I don’t understand this analysis. Surely it would be easier for the Americans to control and damage the Chinese economy if Xi Jinping and Chinese business leaders were typing out emails and memos on backdoored Microsoft software or iPhones. Forcing Huawei to develop their own tech via hostility means that the Chinese market is lost forever and now the American security apparatus has to deal with an opaque ecosystem they can’t backdoor.

I’ve heard people say that the October Hamas attacks on Israel were so surprising because they were planned entirely via Chinese tech and therefore was not picked up by Zionist elint. I don’t necessarily think that’s true or even the only reason, but it’s not an implausible example of how forcing China to make its own systems is a huge own goal.

All this hostility has just made China more and more self sufficient. I just don’t see how that gives the US more leverage than a China which is completely dependent on Western tech.

Western leftists criticizing Deng for his shitty chess moves when it turns out he was playing Go the whole time.

Under Millei, all Argentinians will be merged into a gestalt consciousness who will be a billionaire.

There are indeed a lot of shitty therapists out there. Very under regulated profession.

Nice occupation infrastructure. Shame if anything happened to it.

oppose, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind

Quick, get on social media and spin this as “Amazon says ceasefire now!” and start tweeting at Amazon thanking them for condemning Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

This is our chance to get the Zionazis and the capitalists to eat each other.

Oh okay we’re on the same page. Thanks for clarifying comrade.

Haifa is Israel’s largest port on the Mediterranean side and it’s only about 50km from the Lebanese border. I wonder if Hezbollah would be able to use similar tactics to shut it down in the even Israel does the incredibly stupid and tries to fight Hezbollah.

Mensa Deez nuts

Oh I thought you were calling the roof Koreans racists. Sorry if that’s not what you meant.

Dedollarization and constant US imperial overreach are the two factors which are most likely to break US imperialism in the mid to long term.

American economic dominance is propped up by the ubiquity of the dollar in general trade as well as the Petro dollar. In general trade, more and more countries are pivoting to trading in their own currencies or Euros and Yuan and Rubles because of the destruction of confidence in the US dollar as a neutral reserve currency due to recent sanctions against Russia. In terms of the Petro dollar, the trend of decarbonization means that oil will be a less critical commodity over time and even now we see the likes of Saudi Arabia agreeing to sell oil to China in Yuan. Without US dollar dominance, America will not be able to print as many dollars to service its debts, which will lead to either inflation or debt default.

America, like the UK and France before it, doesn’t have the ability to fight all of its repressed imperial subjects at once. The cracks are starting to show at the US giving up against the Houthis in Yemen. The US and EU has also pegged its military prestige to the war in Ukraine, which is also starting to turn. Not only are they taking a reputational hit with every picture of a burnt out Abrams or Leopard, but lesser US allies are also starting to see that full US support doesn’t guarantee victory. Even within US policy circles there is some acknowledgement that defeat in Ukrain could lead to some sort of Suez moment for the US and NATO.

Literally a skill issue.

I’ve seen enough senior exec level women still wear them so idk if it’s just baked into their brains by the time they reach that level. Honestly there should be labor laws forbidding mandatory high heels for women.

I’ve seen some Asian diasporans celebrate the Roof Koreans as “finally taking a stand and not letting people push us around anymore” to which I always reply “then why do we not do this when white people push us around?”

The whole thing was a needless tragedy all around and it sucks that people keep trying to glorify it.

Ehhh, I don’t think it’s helpful to take swipes at the Koreans either. While I don’t have much sympathy for petit bourgeoisie using force to defend their property, a targeted campaign of violence based on ethnicity is not good even when carried out by an oppressed ethnicity. Besides, the complete withdrawal of the LAPD from areas where many Koreans lived points to a conscious plan or desire to let minorities fight it out so they can’t unite against white supremacy.

I’m not saying the original Korean store owner was not a racist and a bad person or whatever, just that we should not celebrate factionalism.

“Every time a lib challenges me to a debate, I do one squat.”

Erm, akshully, <essay about the age of consent in various Japanese prefectures>.

The big Japanese corporations are desperate to bring in more people as the work force dries up and there’s literally not enough construction workers or truck drivers or food service workers to keep things going. The politicians and their conservative voters are desperate to keep people out because of their xenophobia.

What you end up with are people brought over from places like Vietnam on “apprenticeships” put into overcrowded dorms, paid peanuts (even by Japanese standards) and then sent home as soon as their limited term in Japan ends with no pathway to residency.

Then, predictably, those exploited migrants need to work on the side or steal just to survive and all the conservatives point and squeel about how foreigners can’t fit into Japanese society.

The main downside for women is that some places still mandate or “strongly suggest” high heels, which is a travesty.

It’s like saying the kanji for man in Japanese is 男 which is a combination of the ‘rice’ and ‘power’ radicals

Just a small correction, the top part of that character is 田, which means “field” as in a field of crops. The lower half does mean power as you said.