Modify it into the Statue of Liberation.

War, defunding healthcare, lowering food and environmental standards, criminalizing homelessness.

It’s almost like there is a link between anti-communism and people that are shitty.

Israel had value as a loophole that China could use to purchase western military tech from, but these days there isn’t much need for that.

Well, now we have a better idea of what “authoritarianism” exactly that him and people like him were afraid of.

I think Facebook is proof that an online existence doesn’t necessarily need to be anonymous in order to be unhealthy.

Ironically that’s the same way it is in the US itself with large swathes of the population still holding the Confederacy in high regard, though at the moment most of those types are fairly placated with the naked unapologetic fascism of the current admin.

We are really going to be remixing every war at once.

Liberals fear fascism for a different reason then socialists, they are worried that the government will lie, seize and walk away with their investments however they see fit to pursue their nationalistic/monopolistic aims, hence the obsession with “Rule of Law”. They want their guarantees that they are included and protected in the capitalist umbrella, working class suffering is a non-factor.

Yeah I took one look at Civ 7 and immediately said nope. Automatically turning into an entirely different Civ with each age by itself sounds awful (especially with Native American civs turning into USA…what?). It think it speaks volumes that Civ 5, which released in 2010, is right now still holding twice the number of concurrent players on Steam that Civ 7 has.

It’s enough for them just to weaken Iran, fracture it or at the very minimum destroy their oil facilities to deprive China but also other countries in general of another oil trading partner and thereby increasing their subservience to the US. They want to pave the way for Israel’s eventual Manifest Destiny of the middle east and Iran currently stands as the only powerful middle eastern nation that isn’t a collaborator regime.

Yeah anyone on the American right criticizing Iran for being a theocracy is completely full of shit. They’ll cry crocodile tears for protestors in Iran and then immediately 180 to saying that ICE protestors at home should be forcefully thrown into camps and yell to the top of their lungs about how America is a CHRISTIAN NATION.

Assmongold’s reaction 0.0002 seconds after the news hits.

You will own nothing and be happy vs Everyone will own everything and be (actually) happy.

Freedom and democracy means nothing because those two things are incompatible according to people like Peter Thiel these days.

I think it can heavily depend which exact place you work at, I worked at a place assembling cardboard products and it was extremely chill and respectful, would still be doing it if I wasn’t forced to quit due to moving. Meanwhile, I’ve also worked shortly in a plastic factory where I felt like I was inside a Nazi labor camp. Rude micromanagement, machines set to inhuman speeds, no phones or anything allowed, no going to your car at lunch, carcinogenic fumes and particles everywhere, ruthless firing of sick employees, shifts that can exceed 14 hours if there is a meeting, using and hiring active prisoners with crimes like assault and treating everyone at that level, people frequently losing fingers due to equipment failures, etc.

In the absolute most simple explanation possible I can give:

Non-fiat= Currency that can be directly translated to a certain universally valuable good at anytime (i.e. gold, silver), either through reserves or the money itself being made of said material (coins). The concrete measure of wealth helps gives investors and whoever else confidence that your government won’t go bankrupt.

Fiat= Currency that’s worth something because the government says it is. Look at us, we are big, our military is strong, don’t you trust we will always be powerful, wealthy and stable? You better or else we send that military after you if you put our financial solvency into question. Notably used by the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the US today.

Yeah, Israel will definitely lend a hand, that’s for sure. Kill more Syrians and annex more Syrian land under the pretext of fighting Islamic terrorists, why not. It’s so convenient in fact that one might even think that Israel helped create the Jihadists in the first place.

Nooooo do imperialism on them not us lets sit down and carve up maps together daddy Trump nooooo whyyy 😭😭😭

The US billionaire class has gone full on drunk and it’s certainly something to see.