Yeah but who votes on the basis of policy? Buttigieg fans?

All that matters when it comes to policy can be condensed into the passions people feel towards, say, roe v wade. You don’t need a good candidate there. You don’t need reason or proposals. You just need to be on the podium and make sure not to demoralize your team. Biden is incapable of that. Barring some unforeseen demographic situation in the electoral college, Trump can totally cruise to election.

They own shares in american companies and LNG importers. They dining tonight regardless.

Oh you mean the taxed populations. Lol. Lmao.

The Afghanistan contradiction is also easily solved: Trump started to end that war (which he didn’t begin), but 'Biden fumbled the withdrawal of troops making it a shitshow (and he was also there when the war began and intensified).

Self-coup is a bit of a strong word to use given that self-coups involve dissolving parliament or declaring a state of emergency in the face of a real or fabricated threat. Convincing a guy with a cushy latin american general job to drum up an anti communist circus in the capital is something else. What level of Chess would Arce have to be at if he fired Zuñiga for threatening a rival (Morales), all as a conspiracy to seize more power for himself? And then, what powers have Arce seized so far?

If I were to guess, what is behind this is the fact that Arce and Morales aren’t part of a hivemind. In fact, isn’t Arce supposed to be a dissident?

Been saying this for years. When your entire ideology is based around racial supremacy and defending european women from immigrants you’ll accelerate the centralization of Europe, not end the EU. Talk is cheap. People like Le Pen and Meloni talk about ‘ending the EU and creating an Europe of Nations’. The moment they reach critical mass their movement will just wield european institutions to further their agenda. And they won’t have any agenda beyond being cultural reactionaries because they are 20+ countries fully dominated by american capital and won’t agree on anything but killing migrants and sending guns to Israel.

many people are saying it

damn chinese monopoly board is looking good

They were also high on end of history histrionics and genuinely believed that economic prosperity would lead to an american style free market economy. And I don’t think people were silly to think that way in the 90s. You had to be in the know to realize the fundamentals at play. That China, unlike the Soviets, did not privatize the commons but instead implemented a market economy. The only hint of how things were going was how Japan was forcefully turned into an american sharemarket economy. China by all indications did not have to and didn’t.

is making a killing

some might say thats their business model

and to be fair, its not like kamala is part of the british royal family

That’s assuming the economic arrangement during and post climate change is conductive to rising birth rates in the first place.

What people, especially on the right, don’t realize is that falling birth rates is not a matter of incentive or culture. It’s correlated with rising literacy rates. That’s it. The moment people realize the costs of raising a child in an industrial society and how that affects their future livelihoods they simply don’t. The reason birth rates were high in pre industrial societies is because having lots of children was the economic strategy of every living human - from peasants to landlords to kings and merchants. The reason we had exploding growth rates during the industrializing period is because literacy rates and standards of living actually went down in many places, and didn’t catch up to the industrial reality until much later. Now, having a child is a luxury for the gentry few. Therefore, populations de-grow.

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hey i wonder why people won’t have kids

sergent at arms arrests him and ships him to hague

the parliamentarian of course

i’m under the impression that 75k USD annually is actually a not great salary in most urban areas of the US

so there’s the connection right there

When I hear european officials talk about over-reliance on Russian oil my brain immediately corrects it to ‘British over-reliance on taxing the shit out of India’. They bought cheap commodities from Russia and sold them overpriced luxury goods, as well as manufactured goods. It was a textbook center-periphery relationship and they threw it all out because they are that loyal to their american overlord. And now they whine about how over-reliant they were on Russia and China.

While Azerbaijan is no longer a member of the CSTO, it’s important to note that Nagorno-Karabakh was formally Azeri territory, and that it was made possible by a previous ethnic cleansing as well. That might explain why Armenia didn’t trigger the defense pact. They weren’t even an occupying power, but the sponsor of a local autonomous government.

If anything my impression from Pashinyan’s acts since then seem to veer between ‘maybe we can flirt with the EU/NATO’ and ‘maybe we should just wash our hands of this cause, keep our friendship with Iran and become a transit corridor’.

I think we can all agree that the funniest thing about the Trump Trial is that he was basically convicted for being bad at corruption.

Why the hell did he use campaign funds for hush money lmfao.

For what it’s worth, I suppose it places the Rafah massacres on the spotlight. Sure, the dozens of preceding massacres are good evidence for South Africa. But now Israel has to defend itself not only from the suit in general, but from the fact that they went against an ICJ order. Hence the genocidal PM bothering to claim Rafah was a mistake after months of claiming they’ll do it. They might be spooked-ish.

‘actually, i know every evil person tbqh’.

And then water issues in the state got worse and worse, to the point where the municipalities that sold them said trucks started curbing exports.