I would expect if the usa did that there would no longer be a usa, i geniounly think people would revolt if they didnt have cheap goods to consume, but amerikkkan leaders seem kinda shit at considering consequences, and just because u come out on top doesnt mean its an acceptable thing to happen i think China would not want an embargo or something similar to happen even if they would be relatively better off because they would still be worse off in absolute terms. And in reality Chinese leaders have said repeatedly that they dont like the current trade war even tho they are clearly winning it. Clearly there is ‘some’ leverage there.

An embargo would certainly not be crippling but effectively losing 2.8% of ur gpd would be a pretty big deal. So i doubt they have “no” leverage just much much less than they seem to think.

They do look rather nice but alas, I would die of heat stoke, but im glad u are having fun over there in those places where u get that weird white stuff falling from the sky.

lets hope u are right.

i dont think this means much, during the amerikkkan war of aggression in vietnam, the amerikkkan military was much closer to collapse than the iof is now for similar reasons, and nothing came from it.

to be fair to genociders their constant several decade genocidal attacks has lowered life expectancy in Gaza so much that its would probably be hard to not hit children with their bombs even if they weren’t going out of their way to murder children.

I think the fact that many countries are mad about the DPRK having nukes probably plays a role. Also the sanctions against the DPRK have not been as effective and they haven’t been in full force for as long and I would guess that has an effect. Lastly Cuba is culturally western and majority white I would not be surprised at all if that has a significant effect on how sympathetic people in the west are towards them.

Also yeah as others have said so much more propaganda.

i mean u didnt put a gun to my head, but, i would think anyone with a conscience would read about something like this and i would think u know that.

I think people tend to think of and speak of genocide withing its legal context and for that israel is its own sovereign nation. And I doubt the distinction makes any actual difference i dont think supplying the weapons, intelligence, money, and political support for genocide is any less of a wrong in most peoples minds than actually doing it.

I can not believe u just made me read several long ass articles about a woman who was salty she got cheated on and decided to take revenge by having her ex kicked from psl. Like even IF literally everything she said was true i dont think he even did anything illegal (tho certainly enough to get kicked from an org) but there is no evidence at all that anything is true, u and every article makes it sound like this guy is beyond any doubt a rapists, like its just like any other scandal of a rape coverup we have heard about, but its literally just her voice against his and there is no reason at all to believe either, and i (and i hope everyone else) am not inclined to treat someone as one of the worst kinds of people there are just because someone said so.

Considering how long it took me to work thru this one i dont really feel like looking at all the other incidents in other branches listed in the source for the article u linked but the Philadelphia story is just a nothing burger, it bothers me so much that someone can just be like “actually PSL sucks they cover for rapists” and then im worried cuz i dont want to vote for or be part of the so called “Predator Support League” so i want to look into it and like an hour of reading later its just nothing like literally nothing and im kinda upset.

Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? is kinda that

also Swiss Family Robinson???

lol

The machine increases the exploitation of the worker by reducing the amount of labor hours it takes to make a thing.

For a simple example suppose holes in the ground have a value, if a capitalist pays a worker to dig holes and the worker can dig 1 hole an hour with a shovel but 2 with an excavator then while paying for the same 1 hour of work the worker will create twice the value for the capitalist.

But really the distinction is mostly semantic and it doesn’t matter much whether Marx was right and the machines create no value or some other economists were right and it takes machines/tools as well as labor to create value hardly matter because either way the capitalist brings nothing to the table.

i literally said that IF they truly didnt have power it would be ok, did u even read my comment.

all traditions are weird and arbitrary and plenty have fucked up origins i think as long as they dont actively hurt or offend anyone people should celebrate whatever they like even monarchs.

idk if they really did actually not have any legal/institutional/political power like most of they do i wouldnt really care any more than i care about any rich asshole and their family. Having ceremonial positions be hereditary is not crazy and if people wanna keep those traditions around i dont see the problem again as long as the very real powers that many of the still have today get taken away and it really was just ceremonial like that king in Bolivia for example. I think the real problem is that most people dont know how much power these people actually have.

wait till u hear about the french oversees departments and regions, or fucking denmark still holding onto an island orders of magnitude bigger than itself.

i wonder if this mean the sun will finally set on the british empire

ive been seeing that stupid alliance video and i have been avoiding it cuz it looks like its gonna be pure brain rot

man whats up with socdems and roses is that like a historical thing, was there an early big socdem party that had a rose or something. I mean I associate them with killing Rosa Luxemburg but im guessing it has nothing to do with that.