I think the most pressing danger is not so much Trump’s policies being taken to the extreme end of triggering economic collapse. Rather that issues such as inflation become structural and due to a combination of short termism (people are trying to survive, not make excel sheets) and turbulent political speech every administration is blamed for things which they are all collectivelly doing, enabling or ignoring. Trump’s inflation is followed by Biden’s inflation followed by Trump’s inflation and then, I dunno, Newsom’s inflation. The musical chairs ensuring that no planning is done and there’s no way out of the mess except a default positive opinion on austerity politics.

is it a country or a sea

this is how we go from a news thread to a news community

Sorry to break it to you but everyone thinks of your country like a movie set in a 1990s high class suburb.

Would the idea of forcing a joint venture even sound bad to a Chinese public? I mean, that’s how the Chinese economy got off the ground in the first place in a way.

Depends on your point of view. Are treats popular enough that Trump won’t raise tariffs too hard? Then that makes the US an even more credible market to invest in. So much so that the american people will revolt if the government stands in the way. From a capitalist’s perspective, its all up to wether this ‘50% ownership deal’ means they are strongarmed into lower profits or not. There’s no reason for this to not be a win/win either.

As to war. Well, americans don’t care about foreign policy and the US economy is on permanent war footing. Yemen for an instance dealt some impressive blows against the US war machine. It survived. But it was still terrorbombed after, what, a decade of blockades imposed by an american client state?

War with China is too unthinkable to even countenance. Fears surrounding that are less about the ‘credibility’ of the United States as a warmongering actor (which it is), and more about complex geopolitical situations spiraling out of control. Consider that Kaiser Wilhelm on the eve of WW1 was still asking if the war could be avoided. The answer was simple. It could not because everyone was mobilizing and counter mobilizing their armies at the borders.

I did read news to the effect that you can now easily create douyin accounts using US phone numbers and such. That’s an innovation I think.

i can no longer sleep

man whose entire political career is about bringing back the dictatorship claims democracy bad

love how even that thread is mostly about how OP is a moron, a troll and a genocide denier to boot

of course their only response has been to call center right liberals a bunch of tankies

I think that would prove too limiting. That is, pending a sudden Yellowstone mega-eruption. That said, these are partner countries. Meaning that no consensus was reached as to them joining as full members, and their consensus is not required as to other countries joining as full members either.

I think its a defense mechanism. People can overreact to any implication that they aren’t being their best moral selves. Sometimes with anger, others with denial. An example of the former is the unwarranted hatred that gets thrown at vegans. Not really for being vegan but for the implication that the non vegan is being a bad person. That’s where the viciousness comes from: we, as a culture, are obsessed with being a good person and drawing a line between ourselves and the bad people.

Weaponized delusion can arise from that same place. These death of the author types are harnessing denial to hollow themselves out. Instead of confronting the author’s monstrous nature they avoid it. They get to have their cake and eat it too, condemning the monster while celebrating his works.

There’s a constituency on twitter that is all about decrying this migration to RedNote. Its not just libs, but reactionaries too. They’ll straight up lie about the platform saying things like LGBTQ+ aren’t allowed when sapphic relationships are on the frontpage.

Funnily enough people I know were treated better than they expected in Paris, and worse than they expected in Barcelona. Came out of Europe thinking all the racists were in Spain.

It’s not that I don’t believe what you’re saying, its just that it hasn’t been my experience. Far from it. Almost always what I see is people calling out incels for what they are. The closest that I remember has been people lashing out against what they incorrectly perceive to be an incel - not in the sense that being a virgin or unable to have sex is derogatory, but that the derogatory part is the massive, insane mysoginy that is tied to inceldom as a subculture.

That’s the key point where this thread misses me. Incels are a subculture. They recognize themselves as such and are recognized by virtually everybody else as a group apart. Nobody can ‘be caught in the crossfire’ unless they act or at least appear to act like an incel. You’re not an incel because you’re a virgin (incels aren’t, necessarily) and you aren’t an incel because you aren’t having sex as of late (incels do engage with sex workers they claim to hate). You’re an incel because you buy into an entire worldview that reduces people to things, human relations to a marketplace and turns the sum of humanity into a phrenology experiment to deflect from one’s faults and mistakes.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term ‘incel’ be used that out of context, and especially not on this website. It’s a very specific term, circumscribed to communities of people who are driven by a misanthropic, most often mysoginistic world view. I have just never seen anyone say ‘incel’ to refer to someone who is currently unable or have never had sex. At the end of the day we have to discuss language as it is actually used.

One particularly common line that I’ve seen is that ‘Trump and Netanyahu have been illegally in contact just to make Biden look bad’. It’s taking the pathetic nature of Biden’s administration and just running with it.

i reserve the right to be lazy and or not pay for another service

For what its worth, the fact that he outsourced his Top Gaming Skills to China is just poetry.

before the invention of standard maoist english, there was the brazilian state of Santa Catareich