Cuba should sue for libel/slander. Not only does everyone who looks into it even a little bit say it’s fake, but no one has been able to establish the motive for Cuba doing this or their technical capability for building this. Why would Cuba put a ton of their scarce resources into a Wiley Coyote ass device?
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On a very abstract level, I like the idea of a US breakup map that doesn’t just basically come down to a Dem/Rep split or rely heavily on broad stereotypes of people from different states (i.e. treating the South as if only white people exist because that’s how the voting shakes out because voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc). People don’t believe me because “Mormons” and “Sin City”, but in a collapse situation Nevada and Utah would absolutely be together because those states are tied tight economically and with the numbers of transplants in each state from the other. So I like the idea of aligning regions of the US on more material issues.
BUT that isn’t even what this dogshit map is doing, the writers just think they’re being edgy and clever by putting CA and TX together because reasons.
I have seen it once. A few years ago in poll of people living in the areas of Germany that used to be a part of the GDR, IIRC the pollsters could not find even one woman under 30 who believed in God.
Industrial capital is “dead” and has been dead for a while, if you’re talking about manufacturing / “productive” capital. So much of the US non-financial economy is essentially merchant capitalism. The value is created outside of the country with contracting firms (think about how Nike makes shoes, for example). The US firms appropriate most of the surplus value created elsewhere and churn that surplus value through the US economy (with a not insignificant share of that shared with US consumers - not because of altruism but because it lowers the real wage and keeps class agitation down). Outside of agriculture, airplane manufacturing, and pharma, that’s how the entirety of the non-financial US economy runs.
I’m an American who is old enough to have protested the Iraq invasion when I was in college. And a question I have been asking myself recently is, is Biden’s involvement in Gaza the most evil thing the US has done in my lifetime? Both the support given to the Contras in Nicaragua and the Iraq invasion have a higher death toll. But there is something about the sheer cruelty of Gaza that is so visible, and the outcry from the rest of the world so loud… it’s a question I have been thinking about, at least.
While I agree with the general sentiment, it really is hard to fathom how truly evil Nixon was. All US presidents are war criminals, they all have blood on their hands. But Nixon is probably the only US president that belongs alongside Hitler with the truly, most heinous political leaders of the last few centuries.
I’ve been thinking about this comment in the context of the conclusion of Torkil Laussen’s excellent book The Principle Contradiction. In it, Laussen hypothesizes that at this moment, the principle contradiction globally is the contradiction between neoliberalism and a sort of “neo-nationalism” that we see from the likes of Meloni, Trump, Le Pen, the AfD in Germany, etc.
In this context, it seems that by Biden essentially “switching teams” from neoliberalism to this sort of “neo-nationalism” does sort bring this contradiction to resolution. Or at the very least, it is the beginning of resolution. What that actually means, I don’t know. A world that has moved on from neoliberalism is truly terra incognita. However, if we think dialectically like the good Marxist we are… if the US decides to go this route, the rest of the world WILL respond. And that response will likely be the new principle contradiction. What could that look like?
Not even Lenin aligns 100% of my values, and he’s the leader who in all of world history I align closest with. That’s such a strange straw man they are making.
Nah it’s a different guy
Very cool.
Someone needs to steal Che’s watch from that asshole who shot him (the one who still parades it around like a trophy).
Holy shit that’s cool. I’d probably be like Troy when he meets Levar Burton (or when Chris Farley interviews anyone on The Chris Farley Show) around him. fr, if you don’t know what to ask you should make a post and ask us for ideas.
(Like, if I had a chance to ask him one question, it would be what he sees the path socialism could be for India over the next 50-100 years)
Laussen is cool af. Him and his comrades did all sorts of crimes (including bank robbery, iirc) just to funnel money to the PFLP. He did like 6 years in prison for it and is completely proud and unrepentant of it (as he should be).