no, you see, EVERY OTHER country on the planet that allies with the United States is exploited and forced to buy their military toys worth billions of dollars that don't function. Armenia's built different though, it'll be fine, the US actually cares about them, they pinky promised
I absolutely have critiques of Hudson (just off the top of my head, he's reflexively anti-Stalin and he's not very revolutionary in his views; and not sure if I even want to know the takes of an 85 year old guy on current social issues) but I think @shipwreck@hexbear.net said it best with "He's the only Trot I trust."
I just find it very difficult to take the work of somebody who's been in all these American financial institutions and is like "Hey, here's how they do things and how American imperialism ticks along from my perspective on the inside. The CIA's bought my books so they clearly think I've got their strategy down" and just dismiss that viewpoint.
That being said, I like a lot of Roderic Day's work too and it's influenced my thinking (hello, if you're reading this!) so I hate to see my besties fighting
I guess there's money to be had in becoming the next Sinema
I wonder if the Democrats draw straws to see who gets to be designated The Reason Why We Just Can't Pass These Progressive Laws, Shucks guy for the next 2-4 years
It originated on the Chapo Trap House podcast (e.g. in the thumbnail of this video). Not sure when the earliest use of it was, but it was at least early 2019 from a quick search through Will's twitter. It refers to how Trump's photos show, or at least used to show, him as slightly moist, damp, or sweaty. A slight sheen of water seemed to be on him at all times, like some fucked up amphibian. Compare this to the eternal dryness of other politicians like Biden.
Marx failed to consider the Bored Ape Yacht Club
It's been the plan for Russia to do an offensive three months from now for the last 2 years
it makes me think that Ukraine will no longer be falling before the US elections given that Russia seems unwilling to do big arrow offensives even to this day but that's about it
a liberal wouldn't say that the Democrats and Republicans are the same, that's reserved for cranks who are beginning to understand politics but are allergic to the theory that would solve their many questions and hangups, or socialists who have read that theory
he does call out Trump as being bad as well though, so who knows really
this is completely incoherent and what happens if you haven't read a book in 20 years, but it's no more incoherent than the political beliefs of many Westerners. I could find the liberal version of this dude on Reddit in 30 seconds of searching
to save anybody else the read (though it's not that long), it's essentially: "cryptocurrency bad and will cause The Apocalypse, capitalism bad, American government bad and both Dems and Republicans are the same and we're ruled by kleptocracy, climate change, AI, and coronavirus will kill us all (but are also exaggerated and they won't actually kill us all? idk), everything is a death cult, the billionaires are destroying the American Dream and that's bad, various media most especially the Simpsons is propagandizing bad values into people, leftists think cops are bad which is against leftist theory (???)"
if you took out about 20% of the worst parts of the manifesto and tidied it up from the mess that it is, it would be indistinguishable from a rather unread leftist with unexamined brainworms. he hyperfocuses on cryptocurrency as like, this massive con that when it bursts, every billionaire will start putting sacks of money into their private jets and leave America burning, when in reality it's just rich people profiteering method #428432.
I can feel the corkboard in his brain putting strings between big names. He does that thing where he's like "Oh, and THIS GUY? Guess what, in 2018 he and THIS OTHER GUY both attended a conference and each other's weddings. THIS OTHER GUY joined a consultancy connected to the think tank hosted by YET ANOTHER GUY." and so on, and I just wanna say to him: dude, yeah, it's called a capitalist/bourgeoisie class for a reason, they were all in the same classes at Harvard or whatever the fuck, they start being ghoulish at age 20 and we hear about them dismantling a Latin American economy or spearheading the IMF's efforts to cure poverty by sticking South East Asian peasants into blenders until they die at age 142.
Sunak said Britain was proud to have a strong safety net of welfare payments to those who needed them, but he also said the country had a “sicknote culture” that needed to be tackled. He said “something has gone wrong” since the pandemic to increase the number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick, especially with mental health conditions.
Some sort of mass disabling event... in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic... hmm...
"sicknote culture" is also a hell of a phrase, like, can you imagine in the Maldives or some shit:
"the citizens of our country have for too long had a 'my car is underwater and fucked' culture when trying to get to work. to combat this, we will be sending a man armed at gunpoint to every house that will shoot you if you don't swim to work. I don't care if it's 10 miles, you HAVE to do it"
guess we gotta expect increasing degrees of austerity as the hosepipe of imperialist profiteering is slowly blocked by anti-imperialist powers, this is truly just the beginning
"Yeah, it's so sad that 72's stopped the news megathreads for this long, I wonder what's happened to him. I hope he's okay."
"...what the fuck are you talking about?"