Yeah, there’s at least a backstory and intrigue plot involved

I never said they need to take it at the point of labor. But they are taking it and thats unavoidable unless you get rid of the government.

if the government is in control of the magic money printer then idk i would argue that yes not only are income taxes unnecessary and bad but also the only real point they end up serving is as pointless shit for people to argue over.

This is just not true. A government that employs 20% of the nation’s labor is taxing 20% of the nation’s economic potential. No amount of financial hand waving about money printing vs income taxes vs sales taxes will change this at all. You’re paying for the government no matter what.

The rope things on the left side of the image that are coming out of the hull.

Now that you mention it, I do see it. Like the wierd rope things and the abrupt cutoff on the shadows on the side of the hull. Probably there to not give too much information to enemy militaries? But then again, I’m pretty sure that enemy militaries could use satelite or other forms of imaging.

Jewsh occupied governments must fall," the document said, adding that the white race “cannot survive unless America collapses.” It also contained images of Adolf Hitler with the text "Hail Hitler Hail the white race hail victory

I … what? Had Trump done the impossible and cost America the neo-nazi demographic? And Russia is involved somehow???

I can just imagine the awkward silence for 3-4 minutes as we watch MAN 2 smoke an entire cig before continuing his sentence.

Ah, I remember the rubymar, cause I looked into that one myself. That ship was owned by a British shell company “golden adventure shipping”. Britain is a completely valid target, since it was participating in the genocide as well.

He can’t afford to lose his slim majority in either chamber, or Dems will take control of investigative committees with subpoena and arrest powers.

Under city law, opens new tab, Columbia pays for the training and the salaries of the officers appointed by NYPD, and they remain Columbia employees. But they will also “possess all the powers and discharge all the duties” of regular NYPD patrol officers. The Columbia officers must report any summonses they issue and bring anyone they arrest to the local NYPD precinct.

Literal private police. Mfs bringing to life all the worst parts of AnCap without even the “Freedom”.

the student will not have a criminal record or have to pay a fine, serve a custodial sentence or have to abide by any probation conditions.

This isn’t even a slap on the wrist. This is a handshake and “gentleman’s” agreement.

When has Trump being some geo-political mastermind able to bully other countries into submission been anything but a conservative fantasy?

You don’t have to be a geo-political genius to do anything if this. Trump’s strategies are crude, but they work because the Europeans are vassals of America.

To say that they don’t have the ability to resist just giving away their industries is bizzare.

It’s not as if they are going to airlift their factories and plop them onto America. However, Europeans are panicking over these tariffs and are even trying turn towards china to get access to markers. If Europeans fail to gain Chinese favor, their industrial decline will further accelerate and American capital will be rid of a competitor capital. It could then expand even further into Europe (American FDI is already 1/3rd the size of the European stock market).

but it’s not in any danger of collapsing anytime soon. To say otherwise just feels like wishful thinking.

I would respectfully disagree. The foundations of the EU have been rapidly rotting ever since covid (and were slowly rotting since the GFC). After the crises in 2008, 2014, then 2020, then 2022 (ukraine and nordstream), there are only so many shocks that the EU can take before the populists dismantle it.

Tell them to just tank their economies and ruin their capitalist class and that speech switches to the importance of nationalism and self-sufficiency in a heartbeat.

They can and are switching to talk of nationalism and self-sufficiency. They don’t have the slightest ability to back it up at all. And experience shows that Trump gets what he wants while liberals and Europeans fold like paper, because neither of them are willing or capable of building the infrastructure necessary to actually be self sufficient and fight against Trump’s erratic bullying. There is a very real possibility that America plaza accords the EU because just like Japan, a vassal state does not have the right to pursue a genuinely nationalistic path (not that I would prefer European nationalism).

In fact, if the EU wanted to pursue actual self sufficiency, they would have started 10 years ago, abandoned neoliberalism and implemented a comprehensive industrial policy (while developing European alternatives to American tech). Instead, we are seeing a wide spread austerity and de-industrialization program unprecedented since the thatcherism.

the chances that they’d be willing to let vital industries be sold to the US has changed from at least some possibility to actually impossible under Trump.

You underestimate europe. They can and will beat you in the game of limbo even if the bar is set in hell.

“We are fast approaching temperature levels – 1.5C, 2C, 3C – where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks,” he said. “The math breaks down: the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening. Entire regions are becoming uninsurable.” He cited companies ending home insurance in California due to wildfires.

This is either a call for governments to start subsidising insurance premiums, or a way of grabbing attention to the risk management company this guy is part of. His entire analysis for why climate change will make capitalism enviable is that insurance premiums will rise too much. But not being able to afford insurance is the last thing you will notice after having your food production and energy systems decimated.

Keynesian economics is a relic of the past. It worked in the past when the profitability of western economies was much higher. However, the rapid accumulation of capital during the Keynesian period also tanked western profitability, leading them straight into neoliberalism.

Keynesian economics feels more left to us today because social democrats want a return to keynesianism. In the same way, there are elements of feudalism that may seem “left-wing” to us today, such as the fact that peasants got more days off and took better care of the environment.

Keynesianism is not left-wing though. It was supported in the past by conservatives because it advanced the interests of capital. Keynesianism created an economy in which capitalists could grow very wealthy very quickly, and the western imperialists could accumulate large quantities of advanced weapons. That period however, is over. What advances the interests of capital today is different from what advanced them in the past. So conservatives have changed.

DeepSeek exposed its American counterparts for what they are: yet another grift.

To be fair, DeepSeek did make genuine improvements to the computational algorithm behind transformer models, making them way more efficient. It’s not like the American models were using lots of resources because they wanted to.

The fact that American AI was a grift was already evident well before DeepSeek came about. What DeepSeek really showed was that existing transformer models weren’t yet optimized.

how the state suppresses their people with a social credit system

Lmao. The “social credit system” which literally never existed and even western media admitted was a misunderstanding (there was a credit system in place for scoring businesses which failed to pay debts in time). All the while in the capitalist-imperialist countries, one’s financial credit score determines their ability to buy a house or car.

This level of arrogant-ignorance is something you can only find amongst true Europeans. Even Americans are known to be more critical of their propaganda narratives.

oh lol. I finally get it. Nah, It’s just both of these accounts are mine, so I saw my account (because of refederation) and decided to comment on it.

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