Chana

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is why kkkrackers are so sensitive about the price of eggs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Look at your second source. Look at the "not a mistake" percentage start out at 59% in 1965 and slowly walk down to around 40% in 1968 and then around 30% in mid-1971. The "was a mistake" crowd starts at 25% and over the same period walks up to 60%. i.e. it began with domestic popularity, as all US-promoted wars tend to, whip the libs up to fight the enemy, and then deteriorated as consequences built up. Then new narratives were created to cope with this reality. Much like with Iraq, many were apparently always against the war even though a couple years earlier they cheered on the cops against protesters. No concern for the much larger numbers of Vietnamese and Cambodians killed and injured really registered among the US masses, of course, despite the efforts of left organizers. That was never considered a mistake and still isn't among Americans.

Regarding your first source, it is basically irrelevant. What Americans now think about the US war on Vietnam is entirely propaganda narrative.

There is nothing in "the data" contrary to what I said. Would you like to explain what is liberal about the basic realities of history and explaining your own sources back to you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

And a neighborhood communist leader gave a decent showing at the last presidential election.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's funny because he also could've just sat on it instead of drawing attention with an edited video and an AG announcing it won't be released.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The EU could try to negotiate a graceful exit by seeking to keep their IP agreements and legalized tech advantage that is otherwise only enabled by US imperialism. The "designed in Sweden (made in China)" types of business and various cultural cottage industries like parma cheese etc etc. Obviously China will lap them quickly on this, and arguably already has in many ways, but China's leaders would likely see this as a win-win as opposed to the deindustrialization and cleaving off of Europe - and they continue to work to keep normal relations with the EU.

Whether the EU can politically functionally do this is a very different question, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Michael Hudson wrote a fairly popular book called "Superimperialism" with exactly this thesis and it gets periodically updated with more recent examples. It is a common source for folks here speaking about debt and balance of payments and China, so I highly recommend checking it out. There was (is?) a recebt hexbear book club about it as well.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

The rhetorical calculus of calling it "the left party" is actually pretty great. Reactionary news media in the UK (basically all of it) moved on from "communist" and "Trotskyist" as negative left shibboleths and now just say "hard left". They would have to say things like, "the hard left left party" and that is at least very funny. Or, "hard left MP from the left party" and sound like fools. It feels like an attempt at reappropriation and that is a good instinct.

This is also its downside, though. Not snappy and a bit ambiguous.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

It's ghoul to ghoul communication

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Reminder that "Israel" sterilized black Jews without their consent.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not my mayonnaise sandwich!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

They only think it was a mistake because they lost and the hippie generation got PTSD.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Neoliberalism is a financialized path to austerity and stripping productive industry for parts while disciplining labor.

China has increased investment in healthcare and vastly expanded coverage in recent history.

It would certainly be better to implement a universal system with no out of pocket costs / removed from capital, but this is also not neoliberal.

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