In front of the golden arches of mcdonalds lol, what a shot!

Side note: you know of any credible estimates for the real spend? That would be great for agitational content

I don't know how we can escape this downward cycle.

There's this funny thing called "revolution"

What do you think the chances are of these vassals supporting US in kinetic warfare? Seems like Milei is a given, but would Paraguay and Bolivia really have the political support for it?

Also do you feel the "narco-terrorism" angle works better against Brazil, among other countries in the region? My Brazilian friend said the criminal factions there are more like the cartels in Mexico. He spoke pretty intensely about them.

Wait was this a silent xi button?

This right here! The struggle is a school, and this struggle in particular gave folks 2 years of valuable experience organizing and facing off against state repression, media, etc. It also stripped bare the contradictions most folks were otherwise oblivious to. It completely changed the layout of organizing in my area just from folks seeing / learning from PSL and applying lessons at their various orgs, unions, etc or seeking help. The knock-on effects can't be understated and this has absolutely been a formative struggle for the ones to come.

It sounds like BRICS is going forward with their dollar replacement from what this video is saying. I think I may have seen something about this in the Tricontinental a while back - but I'm curious to know what other folks think this means moving forward?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBh4QtVZwL0

Yeah there's no way to stay in that room and not feel like the odd one out, seems like mostly small islands / vassals afaict. Only notable one is China, probably on their "don't stir the pot" line while they negotiate on trade stuff.

It would be great if some of these more progressive / resistant individuals were won over and convinced to ditch the Dems and clarify the contradiction there. Hopefully PSL ramps up quick enough to achieve this soon.

I worked adjacent to car sales and remember seeing this thinking it was too good to be true and these cars must have a short battery lifespan or something, but it turned out fine for those folks.

I also did my homework and bought a used car around 2018 for 5k USD, great car until I nearly died by a drunk driver (thank you car-centric transit + poverty-fueled addictions). Car was wrecked, I got PTSD behind the wheel. Insurance gave me 7k, on-paper at first I thought nice I got 2k more to buy a better car! Cool!

IRL the price to repurchase the same car/mileage in 2022 was 10k average. I got back about as much as I had paid for the car and insurance and I was 3k short of what I needed to get the same car.

I may be wrong, but did someone say before they rely on the US to refuel?

Think it was mentioned here before but ishowspeed is traveling through China as the most popular streamer on youtube, there's like 100s of millions of gen Zers getting deprogrammed on China right now as well, excellent timing.