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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1750121984049176773 rgats right
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Nothus posted:I have trouble believing that neoliberal regimes that can barely manufacture munitions will have the wherewithal to pay for general conscription. yup thankfully, the private prisons all get paid regardless of how many prisoners they house, so prison diversion programs are still a viable option! 
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1750198226987180110?t=2BsWfcszojR9Tot-CvwB-A&s=19 strike and the universe submits
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The Oldest Man posted:they know who must go If the US withdraws then the Kurds really don't have much choice other than negotiate with Assad. They're not gonna negotiate with Turkey who actively wants to push them out. Turkey also just approved Sweden's NATO membership days ago. Can't help but wonder if a deal was struck where the US hangs the Kurds out to dry.
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Has anyone got a good book on updated Marxist theory? I was going to read all of Capital as I finished Fisher’s Capitalist Realism and wondered if there was a better core text now. Maybe Mouffe and Laclau? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony_and_Socialist_Strategy?useskin=vector
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1750121984049176773 
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busalover posted:Maybe Mouffe and Laclau? Ok even I wouldn't go this far with a prank
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I hope that instead of losing WW3 (WW3 seems bad), the US just loses the new cold war.
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VoicesCanBe posted:If the US withdraws then the Kurds really don't have much choice other than negotiate with Assad. They're not gonna negotiate with Turkey who actively wants to push them out. Again?
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Frosted Flake posted:Or the more, lol probably a bit more honest, version You missed out the tradition electric guitar. https://youtu.be/8Xi79uEDbag?si=wOCCJhm1fNAdOgy3 busalover posted:Maybe Mouffe and Laclau? Cheers. Will check them out too, though maybe I’ll read the OG like a good scholar first.
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mlmp08 posted:I hope that instead of losing WW3 (WW3 seems bad), the US just loses the new cold war. it's only a cold war if your nukes still work
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don't worry the US nukes are only rotting in their silos to demonstrate that the US could neglect other country's nukes too, if they wished too its called strategry
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1750121984049176773 quote:Jan 24 (Reuters) - The United States has asked China to urge Tehran to rein in the Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea but has seen little sign of help from Beijing, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials. dear president xi, please tell iran to stop
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zetamind2000 posted:dear president xi, please tell iran to stop Didn't we ask Iran to stop Ansar Allah and Iran's response was, "We don't tell them what to do"? Are we like going to Iran's manager right now lmao?
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bobtheconqueror posted:Didn't we ask Iran to stop Ansar Allah and Iran's response was, "We don't tell them what to do"? Are we like going to Iran's manager right now lmao? listen those mindless drones gotta have a secret central command HQ somewhere. level every hospital until we find it
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zetamind2000 posted:dear president xi, please tell iran to stop if xi doesn't agree we will bomb another eurocuck pipeline
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dead gay comedy forums posted:It's not proposed, it's an observed thing but confirmation basically requires some society to commit to ultimate capitalist maximalism -- which is why economic "scientific discourse" leads to economics being called the dismal science I really appreciate your efforts to understand what is trying to be conveyed. I'm a bit envious of how purposeful your effort posts are. I posted a theory question in the Marxist thread. I agree with the critique of economics as a science, I call it an art with applied math and stats. It's certainly not a hard science. TRPF is taught in the US by most decent economic programs. I think it's more commonly attributed to Smith, but also as a critique of Marx. There's a huge host of academic material supporting and critiquing the theory. At a high level you can lol away either side, but once you get into the details there is valid support for either. Ultimately economics not being a hard science means TRPF is both unprovable and unfalsifiable.
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Truga posted:"nationalism is dumb, ideology is a gently caress, we're global capitalism now, free market owns, market yourself for the better job"
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1750198226987180110?t=2BsWfcszojR9Tot-CvwB-A&s=19 The empire crumbles a little more.
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the idea that iran controls yemen or ansarallah is just loving lunacy, there's no way the us government actually asked china to talk to iran. wtf
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Truga posted:"nationalism is dumb, ideology is a gently caress, we're global capitalism now, free market owns, market yourself for the better job"
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the idea that iran controls yemen or ansarallah is just loving lunacy, there's no way the us government actually asked china to talk to iran. wtf The latest Radio War Nerd goes into detail on how dumb this take is. Well worth a listen. BillsPhoenix posted:I really appreciate your efforts to understand what is trying to be conveyed. I'm a bit envious of how purposeful your effort posts are. I posted a theory question in the Marxist thread. As I understand it, the TRPF is pretty evident in the works published in the last decade or so. It also follows from just a general resource extraction principle, since there is only so much other people's money out there and removing it from the pool at ever higher rates is not dissimilar to sucking oil out the ground using enhanced recovery tech. You get more out until you get nothing. Skaffen-Amtiskaw has issued a correction as of 22:48 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the idea that iran controls yemen or ansarallah is just loving lunacy, there's no way the us government actually asked china to talk to iran. wtf US thinking: They're all just muslims right? Complain to the muslim manager about your happy meal. I know that seems extraordinarily stupid but just stop and reflect on it for a moment. Pretend your understanding of how the world works never got any more complicated than a children's cartoon.
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DancingShade posted:US thinking: They're all just muslims right? Complain to the muslim manager about your happy meal. they also think that the only reason to oppose America is to be a part of a wicked plot to destroy America because bad guys are bad and do bad things because they are bad, which means America is good
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FirstnameLastname posted:they also think that the only reason to oppose America is to be a part of a wicked plot to destroy America because bad guys are bad and do bad things because they are bad, which means America is good death to america tho
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bobtheconqueror posted:Didn't we ask Iran to stop Ansar Allah and Iran's response was, "We don't tell them what to do"? Are we like going to Iran's manager right now lmao? DancingShade posted:US thinking: They're all just muslims right? Complain to the muslim manager about your happy meal. To the US state and its various bureaucrats, an "ally" is a subsidiary who ultimately answers to you on foreign policy. The UK, AUS, etc. Maybe they squirm a bit but at the end of the day you'll strong-arm them into at least overtly lining up behind whatever idiot moron thing you want them to do. Even if it's under duress and the "lining up" is sending three guys and a pizza instead of a warship that is at least demonstrating fealty. The idea that there could be mutually beneficial but non-hegemonic inter-state relationships is as alien a concept as anti-gravity to people inside the US state apparatus. They see China is cooperative with but bigger than Iran, who is cooperative with but bigger than Ansar Allah, and their hegemon brain puts those three in a clearly hegemonic, hierarchical relationship because they can't conceive of anything else. Therefore, if Ansar Allah is causing you problems, yeah you absolutely call the manager. The idea that it's a distinct and independent organization with some mutual goals with Iran (or Iran with China) but that A is not giving orders to B is like an Escher drawing to that mindset, it can't be made to make sense.
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The Oldest Man posted:To the US state and its various bureaucrats, an "ally" is a subsidiary who ultimately answers to you on foreign policy. The UK, AUS, etc. Maybe they squirm a bit but at the end of the day you'll strong-arm them into at least overtly lining up behind whatever idiot moron thing you want them to do. Even if it's under duress and the "lining up" is sending three guys and a pizza instead of a warship that is at least demonstrating fealty. Which of course puts our silence on Israel in an even more hilarious light, although I don't think that's revelatory to anyone here.
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bobtheconqueror posted:Didn't we ask Iran to stop Ansar Allah and Iran's response was, "We don't tell them what to do"? Are we like going to Iran's manager right now lmao? They believe their own propaganda and assume all their enemies are "proxies" that ultimately answer to China probably, for some reason. Tbh it's probably projection since the US only has vassals not allies. VoicesCanBe has issued a correction as of 23:16 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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the US actually believes they're Iranian proxies and not like a separate entity with its own goals and agendas and you can extrapolate that logic and interpret burger brain thinking as "and so Iran is also a puppet of Xi/Putin" americans are not ready for a multipolar world lol
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DancingShade posted:The empire crumbles a little more. Telling kurds "drat sucks to be you with our ally Turkey blowing you up, but dont worry things will get better" for years and things only getting worse Im sure the kurds in iraq have no more love for the US and the Sunni dont either. They are going to get kicked out, I feel it
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Source: Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/bba68661-6c9b-41b5-ab74-d573b3a27c54 US urges China to help curb Red Sea attacks by Iran-backed Houthis Demetri Sevastopulo and Felicia Schwartz in Washington and Wenjie Ding in Beijing Yesterday The US has asked China to urge Tehran to rein in Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea, but has seen little sign of help from Beijing, according to American officials. Officials have repeatedly raised the matter with top Chinese officials in the past three months, asking them to convey a warning to Iran not to inflame tensions in the Middle East after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing war. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and his deputy, Jon Finer, discussed the issue in meetings this month in Washington with Liu Jianchao, head of the Chinese Communist party’s international department, according to US officials. Secretary of state Antony Blinken also raised it, said a state department official. But US officials said there was little evidence China had put any pressure on Iran to restrain the Houthis, beyond a mild statement Beijing issued last week calling on “relevant parties” to ensure safe passage for vessels sailing through the Red Sea, a critical shipping route for global trade. On Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry said Beijing was calling for a stop to “disturbance to civilian ships” and had “been in close communication with various parties and worked actively to alleviate the tension in the Red Sea”. However, in veiled criticism of the US and UK attacks on the Houthis, the ministry urged the “relevant parties to avoid adding fuel to the fire”, adding that the UN Security Council had “never authorised the use of force by any country on Yemen”. The Red Sea tension was also a “spillover” from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible, the ministry said. The diplomatic push on Beijing comes as the US and allies continue to bomb Houthi positions in Yemen in response to at least 33 Houthi attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea since mid-November. The US and UK carried out widespread strikes again on Monday. The Houthis are backed by Iran, which has enjoyed deeper commercial and diplomatic ties with China in recent years. One official said the US would continue to raise the issue of Iran and the Houthi attacks with Beijing but was not particularly optimistic that China’s attitude would change. Another US official said there had been “some signs” of China engaging on the issue, but not in a significant way. “I wouldn’t want to overstate either how much they’ve done or what impact it has had,” the official said. John Kirby, National Security Council spokesperson, on Tuesday said Washington would “welcome a constructive role by China, using the influence and the access that we know they have to . . . help stem the flow of weapons, ammunitions to the Houthis”. Liu, who is viewed as a top candidate to become Chinese foreign minister, travelled to Iran in December. His visit came days after US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, held a summit in San Francisco. US officials had hoped Beijing would take action because it viewed the Houthi attacks as a menace to its own commercial interests, given that the Red Sea was a critical route for Chinese exports to Europe. Ahead of the San Francisco summit, US officials repeatedly urged China to use whatever leverage it had with Iran — whose proxy groups in Iraq and Syria have also targeted American military bases — amid concerns that the Israel-Hamas war could spiral into a broader conflict in the Middle East. Dennis Wilder, a former top CIA China expert now at Georgetown University, said Beijing had “worked assiduously” to court Middle Eastern nations, including Iran, for economic and geopolitical gain. But he said it would be “very reluctant to use its limited influence with the Islamic state in a way that it perceives advance US interests without benefit to China”. US officials have also pressed the effort at the UN Security Council, where China is a permanent member, according to a second state department official. The US has launched eight rounds of missile strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen over the past two weeks in response to the attacks on shipping, including the joint strike with the UK military on Monday. Suzanne Maloney, head of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, said she had discussed the issue with Chinese experts and had not detected any serious appetite to help. “I think what they’ve calculated . . . is that this is a crisis that’s bogging the US and its partners down and it has not had a significant impact on Chinese shipping.” Ma Xiaolin, a professor at Zhejiang International Studies University, said he believed Liu’s visit to Iran in December was not coincidental and that he would have conveyed Chinese demands regarding the need for security. Ma, an expert on China’s relations with the Middle East, said: “China wishes for the restoration of peace in the Red Sea region and for international shipping to be secure, which aligns with the interests of all parties because this is an important global trade route.” The Chinese embassy in the US said it had no details about the exchanges with Liu, but that China was concerned about the “escalating tension” in the Red Sea. The embassy said it served the common interests of the international community and that China urged “relevant parties to play a constructive and responsible role in keeping the Red Sea safe and stable”.
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The Oldest Man posted:To the US state and its various bureaucrats, an "ally" is a subsidiary who ultimately answers to you on foreign policy. The UK, AUS, etc. Maybe they squirm a bit but at the end of the day you'll strong-arm them into at least overtly lining up behind whatever idiot moron thing you want them to do. Even if it's under duress and the "lining up" is sending three guys and a pizza instead of a warship that is at least demonstrating fealty. Better explanation of what I was getting at
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VoicesCanBe posted:If the US withdraws then the Kurds really don't have much choice other than negotiate with Assad. They're not gonna negotiate with Turkey who actively wants to push them out. Wouldn't be the first time
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VoicesCanBe posted:Better explanation of what I was getting at VoicesCanBe posted:Tbh it's probably projection since the US only has vassals not allies. I actually think this is a better explanation than my  one
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fizziester posted:Source: Financial Times Ms Suzanne Maloney is deeply mistaken. fizziester has been informed by the mostly highly authoritative sources that Ansarallah are indiscriminately opportunistic terrorist pirates whose statements that "we are only targeting Israel and its allies because of their role in the genocide of Palestinians" can't be trusted or believed.
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US running to China for help after insulting their president LOL
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Cindy the SKULL posted:death to america tho added to villain heirarchy
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zetamind2000 posted:dear president xi, please tell iran to stop my merchant fleet yearns for freedom of navigation
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