Belgian nationals simply are wealthy. Why else do we have so many people migrating to this place.

I already told you 💀 . You mfs pillage and burn the whole planet outside your bubble then act superior about how much more stuff your bubble has in it.

By fighting for and winning their sovereignty, south east Asians were able to develop despite western exploitation.

Although this came at the cost of long working hours and huge amounts of spilt blood.

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Then why aren’t you a liberal.

I used to be, until I read marxist philosophy and the liberal democracy I live in decided that a good use of my tax money would be to murder children in gaza and fund police to crackdown on anyone who dared dissenting.

You’re european. You’re in the same environment.

I’m not a European, but thanks for letting me know that you believe that “liberal” = “european”.

You say they exploit the lower classes. But in Belgium social mobility is extremely high.

The level of social mobility has nothing to do with the level of exploitation.

I’m having trouble finding stats right now, but for some reason I expect that the share of national income in Belgium that goes to wages and net capital formation does not add upto to 100%, which is what would happen in a 0% exploitation society.

A wealthy white man (middle aged I presume) who believes he can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants.

Constantly gets kicked out or belittled whenever he decides to step out of his bubble. All because he keeps showing his asshole, which he also wants to lick.

Life truly is a comedy.

The combination of all our opinions, is the basis of democracy.

We discuss our opinions, to come to a compromise.

My Dutch university didn’t like our opinions when it came to their desire to fund genocide and oil extraction so they called the police to beat up students. No liberal government gives a single fuck about people’s opinions (look at their approval ratings).

By design, almost any national level legislature/executive elected into power rather than appointed on merit is going to be like this. They believe they got a “mandate from the people” (not much different from the mandate of heaven or divine right of kings) and so anything they do is legitimate and democratic.

You did not discuss shit and come to a consensus. The corporare media told you which parties where good or bad, then a slim majority of those who pay attention choose which party in parliament would have the honor of deceiving and exploiting the lower classes.

It’s dystopian to think that everything outside of one country is trash and garbage.

Not outside, but inside. Most countries are fine, but then there is America.

How dare we buy goods, improve them and then sell them. How dare we sell our services.

Imperialism makes up for roughly 25% of the global north’s GDP, although I will need to check how much of that goes to Belgium.

Either way, the point is, the EU runs a large chronic trade deficit, which it has no real intention of paying back. This represents a transfer of real commodities from the periphery to the core, in exchange for euros.

These euros then either devalue over time due to inflation (a reduction in the liabilities of the EU economies), or businesses/banks in the periphery must invest these euros into the EU. Either they buy EU debt, place their money in an EU bank, or invest in an EU business. The net result is that the euros come back into the EU, where they can be spent or lent out again.

Effectively, the EU, like the US has significantly higher purchasing power due to its currency (proped up by incredible violence against middle easterners, who have to bear the burden of the petro currencies) than their own domestic production would normally afford them.

Add on to this the chronic suppression of global south wages and prices, and America and the EU are able to stretch their money far beyond what it should be able to last, at the expense of global south development of course.

You’d be fucking surprised to learn that the west is one of the least racist societies.

Divine comedy. I must have imagined all of those wars of annihilation which are still going on right the fuck now and 300 years of colonialism.

Hello, we actually have immigrants and diaspora from all over the globe?

They, just like me didn’t come to the den of jackals because of how amazing your societies are, but to make money and escape the poverty in their home countries that Europe created.

Tankies. Tanks. You drive tanks to make people do what you want. Oppression.

So says the loyal citizen of western imperialism and honest to goodness capitalist.

when my wife was in Shanghai as layover before going back to Indonesia, she couldn’t use any western app

I used to think this was bad until recently we found out that the country I live in has its government data stored in American servers which could in theory be accessed by the Trump admin. Then I also realised that the entire continents IT infrastructure is hopelessly dependent on America, meaning we have no digital sovereignty and the Americans can spy on our data (which the NSA did, as was revealed in the Snowden leaks).

Imagine protecting your IT industries from international competition so you can develop digital sovereignty. Couldn’t be us (Literally, we are fucked here).

China’s geostrategic situation improves a bit since they will have an easier time projecting naval force.

America will face an international and domestic loss of reputation. Domestically, nothing will change because conservatives don’t care about Taiwan and the liberals are impotent so their opinions have no bearing.

Internationally, American allies will trust America a little less, but anyone with access to a history textbook should already know that trusting America is moronic. America maintains its soft power anyway by controlling other country’s politics.

The most important thing however is what will not happen in the case of peaceful reunification. And that is WW3, which most people seem to predict will happen between and China and America over Taiwan.

I’m amazed I’m not banned, that’s all

You won’t be banned unless you stir shit. We still get liberals on our articles because being wrong doesn’t get you banned here, being obnoxious does.

Are you willing to be infested by the vast majority in your area that think you tankies are batshit crazy? 👀

I would think the majority of our users have enough self esteem to not give a shit about the opinions of those who have done no investigation on any topic besides reading reddit memes or western news.

I think what the other commenter meant to say is that you should use the gross contributions.

If A contributed €80 and took out €100, while B contributed €100 while taking out £80, the net contributions are

A: -€20 B: +€20

Now if €90 euros (50% of the current contributions) are to be raised for new spending, it would be strange to assume that all of it will come from B because they are the only ones with positive contributions. If we go by proportionality, it would make more sense to increase contributions to

A: €120 B: €150

It is explicitly the policy of the chinese government to not try to take Taiwan by force unless some red line is crossed and the one china 2 systems policy is irreversibly violated.

Since the policy hasn’t been irreversibly violated, the mainland hasn’t invaded. This has been the system for the past 70 years and has been maintained by every Chinese administration, including the current one which has run for 10 years already and has still maintained the same 1 china 2 systems policy.

Of course, due to many factors, such as the fact that an invasion is still possible, the military build up along the first island chain by the west in an attempt to encircle china, and the ability of western powers to cut off oil imports to China by blocking off the straits of malacca, the mainland builds up naval power as quickly as it can.

However! As other commentesr have pointed out, these barges are actually useless as military equipment, as can even be seen in the photo that is presented. Why would a country with aircraft carriers and a virtually unlimited supply of drones/missiles rely on such comically sinkable bridges to roll in tanks into Taiwan?

the president would preserve the possibility of going down in history as a great wartime victor.

He doubted that a war was necessary or winnable. But he sent American soldiers all the same.

The thinking of the American liberal mind never fails to horrify me.

“It’s crucial that your support for Ukraine doesn’t decrease but instead continues and grows,” Zelenskiy said, according to a text of the speech. “And this is especially true for air defense, military aid, and our overall resilience.”

It’s crucial, why? What will it accomplish?

Kallas has put forward a proposal for EU members to deliver as much as €40 billion in military aid this year, stepping up after €20 billion flowed to Kyiv in 2024. Assistance would be voluntary, but participants would be encouraged to make contributions in cash or equipment in proportion to their respective economies. After several countries balked, the debate was narrowed to focus this week on the ammunition component.

Amazing. Every EU country is rushing to ramp up military spending by using the war as justification. Hundreds of millions of euros have been slashed from welfare budgets. And yet, they don’t want to spend any of this money in the country where the war is actually happening!

Literally the entire top level of the government is appointed by the president, who also effectively has supreme veto power over every decision (since vetos can only be overturned by 2/3rds majority, which probably won’t happen).

Like at this point literally just make an absolute monarchy it would be more efficient.

I am posting this article because recently there has been a narrative going around that Russia violated the ceasefire on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. However, even according to western media, the AFU violated the ceasefire pretty much immediately, effectively rendering it void. It’s important context that is missing from western pop narratives.

China/communism can’t fucking win, with these crakkkers.

Life becomes so much better when you stop caring about what these people think

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