George Carty
@GCarty80
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Paul CantrellHard not to read that article and hear echoes of the ICE invasion of Minneapolis. What that Israeli army chief described in the West Bank is what the Trump admin wanted here: a completely stratified society, with summary execution for dissent in the lower strata. That’s the waters they were testing when they murdered Good and Pretti: “Do we have total impunity yet?” And that “yet” is still hanging in the air. They are still, to this day, disappearing people to secret prisons.
@EINS_Institute While I see the case for limited strikes against the Iranian nuclear program, the current war (beginning with a sneak attack decapitating the regime!) seems crazy!
Unless of course Trump was a kompromized Russian asset, working on Putin's orders to force up global energy prices...
(Oh, and thanks to @hallam for "kompromized"!)
@EINS_Institute Russia's regimes may change (tsarist, communist, Putinist) but the imperialism remains.
Anti-Imperial Block of Nations: https://abn.org.ua/en/
@EINS_Institute I loved that footage from the Budapest subway escalator of young Hungarians shouting "RUSZKIK HAZA!"
@EINS_Institute @xankarn And the fact that he never got PUNISHED for any of those sins is key to his appeal in the eyes of his supporters!
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-trump-sells-is-impunity/
@evan Doesn't the notion of a keffiyeh as a symbol of violent anti-Zionist struggle go all the way back to the Mandate era, in that it was the symbol of the radical Husseinis, in contrast to the fez preferred by the moderate Nashashibis?
@brilliantcorner @[email protected] @Gargron Neither Franco nor Pol Pot were elected though: they shot their way into power.
@hallam Isn't TikTok controlled by China though, which in the longer term is an enemy far more dangerous than Russia?
Russia had its vast stockpiles of Soviet weaponry (currently being expended in Ukraine) but China can out-manufacture the US and Europe combined.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-war-economy-sizing-up-the-new
@scott @interfluidity How does the far-right change depending on whether it operates in a deflationary environment (like 2016) or an inflationary environment (like 2024)?
@scott Aren't the main grievances behind the Trump resurgence though inflation (caused largely by the West's attempt to swear off Russian fossil fuels in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine) along with the hordes of asylum-seekers crossing the Mexican border?
I don't see how taxing billionaires would help either of those problems: indeed it would likely make inflation _worse_ by transferring wealth from those who won't spend it to those who will.