Bobby_2021

Worse for US since they no longer can exploit everyone to death. But better for the world as a whole. Notice how many bombings and war the US had to engage in to be the superpower of the world. Now check the GDP(PPP) of China. They are already the bigger superpower. How many wars did they fight? Almost none. The west is inherently more violent than the east. Sharing power with the east is better for the world as a whole.

Sometimes that baby grows a pair of balls and rips that parasite off. Which is what Russia did. Countries will no longer allow themselves to be subjugated with the "Rules based international order". --- @eleanor In my opinion you did the right thing 30 years ago. Although now it's pretty bad everywhere so no qualms. Uk is essentially a giant bank that holds the money from all the exploitation they did from the rest of the world. It's locked up in the hands of the monarchy and financial institutions. It's works as long as there are things in the world to buy up. But that pile of cash could be very quickly rendered useless if you lose that buying power. Dangerous position to be in.

"It's popular on the left to blame capitalists." My dude, entirety of Leftism is grounded on blaming the capitalists. Please make it clear which side you are on. If you defending the capitalists abroad make sure to do it at home as well, because it's literally the exact same corporations. You may even get paid by the orange guy. If these mega corporations can corrupt the US govt, imagine what they can do to a small African govt. Exactly. There is no point to leftism without it. Even liberalism isn't proper leftism which is why Marx hated it and warned against it. Liberalism is a twisted inversion of nature. It claims to be against inequality, but it needs inequality to survive. It claims to be against racism, but has their own prefered races. It says it's pro freedom but fucks anyone who disagree with them with shitload of sanctions, coups, invasions and bombing campaigns. Liberalism is a byproduct of capitalism riddled with the same contradiction that it would crumble on itself. The only good thing coming from the left is defending against wretched capitalist exploitation. Yes it's true. Eastern Europe was like this during USSR. Even though they weren't bloody rich, everyone had a nice country life. After the collapse of the USSR they were promised integration into the western neocolonial economy and they are now being ghost towns. Protect those places from these corporations. Once these corporations come with their "development" they would fuck you over.

I don't get what you mean by this, but if you referring to the interference of the west on the exploitation of the global South as merely parasitic, then you miss the point. It's more like shackles put on the baby, not an annoying parasite. You literally employ kids in Africa to mine cobalt for your freaking solar panels. Parasites would have been far more preferable. You are downplaying the capitalist exploitation in a blatantly hypocritical fashion, but you do care about capitalist exploitation when it happens in your own country on your own citizens. Okay so now don't blame capitalists for getting tax cuts, busting unions and scraping social programs. "It's popular on the left to blame lack of development of workers on capitalists. No amount of capitalist blaming would stop that. If you don't like jobs then don't work. Remove that parasite. Secure the baby. The workers should get more developed on their own. Don't blame capitalists." if I borrow your own words lmao. You know very well how socio economic exploitation would lead to regression in development. You can find capitalist exploitation leading to corruption and inequality in your country but fail to notice even more blatant abuse of capitalism by those same corporations abroad. It's understandable because you are in the business of not getting it for obvious reasons.

Simply answer, US never allowed them to develop, with implicit (sanctions, coups, slavery) and explicit (bombings) means. Imagine bombing the Scandinavian countries to fuck in the 1900s and saying "they never developed themselves in the first place" lmao. Well, if you first agreed to stop bombing it to fuck, then maybe they could have developed. Ask yourself why North Korea is so underdeveloped. Because they are under crippling sanctions by from the rest of the world. Same with Iran and now Russia. There are also a few cases of geography being too harsh for development, but this isn't the norm. Following the WW2 the US engaged in a systematic bombing campaign on all the allies of the USSR and infringed on their sovereignty by overthrow their liberal democratic governments, bombing them, and sanctioning them. These countries were far more developed until the US intervened in their domestic politics for exploitation of natural resources like oil, food and cheap labour. For example this is women in Iran walked around. The USSR was also incredibly progressive in women's rights and education. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/iran-before-revolution-photos/ But US overthrew their *democratically* elected leader which led to significant opposition from the general populace which led to the Islamic revolution of 1979. Notice that higher developed countries often do not have aggressive military to fend of the neocolonial capitalist machine of the US. So they were sitting ducks for CIA coups, bombings by the military and financial exploitations by Americans the and intentionally destabilizing entire continents in the name of Freedooomb and dumbocracy lmao.

Lmao "never developed themselves" The Indian subcontinent was literally the wealthiest part of the world before British colonisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_the_world#:~:text=Up until the early 18th,largest economies by GDP output. The British looted and stole half of the world's wealth with their armies, colonial crony capitalism & explicit slavery. US now follows the same path with neoliberal neocolonial implicit ( and sometimes explicit) slavery on the global South. You are invested to not understand this because 1) You are a direct beneficiary of it and 2) You have to uphold the same neoliberal values as if some sort of forward thinking vision even though it's dead clear that it's leading your own country to shit right infront of your eyes. You can live off exploitation for so long until it starts to crumble in on itself. Still cleaner than walking with leftover shit in the ass.

ICJ ruling doesn't affect Israel at all since onbody is there to enforce it. But illegal settlers will face consequences for their actions.

Rest of the "developed" world are vassal states of the US and the "underdeveloped" world are living by exporting goods and services to US at cheap rates. So unless you are willing to spend in $$ to take advantage of purchasing power parity, moving anywhere doesn't make sense. It will cost more to move and get established in the new place. The whole "democratic death spiral" thing isn't going to affect you in the slightest way for sure.

That's because they are kept underdeveloped by the neoliberals for extracting cheap resources and labour. Neoliberal style capitalism is the biggest reason for why they are underdeveloped, more factually kept as such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

They didn't like Ukraine right from the start. They want what's buried under it.

Everything about NATO is a shame except for what it was initially meant for: Countering the USSR. After 1991 the world has moved on. The world at large realized that war is counterproductive to all parties involved and should be avoided at all costs unless they are pushed into it. You might wonder what's the need to keep a military alliance of all, growing like this. Follow the money and you will see the biggest beneficiary of them all is the military industrial complex. They get handed paychecks in the billions for building weapons that creates nothing but death and destruction for poor children. Why do we even allow such unethical entities to even exist? Even while they do exist they should be systematically phased out, not bolstered like crazy. NATO has illegally invaded and bombed countries, lied about expansion, broken promises, have no ideals except for their lobby and failed almost all wars they have gotten into while destabilizing everywhere it has gone into while wasting trillions that could have been invested in healthcare, research or education. Somehow we are supposed to believe that these are the morons of the free world, whatever that means.

Life is feeling like shit when you have to do the boring parts. I have always did the things that are intellectually stimulating throughout academia, often with spectacular results and that's no longer effective in the real world. It's a lot more boring and I don't get that vitality I had towards life, especially in my work. I need to keep finding ways to make it intellectually stimulating, and sometimes it doesn't even work. I remember Leo talked about always being ambitious and motivated all the time, in the video he uploaded after resuming from the break. I wonder how much you can do that how sustainable it will be in the long run. Embrace the Grind and monotony? Is even more ambition the solution to the monotony and boring grind?

@Leo Gura The culture war is merely a second order effect of the larger capitalist-neocolonialist liberal exploitative policy of America. It was unsustainable even back then. It is now running its course. You should expect more polarization. The contrived wokeness that come from the west has only gone so far to stifle the social economically backward group of people who did not get all the fruits of the exploitation America did on the rest of the world. This kept America in an artificial liberal bubble and sky high inequality+ polarization, that resulted in a lot of repressed energy among the general populace, that ultimately resulted in women not having abortion rights, something that is easily available to almost every women in the "third world". You are being too reductionist in dismissing this as a culture war. Think about how this culture war did come about. And for that you need to come to terms with all the horrific shit that America did abroad to protect their NATIONALIST interests. Your leaders were too Nationalist the whole time, but you did not see it since being nationalistic meant that you got the benefits of exploitation of the global south. Now that Nationalism has seeped into the populace who are at odds with the liberal wokies. Both are the fruits of neocolonial, exploitative capitalism that United states have aggressively pursued since the end of the ww2. When I think about it, Israel and US is one and the same. In Israel you can it happening in real time, while in US it is implicitly taking place. I do not know if you have got this. Incredibly hard to put into words. Maybe I should do it in a different thread.

It's really bad. Oh gosh.

What goes around comes around. The laws of psychology are a subtler version of the laws of physics. The laws of psychology may be slower had more inertia and not predictable on paper. But the consequences of your action will always come back to haunt you. No energy is ever lost. It only takes different forms.

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@Karmadhi is among the most articulate people on this forum. He raised an important point in the last post.

The American populace was quite used to being the beneficiary of capitalism and they have grown to enjoy it for far too long that they have never thought it would even come to bite them back in the ass. All the liberalism was a mask for capitalism which works as long as you have a pipeline of labor, money and resources streamed to the west from third world. Aka neo liberalism, distinct from wokeism. Ukraine was supposed to be the next cash cow in the line. I do not think wokeism would have thrived in the absence of siphoning the wealth from the rest of the world into the west which via covert and overt means, that results in the woke bubble, which is a second order effect of crony capitalism. They are the beneficiaries of capitalism while living in total disconnect with the damages of capitalism. Hence capitalism thrived in the west all throughout the late 20th century. This is the best life anyone could have asked for, relatively speaking. Boomers had the time of their life while America went on a bombing spree across the entire world. Boomers had the best life. Zoomers and millennials are going to pay up for it. Now it's payback time for capitalism.

Vance is bankrolled by P. Theil both being staunchly pro-Israel has connections with the Israeli intelligence that wants to boost the surveillance state even in the US?? This only gets more depressing the more you dig into this. Also, Vance is backing out of the Ukraine war only because United States have effectively lost the war. Now he wants to counter China and Iran. 🤡 What is he going to do? Provoke China into attacking Taiwan and send billions to Taiwan? Then lose that too while people get fed up with that and Dems can choose their next war? American politics is designed in a way that only pro war and pro-Israeli candidates can, forget about winning, even run. What a beautiful state of affairs. 🤡 The financial situation is not looking good either. I predict a 2008 style collapse in the next term, before 2028. The decay can also be slow and gradual this time without a tumultuous collapse. Which is all the more deadly.

You can make that claim. For the moment. But if Trump is elected and he actually stops the war like he promised within a reasonable time frame all your arguments and blog posts are going to go down the drain. I remember your earlier blog posts on Republicans (Bush) dragging USA to 2 needless wars, but now Democrats have also dragged USA to needless wars pretty much. But all of that is irrelevant anyway since Israel lobby is essentially dictating the American foreign policy even in 2003 and 20 years after that. So Dems and Reps did not have much of a choice. What happened has happened. There is no point resenting or whining over it. The only thing that matters is who can put an end to this wretched nonsense. Let's see!

Just to be clear, will there be a guy named "Literally Anybody Else" who you can vote for in the upcoming election in November? And any US citizen can vote for him? Asking this to know. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/politics/presidential-candidates-2024.html I only see 6 people running for president. That's besides the point anyway. They merely prove my point that the de facto two-party presential system do not offer enough choice to voters. That is the point of the satirical name. He are not serious about winning anyway. You need to go bottom up. Not top down. American elections are top down that normies do not have a shot at winning.

I am afraid small donations will not be enough. They splash an eye watering amount of money in campaigns. Transfer of money is not illegal. You cannot stop people from transferring money. They will always find ways to transfer money in one way or another. There are some unfair advantages that you have to live with and there is absolutely nothing you can do about. Better focus on things that we can do something about. I do not know about the internal details of American politics enough to make a proper judgement. I do not see average citizens running for president in the US elections. So even if they can, in practice they cannot make it due to not having enough money or influence in their corporate-style parties. Back here in India, you can see absolute normies competing for presidential elections. They might not get elected, but they can run for elections, and they actually do, in practice. There are multiple parties with many different ideologies and some without an operating ideology, simply because everyone can run and form a party, given that people vote for them. Having a wide variety of choice for the voters is imperative in democracy, both in theory and in practice. Else you will get into situations when you get stuck with a dementia patient or a convicted felon. This is flawed design. Allowing, exclusively the mega wealthy to run for president is not good either. Listening to what your voters base want is not a bad thing. When MAGA people want to be more isolationist and be antiwar, it is good to listen to them and take a stance that is in alignment with them.

This will never happen. These campaigns require a lot of money. How do you suppose they run their campaigns then? I do not understand much of those, but democracy means people are supposed to take the decision first. As long as some parties act as the de facto gatekeepers of who people are allowed to choose, you are living in a presidential rule for all intends and purposes. It is not a democracy even in theory. Every citizen should be able to run for president, in theory.

lmao no it's a shit show.

Look at how we conduct elections in India. There are 13 options for a single voter although there are 3-4 dominant parties in every constituency whose candidates are likely to win. Even I can stand for an election. I am not joking. I can run for the president of India. Even if you have committed crimes and locked up in jail, you can still run for president. After the MPs are elected, they become the representatives of the people who can join together to form parities or coalitions who ultimately choose the president. This is how you should conduct elections. Not the fundamentally flawed oligarchic/republic system in the US.