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Idk, I've seen them waffle between 'MMT is compatible with Marxism' and 'MMT is not actually compatible with Marxism' a couple of times over the years, though idk where they stand on it now. They certainly are an 'MMT will work for China, and is the only realistic way for them to upend the current neoliberal financial order' person.

You are assuming they have any kind of consistent analysis or ideology. They do not as far as I can tell. Which is normal for most people.

Not to be spiteful, but if they weren't feeling the pressure before, then they weren't actually paying attention to the way the political winds have been blowing. They would kidnap people all the fucking time. Of course, it wasn't 'kidnapping' it was 'legal detention' in Guantanamo and the charges would be different ("terrorism"), but the result is the same. The same goes for any LGBTQ individuals and communities. The Democrats only adopted them into the federal coalition less than 20 years ago, they can and will be kicked out just as easily if it suits the Dems, they are already posturing towards it. Different states will serve as safer havens for them, but that is the way it has always been.

They have been "emboldened" for the last 60 years. It's not any different, people are just pretending it's different because the mainstream media is now actually reporting on it the way it should be reported. Just because you are just now reading about it doesn't mean it wasn't happening. Hell, we threw the Chinese immigrants who built the national railways out, you think anyone in law enforcement around here ever actually gave a shit that you 'just overstayed your visa'? The only reason they ever let anyone go was to save themselves the paperwork, now the Biden administration has minimized the paperwork, legal standing of immigrants, and supercharged the processing. The information leading to these current immigration raids was likely gathered during the Biden administration.

Trump is just as predictable as Biden, in that he usually does whatever the news is telling him to do. He is not actually that erratic, as presidents go. In this case, the news is telling him not to go to war with Iran, but everyone around him is telling him to do it, except probably for the beautiful generals who are giving him 'the options', hence his waffling. We will see what comes of it, the military-industrial complex may just pull this one off. However, unless the news and everyone tells him to 'nuke Iran' he is not going to 'nuke Iran'. When the news starts actively saying that, that is when I will start to worry. He is literally the meme of 'Turning the racism dial and looking back at the crowd to make sure they approve'. Terrifying given the general bloodlust of the American public, sure, but not some sort of erratic madman.

And we told you, repeatedly, that the Biden/Harris stuff completely deflates and stalls any kind of left-wing movement in this country, as little as there is. If we vote for them, the libs go home and completely ignore anything that is going on. The boot boys were already here, already taking families, just no one mainstream reported it or cared. You would know that if you lived here. I don't even really have much hope that the libs being out will actually matter, but it is better for them to be out and aware of what is happening than not.

On top of that, a Biden/Harris would not stabilize things, if anything they send us careening just as fast towards fascism because they figure out how to fund it and market it to liberals who want 'better government'. They get all the lawyers together and legalize the societal impoverishment. No bourgeois government can actually stabilize the descent, it can only piss off different cultural parties.

There is absolutely no historical materialist analysis going on here. China barely qualified as a country during the revolution, with regional petty warlords rulling large areas of the country. It was a time where you had a greater evil to fight that was actually on your home turf. What would you have us do? Rally for the fight in Iran and Ukraine? Help the Democrats deport immigrants? After all that's 'pragmatism' right? That's fighting the common enemy? The Democrats and the Republicans are not like the nationalists and the Japanese, you have to be able to see that. They are the same thing, different faces. A better thing would be to analyze would be the ideological predicament of Japanese communists at the time.

Let me be very clear here. I am fine with respecting the decisions of the CPC, even if I do not always agree they are good for communism, I have full respect for the party that has brought socialism to more people than ever before. However, I have decreasingly less respect for you in particular, because you are clinging to the coat-tails of their efforts and achievements and pretending that specifically you and your analysis have done anything to bring peace and/or communism closer to fruition than the average Western leftist.

Lol don't come in here and say 'I told you so' and then back out with this 'Now is not the time for this' when it is pointed out you are spouting shit. Don't bring it up if you don't want to talk about it.

Every single person on this site, and everyone we personally know could have voted for Kamala and she still would have suffered a huge loss. Hell, every person I personally know already did vote for her. It wouldn't have changed jack shit. I didn't refuse my vote for the purposes of strategy. Fuck strategy, and fuck the Democratic party. I didn't vote because enough is enough.

You previously expressed the opinion that Biden was some sort of Machielvellian political genius, instead of the doddering senile man who tripped his way into power that he was. Idk what exactly Trump is, but I don't personally think that the Democrats would be any more stable under a person can't even keep her shit together long enough to pretend to appeal to the general public. The Democrats have historically been just as bloodthirsty and unpredictable, they just are more careful with how they word it.

There are still large amounts of industrial capital in the U.S. They are usually tied directly into providing secondary goods for the U.S. service industry or auto mobile manufacturing. However, the U.S. is also still one of the largest providers of paper products internationally, because we are uniquely situated with a relatively small population to arable land (for obvious reasons). It just isn't as large as it was before percentage-wise and the job benefits are nowhere comparable to what they were in earlier times. It is literally buying into political propaganda that says manufacturing does not exist in this country. It does, it's just that the work is long, hard and tedious, and everything is moving away from unskilled labor and towards increasingly complex engineering automation and robotics solutions, of which the real labor-hour efficiency gains are unclear, but having two engineers on salary pulling unpaid overtime is usually cheaper than having four unskilled employees.

That being said, everything is dictated by finance and everyone is moving into finance. I'm not sure how it ends, but we are rapidly moving into the 'trading a briefcase full of $1000 back and forth until someone dies of starvation' territory.

I love when they say, oh he has won the most impressive collection of endorsements, none of which we will name except for a billionaire.

Yeah, no conservative has ever committed violence after not having 'democratic' politics not go in their favor.

I remember plenty of people here (myself included) who said the same thing. And I am not even a believer in accelerationism, it is just a noted phenomenon.

That makes more sense, since those areas would have been heavily industrialized.

You have this weird idea that tying up the US financial sector into Chinese assets would not be a win for China at the moment. You want to cause issues in a country, get everything directly aligned against the geopolitical projections of the military industrial complex. That said, to the degree that the English Chinese media portrays itself as wanting U.S. investment, it's likely because much of the Chinese bourgeois financial assets are tied up in the U.S. and Canada, which was a poor decision by them, and places them right in the line of expropriation if an actual conflict pops off between the U.S. and China. If Wall St gets as involved in China as the U.S. retail and services market does, that limits the possibility of that happening, as the financial sector has massive political sway in D.C. specifically.

55% tariffs is absolutely a win. It does nothing to actually create an incentive for the U.S. to actually pivot towards rebuilding it's domestic manufacturing base, since Chinese products are usually three to four times less than their competitors anyways, and is a drop in the bucket for what they actually trade globally. And this is besides the point that if they really cared, they would likely just redirect the trade through cut-outs in Malaysian.

The way we will know if this was actually a win for the U.S. is if Chinese companies start acquiring domestic manufacturers and then developing the domestic manufacturing production in the U.S. as has happened with the Saudi and UAE bourgeois in order to get around the tariffs.

Edit: Reading through this and other stuff you have posted, you make the assumption that the U.S. is going to somehow reverse it's decline in the ability to militarily project force and that they will eventually be able to take out China militarily. I am on the opposite side of that speculation. We are simply not going to agree on this. I too hope that China doesn't pull another China-Vietnam war and not learn from the mistakes of the U.S. in terms of understanding the changes and adaptations made in modern warfare. Historically, they have been very poor at it, and given how conflict adverse they are, they likely won't have any real experience up until the big one happens.

2nd Edit: And none of this implies that this is 'Good for Communism'. I think it is good for China, but I'm pretty unsure if continually entrenching yourself in the neoliberal world order will ever be a fantastic way to bring it about globally.

I was about to say, as a straight male patron of many a lesbian bar (because they are usually cheap dives), and the facilitator of at least three relationships through the process of 'being sociable', this is less of a 'how lesbian bars are' and more of a 'how lesbians wish lesbian bars were'. Maybe I'm just not going to the correct lesbian bars.

You are also missing the straight women who have mistaken it for a gay bar.