You’d think that’s too far fetched even for a joke that someone would have a take like that but it’s not as far from reality as you’d think. I’ve known people who genuinely seem to believe that we’ve evolved past the need for industry and we can all just write apps for a living.

I mean yeah on the face of it having similar (by then even a bit bigger) population size to China, plenty of natural resources and the largest amount of habitable land in the world, it seems bad that India is only producing a fraction of what China is. But maybe they can compensate for that by going hard on IT and finance to be like the rich, developed western nations. Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs… ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit!

I was also under a wrong impression. From how well versed you are on what’s going on in Europe i thought you were European 😆

I’m going to offer a more historical explanation and say that imo you have to go back further than WW2 or even WW1 to understand the deep seated issues that these countries have. A big reason why they are so mentally colonized is because they were physically and culturally colonized for hundreds of years by the Germans during the middle ages when the various crusader orders established their own states in the Baltics. During that time they developed a collective Stockholm syndrome and ever since they can’t stop wanting to be German. And just like the western Ukrainians (who were also colonized by Germans in the form of the Austro-Hungarian empire) oftentimes going completely insane in their zeal to show their loyalty to the West, including being more brutal in their atrocities toward Russians and Jews than even the Nazis.

Bullshit.

God, that’s gotta be the whitest shit i’ve ever read.

I don’t think the two are comparable. And in actual fact neither the US military nor the US itself were under any real danger as a consequence of Vietnam, all they had to do was ditch the Vietnam misadventure and things went back to normal. For the Zionist entity this is not possible. If they stop then entire Zionist project collapses, because it is only sustainable through ethnic cleansing and expansionist war. Their entire society is built around this and if they lose their ability to do those things they implode. Their own rabid, hyper-radicalized settlers will turn on the government and on the liberal Zionists. The only thing holding the abomination together is the promise of more stolen land.

Nothing. That is, doing nothing is what made him a revisionist. He didn’t undo Khrushchev’s policies either on the economic side (at least not sufficiently) or on the political side (no rehabilitation of Stalin).

Whoa there, are Red ultras?

Apparently so. They put out good content most of the time though and luckily they don’t talk about China too often. It’s still sad that they have such a huge misunderstanding when it comes to China, i mean how can you see everything that the imperialist West is doing and still think China is the same?

Woops. I missed that. Yeah that’s pretty cringe. Leaving aside the nonsense about China being imperialist that whole paragraph would make way more sense if they said US instead of China, because it’s the US that’s been mainly siphoning off German industry. A lot of companies have been moving to the US because energy prices are just insanely uncompetitive in Germany (thanks to USA blowing up our pipelines and US puppet Green party shutting down our nuclear power…). I mean just look at this shit:

Yeah not only is Die Linke dead but even before the split it had very little chance of breaking through electorally especially in the western part of Germany. They have been relentlessly smeared by the mainstream media pretty much ever since the party was created and have been associated in people’s minds with the communist “dictatorship” of the DDR. In the east that’s not as big of an issue and they used to get some wins there every now and then, but they would never have had a chance outside of those eastern states. BSW by and large doesn’t have that branding problem, though now the mainstream media is working overtime to demonize them by calling them Putin puppets. Not sure it’s working, a lot of people just don’t trust the MSM anymore.

By the way, i can personally confirm the part about the German railways being an absolute embarrassment. For months now on my wife’s commute route it has basically been a nightmare, impossible to rely on the trains even coming at all, and all they say ahead of time is “disruptions may occur”, so people go to the station thinking they’ll catch their usual train to work.

First everything seems normal, then they announce delays, then 5 min before it’s supposed to come they announce it’s actually not coming at all. Then they say you can take this alternate route via slower regional rail but you need to switch trains halfway and it’ll take you almost an hour longer, oh and for part of the route you also need to take a bus that the railway company kindly provides as replacement for the train.

But then you get there and that bus doesn’t come and there is zero explanation why not and you are stranded in the middle of bumfuck nowhere and you’d have to wait another 45 min for the next train, so you end up sharing a cab with a couple of other similarly fucked over passengers. You get to work almost two hours late.

Later that day when you get off work you get to go through a similar adventure going home. Oh and by the way starting January the price of your ticket is going up by 20%. German efficiency!

Insanity. How is this scam still a thing in the 21st century?!

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Never heard of phenylephrine but we have shit over in Europe too that does fuck-all, like that “homeopathic” bullcrap. Last time i went to visit my grandma i happened to have a cold and she immediately tried giving me some stuff called “oscillococcinum”. I got suspicious when i looked over the packaging so i looked it up, and turns out it’s basically nothing but sugar claiming to be imbued with some magic properties thanks to “trace” (read ZERO) amounts of something or other.

Pisses me the fuck off…they advertise the shit out of it on TV and they get gullible old people to waste their money. And their pensions are already meager in eastern Europe, they don’t need to be scammed out of their money with placebo pills. Tried to convince my grandma to stop buying the stuff but i think all i managed to do was make her mad at me :(

Sometimes even people who have lived through a collapse don’t understand it. My family lived through the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s, and yet since moving to Germany my parents have fully bought into the dominant ideology here, they listen to all the liberal mainstream media and it’s turned them into total turbolibs. When you bring up the possibility of a serious crash because of the energy/deindustrialization crisis they say that can’t happen in democratic countries like Germany, it only happened in Romania because it was a communist dictatorship. And it was supposedly good that it happened because that was “the market correcting itself”, there was “too much” industry and building under communism.

What’s funny is that the part of my family that stayed in Romania are not buying the western liberal line to the same extent. They’re split between nostalgia for communism in my grandparents’ generation and full on petit bourgeois reactionary brainworms in the generation after them, especially in the more well off ones, complaining about welfare, criminal ethnic minorities, and adopting all the standard American conservative talking points (“woke” this, “woke” that, trans panic, too much racial/gender diversity on TV, etc.).

Sound like Chomsky to me.

They absolutely will win again, probably as soon as four years from now when the vast majority of Americans will have forgotten the Democrats’ failures and the atrocities that the Democrats supported (if they ever even cared about those), while the atrocities that the Republicans will have supported and them equally failing to improve the material situation of the majority of people will be fresh in their minds.

As things will get worse and worse people will always blame whoever is in power and will choose the other side. The only question is how long can the ruling class can keep this shell game going, and my guess is quite long. People have short political memories and always want to delude themselves into thinking that this time it will be different.

I think you should read the article. The title sounds a bit libby but the piece itself is quite good and has, i would say, overall a correct analysis.

The only thing i’d criticize is the title, because Trump is just a symptom, he’s not what needs to be defeated but the entire system that put people like him, Biden, Harris, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. in positions of power. The corporate uniparty is what needs to be defeated, regardless whether it dresses itself in red or blue, whether it wears its fascism openly or disguises it with liberal platitudes.

Then again i suppose you could argue the title is clickbait to get more people to read the piece… Makes it something you could share with a liberal friend or relative and trick them into reading a real materialist analysis for once.

What i’ve been hearing most from people around me is a belief that Germany is too big to fail. It’s just too rich, too big of an economy, “we’ll be fine” they say, they’ve had it so good for so long they simply can’t imagine anything else.