Conservatives were calling libs “soy” for a decade and they’re out here trying to stir outrage for shit like this. Everyone is 12 now, everyone is “soy” now.

I see, thank you for your insight. I should really just sit down and read Super Imperialism

If I have time soon, I will perhaps write up how Stalin’s economy differed from these liberal economics and how the USSR under Stalin was pretty much unconstrained in its own domestic spending to drive investment and rapid expansion of the economy

I’d be really interested in this!

And even after Stalin’s death, the liberal policies immediately came back. The lesson here is clear: you really have to figure out how to deal with the liberals if you want to have a successful reform.

And what I find baffling is that the United States, the consumer capital of the world, is able to run up this massive deficit, have this massive military, have the rest of the planet pay for it, and it’s like no one in power in the “BRICS” sphere is acting on that. Like, even these anti-western liberals don’t understand that? Idk, like you said, how would a left wing government even deal with this kind of ideological misstep, permanently?

I just don’t get it. Has no one in power since Stalin ever been able to determine that this “fiscal responsibility” stuff is an artificial self-limiter? Like it’s within Russia’s interests to not “balance the budget,” and as a massive, resource rich nation that is somewhat disconnected from a lot of the world’s supply chain they have the capacity to do so. Surely someone in Russia’s government knows this?

The U.S. could and did build a powerful alliance system, because America was more than a nation: It was an idea and a set of values, values we shared with the rest of the democratic world

No, the US was able to build a powerful alliance system because after WWII there was no one else standing (even the USSR was extremely bruised) and we were the world’s manufacturer. I mean, I guess there were some shared values with Europe too, namely white supremacy and continued domination of the global south.

I swear to god, liberals just say shit about “values” and “democracy” without even a moment of further reflection.

It’s okay, I have a solution! One. Billion. Americans.

Can’t wait for the drug cartel rabbit hole of the inevitable Blowback season about Ukraine. We’re achieving levels of Blowback previously thought impossible!

With a HVDC line there will still be a large static electric field present, but like the study posted by the other user seems to say, it’s not significant enough to pose a threat to human health in and of itself, unless you do some dumb shit. I guess fishing in a pond directly under the line would be a problem if the voltage is high enough and maybe the air is under the right conditions, but in the aggregate cases like that are going to be rare since you don’t need very many of these HV transmission lines.

Hey… wait a minute

I saw the brain-geniuses over on r/neoliberal talking about this and they claimed “oh actually this doesn’t mean anything because if the money wasn’t invested in datacenters it would have been (counterfactually) invested in something else so the economy is still growing just fine”

And it’s like, yeah, no shit. That’s the problem. All this capital is being invested into something that has had practically 0 return in the last three years except make Silicon Valley technocrats richer, and is not increasing productivity at the level of hundreds of billions of dollars. Hmmm, sounds like a bunch of money is being misdirected to a bunch of nonviable companies that don’t actually offer anything meaningful. It’s almost like… a bubble? Idk, the market has spoken though so I’m sure it’s fine.

Thanks for these names! I found this seminar on MMT/“real economics” based research that was hosted at The Levy Institute this past August and it looks like there was a lot of interesting work from folks like Jia Genliang and other heterodox Chinese economists: https://www.levyinstitute.org/blog/seminar-on-modern-monetary-theory-and-launch-of-new-macroeconomics-successfully-held/

Tech Bros failed to consider the conductivity of tap water

Yeah the embassy incident is actually a good counterexample. Basically nothing came out of it, and everyone kinda just forgot it even happened. The thing with Charlie Kirk is that he’s still more visible, as far as I can tell, then say Nick Fuentes, who represents the Nazi faction. Using Kirk as a sacrificial lamb could make sense if his politics were starting to divulge from the “powers that be” while allowing them plausible deniability in being involved. At the end of the day though, my speculation and analysis won’t change the fact that this has ultimately contributed towards tensions amping up. I guess we’ll see what all these Meal Team Six suburbanite treatlers end up doing now.

You make a good point, I guess it would have been very late at night in Isn’treal too. It just seems so odd to me, this whole thing has become such a giant international spectacle. And it serves Israel and the Trump admin incredibly well, giving the right wing base more slop to “agitate” around and ensuring the political class falls into unison as they condemn this. On the other hand, if this hadn’t happened, it’s not like people would have actually been applying more pressure on the Trump admin with respect to Epstein or anything.

Ahh, thanks for pointing that out. Edited the title. But it still begs the question – why would he be commenting on this only half an hour after it happened? Maybe it’s just my conspiracy brain acting up, but this just reeks of psyop.

Based JDPON Don is doing degrowth for us! (except the economic fallout will fall overwhelmingly on the poorest Americans )

First Jolani, now Mayor Pete. Western liberalism is basically just a Zelenskyyification factory at this point, each copy more farcical than the last.

This touches on something I’ve been thinking about with regards to the ongoing schism happening in the American right between the pro and anti-Israel factions.

I think that as support for the Zionist project among the American public collapses, people like Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes are positioning themselves to be central figures of the right when the Trump train inevitably implodes and the American empire decides that blind support for Israel is no longer of the upmost importance. Obviously I’m just speculating about the future but I can easily imagine that as immiseration within America continues, biosphere collapse hastens, and the cost of running empire abroad becomes too high, these kinds of truly anti-Semitic voices are going to be much more mainstream. Fascism is colonization turned inward etc. etc.

the Capitalist occam’s razor

Since it looks like the Israelis miscalculated due to their own ideological blinders, do you think the strategy now then is to just flatten Iran with the USAF and minimize the amount of damage done to the rest of world’s economy?