinions
Anyways what I wanted to say is corruption is inherent and inevitable when it comes money and power and I have not read a word of the communist manifesto or whatever karl marx has written but it's by what I've experienced in my life that makes me come to the conclusion and when I try to figure whose worst in terms of human rights in term of America vs China, both are awful in different ways and I wonder if some of that of what comes from that kind of thinking is propaganda from western media. and basically what my line of thought about both countries is my right to vote is precious to me as a disabled person in a red state and my right to vote should be seen as an encouragement for a progressive future but with a two party system I can see how it's easy to see both parties as awful and I genuinely wish third parties were a thing.
Mainly my thoughts of america are we can do better then this, people just have to start caring for more then people like themselves or their skin color, and when we make America a more humane place to live, we could actually do better then china.
But that's my half baked opinions
Still am not over that hot take that nukes have prevented ww3
Like I get the gist of it but shouldn't all countries denuclearize just so the world can inhabitable or salvagable in a century or so?
Like I get the gist of it but shouldn't all countries denuclearize just so the world can inhabitable or salvagable in a century or so?
I think this will be unrepairable.
Or so much so for many many years to come.
America will always be unreliable as a world leader due to a duopoly that is slowly eating itself into oblivion because of corruption inherent to money and capitalism
We shouldn't make excuses for any dictatorship but this is not a perfect world and hopefully the hedgemony ends in our lifetime
We shouldn't make excuses for any dictatorship but this is not a perfect world and hopefully the hedgemony ends in our lifetime
In my opinion, globalization is not the enemy, it's for the good
It's just globalization is short hand for third world countries have cheaper standards and paywages like mexico or the east and let's have all the manufacturing there instead of here
Deindustrialization is happening because of duolopy that exploits the third world and all the people being fed "America First" are being told lies and voting for the past and not the future.
It's just globalization is short hand for third world countries have cheaper standards and paywages like mexico or the east and let's have all the manufacturing there instead of here
Deindustrialization is happening because of duolopy that exploits the third world and all the people being fed "America First" are being told lies and voting for the past and not the future.
"No social order ever perishes before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself."
Basically when i vote, I don't vote for the past glories or what not, I vote for the future.
I vote just so that one day the duolopy gets abolished and America can be tolerable to live in like UBI and UHC
at the end of the day, all I want is money in my pocket and people to be happy and free
Capitalism is just slavery and communistic dictatorship are just as corrupt as the capitalistic one???
I need to workshop my idea more
I vote just so that one day the duolopy gets abolished and America can be tolerable to live in like UBI and UHC
at the end of the day, all I want is money in my pocket and people to be happy and free
Capitalism is just slavery and communistic dictatorship are just as corrupt as the capitalistic one???
I need to workshop my idea more
Can populism be good if it's used for good and then evil?
I can see america lasting past my lifetime, but my niece and nephew's? Ummm. not so sure
I can see america lasting past my lifetime, but my niece and nephew's? Ummm. not so sure
The problem with your analysis here is that the Russian Federation is a heavily declining power. It's birthrate is in the toilet and doesn't have the immigration to make up for it and it's economy is dependent enough on energy markets that it's subject to extreme boom and bust cycles. Nukes are pretty well established to only work effectively as deterrent so while its arsenal gives it some degree of security it doesn't really effectively extend its influence much beyond being taken seriously as a nuclear power. It's allies are pretty sparse and insignificant and it's pretty desperate to hold onto them (unlike the US lmao). It's not going to be a superpower again unless something drastically changes.
There's also talk of the EU becoming an independent superpower but I don't think it will, it lacks leadership or a coherent vision and it's main goal has been destroying the economies of like a third of its population. Despite America's numerous fuckups the Euro isn't really a credible alternative to the dollar, they're about to lose what was their second largest economy, etc etc. It's also just a nightmare to try and make significant change happen within the EU because of how complicated the process is and given the Eurosceptic nature of especially eastern and southern Europe it's not really likely to credibly have superpower status soon unless things really change.
The real plausible third superpower going forward would be India, the only real credible challenger to China's rise other than the US. India's economy is smaller than China's but its growth is more consistent and liberal democracies tend to grow faster than autocracies anyways. It's made a lot of moves to align itself closer with the US despite historically cool relations and that's a bipartisan consensus between the BJP and INC to align itself more with the liberal democracies in Asia than it did before. China also notably has taken India's rise pretty seriously and stepped up its influence in most/all of India's neighbors.
You make a good point but in the considerations of the like of Russia, the USSR itself was always a distant rival to the USA in various terms. But, like the modern Russia, it makes up for what they lack in raw economic means by cut throat opportunism. They've so far been able to make a naked land grab unopposed and, like the USSR, most of their alliances are more out of Anti Americanism and autocratic desperation than otherwise.
But, that said, it's silly for me to try and make a 1:1 comparison.
India is a good example as well. China/India/Pakistan is going to be a whole different type of mess at some point I imagine. I wonder if at some point there is going to be an Indian/American/Chinese hegemon against a Pakistani/Turkic political rival.
But, that said, it's silly for me to try and make a 1:1 comparison.
India is a good example as well. China/India/Pakistan is going to be a whole different type of mess at some point I imagine. I wonder if at some point there is going to be an Indian/American/Chinese hegemon against a Pakistani/Turkic political rival.
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Every superpower/potential superpower is a mess right now.
The EU is tearing apart at the seams over Euroskepticism, the long term effects of the recession and liberalization, the refugee crisis etc.
The US is marching headlong into Stupid Fascism and refuses to do anything to ever fix its billion problems. It's (purposefully uneducated) population believes in all sorts of dumbass conspiracy theories like global warming being a hoax.
China and India have potentially nightmarish upcoming demographic problems and nationalism out the wazoo. Not to mention China just cooks the books on a bunch of economic stuff and eventually it will experience a recession/depression and who knows what happens at that point.
Russia is literally just a dying mafia state propping itself up with nukes.
The EU is tearing apart at the seams over Euroskepticism, the long term effects of the recession and liberalization, the refugee crisis etc.
The US is marching headlong into Stupid Fascism and refuses to do anything to ever fix its billion problems. It's (purposefully uneducated) population believes in all sorts of dumbass conspiracy theories like global warming being a hoax.
China and India have potentially nightmarish upcoming demographic problems and nationalism out the wazoo. Not to mention China just cooks the books on a bunch of economic stuff and eventually it will experience a recession/depression and who knows what happens at that point.
Russia is literally just a dying mafia state propping itself up with nukes.
After a century of purposeful lack of education, will the US also have it's own Great Leap Forward?
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We're far more educated than 20th century Chinese peasants were, but I could absolutely see a whole ton of nonsensical anti-GMO, pro-wacky-New Age holistic stuff wrecking the agricultural and medical fields in the event of social collapse.
And fiefdoms ruled by megachurch warlords.
And fiefdoms ruled by megachurch warlords.
Maybe I could be wrong but didn't they massacre a load of dissents for being counterrevolutionary?
Can I not have that and have a great leap forward?
I don't know if nationalism is particularly corrosive towards establishing power, it wasn't like the previous empires of the industrial era didn't have a strong sense of nationalism and to my knowledge their minority out groups (as in, non-Hindu and non-Han) aren't really large enough to pose a serious issue.
That said, not really an expert on Indian or Chinese domestic politics, so if anyone has a good sources to pass along I'd be happy to read them.
That said, not really an expert on Indian or Chinese domestic politics, so if anyone has a good sources to pass along I'd be happy to read them.