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The sell by the DNC that Joe was progressive wasn't really on until he was already in office and they wanted to try and hold onto any waning succdems that they could. He was the new FDR remember? But of course that rapidly turned into the classic dem "uwu we're just a smol bean party that can't pass anything" shtick

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You do not have to watch combat footage of people dying. It will not deepen your political analysis. You are just traumatizing yourself

BRICS is a far less politically coherent bloc than many people recognize. The addition of petrol states should give them more actual staying power because of the economic importance of the resource, but if we were just relying on political alliances BRICS was never going anywhere. Too many conflicting geopolitical interests

An erotic retelling of D-Day that’s Germany and the US wrestling in the sand on the beach

Saudi Arabia will certainly be an interesting addition

I don’t think the collective west is ready for the hatred they’re going to be receiving from Ukraine for all of their “support” by the end of this war. We’re so clearly forcing them into certain death under the threat of the end of arms shipments and therefore total defeat by the Russians meanwhile proudly proclaiming in our own press how good a deal it is to have their people die en masse as a showcase for our MIC. We’re the British removed with the whistles ordering them over the trench and into no man’s land so some asshole in raytheon acres can afford a second mistress

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To corroborate your point you can just look at life expectancy in rural communities to see that it rose steadily throughout the Maoist period and then froze during the Dengist reforms

Fair point