DwigtRortugal [she/her]

And this asshole’s standard investor pitch will still work again tomorrow

certainly economically it’s not great in the short term and probably not over the long term either if current trends continue but in their minds anyway they are playing the long game of betting on the continued existence of western hegemony and their privileged place in it because in their present frame of mind it’s the only option they have. the tenders of ‘the garden’ don’t see themselves collabing with venezuela and ghana to solve problems, they see themselves as dictating terms, and they don’t have the weight to do that without their violent idiot child and its pet rabid bulldog running rampant all over the place. it’s the same implicit threat that has always existed behind the ‘rules based order’, trump just takes the implicit and makes it explicit as a matter of course.

perhaps things would be different if they didn’t also rely on the same hegemonic ‘rules based international order’ for extraction of the global south’s resources, but for now they do. if anything, the west’s political classes are inwardly enthused at this fresh infusion of material for the load bearing pillar of their domestic politics, pointing at the us and saying ‘i’m sorry we can’t materially improve anything for you but at least we’re not like the americans!’

uncritical support to this wine mom

was it not bad enough seeing an open webmd tab in the exam room at your gp’s office?

Professor Nguyen Thanh Liêm, Director of the Vinmec Institute of Stem Cell Research and Gene Technology, stated that after two months of treatment at Vinmec, the patient’s peripheral blood test results showed no cancer cells, and the bone marrow test revealed no malignant cells, achieving the criteria for complete remission.