3-4 more hurricanes gonna hit back to back. Giant toxic chemical clouds in Georgia. A protracted labor battle at the ports.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    6210 months ago

    I don’t think any of this will be enough to collapse America unfortunately. Nothing ever happens kitty-cri-potato

    • miz [any, any]
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      2810 months ago

      it’s gonna be like letting air out of leaky pool float

      the pool is filled with blood

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      2410 months ago

      Our position as the international hegemon is definitely in decline, but yeah outright collapse doesn’t seem likely.

      Look at Britain; just a century ago they were in the position we are in now. They’re no longer at the head of global empire, but all their political structures and institutions still exist today prettymuch unchanged.

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        2010 months ago

        I think Britain was propped up by the US and the rest of the EU. They severed their connection to the EU which has already massively backfired, and the US won’t bail out the UK anymore if the US is also collapsing

        • @SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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          Britain was propped up by the US and the rest of the EU

          The US is entering into a phase where we’re cannibalizing the EU in order to maintain our own position, I don’t think America’s “collapse” (whatever that looks like) will be possible until the EU runs out of copper wire to strip.

          The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people to exploit.

    • Tom742 [any]
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      1010 months ago

      Is tankie not enough letters for you to feel smugly superior?

      smuglord

    • miz [any, any]
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      2810 months ago

      A Marxist understanding of capitalism leads to anti-imperialism. Anti-imperialism is understood by detractors as a simple rhetorical dressing over simplistic heuristics like “reflexive anti-americanism,” “history repeats itself,” and “the military-industrial complex needs contracts,” but all of these are reductive. Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. This is phrased succinctly by Kevin Dooley when criticizing Noam Chomsky’s support for a military alliance between the Kurds and the USA in Syria: “The difference between [Chomsky’s] position and a hard-line anti-imperialist position isn’t tactical. What he’s arguing is simply a violation of anti-imperialist principles based on a fundamentally different understanding of what can drive the empire to act in the world.” [16]

      The accusation that anti-imperialists are unconcerned with human rights deserves a sharp rebuke. The USA was born of slavery and genocide, dropped atomic bombs as a matter of political brinkmanship, imported Nazi scientists and installed war criminals like Klaus Barbie and Nobusuke Kishi around the world to defend and advance anti-communist positions [17], and enthusiastically supports gruesome butcherers today. Simply put, Capital has destroyed innumerable countries and murdered hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. It is precisely a concern for the rights of humans that should make one immediately skeptical of any humanitarian posturing by Capital. Anti-imperialism not only means support for the important pro-social projects of states like Cuba, Vietnam, and China; it also means critical support for non-socialist states such as Iran and Russia. Critical support acknowledges that, though instituting various indefensible policies, enemies of empire are not being antagonized because of said policies. The only thing that can drive empire to act in the world is capital accumulation.

      from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      1610 months ago

      the only one of those 3 things that applies to the whole world is climate change, and even in that case, more functional countries will respond to it and prepare for its consequences in more meaningful ways than the US is.

    • REgon [they/them]
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      610 months ago

      This one time I freaked out because I shat and pissed blood, but then I realised I had just eaten rhubarb

    • DerRedMax [comrade/them, any]
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      The term “October Surprise” comes from an event during the Regan administration in October of a Presidential election year.

      Today is October 1st, during a Presidential election.

      It is, by definition, US-centric. It wouldn’t make sense to call events around the world October surprises.

      At the same time, “Israel” has launched a ground invasion – fully backed by the top two candidates for President, hundreds of people are dead with thousands stranded after a hurricane during hurricane season that has Katrina-levels of incompetence, and a major labor action threatens to disrupt the churn of consumption in the capital of capitalism.

      Not really Anti-USian whatever the fuck you said.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      1210 months ago

      Sometimes it’s not so much “anti-US”, but anti-regimes that tend to drone strike hospitals…and then follow it up with a double-tap when rescue teams arrive. (I wasn’t going to hyphenate all that.)

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      3210 months ago

      Bernie was the compromise. No more half measures. The world is ending and only we can stop it.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1410 months ago

      The wine cave liberals really, really enjoy death and suffering, especially if they can watch it on their screens. It is like their Prestige TV treats, but authentic. Authenticity is very valuable to the bored idle rich. libbing-out 🍷 clink 🍷 maybe-later-honey

  • LaBellaLotta [any]
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    1010 months ago

    I’ll bet they don’t get anything worse than Helene this season but this strike is pretty unbelievable