IDK anymore if there is anything that would actualy pull NATO into this war besides a direct attack, not when Israel is still a major issue after 1 year and they still are keen on baiting China.

Maybe there needs to be a serious bluff calling here. Is the US actualy willing to start a WW3 in Ukraine and potentialy abandon Israel? I’m like 60, maybe even 70/30 on Russia should retaliate if we get to a situation where Ukraine succesffuly hits an important target and that itself is a long shot atm.

You must be joking,seriously there is no way this is your argument lol.

Imagine one comment

“I wish global leftists would focus on material issues since we tend to agree 99% of the time”

and another comment

“You know I don’t think nazism, white supremacy, xenophobia or transphobia are not particularly relevant issues, so long as they’re helping to build communism I’m fine with any of that”.

Would you see that user as a clown or not? You literaly undermine the premise of the first one, what exactly is the 1% if not any of these things? Jesus take your head of your ass lol.

I love how leftists will agree on 99% of things but become sworn enemies with other leftists over AI or masks or outdoor cats or some shit.

I don’t care if Norman Finkelstein is transphobic.

What the fuck are you talking about, your other comment is about outdoor cats, now you talk about transphobia as if both are remotely the same thing. You have zero credibility if that is how you see the world.

Building socialism by supporting opinions that directly harm the people you want to help. The most generous take here is you’re completely lost.

Think about it economicaly, studio execs know that the boomer white racist population is not that big and pandering to them is preaching to the choir in a church full of corpses.

No matter what it makes economic sense to always pander to the younger generation to make sure you have a growing market.

George Lucas’s problem is his obvious lack of talent but he was a very important landmark, by explicitly saying “hey the biggest hollywood franchise needs younger fans yesterday!”. The last 20 years is basically hollywood realizing this demographic shift, its not 1965 anymore and you absolutely can’t pretend some cracker in the south is representative of the entire population or even the majority.

Demographically these crazy chud middle class whites are not more than 50% of the population, not even close in fact. It doesn’t make that much sense to alienate the majority. They’re the niche market instead.

While there may be the obvious economic difference and white middle class have a lot more money this doesn’t matter when buying a movie ticket is not like financing a $500k home.

It makes perfect sense for media to reflect the changing US demographics and specialy the urbanization and rural vs urban division in political views.

You’re absolutely right about the illusion but IMO the Bernie era gave people including many socialists/leftists who considered him as harm reduction a complete illusion of what the underlying political climate was heading towards.

While Bernie was campaigning on very good vibes and huge crowds asking for healthcare the population was heading increasingly away from the “traditional” both parties values of decades prior.

Its obvious Trump completely destroyed traditional conservatism but for the Democrats to destroy Bernie they had no alternative but plant the seeds of Blue MAGA.

Biden only got there because he was the only alternative to defeat Bernie without the Dems jumping off a cliff politically. Then they pulled this Biden coup only because Biden was absurdly unpopular. IMO if they tried the same shit with the Bernie nomination things would have been very interesting back then.

Dems could have avoided this by just dealing with Bernie as the coward and incoherent fool he is as president, at least they would have had 8 years of probably the most popular president in history.

Instead the year is 2024 and Blue MAGA is not a parody, its the foundation of the party.

I am not sure I agree but it doesn’t matter because the most likely outcome is they will be and they’ll write articles trying to convince us AI is good actualy before they end up being fired the very next day.

To be fair I wouldn’t take these headlines at face value simply given these companies have ridiculous and stupid “expectations”. The games are quite profitable.

Stupid expectations of straight line up never ending graphs. Expect everything you make to make as much money as the previous release instead of embracing or simply accepting you’re already winning, you’re already making stupid amounts of profit, 10% higher or lower doesn’t mean anything.

Not only is Rebirth already 4 years late(who cares at this point) FF7 remake was also release exactly in the mid of COVID(April '20), surely people should understand by now you may erase that from memory, that consumption habit will never come back.

Yep absolute cinema, the good old days of… checks notes 2022. lol That the China we needed more of, it was moments like this that gave me the impression China was going to be a lot more adversarial going forward compared to the reality of what actually happened since then.

I think at least since COVID its clear its as much anti-Biden than pro-Trump. For both of them actualy its more about what the opposition says or does than your own rethoric, not to deny that is important, but clearly some people vote more based on what they hate the most.

So we look back and Biden spent 4 years gaslighting people that everything is fine even if your rent doubled. They repeat Fed shit through the liberal media as if people not only understand but agree with all the punching left/down they’re doing.

“Inflation is under control”, “robust jobs market”, “excess savings” lol you know the memes I’m sure.

I don’t think they should be banned or anything, but I do think all of their lib showerthought bait comments should be removed. In addition, I don’t really value their input on moderation questions as they post a lot of shit I believe shouldn’t be here.

I literaly told you I’m familiar with them and I literaly often reply to them too. Stop trying to create a witch hunt, you already made your point, I disagree.

I look at your comment history now and its not even the first time you do this. Chill out dude. You’re developing a patter of trying to witch hunt established users over petty shit.

So they have post cringe takes once in a while, who cares? I literaly already told you most people know this. I know this since I reply to them often. I’d take one crazy L in a while, so what, report for a mod and move on.

You’re not in the position to tell others to “go to reddit” and your comment history is questionable.

You have a weird definition of bait then, bait is not when you disagree with shit. I don’t think they were correct either, I’ve contested their posts many times btw I know the rhetoric.

But as I said, you’re being hostile towards someone that was not even dishonest and often contributes in other areas.

This whole chain points out the amount of cope people post here approaches its own conspiracy theory level. “Iran will retaliate at any day now” is literally becoming a meme. But its the random project whatever post from 3 months ago that is relevant?

What are you even talking about? Nobody took their conspiracy theories seriously or bad enough to dunk on, in fact the always get engagement and post insightful comments about other stuff too. It realy feels like you’re not reading the room here. They’re not a malicious or dishonest poster, at least not that I can tell.

Stop acting as if you’re some authority here trying to clean shit, this is the lamest internet trope to date, that one guy that thinks they’re representing others with authority.

Yes, re-industrialization can and will eventually happen, but it won’t happen immediately.

It definitely wont happen exactly because there is a reason capitalists moved to the global south in the first place. Industry in the north is not profitable. This will never change unless the north population goes through either some massive economic shock doctrine akin to a WW2/3 scenario or probably massive climate change catastrophe.

Its like every single time we forget history, the only reason why the US industry grew in the first place, the only reason the west managed to industrialize in the first place, the obvious consequences for Germany when they were put on the dead end of industrialization(e.g entirely dependent on imported energy).

If we consider these things the US is far more likely to collapse and balkanize. I expect chuds shooting liberals well before chuds and liberals hands together working in a factory for $5 an hour which is necessary for industrial profitability nowadays.

This is not to say that America will be a bad place to live in, it is simply that its standard of living will be below what its citizens are currently able to “enjoy” (in relative terms to the Global South). Meanwhile, real economic growth will happen in the East where their living standards will be far above the former Imperial Core, and you can expect many skilled talents would seek to emigrate as well.

If by “East” you mean China yeah maybe if we consider the richest cities, otherwise you need some reality checks on what the average work and life condition in Japan and South Korea is like.

Right at the start this idiot starts with a talk about how they are still healthy as if the point is to work and work until you are unhealthy. Its the fucking 21st century, we have technology and rising productivity, some countries, neoliberal countries even are toying with reducing work hours and here are these ghouls trying to excuse raising the retirement age.

Completely soulless and ghoulish and imo there is simply no excuse that doesn’t borrow from our enemies rethoric so it is what it is I’m sure this is all part of the “great plan”, try to cope I guess.

Hexbear doing the clickbait anti-china thing where a random proffesor/media person/low level official says something means “China says”, weird

What on earth are you even talking about, how on earth is it clickbait, HOW ON EARTH IS IT ANTI-CHINA, its literally China Global TV Network, you know, LITERALLY THE STATE OFFICIAL TV NETWORK.

What more do you want? Do you think they’d ever say something as important as this without approval?

Holy shit the mental gymnastics to avoid an L.

This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV

Surely thats a rhetorical question once you look at any global temperature chart its clear the US wont collapse in 20 years isn’t it?

Not sure why this type of garbage mainstream econ “common sense” got upvoted.

Respecfuly, read Graeber’s BS jobs. China isn’t a magical place exempt from those issues. On the contrary, recent years there is an issue with larger youth unemployment due to too many graduates not finding white collar jobs i.e people want BS jobs that pay well and give benefits. It got nothing to do with productivity or the “workforce”.

Tell the office workers in every T1 city they have to take 4h off every week to help with local community services for example, or just reduce the work hours in general.

There are solutions, it requires the party to reevaluate their commitment to economic growth at any cost. China is a complicated topic but the easiest way for them to fail is to listen to exactly this type of mainstream western econ shitty rethoric and surprise surprise stupid decisions like this happens exactly when they do that.

It’s impossible to know what he was thinking in the aftermath but I think it was possible his massive adrenaline rush made him forget that actual reality is not like reality tv. When you die in reality - that’s it. You’re actually dead.

IMO Trump doesn’t have an ideological drive that justifies personal sacrifice, on the contrary he is extremely selfish and MAGA atracts exactly a huge part of this selfish chauvinistic white population.

So yeah when he had the opportunity to reflect on whether any of this is worth dying for he probably couldn’t answer with “yes” unequivocally. Heck I doubt he even actualy cares or believes in actual MAGA rhetoric if it doesn’t include direct benefits to people like him.

Not like this isn’t obvious either, bullies tend to be cowards as a stereotype and first of all Trump’s entire personal life before MAGA was entirely as part of the privileged capitalist class. He is part of the least likely group of people to ever consider any sort of altruism or sacrifice for a greater goal.

Personaly climate change is still the main issue. The data showed the COVID lockdowns were similar to what would be necessary to avoid 1.5C.

At the bare minimum if you wanted to be “civil” about it, we would need global governments to completely enforce a survival mode only economic system, no economic activity beyond the stritcly necessary.

On that front China should absolutely be praised as they’re literaly the only ones improving massively, but unfortunately its not enough, the longer we take the more drastic measures would be necessary. Crazy to think but its 2025 already and literaly all projections followed the “worst possible” or “Unexpected” projection lol.

A large part of my frustration is that our past revolutionary comrades never predicted or had to deal with such a hard deadline. Lenin, Mao or Castro etc, none of them were told “if you fail humanity will die in less than a generation”.

And it is this lack of urgency that is worrysome. I realy couldn’t care less about Chinese or Soviet “diplomacy” towards the US if the year was 1955 and all we fantasized was FALGSC in the year 2000.

Instead its 2025 and we count how many different climate disasters are going to happen within the next 10 years.

Russia got too comfortable with the mild sanctions effect in the first two years that they actually believed they can rely on China forever. They are now paying the price.

This is entirely expected, but it wasn’t a “mistake”. The entire dedollarization rhetoric is a relic of 2022 when it was looking like China was actualy willing to take an independent and adversarial stance against the west. This meant BRICS could have been a viable alternative for a multipolar world under Chinese leadership. Maybe if China continued on that path and decided 2022-2025 would be the time period to settle the Taiwan question using BRICS as their defensive bloc.

Instead of course we get the opposite. The west complained, a Pelosi humiliated them and the media called them “wolf warriors” then everything took a 180 turn. China since then reassured the west that they wont even try to use BRICS as their own bloc/platform and that they only want “collaboration” and “peace”.

I’ll quote MR way from April '23 where he basicaly confirms all these “difficulties” with dedollarization(putting it mildly)

Since the stupid embarrassing Xi-Biden meeting in Nov '23(which happened over a month after Oct 7th and after everyone knew what the Gaza genocide looked like), China says US bad for everyone that wants to hear. Then they turn around and literaly welcome the same people we call nazis here. They are following through with what they say, like it or not.

I think dedollarization is still possible but it requires commitment to creating a crisis for the global economy and sadly nobody wants that. Sadly atm there is not much to look forward to, there is no indication China will change their stance.