You’ve also never seen a world without the United States, whomst spends 60% of the world’s military budget and has financed 100000000 coups

Until all capitalists are destroyed and every single human endeavor on Earth is being democratically directed by the working class, a state will have to exist to wage class war

You really cannot be taking swings at Cuba, there is simply no reasonable way to look at this tiny country under total siege by the most powerful empire of all time, see how much better their people live than any other nation at the same level of income, and declare that it’s a bad thing. Even a cursory investigation shows how much power the people have to change policy, it’s probably the most democratic country in the world, maybe ever. Here’s a short primer

I mean, just read that section on mass organizations and tell me that isn’t exactly what you profess to want. And this is from 2015, way before the 2022 Family Code referendum which made marriage equality a constitutional right (among various other highly progressive things) and was probably the most democratically-shaped document of all time, having been discussed in 133,000 public meetings across the nation, with 783,000 proposals for changes made by literally just regular people, in a process that took three and a half years and ended on the 25th revision, which was then adopted in a referendum by 87% of voters.

This might not count as news, but having talked to various friends and relatives over the holidays, I’ve managed to collect some purely anecdotal economic data, and the obvious conclusion is that the inevitable collapse of Europe is grinding slowly onwards.

Workers and whole teams at companies in multiple industries are being made redundant - including important technical roles that have my friends confused as to how the company is even going to run now. Projects are being put on hold or shuttered. Tradesmen are competing for fewer jobs. A multi-year, multi-million dollar contract between an automaker and an advertizing firm just evaporated. There are fewer clients, smaller cohorts coming through training programs, less money in budgets for the kind of elevated make-work that the European middle class subsists on.

Of course, no one I talked to, even discussing a few of these things in the same conversation, can link these events together, let alone conceptualize this as a tingling in the extremities, the warning signs of the entire continental economy’s impending death by gradual, trickling blood loss from the killing blow of Nordstream. They all think it’s just a bad year, rather than the best year anyone’s going to have ever again. Not ‘ever again’, I must correct myself, in a mere 97 more years Europe will have completed its century of humiliation.

I’m afraid I must ask you to cease and desist in the use of this character.

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Ukrainian Neonazis were ethnically cleansing Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens. Russia joined a civil war on the morally correct side.

It’s like if Egypt invaded Israel. Egypt is also an illiberal capitalist state, but they would still be on the right side of that conflict.

Critical support to the British Army for doing everything in their power to fuck up British soldiers

$375 for a scanning electron microscope???

The ‘human waves’ style of spycraft

The dragon’s teeth got made, they just… didn’t quite make it to the front line

Black Lodge ass motherfucker

China’s aggressive embrace of clean energy technologies, at a faster pace than even its own government expected or planned,

Beijing’s central planners, having underestimated the country’s swift adoption of solar and wind energy,

The country’s government-owned electricity transmission giant, State Grid, was caught unprepared.

Can’t miss a single opportunity to imply that central planning is too slow and lacking in foresight to keep up with economic trends, when the literal entire point of the article is the exact opposite.

“State Grid is good at building things, but not six years ahead,” said David Fishman, an electricity consultant in Shanghai.

In a whole country of Chinese people, I’m glad they could find someone an anglo name to tell me how to feel.

Europe should […] become an exception—a place that offers support to the victims of the new BRICS superpowers

Jesus fucking Christ, to the wall with him

Luhansk is no longer being bombed and Mariupol is no longer occupied by nazi militias. Despite Putin dragging his heels for almost a decade, the unstoppable bloodlust of the west eventually forced him to do the right thing.

Breaking out the ‘Henry Morgenthau apology form’ once again

There’s nothing in the rulebook that says a blue whale can’t play basketball

On the plus side it supposedly reduces the concentration of PFAS and microplastics in your bloodstream by making your body generate fresh blood so uh… congrats?

Shawty’s head got me in a decorticate posture

May everyone here find someone that will call you the ultimate lifeform

Turns out it was secretly the Morgenthau Plan all along