https://www.landlordmps.ca/data-analysis

the intellectual impoverishment on display is really stunning

oh yeah Russian oil is big business in EU

I really hope they go through with this because the main countries importing oil from Russia China and India. Will EU really cut trade with both?

Somebody needs to start a satirical outlet covering western news this way.

I’d argue the system evolves towards fascism over time during crises, and agree with the implications that liberals are fascists at heart.

we’re gonna get actual droids from star wars in a few years :)

oh yeah here https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-democracy-erosion/

The gist of the complaint is here:

In recent days, Sheinbaum’s government has advanced a new “reform bill” targeting the telecommunications sector, granting itself regulatory powers redolent of those claimed by other authoritarian regimes. Mony de Swaan, Mexico’s federal telecommunications regulator from 2010 to 2013, described the government’s bill as a “highly discretionary, regressive law.”

The thing about liberalism is that it’s like a coin with two very different sides. On one face, you’ve got political liberalism that’s all about individual freedoms, fair elections, and human rights. This is the feel-good stuff that makes liberalism seem universally appealing. Who doesn’t like freedom, right?

But flip that coin over and you get economic liberalism, which is really just capitalism wearing a fancy philosophical mask. This side worships markets, treats private property as sacred, and assumes wealth accumulation is basically a human right. Since property rights are seen as the foundation of all other freedoms, the system effectively locks in wealth inequality by making redistribution seem like theft.

That’s why liberals lose their minds whenever governments impinge on the rights of the rich or regulate corporations. In their worldview, any limit on property rights is a threat to freedom itself.

a great article on the subject from Ted Chiang https://archive.ph/yZlKj

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Exactly, the US didn’t become a dominant economic power by leveraging markets, it’s was done through massive state planning and command economy.

Western sanctions at the start of the war were the best thing that could’ve happened to Russia. They acted as capital controls preventing money from flowing out of the country, and created a bunch of business niches when western businesses pulled out. This created a significant boost for the Russian economy at a critical time.

I just find the whole crying about state subsidies really funny in principle. Literally the whole argument for using markets over having a planned economy is that they’re supposed to allocate resources more efficiently. Yet, now we constantly see economies that defer to markets complain that command economies are able to produce things more efficiently than they are.

I would guess the main goal would’ve been to disrupt BRI and BRICS, but seeing how Chinese tech performs would’ve been seen as a bonus I’m sure.

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Always important to remember that the US was literally the model for German nazis and the holocaust.

That would be another Afghanistan, and there’s no public support for that.

“In principle, there would seem to be no reason why this mobilised defence effort cannot be maintained for quite a long period of time,” writes Mr Cooper, in a recent study for the RUSI Journal which surveys many of the facilities discussed above. “It is not without irony,” concludes Mr Cooper, “that advanced Western economies may now find the need to look closely at Russia to understand how to adapt.”