“Singapore? We can’t let a guy with a name like that defect to China! let’s deport him!” -some ice agent probably

It starts the story in April 2022. Its like a history of ww2 that starts with pearl harbor.

I cant wait till they sink a carrier.

The background to this story that I am choosing to believe with no evidence: A Mega-Lib ICE agent who is too stupid to realize he is a fascist, beat Chernyak because had Nazi tattoos.

Haven’t Gazans suffered enough? He should do research in Barbara pit mine… without a flashlight… or food or water… for the rest of his life.

Was there even any strike on energy by Russia?

Alternative headline: Conspiracy theorist lawyer says he knows better than farmers how to do their job.

I hope this really destroys the autopen not because I think that laws and such should have to be signed by hand but just because I want liberal democracy to be harder for the law makers.

I dont think capitalists are all failsons so much as that they are all experts in their own sphere exclusively. (In the case of trump and musk their field of expertise is bullshitting and they are complete failsons at everything else.) Capitalists conflicts with each other don’t stop in the face of existential threats to their class even if they move out of their primary focus. Their competitive nature leads them to lie and withhold from each other meaning as an aggregate they are incompetent.
It would make sense that a deeper plan is to cause a crisis in agriculture so that Cargill, Monsanto, and friends can finish their elimination of the petti-bourgeois farmers. How the plan to cut spending, the plan to concentrate the means of agricultural production, and the plan to abandon soft power will all come together is anyone’s guess. There isn’t any historical precedent so its all just speculation but what we have seen of the american consultancy class as of late is gross incompetence. I’m betting on that trend continuing.

I don’t think america is in a position to starve the world by withholding aid. There was never enough funding to do what needed to be done so less funding is still not going to be enough. The UN doing its own cost saving and bloat cutting might not be so bad especialy if their main focus is cutting america out of the systems.

The imperialists learned the wrong lesson (as they often do) about soft power projection. What they learned was “soft power doesn’t work” “Why spend money handing out little Carrots when the Stick is all we use and the stick keeps having to get bigger?” The real lesson is that america doesn’t use soft power correctly. The “carrot and stick” only works if the balance is equal and they only works if you don’t get the stick when you comply. (Sadddam did everything the us told him and they kept giving him the stick till they gave him the rope.)

If China and Russia are smart they will pick up some of the funding shortfalls as bargain price soft power gains.

Fucking hilarious. Has the defunding wave fucked up the propaganda youtubers yet?

usa putting their soft power through the wood chipper. I’m amazed at how short sighted trump’s team is.

American farmers are going to get screwed. If there is no money for the UN to buy food the market will be over saturated and prices will drop.

I think the effects of an American pull out will be less significant than the funding numbers. So much of that aid money gets funneled back into the us economy. The interim period while prices and funding gets rebalanced will be rough.

The most principled army on earth

I have my issues with albo but this is a good move for him and the political establishment. Tit for ta tariffs aren’t going to make things better. American tariffs are going to hurt the mill owners and shareholders either way. Reciprocating is just going to raise prices for consumers of imported goods. Saying “we don’t like it but we won’t hit back” could be just what trump wants to hear. Signaling to Trump that the Australian government knows its place as a subservient vassal is pathetic but its also true. No point blustering and chest thumping. Best case, maybe Trump will let Australia off the hook as a reward for knowing their place.

A “liberal” that sides with fascism is a fascist. Crypto-fascists call themselves liberals but they aren’t. We need to push back on these people and call them what they are.

People that rationalize fascism are not liberals.

I don’t condemn objects for the things people do with them. Like knives or TNT or nuclear energy AI can be used to make things better for people or worse. It just depends on who is using it and how.

“Pshhhh China can’t even do debt trap diplomacy right.” -some neo-colonialist fuck

Vance definitely came out of it looking like a debate bro and a loser.

I see Trump using this to push for “elections.” I imagine there will be silence on that topic from Russia while they and the us figure out who the next president will be behind closed doors.

I don’t think anyone has told zelenski “call elections or we will kill you” yet but that message is coming soon.

I think that mess was intentional plan by trump. trump said something to the effect of “its good we did this in front of the cameras because the American people need to see what I have to deal with”

I don’t think it was about humiliation so much as trying to undo years of propaganda. Showing people that zelenski isn’t the kind of heroic brave man the media made him out to be.

Zelenski came out of that looking weak, belligerent, and ungrateful. But Trump just came out of that looking like trump.