The lives of the global population living at sea level is a small price to pay for our beloved shareholders

Dusting off the HoF George Bush joke for this. Nice lmao

Fetterman wearing a suit lmao

Ok but you can’t get a virus if your computer doesn’t work

Exactly. By carefully monitoring/pruning back capital and thus never allowing the power of capital to supercede the power of the state, you are put in a position where you can take advantage of capitalist development while never truly allowing it to gain a centralized chokehold over state power itself. You get to mitigate the most negative pieces of capitalist development while also getting to utilize all that it has already developed both domestically and in terms of the global market where, once integrated, there is no unified capitalist power which can (or would even want to) oppose your participation and continued development.

What actually funding the sciences does to a MF

DEADASS. The Biden team could literally have set up a food pantry in every single county in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (222 counties) with almost a $1000000 budget for each. That would almost certainly move the needle significantly in a few rural counties.

And it might even work, but only ever on paper. The U.S. economy is nearly entirely built around moving money at this point. One third of the U.S. GDP is a result of the private healthcare system. As China bolsters its manufacturing instead of abandoning it, continuing to create high quality, high tech jobs in the field, the United States tries to appear competitive in terms of GDP.

This Red Lobster example so perfectly encapsulates the state of consolidation that late capitalism in the United States has entered. Any recorded profits by the hedge fund that bought out Red Lobster were partially because it chose to vamipirically suck value out of every real and tangible thing that actually took decades of infrastructure, labor, and business integration to build. It’s very analogous to soil degraded from too much intensive agriculture, so the farmer has to constantly cut down new forests to harvest crops. Each new patch of forest cut down for extremely temporary intensive agriculture (read: short term economic gain) is the parasitic bourgeoisie leeching the real, tangible societal value of things like Red Lobster away from the masses.

Eventually the owning class was going to have to begin removing jenga blocks from the bottom of the tower to have more at the top, and we are watching said tower become unstable just like every Marxist economist in history said it would. The mode of working class exploitation has already deeply expanded from labor exploitation just 60 years ago, to EXPECTED and increasing indebtedness as soon as adulthood is reached.

America will never ACTUALLY compete with China in this state. America makes nothing, and given examples like Red Lobster here, where we see the systematic dismantling of tangible things which took decades to build, America arguably makes less than nothing. It has been reduced to a capital scrap yard.

America is so concerned about antisemitism that you are allowed to praise Nazi Germany but are not allowed to criticize Israel

Putting up a giant net to protect my city from drones

Why would the DPRK ever need the ability to bypass North Atlantic Treaty Organization defenses when the DPRK is nowhere near the North Atlantic? Somebody who is good at geopolitics please explain

Genuinely I can not tell if this is satire