I delete my account whenever I make a really bad comment and want to avoid the heat, or when I smoked too much weed and got paranoid.

So about every 3 months.

Earths climate gonna collapse like the SDF

In bad Korea the president sends police into parliament if they don’t obey

Feel old yet, millennials?

The way to obtain peace is to insist on doing the single most important thing the war is being fought over

Sometimes the tail wags the dog.

SK press can be hysterical about NK, and Ukraine will run with any news story. After that the vibes just flow.

That’s what happens when you shock therapy your own economy

The Bizarre State of Western Democracy

Picking out the key thesis argued by Prabhat Patnaik.

Democracy is supposed to mean the pursuit of policies that are in conformity with the wishes of the electorate. True, it is not that the governments first ascertain popular wishes, and then decide on policy; the conformity between the two is typically ensured under bourgeois rule by the government deciding on policies in accordance with ruling class interests, and then having a propaganda machinery that persuades the people about the wisdom of these policies The conformity between public opinion and what the ruling class wants is thus achieved in a complex manner whose essence lies in the manipulation of public opinion.

What is currently happening however is altogether different: public opinion, notwithstanding all the propaganda directed at it, wants policies that are altogether different from those being systematically pursued by the ruling class. The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

Such riding roughshod over public opinion is typically sought to be achieved by keeping these burning issues of peace and war off political discussion altogether. In the coming US presidential elections, for instance, since both the contenders, Donald Trump and Kamla Harris, are agreed on supplying arms to Israel, this issue itself will not figure in any presidential debate or in the presidential campaign.

In the metropolis there has thus been a transition from “manipulation of dissent” through propaganda, to the total ignoring of dissent, even dissent by a majority, that has proved to be immune to propaganda. This represents a new stage in the attenuation of democracy, a stage characterised by an unprecedented moral bankruptcy of the political establishment.

German Chancellor says any future Ukraine peace conference must include Russia

Include Russia in peace talks? Is that treason?

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in an interview that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Scholz is facing more political discontent at home over his government's support, including money and weapons for Ukraine after populist parties that oppose arming Kyiv did well in state elections on 1 September at the expense of parties in his three-party governing coalition.

You’re being very generous with that pluralization.

Bespoke: Britain invented Zionism as a two birds one stone colonialist plot

https://www.hoover.org/research/welfare-well-how-business-subsidies-fleece-taxpayers

And fuck I just realized this article is from 1999 so it is probably closer to a trillion now