Victim of Communism
It truly is crazy to see the South Korean government go through these spasms of corporate consolidation, fascist media turns, and repeated threats of military dictatorship, while liberals scream “Whataboutism!” whenever it makes news.
Did you know the last six South Korean presidents have been prosecuted either during or immediately following their terms in office? And that we’re supposed to believe this is a sign of a healthy and functioning democracy?
“What if we organized as members of the general public and directly opposed the corrupt actions of state officials?”
“Shut up, Tankie.”
The craziest thing about this decision is that they didn’t engage in it sooner.
Given the economic success of Singapore, Hong Kong, Panama, and Israel, it’s sort of crazy to control a global economic choke point and not milk it for all its worth.
Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.
And you will like it.
teaches you to take pride in shit you’ve never done
The better outcome.
I’m more disgusted by the fuckers who go out and do the war crimes, then come home and demand everyone else say “Thank You For Your Service”.
If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
It’s very funny to see Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines complain about China, given that China’s not the one that had a boot on their necks for the last 80 years.
Because I need oxygen to live and they’re the ones selling it.
is Chinese
I immediately crapped myself and fainted when I read this
I’m a Chinese American
It is very funny to see a man who is going to be lined up against the wall under the current administration defend it so adamantly.
Before you laugh to hard at the Spaceballs, consider that they did very nearly asphyxiate an entire planet.
The planting season is happening right now
Which means the planting supplies were lined up months ago. This will be a next-year thing if it cannot be corrected for in time.
The LNG plants are going to take years to repair
One section of one country’s exports in a global economy. And that’s ignoring the fact that the Straight isn’t shut down for everyone. The IRGC is negotiating passage for a bunch of unaligned states. Pakistan is going to get their fertilizer. China and Russia will get their supplies. Italy and Spain will be fine. It’s the US-Israel block that’s in trouble. And given how much fertilizer the US produces domestically, not even that much trouble.
However, some developing countries will have genuine shortages.
The biggest threat to developing countries is western intervention. The famines happening along the Horn of Africa are the direct result of US, Israeli, and Qatari backed military interventions.
There’s almost certainly going to be a farming crisis
Over a long enough timeline, sure.
We’ve already seen egg prices skyrocket thanks to bird flu and beef production sag due to drought and Texas Cattle Fever. I have no doubt we’ll continue to see agricultural productivity drag as ecological conditions worsen.
But the fixation on the Straight of Hormuz as a but-for cause to a global agricultural crash jumps the gun for a host of reasons. The most notable of which is that we heavily overproduce agricultural goods and end up subsidizing their wholesale prices. The biggest problems populations have with famine in the modern era is of storage, distribution, and financialization, not raw productivity. A hiccup in the supply of nitrogen rich fertilizer isn’t going to empty anyone’s shelves.
Just looks like a click farming site that targets left-libertarians.
She stands in a supermarket aisle, looking at the price of baby formula.
A notification flashes on her phone. Headlines about Trump. Iran. Threats. Escalation. She reads it quickly, almost without thinking.
Then she looks back at the shelf.
Her mind starts connecting things.
Like, this isn’t journalism it’s prose
Idk, did they list their pronouns or open the briefing with a reading from Marcus Aurelius?
I’m always down for another Slay The Spire run.