more hilarity here https://www.joeydevilla.com/2022/01/22/if-western-food-was-covered-the-way-western-writers-cover-asian-food/

Really blows apart the whole argument that this has anything to do with the war.

It’s more symbolic than anything.

Yup, he’s getting ready for the Black Friday for billionaires.

The funny part is that this supports Russia’s case in the eyes of the rest of the world.

basically this

I suspect another reason could be that they want to have cash on hand to buy things up when the crash happens. Every time there’s a crash we see a massive wealth transfer to the top, and billionaires are positioning too take advantage of the one that’s unfolding.

Seems pretty likely that it’ll happen within the next 4 years.

Indeed, but even with military Keynesianism there’s still ultimately a problem of labor and resources being diverted away from producing things people actually need. You need to already have a solid civil economy to prop up the military industry.

I used to live in Fredericton, NB. It was basically like a time capsule. Nothing changed there.

I’m also hoping that China builds stronger relations with Cuba going forward.

Haha, I find everything’s connected in the end. I tend to pay a lot of attention to Europe cause that’s where contradictions are sharpest at the moment.

haha I just read about China to keep sane, I’d be so depressed otherwise 🤣

Living in Canada is depressing af, infrastructure develops on geological scale here. It’s like watching plate tectonics.

I find a good way to look at the MIC is that it’s a vehicle for siphoning taxes out of the system and putting them back in the hands of the ruling class. Instead of money going to things it’s meant for like building infrastructure, providing social services, and so on, it gets handed back to the oligarchs to produce weapons.

I’m predicting a lot of austerity in Europe going forward.

I think a big part of it that right wingers tend to focus more on emotions. They don’t try to develop a deep understanding of problems, and what real tangible solutions might look like. They largely unite over perceived issues and general dislike of other people. This makes it easy to create big tent groups where a lot of people hate different things and they see that as complimentary.

On the other hand, people typically move to the left because they’ve developed a more nuanced understanding of the world. And since they genuinely want to improve things they become more particular about the details and the shape of the proposed solutions. This results in a lot more debates and friction between leftists since people can become very passionate about the validity of their ideas.

Incidentally, politics is just one manifestation of this phenomenon. This is a common thing in software development where people will argue over the merits of different approaches to solving problems. Different programming languages, and technology stacks. You see a very similar kind of passion expressed there. And the common thread is that it’s experts debating tangible solutions to real problems they have deep understanding of.

It’s so very selfish of you to not devote every second of your waking life towards generating profit for our beloved oligarchs.