I’ve always wondered why neither the USSR nor the West ever seriously attempted to assassinate Hitler. From the USSR perspective they may have understandably been concerned about the other Allies deciding they preferred a military-led Germany to the Soviet Union. I was taught that the UK/US never tried it because they thought Hitler was a strategic liability to the Germans, although honestly that doesn’t sound very plausible to me
I think the legacy of neoliberalism will be a major problem for leftists going forward. We know the West is going to crash hard, certainly outside the US and probably within the US as well. At least half the population think that left-wing politics = neoliberal politics. They have fucked us on immigration in particular. So much of the working class opposes immigration because it has been used by neoliberals specifically to undercut wages. You can tell people it’s the economic system but the idea that everything bad is because of immigration is becoming really ingrained. If the US or any Western country were to collapse it would be fascism that is primed to exploit that, not Marxism or any other left politics.
Everyone has always noted about Trump that if he was smart enough (or allowed?) to outflank the Dems on left issues that were overwhelmingly popular (and a generally anti-war stance would be one) that he could dominate US politics. I mean this is the strategy of European fascists like Le Pen too - outflank the neoliberal centrists on populist issues
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Trust the plan
How do we get this information across the Chinese border?
It’s literally unplayable now on console it’s so slow. Like they are basically just scamming people by still selling it
lmao they still fucking hate Millenials so much. I wonder if it’s some kind of unconscious guilt thing. I mean Millenials have been basically the most inoffensive generation ever, all they’ve tried to do is advocate for milquetoast socialism and the idea that things should just be a bit nicer for everyone and they have got unrelenting hate for it from day one
Can we have meritocracy?
We have meritocracy at home
The meritocracy:
They are based in Afghanistan right? Probably a gladio style ‘stay behind’ group imo. Definitely could’ve been encouraged to attack Russia. But Putin has said the attack was Ukranian. They have the terrorists in custody so hopefully some kind of evidence can be produced either way
The easiest way would be through teaching English, but you can look at other career paths too. Many countries require a university degree and a clean criminal record for work permits, not sure about China specifically though. In some cases it can be worked around anyway. Look into work that ‘expats’ do in China and then see what the career paths are and which ones might be achievable for you
Is it common for doors and windows not to work in this situation or is this just Tesla being a death machine?
He was involved with Bernie Sanders campaign, did a lot of great work according to Bernie (he’s a grifter)
It does sound plausible enough, with the problem then being that basically everyone is repeatedly getting Covid whereas flu is far less common and people with compromised immune systems can more effectively vaccinate against it. So that serious complications from Covid are still far more prevalent. Not sure why that would mean we should dismiss the term ‘long Covid’ though, when the vast majority of people having post-infection problems are going to have contracted them via Covid.
The study afaik was based off results from a phone survey too, so it’s interesting but it obviously needs a lot more investigation.
It’s because the drugs are shit now
Actually your glass is 1% full 🤓
India has accomplished something China never managed to do: introducing stateless communism and the kind of utopia that humanity could once only dream of
Hold on…I’m just getting a message in my earpiece…
Yes exactly, the ruling elite will do what they do. We know there are various factions, and there probably is some kind of nexus of intelligence, military industrial complex and old money bourgeoisie among them capable of operating far outside democratic norms. But I doubt these groups are as rigid or artificial as conspiracy theorists suggest. And for left we should ask how important they really are, in a historical sense. The documtary points out that the ambiguity and contradiction of conspiracies gives them a paralysing effect. But it fails to realise that the way to cut through that knot is with theory, which already gives both the motivations and the solutions.
I think in the documentary they suggest the government stopped paying Inslaw because they knew it would send them bankrupt, and presumably that made it easier to steal/sell/modify/profit off their software. The plan was to buy them out but the owner refused to sell. Actually the owner sounded as dodgy to me as the rest of Casalaro’s sources though. If there’s a moral to the story it must surely be never to trust anyone that’s been anywhere near intelligence work
People don’t drive motorbikes in the West because they are absurdly expensive, and because car-brained morons make them extremely dangerous to drive. There are actually countries where majority of people drive motorbikes (eg Vietnam), and given bikes are much more fuel efficient, less dangerous to pedestrians, take up less space etc., it would honestly make a lot of sense for Western govt.’s to encourage people to drive them alongside encouraging cycling instead of cars (not Harleys obviously but scooter type bikes), although it will never happen due to car brain. But I think plenty of people would be willing to take them up if (as another poster has suggested) China for example started mass producing cheap bikes for the Western market.