I would recommend experimenting with audio books and podcasts. I thought I was lazy for the longest time for struggling to do chores but I discovered podcasts years ago and discovered that I was just bored lol.
Try listening to Marx Madness or an audiobook of State & Revolution while doing dishes or something and see how you feel.

I don’t even think the toadies paid to write up these plans take it seriously. Radical industrial policy shifts take a little longer than 4.5 years to plan, pay for, and execute.

Seems clear to me that the US knows NATO is doomed and is just trying to get the EU to soak up as much of the blame as possible for when it happens. 2027 isn’t even two whole years from now. They aren’t dumb enough to think Europe is suddenly going to shit out a fully functional war economy in like a year and a half, especially when they themselves put their official rearmament timeline at around 2030. They’re setting them up for failure.
I really thought that NATO would limp on until like 2040 but at this rate… will they even last to the end of the decade??

it’s been interesting and dreadful watching the rise of Immortan Joe politics

“People who don’t like von der Leyen will use this against her”
so literally everybody, then

The problem with socialism capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

They didn’t omit it. It’s in the body of the article, just not the headline.

You could argue that it isn’t talked about enough and they buried the lede and I’d be inclined to agree but idk, this article isn’t about climate change it’s about potential trade routes 🤷‍♂

Yet another banger. What I’m wondering is whether the dems representing the neoconservative wing you talked about will try and put Humpty Dumpty back together again when they come back into power in 4-8 years, or will it be so obviously impossible by then that they too will move on. Either way, it would seem that NATO and the EU are basically finished. Europe at large is certainly going to become (even more) overtly fascistic once it’s clear that they’re just the smelly poor kid on the playground nobody wants to hang out with.

tf kind of doublespeak is “winning the peace”. Is that the same thing as a Moral Victory? Just give these assholes a participation trophy and tell them to move on already.

idk what that means? you don’t always have to try and be sarcastic and funny you know, just say what you mean.
And yeah assuming that every other country has the same motives for space exploration as your own shitty country is projection.

maybe stop projecting america’s problems on to the rest of the human race

Damn at this rate it seems like Z’s administration will be finished by New Year’s.

you forgot “le biggest land invasion since WW2!1!”

if you find out let me know

i don’t think wanting to do damage control is specific to culture…that just sounds like a human thing

Yeah I was wondering if I had mixed up my crazy Roman oligarch deaths lol my bad.
Glad Cicero got was was coming.
Pompey is the one who got unceremoniously beheaded on the Nile cuz Ptolemy was told Caesar would be into it. He was not into it.

this headline WOULD scan as ancient greek

FUCK Cicero. And especially fuck Pompey “teh great”. Just another Job Creator who wasted his life fucking over the proletariat and hoarding gold and enslaved people. Hmm I wonder why it is that subsequent Enlightenment thinkers idolized him? 🤔
The molten gold thing is unfortunately likely just a legend but it’s what he deserved.

he was the sacrificial goat and I’m pretty sure he even said as much in one of those cringe Christmas videos he makes.

Assassination of Julius Caesar fucking rules, everybody should check it out.

Not only does it deconstruct older, bourgeois historiographies about Rome and explain why it is that Rome is mythologized the way it is in the west, it uses ancient Rome as a model to understand how the interests of oligarchs converge with those of the (oligarch-run) state. Comparing the US with Rome is cliche at this point but Parenti uses historical materialism to make it actually useful. Once you read it you’ll understand why reformism is a dead end; Caesar was a dyed-in-the-wool imperialist oligarch who understood that the contradictions in Roman society needed to be eased by some minor wealth redistribution and even that was so repulsive to his colleagues that they personally killed him with their own hands. What chance do AOCIA or Bernie or whomever the radlib flavour of the month stand?