Yeah, I know the one.

I guess he did have dementia at that point.

The threat of the AfD is going to be used as a cudgel with which to keep the left in line, even as the CDU (and inevitably the SPD) end up adopting pretty much exactly the AfD's position on immigration thinking that this will win back AfD voters.

That's exactly what we've already seen over the last ten years of the AfD getting ever stronger, and especially the last year or so after the Correctiv exposé on what the AfD says in private. The AfD even bragged that this is what's happening and it's what they want, but nobody paid attention to that part.

Idk it tickles my brain in a good way. Especially this one, given Musk's history with Dogecoin.

Don't get me wrong I'm not a muskbro I just like funny acronyms and alliterations.

There are 15 million vacant homes in the US. Some of that will be simply due to homes briefly being between tenants or owner-occupants but even if that would account for the vast majority of vacant homes it still leaves enough to house everyone and then some.

From my reading Hudson's Superimperialism is an more an extension of Lenin's Imperialism, based on how material conditions had evolved over the interim fifty years and the lessons learned from (at initial publication) the first generation or so of US dollar hegemony. To simplify it maybe too much, it adds a monetary dimension to the already established framework of finance capital being the driving force behind imperialism.

Superimperialism is indeed the same English term often used for Kautsky's Überimperialismus hypothesis. Yet apart from the initial parallel of a global cartel, ie. dollar hegemony, I don't see much of Kautsky's ideas represented in Hudson's work, but I'm also not terribly familiar with überimperialism.

There are two requirements the US ruling class has for internet connected tech: surveillance opportunities and content distribution and censorship capabilities.

That's why we saw the fuss about Huawei five years ago, and that's why there's been a fuss about TikTok over the last five years as well. Huawei isn't a US military or intelligence adjacent or contracted company, so the NSA and Co can't roll in and mandate backdoors into Huawei's networking products. The TikTok available in the imperial core, while already being somewhat controlled by the US military-intelligence apparatus already, still doesn't allow for enough surveillance and equally importantly doesn't allow for enough content control. The US ruling class knows it's losing the narrative war, and is trying everything it can to reign that in.

What politicians actually believe doesn't really matter. Some have bathed in the kool-aid, others know it's just theater. What really matters is what the capitalists believe, and they are pretty clear on what they have to do to maintain power.

Feels like a really low estimate.

I'm honestly not sure if there was a moment or a thing. Probably just the unending saga of one Israeli atrocity after another. At some point I just realized it wasn't a complicated situation at all. Palestinians are a colonized people, Israel is a colonizing and occupying force. We're talking about decolonization elsewhere, why not when the region in question is Palestine?

It's not hard to understand which party is settlers committing genocide, and which party isn't.

Firstly, Palestinian representatives including Hamas have tried to come to the negotiating table, ever since the beginning. The response from Israel is bombing runs, artillery fire, and bad faith claims that Hamas will not negotiate.

Secondly, Palestinians do not want to exterminate anyone, they simply want to be free. The extermination/genocide thing is common myth presented by settlers who can't imagine anything but genocide, as it's how their own society has been built, and they project this on to all other societies.

Step one is an organized vanguard party of the working class, step two is education of the masses via this party.

I've come to have my own suspicions of Proton as well, but I've also leaned that's not an accepted point of view in most social media privacy communities.