Yeah, the atheism-turned-socialist YouTuber Genetically Modified Skeptic made a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE

Good, this should never have been made dormant.

Also, China definitely needs their own version of this, since China has an even more restrictive no-first-strike policy that could legitimately mean the decapitation of all leadership before the decision to fire back is made. Has anyone heard any news on them building that out?

TLDR: if you’re gonna do it, don’t leave China.

It’s probably a joke, but even if it isn’t, as long as you don’t come back to the United States, there is nothing they can do. China is not going to extradict you to pay off credit card debts in the USA.

Pretty sure debt collectors would merk you if you tried to come back to the USA, so just don’t do that.

True, but unfortunately out of all the developing countries, moving from the USA to China is the only option that likely wouldn’t decrease your quality of life. The imperial superprofits in the U.S. are very tempting.

Agree. Also, the bulk of the loss occurred after the USSR collapsed because none of the surviving bourgeois countries around it bothered to care about it, while continuing to make money from farming irrigated by its waters (irrigation also built by the Soviets). The Soviets were tabling massive megaprojects to fix it before the USSR was destroyed.

This complaint is the same kind of bullshit as the Baltic states’ whining about Soviet oppression, even though their entire modern economies exist only because the Soviet Union elevated them to sapience.

This shit is also the kind of liberal anti-extractivism that is applied only to Global South countries, where liberals get pissed at any Global South country using its own natural resources to advance productive forces in order to elevate living standards and, one day, reverse any environmental degradation created in the process. Apparently, green liberals just want people in Third World countries to live as cavemen forever so that the environment stays pristine.

At best, they think that socially reactionary messaging will attract rednecks to socialism. This is sorely misguided. People are taught to blame gays, trans, blacks, etc. for their woes instead of capitalists (e.g. People seem to imply trans people are stealing Medicare by continuously wasting money on gender transitioning back and forth every other day. People only worry about this because Medicare is so underfunded).

If we instead focus on addressing their monetary woes directly, people will soon forget about why they even gave a shit about hating minorities and different genders. HasanAbi has talked about this, on how the left needs to ignore conservatives’ anti-trans noise and just focus on how they can help economically.

Conceding these points to conservatives, or even agreeing to make them a primary point of debate on campaign, is akin to agreeing with their choice of battlefield and is basically an admission of defeat.

I don’t understand why dividing on this line is worth so much political attention. A socialist society has much more important things to debate than the 5 trans atheletes in the world. Let people’s personal lives be whatever, why waste energy condemning random categories of human gender and sexual expression.

All categories, including gender, are social constructs, so there will always be outliers. To force these outliers into our artificial boxes is a stupid waste of time.

Mexico is building a ginormous railway to bypass the Panama Canal.

The U.S. made the same petrodollar deal with them that they did with Saudi Arabia. The UAE has way too much money in U.S. stocks to have any choice other than to stick by the U.S. and Israel.

If Japan doesn’t send anything against Iran, they may be able to negotiate some deal to get oil. If Japan starts sending warships there, then Iran will immediately cut them off, and Japan will go from having an oil shortage to an oil drought.

Apparently, this is enough rice to feed Cuba for half a year.

According to the US, Iranian missiles launchers have all been destroyed and Iranian launches are supposed to be declining.

Apparently this ‘revelation’, which has been going on since the founding of Israel, simply inconveniences and ‘troubles’ the mind of the Western liberal and does not have any further moral implications at all.

Please Iran, blow their desalination plants to kingdom come. I’ve seen certain Israeli bots making fun of Iran for its previous water shortage issues. We’ll see who has water shortage issues once every one of Israel’s desalination plants is blown up.

Yeah, I hate all the American leftists saying Venezuela ‘has betrayed the revolution’ or whatever, including ze_squirrel on twitter. This is a strategic retreat. If they really were betraying the revolution, Delcy would immediately sell off everything in the country like Maria Corino Machado constantly said. Instead she is cooperating with the US on its oil shipment demands but is preserving the rest of Venezuala’s system. If Delcy was as inflammatory as Maduro, she would get regime changed in operation Venezuela Boogaloo II.

Not Jerusalem, that city is too religiously important. Any of the other Israeli cities are fair game though.

Let’s fucking go!

Nice. May this info help build the next generation of Iranian drones.