Oh my, if you had stopped voting the lesser evil 20 years ago, you’d not have Trump now. Also, asshole move to derail the discussion by getting impertinent “brain dead” and starting to downvote, simply because you disagree (blocking you for that, as it annoys me).

This whole theory has been 100% proven by the current shitshow here in Germany. Everything I wrote has already happened and fascists much, much worse than Trump are currently the first among polls in Germany as a result.

You could easily argue that the guys constantly chosing the lesser evil brought that catastrophic discourse shift over us, that made the lesser evil of this election worse than the worse evil of former elections.

I am not from the US, so my insight there might be limited. But here in Germany I started to hate the lesser evil fraction so much. The lesser evil here is now openly representing far right ideologies, activley supporting genocide, made it borderline illegal to critizise genocid, killing refugees at the borders, deporting people into regions were they face immediate lethal threats, initiating harsh social cuts while demonizing the poor and are discussing cooperation with open fascists. They are constantly normalizing open fascism, everday a little more. If Germany slights into fascism again, it will be mostly the lesser evils fault.

Fuck the lesser evil. They became more dangerous than the fascist themselves in many respects.

It was also Hindenburg and von Papen back in the 1930s, the lesser evil, who was paving Hitler the way to power.

edit: Lol, I startet this meaning to write 2-3 sentences, seems the lesser evil caused a writing frenzy in me.

I think this is not as simple as A controls B. There are many groups and individuals active in both countries who influence politics and media. I don’t think anyone centrally controlls them. It is a way more chaotic system than that.

Did the meaning of “neoliberals” change? Didn’t that mean conservative economically liberal people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?

How can they justify unpaid mods when the sub is paid?

I just find reddit inconvenient nowadays.

The soviets saved the world, but Stalin was a monster ntl.

Old people in Russia will not remember the Stalin era, but the Khrushchev era (the post-gulag era, famous for de-stalinization) and the Brezhnev era. Old people also tend to romatisize their youth. And romatisizing the Soviet Union is mixed with ethno-nationalism in current days Russia.

I consider myself a socialist, but stalinism is dog-shit.

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3 of these 17 territories are colonies of the USA (American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands).

When it comes to Europe the extortion of former colonies might be the bigger problem (the Franc Zone or the ongoing exploitation of African ressources).

Anti-imperialism would make more sense. The US is not the only asshole… (Edit: Just the current worst one.)

Paper, all metalls and glass. Collecting organic waste for either compost or, if your city does this, biogas plants is also good.

Wasn’t this just to make grafittis on the seats invisible enough to determine potential teenage artists?

In Germany real estate became significantly cheaper in many parts (not all, not e.g. Berlin or Hamburg). In my north German mid size city we had ~15 percent price reduction in the last 2 years. In our neighbour city they even had 25%.

On the other hand, I know people who sold their houses when prices where high, invested their money and are happy renters now. It apparently can be a lot better financially according to many experts (here in Germany, no idea about the US).

The UAE defintly showed that other countries can do this.

Russia also still holds a lot of their traditional soft power in many countries, including several EU countries. They also greatly increased their softpower by helping to get far right parties into power or at least signinificant influence in several EU countries (like Orban or Germany just 2 days ago).

On the other hand Russia manouvered itself into a very weak geostrategical position lately (Ukraine and Syria). Everyone noticed that and this will likely lead to some restructuring in several regions, unlikely to be in Russias favour.

I currently find it really hard to make assumptions about Russias role in the mid-term future. That is also, why I didn’t mention Russia in my post.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

China will take large chunks. But I think we will also see a decentralization as china won’t be able to take it all. Countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Brazil and so on will probably increase their regional soft powers a lot.

This process also already started years ago, but will be catalyzed by this.

You can also exploit people with it. Kinda like a swiss knife of psychopathy.

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