[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

China has been unwilling to challenge the dollar with yuan

IMO this is actually a good thing for socialism and potentially signals China's long-term commitment to it. Of course it would also be great if the dollar were replaced, but replaced with what is very important.

If the yuan were internationalized, China couldn't impose the kind of strong capital controls which have allowed it to develop the economy toward socialism while retaining markets to a (likely necessary) degree. Further, there would be much greater incentive to export capital internationally rather than use it domestically, which could lead to a kind of social imperialism.

The synthesis of maintaining capital controls and dehegemonizing the dollar IMO is that the dollar is replaced not by another single nation's currency (which is just a different kind of unipolarity, after all), but instead by an international currency like the Bancor proposal.

(A dual-circuit thing like the USSR under Stalin would be better for transitioning away from money itself ofc, but I have no clue how that would work across borders and it seems impossible that any capitalist countries would accept such a system. If the world got to that point, socialism as a world-system would have practically already won)

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this supposed to be a surprising secret? I was taught this in American public schools as the core reason.

The real wake-up call isn't learning about the historical importance of expansion itself, but assigning a different moral value to it. It's realizing Manifest Destiny is just Lebensraum that won, that there's nothing morally justified about it.

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

I'm not trying to be accusatory

What evidence do we have of this?

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

Just cause they know English doesn't mean they want to use it while you're in their country.

Learning a second language is a gateway to living anywhere that's not anglo-burn

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[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 68 points 4 months ago

China hosts Hamas, Fatah delegations for reconciliation talks

Given the extent of collaboration by Abbas over the years, I can't say I'm optimistic. I thought the same thing about Iran-Saudi Arabia relations too though, and China managed at least a formal rapprochement between the two. This could go well

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

5% of Americans being hexbear lurkers is a lot more than I expected

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Ghana is not under the CFA dictatorship however. Under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, it broke decisively from French imperialism.

It broke from British imperialism. France did not colonize Ghana.

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

Hamas urged us to not vote for Biden in an official statement. Obviously that is insufficient but it is a start

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago

getting divorced for political satire reasons

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The same OP of that thread called a biracial person in this thread a "half cracker" to dismiss their discomfort with posts they feel are hateful or self-hateful.

I think we should be able to recognize that there is a line crossed by some of these posts where they aren't really jokes anymore, and actually reflect essentialist ideology. that's a lack of theoretical understanding, and worse, a lack of kindness and empathy for different perspectives.

[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It doesn't need to be racist to be cringe or unhelpful

Honestly I thought these jokes were funny 3 or 4 years ago but have we not beat the dead horse enough at this point? It's just overplayed now

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