NATO bombed the city of Belgrade for 78 straight days and destroyed Libya.

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Counterpunch, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

When will you savages learn that non-Americans are not people.

You handle my ass pennies.

Maybe because the only co-worker food theft stories that get upvoted and therefore seen are the dramatic ones about passive-aggressively making gross food for the food thief. And who knows how many of them are true stories and how many are creative writing projects for internet points.

Voters didn’t stay home because of Trump’s lies, they stayed home because of the Democrats’ lies.

Kursk is in Russia, not Ukraine.

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The situation seems to be:

• I have no reason to believe that India would.
• You see no reason why India wouldn’t.
• I have no idea how you came to believe that India would.

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India isn’t blockading Pakistan today, so why should I think it will tomorrow? Seizing ships docked at Indian ports is a far cry from a naval blockade.

This is one of Punxsutawney Phil’s lesser-known responsibilities.

Where’s the evidence of North Koreans fighting in Ukraine? There is none, because they’re not.

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Reason: Tanky spewing tankie garbage.

Either reality has a well-known tankie bias or Stoltenberg is a Putin puppet.

• US DoD, 2018: U.S. Troops Training Ukrainian Soldiers, Mattis Says
• BBC, 2023: Ukraine war: Leak shows Western special forces on the ground

It’s because it’s simply a good idea to diversify your reserve currency, especially if your currency is unstable.

SWIFT already handles a diversity of currencies including Renminbi, so that’s not what CIPS is about. Everyone knows what it’s about: an alternative to the imperial core’s transaction system.

The BANCOR idea is just wishful thinking, no one is migrating back to some kind of gold standard anytime soon.

Implying that BANCOR is anything like a gold standard only shows that you don’t have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of BANCOR.

One reason is that the talk of threats to democracy felt completely irrelevant to most people’s number-one concern going into the election: the economy, specifically the skyrocketing cost of living these past few years: groceries, housing, consumer goods, and more.

Oh they talked about the economy alright: they gaslit us about it for the last year, and the voters knew it, which is why they didn’t Pokémon go to the polls.

You’ve only proven that nobody has strong principles at all, here.

By saying “only,” you’re implying that these facts don’t matter, when they clearly do matter. This is the real, material world, not the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Facts on the ground don’t care about your principals.

I’m not actually working. My employees are working with each other while I stand there extracting their surplus value like a creep.

Oh, this is c/nonpolitical_memes; my bad.

I went over this last month https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024/14466154

Sure, but that vote hasn’t actually done anything, and countries continue to trade with Russia. And the Global South countries haven’t curtailed their relations with Russia one whit. In fact some are building even deeper ties with Russia. They’re building an alternative system to SWIFT, they’re trading in each others’ currencies to avoid the dollar, and they’re making plans for some kind of BANCOR-like currency. The BRICS summit is happening right now, hosted by Russia.

Not only that, but Global North countries are skirting their own sanctions to trade with Russia on the sly.

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Labor aristocrats still exist, there are just fewer and fewer of them as neoliberalism grinds on. Even many petit bourgeois are finding themselves in ever-worsening precarity. Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the “upper middle class” or “small-business owners.” FiveThirtyEight reported last May that “the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,” or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won “big-league,” but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute 
bourgeoisie—the storied “1 percent.”

I know what the map looks like, and my point still stands: Is India going to break international law to blockade Bangladesh?