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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Horseshoe theory posted:Fixed! this is the official bipartisan list from todays RESTRICT bill (8) FOREIGN ADVERSARY.—The term"foreign adversary"
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Mar 8, 2023 05:29
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i cant see any possible downside to invading a country with 126 million people in it full of mountains and jungles and massive quantities of guns.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:33
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mawarannahr posted:this is the official bipartisan list from todays RESTRICT bill Mah Axis of Evil (tm)!
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Mar 8, 2023 05:33
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it's cool Maduro got the only callout by name. they even added the "Moros"
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Mar 8, 2023 05:35
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Al-Saqr posted:i cant see any possible downside to invading a country with 126 million people in it full of mountains and jungles and massive quantities of guns. We just got out of one 20 year failure, we need a new one.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:37
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cant a humble bus driver just run a country in peace and cronch some empanadas without america getting up in his grill
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Mar 8, 2023 05:38
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I hate to be the idiot that mentions 1984, especially since I didn't even read it. But it's just wrong information, that's what they mean. And more specifically controlling the media narrative on social media and news media outlets. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 05:46 on Mar 8, 2023 |
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Mar 8, 2023 05:41
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Al-Saqr posted:cant a humble bus driver just run a country in peace and cronch some empanadas without america getting up in his grill I'm sorry I can't hear you over the pleasant *woosh* *woosh* of the oil pumps.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:41
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Why are they undoing the Sino-Soviet Split, but this time the US consumer economy (and much besides) relies 100% on China?
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Mar 8, 2023 05:41
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Weka posted:Is that a fancy cut of beef to you? You're right it should have been an endangered turtle steak. Nothing but the best for Brussels.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:41
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Lostconfused posted:I hate to the idiot that mentions 1984, especially since I didn't even read it. S'ok. Worth a read just so you can throw the fact that you actually read it into the face of people who quote it out of context.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:44
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I've read Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. But they just didn't do anything for me, I just can't deal with the weird dissonance of something trying to be futuristic but seeming extremely dated in modern context.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:50
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Frosted Flake posted:Why are they undoing the Sino-Soviet Split, but this time the US consumer economy (and much besides) relies 100% on China? there is absolutely 0 plan on contingencies here. what is fascinating is how the business class is going along with this - initially, when trump started the trade war, there was a lot of admonishment because this is the logical endgame. instead, they are quietly allowing biden to double down and ramp up military rhetoric as well. we are well past the ability to untangle ourselves from China. as Tim Cook once remarked, we don’t manufacture in China anymore because it’s cheap; it’s because they are one of the only countries left that have the industrial know-how to manufacture at scale. https://fortune.com/videos/watch/in...a9-c7f1192a82ea after 30 years of the harvard MBAs insistence that the purpose of a company is to give back to the shareholders, every company is CFO led and the industrial engineer CEO has been pushed out. all our modern business class knows how to do is inflate their stock, they don’t know how to actually manufacture. if a war turns hot, the shortages in this country will make covid look like nothing.
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Mar 8, 2023 05:51
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I guess I didn’t realize The End of History was this poisonous to the ruling class itself. It makes no sense unless they plan on reindustralizing the US, which of course they don’t, so their plan is a military confrontation, hot or cold, with the nation that makes everything that allows American society to function except food. China will keep providing the consumer products that allow the American ruling class to placate the population with cheap goods because…? It doesn’t help that they call their shots like this and act astounded when China and Russia respond lmao. e: Japan and Korea might have been counterweights to China but the US deliberately destroyed the Japanese economy, so again… what’s the thought process here? ee: Ditto wrecking the German economy as we speak.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:00
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Frosted Flake posted:Why are they undoing the Sino-Soviet Split, but this time the US consumer economy (and much besides) relies 100% on China? no one who thinks about material reality is allowed anywhere near power or influence
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Mar 8, 2023 06:03
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Best Friends posted:no one who thinks about material reality is allowed anywhere near power or influence It is this simple, you don't need to twist yourself into knots trying to figure it out. It really is just this.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:20
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Transnistria thing came and went, now it's Georgia. Lets see if Georgia will stick around in the news/rumor mill longer I guess.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:23
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It makes plenty of sense when you realise the ruling class only care about their personal wealth and wellbeing. They're quite happy if the price is someone else's misery. Even their own nation. Worst case they'll just physically move to greener pastures.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:25
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this is why i loving despise people like Jon Stewart who think pointing out other peoples hypocrisy works in any way, no you loving dummy its about power and who wields it enough to force you to do what they want. instert mao politics barrel gun quote here.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:28
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A history of the strategic value of Bakhmut 24 January 2023 - "US and Western officials" quote:https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/24/politics/ukraine-shift-tactics-bakhmut/index.html 7 February 2023 - Yehor Cherniev, a Ukrainian lawmaker and head of the Ukrainian delegation to the NATO parliamentary assembly quote:https://time.com/6253515/bakhmut-battle-ukraine-russia/ 4 March 2023 - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin quote:https://www.voanews.com/a/us-defense-chief-says-ukraine-s-bakhmut-has-more-symbolic-than-strategic-value/6991380.html 6 March 2023 - "Analysts" quote:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-vows-to-hold-bakhmut-as-russia-continues-fight-to-capture-the-city 7 March 2023 - "Analysts" quote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/03/bakhmut-battle-ukraine-russia/ 7 March 2023 - "Military experts and close watchers of the Ukrainian battlefields" quote:https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-bakhmut-significance/32307329.html 7 March 2023 - "Analysts" quote:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64864496 7 March 2023 - Institute for the Study of War quote:https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/07/ukraine-to-continue-fight-for-bakhmut-as-russian-troops-struggle-to-make-gains 7 March 2023 - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky quote:https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/07/europe/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-cnn-interview-bakhmut-intl/index.html
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Mar 8, 2023 06:31
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Frosted Flake posted:I guess I didn’t realize The End of History was this poisonous to the ruling class itself. When China was first admitted to the WTO in 2001, the ruling class thought that China would become like Japan - we would benefit from cheap labor and cheap goods, but just like the Plaza Accords has kept Japan in stagflation since the 90s after their exports became too competitive with our industry, we would eventually be able to influence a newly liberalized China into a similarly weak position. Instead of the state weakening as free market forces flooded, they simply re-organized the relationship between capital and state. Capital was always subordinate to the state and nowhere is that more apparent in the fact that their central bank is state owned. This largely prevented a financialized economy from taking shape, which we in the west call a “service economy”. China has also deliberately has kept their billionaire class in check by periodically cracking down on them. This has completely shocked the West, in which we are so used to a financial oligarchy being the #1 priority, especially after they got bailed out in 2008. The average Chinese therefore supports their government, and the dreams of neoliberals like Bill Clinton never materialized - there was never a moment where we had enough economic leverage over China to force them into a position like Japan in the 90s and Germany/EU now. It’s not widely understood how the trade surplus affects this as well - Russia, for example, had a trade surplus with the US as they are an export nation due to their rich natural resources. Sanctions work because they prevent countries from obtaining US dollars to their central bank, which ultimately affects their currency and therefore their consumer spending. By seizing Russias foreign reserves, it was thought that it could completely cripple them for that reason. What has ended up happening is that we now are understanding that sanctions work on heavily financialized or debt burdened economies. Because Russia has prepared for this day since the first sanction in 2008, they had collected vast gold storages and quickly moved to back any trade deficits with gold, preventing a shock. After it stabilized their currency, they went back to their regime of commodity exports and it has completely strengthened their currency. What this now shows is that we’ve entered an age where raw production, commodities, and goods are more valuable than foreign reserves. This is a lesson we’re unprepared on how to deal with. For the first time, American economic might has not dealt a death blow - Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and North Korea all fell victim. We’ve now shown all the world our cards, and China can confidently project power because not only has the trade war sanctions backfired (Huawei exited the consumer market and has made huge shares in the industrial market), but our sanctions simply won’t work on a natural resource and goods/commodity based economy like China. 40 years of neoliberalism has not prepared any of our leaders, let alone everyday people, to contemplate this new reality. Therefore, our only way to intimidate China is now militarily. It seems that neoliberalism as an economic theory is really over - financialized economies are weak because they have no industry and cannot withstand shocks like a pandemic, nor can they be valuable allies as they have no natural resources or goods of their own to trade. Neoliberal and financialized countries like the UK and Canada are in real trouble because atleast we have a formidable military.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:36
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mawarannahr posted:this is the official bipartisan list from todays RESTRICT bill Its great how cuba continues to be one of americas number one enemies despite them not doing anything. Its also great how america still hasnt destroyed cuba after nearly a century, communism stays winning.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:38
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dk2m posted:... i think i've read this somewhere before. michae hudson? also lol UK with a formidable military
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Mar 8, 2023 06:42
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supersnowman posted:Let's see if you really protected the gun. The gun was just a prop for me to hide my arm in
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Mar 8, 2023 06:45
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Canada is still a resource exporting economy. We exist to feed whatever raw materials we have to US, or well whatever raw materials that US wants from us anyway.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:45
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Ardennes posted:It isn't going well right off the gate then. How do you mean? Seems like the blocs have mostly been solidified, and we're beginning to exert pressure on an opposition element Insuring a breakdown of cooperation between said blocs seems like a pretty important part of the process for setting up another cold war
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Mar 8, 2023 06:49
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crepeface posted:i think i've read this somewhere before. michae hudson? Yeah, Hudson has been saying things similar to this. While I don’t agree with everything he says, I believe he’s right about this point. There’s a few other post-Keysians, especially within the modern monetary theory offshoot, that are similarly critiquing neoliberalism along these grounds.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:51
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Al-Saqr posted:the best planes by far are the A-10 warthogs
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Mar 8, 2023 06:52
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Lostconfused posted:Canada is still a resource exporting economy. We exist to feed whatever raw materials we have to US, or well whatever raw materials that US wants from us anyway. Canada, for whatever reason, is determined that they want to find out how resilient they are. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64870472.amp quote:Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Mr Trudeau said the reports challenging Canada's "sovereignty" are alarming, and "strike us to our very core as Canadians".
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Mar 8, 2023 06:54
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Yeah the raw resource thing is weird because you have to convert that to finished goods via industrial processes.
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Mar 8, 2023 06:58
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Al-Saqr posted:the best planes by far are the A-10 warthogs, by far americas coolest planes ever after the p-51 mustangs. Yeah good loving luck being cooler than a p-40c in AVG colors 
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Mar 8, 2023 06:58
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish they would just say we’re doing disinformation too, that’s why she visited Kingston instead of everyone I don’t work with nodding solemnly. What, you think she was visiting the signals school and the hallowed halls of the staff college? “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you will study too, because we will make it illegal to not study our newly created realities.”
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Mar 8, 2023 06:59
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Most US planes used to look pretty until the F-35. Ugly and disgusting
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Mar 8, 2023 07:00
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Tankbuster posted:Most US planes used to look pretty until the F-35. Ugly and disgusting and to think, of what could have been  
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Mar 8, 2023 07:01
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someone forgot to turn off the liberal newsbot
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Mar 8, 2023 07:02
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BrotherJayne posted:Yeah good loving luck being cooler than a p-40c in AVG colors WW2-era fighter planes are fundamentally cooler than the later jet planes because of their general shape and the way the pilot is situated in the center, giving them a sort of "balance."
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Mar 8, 2023 07:04
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Delta-Wye posted:and to think, of what could have been Lmao, even american planes are Obese. Late era soviet/russian ones are big but still very well proportioned. 
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Mar 8, 2023 07:06
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can we please not compare soviet and american jets because I think I speak for all of us when I say that the most aesthetically beautiful fighter jets ever made was either the Mig-29 or the Su-34 there's no competition.
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Mar 8, 2023 07:11
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Tankbuster posted:Lmao, even american planes are Obese. Late era soviet/russian ones are big but still very well proportioned. Ivan knows how to build them pretty. Still take a Tomcat over any of the more modern junk.  I'm such a sucker for planes, man.
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Mar 8, 2023 07:14
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As someone who grew up watching Robotech, F-14 will always be the coolest plane. A military one anyway. Otherwise it's the Concorde.
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