this is just the empire signalling that its lost this round and is doing pregame setup up for the next round before lowering rates.

things will start getting interesting this next rate cycle. the empire wanted to have their cake and eat it too and so instead of volcker shock 2.0 and a corresponding return to profitability we got whatever pathetic garbage the past year or two have been. this next cycle they might actually get their shit together but consensus opinion seems to be too little too late.

the echo your sentiments: ultimately, the dollar is the result of hegemonic privilege, not the cause. the us did not invent the dollar and in so doing become the hegemon, rather it became hegemonic and only afterwards did the dollar come into being as an emergent property of hegemony. it is an expression of imperial dominance, not a basis. accordingly, excess fixation on its exorbitant privilege as a metric of imperial robustness is missing the forest for the trees.

so here is some counter cyclical copium for my news mega comrades, it's a chinese nationalist dongbei dude ranting about geopolitics, fairly popular on tiktok as an alternative for the less academically inclined viewers. think not boring mercouris with a funny (hillbilly) accent doing things that aren't just summarizing telegram.

i can define nouns for people if there is any confusion

the critical window has not arrived yet. every other cycle of accumulation has undergone a gradual geographic transition of the core only after the extant capitalist system was thoroughly in the process of collapsing in on itself, heralded mostly by a withering in overall trade volume and corresponding with widespread conflict and a retreat into everyone's respective national economies

so basically, we're waiting for the us to sanction/declare war on china

in the meantime, so long as the powers behind the us political classes remain incapable of formulating a new framework of hegemony, the dollar will only continue to decline, taking the world economy along with it

apocryphally, jttw itself was a satirization of ming bureaucracy through its depiction of the conflict between tang era buddhist and taoist factions of divinity

a lot of issues were overcome on the journey are the result of some god's pettiness/fuckup

theres a fan theory out there that the game is a plot by wukong and erlang shen to overthrow heaven

so ukraines ambassador to japan just paid his respects at the war criminal shrine the other day

idk if fake news or not but it is weird that its basically not been reported on

apparently got scrubbed from ukrainian embassys twitter right after it got posted lol

pentagon defense procurement paper from last year

conclusions:

• no commercial application for missiles makes them unprofitable
• china makes everything
• nobody wants to invest in domestic manufacturing
• nobody wants to work in manufacturing, much less for the DoD

fuck i missed this dropping by like 30 minutes and now it's 8 hours later and everyone's taken my memes

sorry, i thought native english speakers would be more familiar with the concept of hyperbole. i will take the time to write a brief summary of relevant semantic techniques used in subsequent posts to help out the more rhetorically challenged members of our community.

time ran the exact same article, what is your point?

entity with the time, resources to try to sway public opinion

why would any foreign political entity waste its valuable english proficient resources on astroturfing an online backwater filled with politically illiterate nobodies? peak liberal solipsism

the GLF was economic policy made in response to withdrawal of soviet technological and financial aid during the sino-soviet split, one of the primary motivating factors of which being soviet insistence on china essentially allowing the soviets to recolonize the port of dalian to build a naval base from which to deploy its pacific fleet.

on top of being under sanctions from the west, the sino-soviet split further deprived china of markets with which to support its all-important capital intensive industries and so china was forced to resort to agricultural export as a method of making up the shortfall. collectivization was also pursued simultaneously to pool domestic capital for internal consumption, but due to various geographical, technical and political considerations, internal consumption was not sufficiently stimulated to support manufacturing, and so agricultural export became the primary way to finance china's continued industrialization. most accounts that are not hysterically anti-communist (including liberal darling amartya sen) of the period around the 1958 famine have records of aggregate production being more than sufficient to sustain the overall population, with the primary points of failure being overzealous local governments in highly productive areas, as opposed to popular western conceptions of overbearing central government mandated directives.

all this to say that hitler and the holocaust's relevance as a point of comparison to mao and the GLF as anything beyond 'people died when he was in charge' is laughably superficial and mostly only functions as a thought terminating associative fallacy for juicing your dopamine receptors in order to immunize your brain against more correct opinions.