Fucking liberals… they’re getting desperate.

The US government doesn’t have to even technically increase taxes, just spend dramatically more.

Which is sad/funny because the American federal government really can’t run out of money. It could hypothetically run out of resources, sure, but US dollars can buy any raw material anywhere and even then the land we stole from the indigenous nations happens to be some of the most resource rich in the world. The government could easily spend tens of trillions to create bleeding edge infrastructure and simply chooses not to.

will do whatever it takes

Except bring back well paying union jobs to make it here again.

Wouldn’t be the worst back-stabbing the US has done.

I honestly prefer Trump over Genocide Joe because at least the media isn’t constantly trying to carry water for him.

I feel more like they’re testing the waters, the good thing is that the average person in the West is losing more and more confidence over the inherent “superiority” of US American led power by the year. There was a moment in the beginning of the war that it might have been possible to mobilize NATO nations to send boots on the ground but a lot has changed in these 2 years.

It’s basically the “chronically online effect” but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I’m old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for “deviant” sexual acts with children. I call it the “colonizer effect” where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by “blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc” and if there isn’t anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.

What I do with my body and personal property is none of your business, comrade.

Hilarious because the USSR literally freed Ukraine from being part of Russia since they (especially Lenin) felt they were a distinct enough people group to deserve their own nation. It might make sense if Putin had invaded Finland for example.

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The most used answer in a political scientist’s toolbox is “it depends”. Stalin’s decision to not antagonize the US after WW2 was intelligent given that the USSR was fried after the Revolution, Civil War, invasions by the West, and obviously WW2. They were simply not capable of fighting and needed years of peace to build up, even if that meant being unable to help in the revolution in Greece and the Civil War in Korea (at least not sending troops). Khrushchev’s decision to put the barrel of the nuclear gun pointed at America’s dick in the September Crisis (aka Cuban Missile Crisis in the West) was boneheaded and an unnecessary escalation. Every nation, no matter how repugnant has the right to self-defense from foreign nations. But Russia pushing back on NATO is totally valid, even if invading Ukraine isn’t good, I don’t know what other realistic options they had.

Right now the US is caught flat-footed after the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, with two neo-military base puppet nations (Israel and Saudi Arabia) being rebellious and not following the US’s commands exactly, a string of very unpopular US leaders, their government showing cracks in its stability, an economy that is languishing from a recession they cannot recover from. So it is the most opportune time to press hard on them. Not to mention, the PRC continues to grow and is even mending bridges with Vietnam (a potential ally the US has been courting heavily for decades now), as BRICS+ expands in size and importance.

There’s 1.5 billion Chinese people, the idea that for whatever reason some will want to move here is just a matter of math. I have some Chinese bros, and the youth that do move here aren’t economic immigrants, they legitimately like the US. Why you’d try to block these people is beyond me.

It used to be that the US shocked me by how effective they are in their evil, now I’m puzzled by the boneheaded decisions they’re doing. By all means, don’t interrupt an enemy making a mistake… but the elites drank the Kool-Aid.

It didn’t used to be that way, capital has become so powerful it actively threatens capitalism.

I’m glad that the head of capitalism is bleeding itself out, but its truly bizarre the decisions that they made. They should’ve hugged Russia and built them up like Japan after the collapse and they would’ve had a stalwart ally in the region with a shitton of oil and natural gas. And they really did drink the Kool-Aid that the PRC would inevitably become liberal if the economy kept growing.

I truly believe that the elites ACTUALLY believe the propaganda is poisoning the American Empire.

I think it was Ben Norton that the US wants to find a reason to get away with banning all Chinese imports… but their capitalism is holding them back as “just pay more to make it at home” or “deal with the consequences of an embargo” is not an option for the fragile American economy.

I don’t think most of the nations involved and people responsible have actually properly apologized for the Holocaust. Hell, even nazi butchers that had connections like Léon “The Lion” Degrelle who was instrumental in Belgium falling to the nazis, was stripped of his Belgian citizenship but he just lived in exile in Spain until he died of natural causes in 1994.

You can’t stop the US government when it’s deadset on anything, we’re only a nation of laws when it’s convenient.

If you want to understand it more at an electoral level even though as Marxists we reject these terms, the 2016 election showed that Republicans are likely to lose presidential elections in perpetuity due to the dying white Boomer demographic. Young latinos (especially Mexicans and Puertoricans) have been shifting towards a progressive view. The fear existed that Republicans might have to become more moderate. Jeb Bush was that plan, but they had two alternatives Ted Cruz for attempting a right-ward shift and Trump for a hyper-right turn. I don’t think the GOP even expected the Trump style to catch on but it has. Now even most Democrats are to the right of Mitt Romney on immigration which is obvious (to us) but sad.

The idea of a blanket amnesty is over, which Biden very much has the authority to grant but WON’T because his corporate interests far outweigh his electoral ambitions.

Nerd culture saw itself as white (or certain east-asian), male, middle class plus and in the developed world. It was bound to devolve into reactionary thought. The only pro I see is its tendency to be accepting or at least ambivalent towards transpeople, even 4chan (outside of /pol/) seems to be more accepting towards trans than their political opinions of everything else.