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To be perfectly honest, it doesn’t really make sense to define ideologies too tightly, because that’s not how people think or movements works.

In a practical sense, one might label any “more right wing than even liberals” as fascists, aka, fascism is what happens when “ordinary liberals” are radicalised in favor of the status quo. Fascism becomes to liberalism what Communism is to socialism. Both ideologies seek to strike directly at the frontlines of class war and colonial war, just on opposite sides.

So in this sense, yeah, trump is easily fascist and has been fascist since his first term (I think people are kind of forgetting how quickly power was consolidated towards the capitalists during the first term). He never even pretended to give a shit about liberal ideology (and thus became hated) and directly worked towards empowering the bourgeoise and imperialists.

The most useful of many political functions of anti-Zionism—as with antisemitism before Jews returned to their homeland—is building coalitions of grievance and blame against a small nation with a universally inflated and mostly negative image.

How is this a “political function”? Like, what are the nefarious or duplicitous “coalitions of grievance” (words of the deranged) built for? If they aren’t built for such ulterior motives, then what are you even complaining about? That people who the zionists keep bombing have decided to put aside their differences for a second to fight back?

If you’re so opposed to the “coalitions of grievance”, maybe try spreading less grievance around the world.

This galvanizing enmity has united the pan-Arab and Islamist alliance against Israel since 1948. It powered the red-green coalition at the United Nations and seeds anti-Israel campus coalitions that are anti-American in all but name.

Yeah no shit sherlock. Fucking bugers will connect a 2 piece puzzle and when it forms a picture it blows their mind. I swear to God Yankees when they discover that making 2 trillion enemies has consequences.

Judeo-Bolshievism reskinned

Aka, truly nothing new under the sun.

I think there is an obvious problems with this “experiment”, namely that paying an extra $100 for the shower head won’t give extra money to American workers but the business owners. It’s literally just some bourgeoises asking you for free money and making it incredibly easy for you to just, not pay it.

Meanwhile, the existence of charity as a viable system disproves the idea that Americans are unwilling to part with their money to help other Americans.

If these guys had promised to spend all the profits from their margins on the made in USA products on actually helping workers/ ordinary Americans instead of keeping them for themselves, they might have actually seen some sales.

I’ve been in the “there is no masterplan” camp since day 1.

pretend that it was a joke and not me being utterly unaware of American geography (I’m not a citizen of burger)

In that same time frame, Zillow expects the weakest home price appreciation to occur in these 10 areas:

1. Houma, LA: -10.1%
2. Lake Charles, LA: -8.9%
3. New Orleans, LA: -7.6%
4. Lafayette, LA: -7.5%
5. Shreveport, LA: -7.0%
6. Alexandria, LA -7.0%

Interesting things happening in LA I see. Was this because of the California wildfires?

Cutting the interest rates would stimulate the economy and make recession less likely. In fact, the raising of interest rates due to fears of post-covid inflation (which was inevitable since the supply chains were fucked) caused huge pressure on working class real incomes. That’s kind of what got Trump into office in the first place.

I don’t think they will stop, and I hope they will not stop. Let the Yankees sweat. They need to know that playing these embargo games has consequences.

I don’t think the government will let them under deliver.

I mean, it’s not like the US government didn’t know about the rare earth metals vulnerability up until now. There must be some reason why even after all this time, they haven’t managed to fix this supply chain issue. And as far as I am aware, REMs are used for many civilian applications as well, and the US military could probably manage for a while if the civilian sector took the brunt of the damage.

And there is also the fact that utilization of REMs could be reduced by the military if they stopped forcing every single missile and plane to be some boutique artifact that people will find buried in the post-irradiation ruins of the US a 1000 years from now and wonder if these were ritual tools used for worshiping the gods.

“This is not a mere supply chain hiccup, it’s a geopolitical earthquake in slow motion. Every fighter jet delayed, every missile contract disrupted, every paused satellite payload becomes a ripple in America’s strategic posture."

The Americans stretching themselves thin before preparing to fight their greatest adversary yet. If a mere embargo on some metals is a “geopolitical earthquake” for your national security, how could you possibly expect to fight a world war?

NioCorp is developing a critical minerals project in Nebraska that is expected to produce the processed rare earths to which China now seeks to restrict U.S. access, as well as niobium, titanium, and scandium.

Let me guess, it’s a private company and will overcharge the government and under deliver.

This is a precision strike by China

If embargoes are precision strikes, then you started this “war” by embargoing China of advanced semiconductors.

I’m litsening to lots of Opeth stuff recently. So

Ghost of perdition (my fav) April Ethereal Face of Melinda

Unfortunately, üp supplies have become scarce and must be rationed. Please use them carefully.

I have a paper due in 1 weeks time. I keep telling myself, FINISH THE FUGGING PAPER THEN YOUR DEGREE IS PRACTICALLY DONE. YOU CAN SPEND THE REMAINING TIME CHILLING AND GIRLIFYING.

But still, the bed is so much warmer than my study desk.

I think it is a mistake to give too much weight to the logic of the capitalists and ultimately imperialists. The US does not generate demand. It subsumes 50% of global exports as a tribute.

The reduction of demand for goods and resources from the US is an opportunity for countries to build internal circulation so they may use their own production for their own needs and development.

Trump’s crude tariffs policy does this by creating shocks, but the US was never going to peacefully and gradually assist countries in de-dollarisation regardless of who was in charge.

I mean, I ain’t gonna go too deep into it because I’m not a fan of age gap discourse myself. But I think a sufficiently large maturation could certainly a large power dynamic (ex - adult and child) because I guess maturation allows one to set boundaries more clearly, recognise when they are crossed and enforce them.

Not that I necessarily agree with the age gap discourse (never participated), but isn’t it a different thing with age since it’s about maturation?

Also, I’ve definitely seen people at least talk about the power dynamics between rich americans dating people in lower income countries. That shit can go sideways fast especially if one individual had the power to decide the other’s visa status.

The ideal life …