JDPON Don destroying the US's technological advantage, lmao.
There are just a few major prongs of impeeialism. Financial weapons. Actual war materials and personnel. Technological advantage. The US is directly harming its own capacity for all 3 due to the contradictions of capitalism.
I'm sorry to all who suffer from the degradation of conditions, especially those on the site. You don't deserve it. But I do applaud the weakening of empire. The world needs it.
The EU functionally cannot do anything but neoliberalism and sucking up to the US. When this runs counter to basic materiap reality they will just create "loopholes" where they overpay and subjugate themselves, such as their self-imposed energy crisis where they still buy from Russia and the US but at exorbitant cost.
Also the lens flare was literally a guy with a mirror flashing light on the lens. They paid a guy to constantly find the precise angle at which to make every shot worse.
JJ Abrams btw.
When the pendulum swings back they will reach a deal to save money on the El Salvadoran black sites and a (ineffectual) military lawyer for every kidnapped citizen.
That happened on a smaller scale when they tried to abruptly end de minimis around 2 months ago. Previously they would at most randomly check a few of these small packages, suddenly they had to check all of them. USPS customs ground to a halt and items were delayed for up to 2 weeks or so even though they paused the de minimis repeal very quickly.
They're allegedly going to try it again. Their supposed solution is to bypass USPS and have private companies add very large customs fees on top of tariffs. If implemented it would kill the small direct orders market but not after a bunch of pain for buyers that didn't realize their $50 temu order would get a $75 tariff and a $50 fee tacked on after they ordered.
If this is all implementd it will mean much less trade and more expensive imports for basically no reason or benefit. Just a bunch of new pointless and privatized customs workers.
Young scientists are convinced they are headed for bigger and better things and that the work they do is very valuable - either intellectually or personally or both. They do not see themselves as of the same class as janitors, they are just temporarily overworked for the cause and things will get better later when they are in charge or in some senior role. They are "paying their dues".
Then 90% of them realize there is no such job waiting for them and they slowly shed their belief system. But it can take decades.
Guatemala has a very large indigenous (mostly Mayan) population. It supported the land reforms that the US couped it over. The US created genocidal death squads that terrorized the indigenous population, driving them to live in the countryside and mountains for safety. They survived and have a more solid foundation now but there is still a city vs. countryside dynamic on top of the settler vs. indigenous dynamic.
In theory the courts have their own enforcers. But they never actually use them against the executive. Supposedly Congress is meant to bridge that gap, or at least has the power to push against the executive during this ongoing constitutional crisis, but it of course is just letting it resolve in favor of the executive.
New site of revolution is about to drop
I've never actually verified this but I have always been entertained by the talking point that he woukd be richer if he just put his inheritance in an index fund.
He is just extremely into Juche? A self-sufficient country with multiple supply chains feeding into each other? WRONG! Every cooperative will manufacture every product from bottom to top with nothing shared between products.
In the funny pope thread, "maybe we should at least consider cultural sensitivity re: the pope and be more kind to one anothet" was responded to with a slew of unfounded accusations, seemingly deliberate misreadings, and pushback from a defensive posturing.
And now this has spawned at least two major threads whose premise is, "Christianity us reactionary and we must explicitly and openly reject it to be a good communist".
I'm not sure what the actual goal would be. Is it to berate any and all Christians on this website into disavowing a bunch of things they already don't believe and apologizing for things done by other people? Is it to ban the dead Christianity comm? Socially police anyone from admitting to being part of the most popular religion regardless of their direct views on the topics where you note Christianity having reactionary sentiments?
Personally I don't think there is a goal in mind. Just people getting in between a Hexbear user and their treats: a false catharsis because the pope died. And getting between the Hexbear and those treats in any capacity, you must be tarred a reactionary object of hate.
People are talking about state atheism and the church-monarchy feudal system and the USSR. Comrade, you (most likely) aren't even in an organization. We are not the inklings of Chinese national liberation but in [X Western country]. We're in a lost Redditor pro-trans vaguely commie site full of yt people eager to weaponize their marginalization to verbally kill each other and I'm suggesting you be slightly less reactive and escalatory towards comrades.