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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think the main rhetoric is that Putin has gotten what he wanted and has now dumped Trump. This narrative will reverse as soon as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They were paving the rose garden today. Maybe they unearthed an ancient evil?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Don, can you support a Labor-Reform coalition in the UK against the Corbyn party?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Corbyn party now at 15. This is probably the last shot the UK has to pull out of a tailspin without a revolution.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

Ok hell yeah I've become a zohran stan

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

The public backlash against such a move would make every protest of the last 25 years combined look like a congratulatory handjob to George Bush. I can't see it happening.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I mean within 75 years

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The UK? Do you mean the independent nations of Scotland, England, Wales, and Ireland?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

i wish we had weekly theory megas so we could bully each other into doing some more reading. it would probably be good for the site culture

be the mega you wish to see in the world

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no way the US in anything like its current form can continue for more than a few more decades. The American capitalist class has been forced into a state of hyper-cannibalism by the rise of China and the falling rate of profit. It has lost the capacity for class mediation through any mechanism except violence. The worst case scenario (outside of nuclear apocalypse, which would also destroy the USA) is a period of open fascism, and such a thing can only ever last a few decades. Fascism is inherently unstable and constantly accelerates its own contradictions. The free land and imperial plunder that undergirded fascist-like US colonialism has been squeezed for all its got. This system is absolutely doomed.

Maybe some radically transformed thing called the USA emerges from the ashes, but it would need to be a state with a fundamentally different approach to class mediation that, I think, could emerge only from a dramatic break in continuity and the de facto end of the USA as it has existed to this point.

I haven't read the whole Melenchon piece yet but I do agree that excerpt is not a very strong argument, pretty idealistic.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who cares? It's money away from Israel and you can make it happen. Tons of places are doubling down despite the credit rating drop.

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