We'll see whether that happens and Russia is definitely in a more desperate situation than China obviously.

But I feel like they don't even really consider that possibility compared to how realists do

I'm not saying there weren't any reasons for his overthrow, but there were a lot of reasons not to do it as well from a point of view that also aims to pursue America's interests as an empire. I wouldn't exactly call it a success even from an American imperialist pov

It's not like realists are anti-imperialist, but still most prominent realists like Brzezinski, Kennan or academic ones like Mearsheimer opposed the Iraq war for example

Basically American imperialist policy to me seems to have become less carefully calculated than before and I'm just tryna understand why that shift happened. The end of the cold war is one of the obvious reasons imo

I guess much of that also depends on whether you consider the Iraq war a success for American imperialism. They succeded in privatizing damn near everything in Iraq, but geopolitically it's not like Iraq had completely become an American vassal state now or anything. They do have their military bases there now, but they've become a lot closer with Iran after the war

I got a question.
I've seen people on twitter argue about this a few days ago,can't find the tweets but regardless.

People were saying that all those "I wanna live in a mountain village instead of the city and be self sufficient" takes are conservative in nature.
Anyone want to tell me more about that or is that bullshit?

Also obligatory

Human labor is in principle always social labor, and has been so since the dawn of man. Labor is not only an interaction between humans and the outside world of nature, but also requires a social link between humans.

Social labor does not need to be wage labor – this is just the form it takes under capitalism. However, all human labor is ultimately social labor.

For example, a human who, as an infant, has never been taken care of, will presumably not even survive to become a teenager. Labor necessitates, by this fact alone, social interaction.

The labor of an individual outcast into the wilderness is a very rare phenomenon and can only occur when this human is already civilized by society, for example, already was raised by a mother, or already acquired survival-knowledge from a tribe. Therefore, the seemingly asocial labor of the outcast has compounded social labor embedded within it (“it takes a village to raise a child”)

Therefore, labor is, even when conducted by a single individual isolated from the rest of human community, by its very nature always social labor.

What changes throughout the course of humanity is the mode in which this social labor is practiced – how humans divide labor, how they distribute the fruits of labor and so on.

History is filled with bad decisions. The contradictions of capitalism only fuel these bad decisions more. They will sell us the rope with which they are hanged.

S*** like this is why I cant take liberal s***work enthusiasm seriously

reddit.com/r/EscortClientsOnly/comments/usmdro/if_you_are_in_this_community_you_should_visit/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Vast majority of prostitutes in Germany are "immigrants". If it's such a great gig why don't more potatoes do it. And the media will talk about the unicorn educated German student escorts all the time which is a very small minority of w****s here. They don't write stuff about the Romanian streetwalkers

Getting rid of the conditions that make people resort to s***work without stigmatizing the s***workers is my stance

A moralistic condemnation of s***work is an overreaction to liberals naive glorification of it imo

One thing I've NOOTICED is many of these earlier big brain realists to the US govt were Eurocacs

Meaning that in their thinking they were less attached to American idealist ideas like American exceptionalism. I think their calculations were probably more cold and rational because of that. They were more motivated by anti-communism

Especially a guy like Brzezinski who immigrated from Poland and had a father who witnessed some of Stalin's purges in person, prolly told him horror stories about Stalin before going to bed

Both were critical of American exceptionalism tho

"American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

On balancing interests and values, Kissinger argued, “This is where America has not been very successful, because we have had this missionary notion that American exceptionalism by itself can move the world in the direction of our desired objective.”

Intellectual international bourgeois anti-communism vs dum dum American exceptionalism

@cloud_rap

Eurocac moment

reddit.com/r/europe/comments/v29ybg/uk_aims_to_send_the_first_group_of_asylum_seekers

Vs

reddit.com/r/europe/comments/vjmjo9/ukrainians_who_come_to_uk_illegally_could_be_sent

r/europe used to actually be a neonazi subreddit but reddit admins kicked out the moderators and replaced them with reddit staffers and the place was changed to be neolib central

one of the strangest reddit community trajectories

Wtf

nazcentbol strikes again

basically the logic from reddit admins was it would look bad to ban a community like r/europe and the backend of how the website was coded meant they couldnt just shut down the subreddit and replace it with an equally named one. so since they wanted the traffic from europeans they just re-staffed the subreddit and mass deleted old threads

That's wild

Guess they staying true to their roots

/r/European was the Nazi one

Then again a lot of these Reddit powermods are fascists and a good chunk probably feds

See how neoliberal moderators got into AntiWork

I remember me and @Scratchin_Bandit fleeing from CTH to CTH2 to MoreTankieChapo Then Reddit banned them all and they fled to another site. They were so retärded they took the upvote downvote mechanism with them Now it's called hexbear.net

CTH2 was fye ngl

It's wild didn't they get nuked for saying slave owners deserved to get killed or something