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euphronius posted:AS to go back to a thing you often talk about it really is pathetic how pathetic the Arab states are in general right now. Egypt and SA could really be helping i mean thats why the failure of the arab spring was a disaster if it had succeeded Gaza would be getting all the help they needed but america and israel and the UAE planted their two biggest and most insane and murderous and puppets in charge of those places so god still hates us sadly.
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Sancho Banana posted:lmfao what the hell is this extreme green australia, the guys who can't even build anything worth a drat with an entire continent
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Palladium posted:extreme green australia, the guys who can't even build anything worth a drat with an entire continent I'd love to know what that scale is based on. Population density maybe? Kind of works if most of the landmass is barren wasteland.
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Al-Saqr posted:I refuse to believe my shithole country is more humanly developed than loving Malaysia and China and turkey and a bunch of others this is such a crock of poo poo lie. Malaysia is Lightyears ahead of us development and humanity wise. It's not the best metric but I'm not getting too into it with the "Americans barely benefit from empire" guy. By way of explanation you fellows seem to have great educational attainment, good life expectancy and all that oil money. That's basically HDI. ========== Map of recent locations of naval vessels. 
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gradenko_2000 posted:why are there like six US Coast Guard cutters in the Arabian Sea America's last undefeated military force at work
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FuzzySlippers posted:Some of the sicko poo poo about the American empire is that it isn't obsessed with things it needs to keep the empire going like most throughout history. America is huge geographically and will never run out of room even if Yglesias got his wish and there were billions of Americans. It's absurdly resource rich so it isn't Japan tearing up Asia for the many things it lacks. We don't even have an issue with oil. Just because America is capable, hypothetically, of surviving without neo colonial exploitation doesn't mean it'll actually be able do that consdering its current state. Israel doesn't HAVE to exploit poorly paid Arab workers to keep its construction industry afloat, nor does it NEED to import poor workers from southeast Asia to do its agricultural work - Israeli workers exist - but it DOES and when those people go away, as we're currently seeing, the economy doesn't look too bright. Sancho Banana has issued a correction as of 11:30 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:why are there like six US Coast Guard cutters in the Arabian Sea To defend the US coastline of course. Every coastline is the US coastline.
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Sancho Banana posted:Just because America is capable, hypothetically, of surviving without neo colonial exploitation doesn't mean it'll actually be able do that consdering its current state. Israel doesn't HAVE to exploit poorly paid Arab workers to keep its construction industry afloat, nor does it NEED to import poor workers from southeast Asia to do its agricultural work - Israeli workers exist - but it DOES and when those people go away, as we're currently seeing, the economy doesn't look too bright. Yeah the US could probably survive without imperialism but it wouldn't be nearly as well off as it is, and there's certainly a question of the political crisis that will hit when US hegemony is well and truly beaten. Like the ghouls in charge will lose their loving minds if the US can't even pretend to police the world anymore, in a similar way to how Israel has gone off the deep end in response to having its own perception of invincibility shattered.
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Nothing about the quality of life of the average American has anything to do with the finite resources of the empire. People don't have homes because there is a lack of homes. People don't have food because there's a lack of food. People don't freeze in the winter because there's a lack of energy. Do you think there's a trickledown effect of Haliburton receiving sweetheart contracts in Iraq or something? The vast amount of material wealth is gobbled up by the top percent so that could be reduced many times over without any impact to the majority of Americans. This is like suggesting the national debt is real and preventing Biden from spending money on infrastructure. The allocation of resources is capricious in America and as it grows it's never a tide that lifts all boats. The empire can fall and the powerful can decide to rip the losses out of the lower classes, but they are already doing this when the empire is rich so how does the status of the empire matter to that? America is such an absurdly rich country it can self-sustain a high quality of life, but it doesn't mean that it would ever choose to do so. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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The lower classes (read: anyone not elite) will be the grease that keeps the cogs of the machine going, as needed. They may or may nor be aware of this. Anyone reading this may or may not realise where they stand in this. I'm no crown wearer so the rest is the dear reader's perception.
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The heart of the British Empire at its height was an absolutely awful place to live for the vast majority of its population. The whole reason they invented racism as we know it was to prevent the local exploited proles from realising they had infinitely more in common with the foreign exploited proles than with the ruling classes benefiting from the exploiting. Having even remotely functional infrastructure for the majority of the population is entirely optional to empire... well, beyond the capacity to create the administering class with some vague competency along with the glass-eyed sociopathy. That said, it's also key to keep your empire up by keeping others down. Hence why the US has its 'allies' implement austerity and neoliberal rot to keep them completely dependent on the US militarily... of course, the particular case of imperial rot has the USA get high on its own supply.
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Al-Saqr posted:Brezhnev was
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crepeface posted:which is why it's so funny that the psychos that run the US foreign policy have pushed china away. china would have been happy to keep buying worthless bonds to prop up the dollar if they just respected their red lines. its actually kind of incredible how much china has gotten away with considering the US foreign policy blob has been trying to provoke them for over two decades. but every time they do they get sidetracked when some previous entanglement bush 2's original plan was to instigate tensions with china, but then an old saudi CIA asset demolished some buildings in new york with or without foreknowledge by his CIA handlers, and it started a multi trillion dollar war that destabilized the entire middle east while china happily sold manufactured goods to everyone then trump and biden were teeing up a new cold war using fabricated evidence over the covid virus being a genetically engineered bioweapon (or an accidental release from an sampling archive, or a technician who was sampling local bats got infected, their accusations constantly shift around), and then the unresolved tensions in some post-soviet boils over into a full-blown invasion. and then it happens again (but armenia-azerbaijan was deliberately ignored because the azeris were an alternative source of LNG) and then one of the US imperial clients receives massive blowback from a their brutal apartheid state and deliberately funding a rival faction to their comprador government. and in response they go absolutely insane and start a genocide, preventing them from wrangling together an alliance against china, and instead leave themselves internationally isolated yep. there's no point denying it, america is dead
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gradenko_2000 posted:Brezhnev ftw Ive rethought him recently
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:its actually kind of incredible how much china has gotten away with considering the US foreign policy blob has been trying to provoke them for over two decades. but every time they do they get sidetracked when some previous entanglement you forgot Obama's "pivot to Asia" where he was setting up the TPP then Trump got in the driver's seat and pulled out and china jumped in. 
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death of stalin was a very cool and good cspam movie
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Ytlaya posted:"Getting angry at retail/service employees" continues to be one of the best litmus tests for whether someone has a rotten and filthy soul. It's just such a fundamentally alien way of interacting with the world for any decent person. and the people who do it are always so proud of themselves
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Clip-On Fedora posted:oh come on that due had like three opportunities to help his bro out his bro can stop trying to parkour his way over the wall and just use bricks as steps like the first guy did
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Robo Reagan posted:death of stalin was a very cool and good cspam movie It's a great movie with excellent actors and I've bought more than one physical copy because it needs to be shared.
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Weka posted:Map of recent locations of naval vessels. they should just send in every naval asset from every corner of the earth they got while asking "proxies pleeeeeeeeeease"
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three months in, Tel Aviv is still getting rocketed by Hamas:- ======================================================= The Al-Qassam Brigades said that it renewed its bombardment of Tel Aviv with a missile barrage in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that sirens sounded in Greater Tel Aviv and the city of Rishon Lezion, confirming that the sounds of explosions and missile interceptions were heard in the sky of Tel Aviv. https://www.aljazeera.net/news/live...?update=6123349
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:then the unresolved tensions in some post-soviet boils over into a full-blown invasion. unresolved tensions from an American backed neonazi led coup are technically unresolved tensions I guess FuzzySlippers posted:Nothing about the quality of life of the average American has anything to do with the finite resources of the empire. People don't have homes because there is a lack of homes. People don't have food because there's a lack of food. People don't freeze in the winter because there's a lack of energy. China, the richest country in the world in 2021 according to McKinsey, only just got half of its population out of extreme poverty. That means many of them are still in regular poverty. Now think about India and Africa, between them well over a third of humanity, who are not blessed to live under the CPC. What do you think quality of life is like for the developing world? About the same as America? Also the national debt is real. It is a way to siphon taxes to capital in the form of interest payments.
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crepeface posted:you forgot Obama's "pivot to Asia" where he was setting up the TPP then Trump got in the driver's seat and pulled out and china jumped in. Honestly even if America hadn't been distracted they were probably going to gently caress it up anyway. China's been actually thinking past the next fiscal quarter, which every level of American leadership is institutionally incapable of.
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I said come in! posted:Fair, I figured we are near the tail end, but maybe actually more like in the middle somewhere? The hard part will be accepting that whatever rises from the ashes, is probably going to be full on fascism in North America. Its not gonna be pretty. We are at like, Fall of the Republic Rome, not fall of the entire empire Rome. The US still behind only China in manufacturing output, and it still provides most of its people enough that no one wants to die in the streets protesting. It will be a long decline, and the spectre of climate change is right around the corner waiting to throw monkey wrenches around the entire world.
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Hillary having to flip on TPP because it was such an election drag was pretty funny. Biden had actually been working on TPP V2 and had to abandon it because of this conflict lol at these trade deals. Let me state this empire wealth poo poo another way. Warren Buffet does not materially benefit from all his trailer park serfs. Yes, a number somewhere increases but nothing about the money even gives Buffet a bigger yacht. Buffet is not oppressing those people because it improves the quality of his life and he's selfish. He's just doing it because of bad wiring in his head. When Americans get fat on fast food and watch netflix it is not a devil's deal in exchange for bombing people in the Middle East. They are not going to stop getting iphones because America abandons Israel. In the Snowpiercer metaphor of America, dead brown people are not the necessary grease for the train to continue running (it has its own poor to exploit for that). All the things that 99% of Americans say is necessary for a good life are not dependent on American foreign policy adventurism. To get America to stop loving around abroad it is not necessary to convince joe average they need to take a QoL hit. The people most affected require multi-dimensional math to track their wealth and it will take mathomancers to notice the change in their finances. The reason America has any degree of comfort is not a direct resource transfer from the global periphery. Like Warren Buffet America gorges on all this wealth because it can and not because it needs to. Again, this is very different from England in the 19th century where it was a cold lovely island. America is gigantic and absolutely bursting with resources. America already conquered many people (Native Americans) and took their land and wealth and can live fat on that for at least a few more generations. Weka posted:What do you think quality of life is like for the developing world? About the same as America? That has nothing to do with what is required to maintain the average American QoL. The challenge China was dealing with was boosting their economy without all the devil's bargains the West did to industrialize in the first place. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) FuzzySlippers has issued a correction as of 13:04 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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wow am i running the israeli army radio? such defeatism!! ======= The Israeli Army: Even after 74 days of war, sirens are sounding in the middle of Israel and millions of citizens are searching for shelter https://x.com/ajarabic/status/1737071624195612998?s=46 Sirens sound in Greater Tel Aviv, and the Al-Qassam Brigades say they bombed the city with a missile barrage in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians. https://x.com/ajarabic/status/1737071300785422829?s=46
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The calm Hitler and the insane moron Hitler are fighting https://twitter.com/newsisrael13/status/1737084287709569315?t=S71EvDkAw2YJJO4PA7CFiw&s=19 quote:First publication: During the cabinet discussion last night (Monday), a loud and difficult debate unfolded between the Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir.
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Sancho Banana posted:The calm Hitler and the insane moron Hitler are fighting Wow, those guys on TV really cared about morals while murdering at least 200 doctors in Gaza
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Innocuous Owl posted:Swedish company Electrolux created a task force to find alternative maritime trade routes as vessels passing through the Red Sea fear attacks by Yemen’s Houthis. it's called the Cape of Good Hope that will be a bajillion dollars, please
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RIP Syndrome posted:Wow, those guys on TV really cared about morals while murdering at least 200 doctors in Gaza They care about soldiers being stupid enough to film themselves doing it, a phenomenon which they can't stop because Israeli troops are undisciplined morons. As is usual for the IDF, when it's all said and done they'll get a slap on the wrist and a vacation at most. Ben Gvir, however, is a total lunatic so even that is too much as far as he's concerned. Sancho Banana has issued a correction as of 14:00 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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RIP Syndrome posted:I'm already seeing articles about how Yemen's blockade will cause more inflation and make your grocery bills go up, citizen What if we just stopped a genocide instead. Seems win-win
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