nah i wasn't saying only hungary i was just saying in a lot of that region. i don't think it's conservatism in terms of how westerners use the word (since when they do it means nothing) but i think it is in terms of the more philosophical implication of conservatism decoupled from the western reactionary understanding

Marxist Leninist perspectives on black liberation and socialism by frank Chapman

Night vision by butch lee

Patriots traitors and empires by gowens

@krishna_bound wondering how you feel ab this thread

imo it's a bit of a mixed a***ysis, no one is ever objectively correct when it comes to things like currency or economic trade a***ysis just given the void of macroeconomic, but with this poster i think theyre right on some things but wrong on others (i know that's not saying much).
the issue with a lot of a***ysis on twitter and social media specifically is that its always rooted from the angle of how the OP feels about geopolitics specifically. you can tell they really want this to be a bomb for the US, which regardless of how you feel about geopolitics, isn't always the truth since by comparison you want to fixate on negative outcomes for obv reasons. the same thing happened more or less w economic a***yses (both pro and against) when it comes to Russia and the ruble and we saw how that basically didn't adhere to either sides' predictions (w/o really stretching what the prediction was).
just to go through the thread 1 by 1, it's wrong to say the value of the dollar is propped up vs other currencies. this is what i mean by his a***ysis being tinged by his view of the US. This isn't actually true, if anything it's the opposite, the hegemony of the US means that all other currencies within the US's sphere of hegemony are the ones propped up artifically, not the US's. The US is not simply a petrodollar and the foreign reserve part is hardly the reason why the USD has a powerful currency status. He's not wrong that the incursion of other currencies into energy transactions has strengthed those currencies, but that's because it's kinda the opposite of what he's saying - those said countries are thus creating petrodollars, it's not that it's taking away the US's status as having such (which it never had). the existence of other strong currencies doesn't inherently break the USD because it's disparate situations. the strength of the USD is solely in the economic expanse of the US and the intertwined trade the US has with other countries - including outside immediate hegemonic interest.
What he says about the euro is definitely correct. It's a result of the fact the EU poses no real value but it's not only due to energy. I wrote about this in the euro energy thread but it's because the euro value has no actual value as a currency representative of free trade to completely separate economies; the fact the energy crisis is happening has exposed a weakness in the lead economies which prior fuel the euro which in turn has brought down its value since it's therefore exposed the latency of its supposed economic power. It's not hard to see how this strengthens the dollar, because it simply shows that competing western currencies do not carry as much innate power.
The part after this where he talks about the relative value of the USD doesn't really mean much. A correctional value on USD is going to happen no matter what but it has nothing to do with "true value", it's because open markets need to remain buoyant with partners. If the USD is suddenly 10:1 on a trade partner, it makes it impossible for the partner to trade, so the USD has to adjust to allow the partner to convene in trade. This same thing has also happened with the RB on an inverse basis, which is why it gained value back, but didn't just skyrocket to insane intensity, because it leverages value in a correction to hit an equilibrium at where market prices are viable for both parties, it doesn't simply "correct" like a stock does. This also leaves out the fact that China & US have such hugely inter-dependent economies that it's not as simple as hegemonic spheres interfering with pricing. If the Yuan goes up through leveraging markets in Russia, the Yuan still must remain competitive enough to continue to trade with the US the same way the US must remain competitive enough to trade with the EU. The difference being the EU & US don't matter in terms of inter-trade dependence as much as US & China.
After that I don't really have much else to say on the thread since that's mostly just hopeful thinking on his end about hoping for a US implosion

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Important to note that they're bankrolled by a domestic surveillance tycoon just as they want to turn those imperial tools of control inwards

Also this NATO to TIkTok pipeline is crazy: mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336

i c u space

white latins be like

u think we got any nato mods on here?

also isnt S an NFT bro

ps RIP Fargo and Sinewave 🙏

I'm not a mod but i'm a NATO member state

that curtis yarvin culture war blog post is the funniest thing i've ever read there cannot be people who idolize this mf

S is now an AI bro thank you very much

What he saying?

graymirror.substack.com/p/you-can-only-lose-the-culture-war

Read at your own risk

Maoist International CI-IC put out video showcasing actions done across the world in support of the Indian revolution last week

ci-ic.org/blog/2022/07/07/9th-of-july-2022-take-to-the-streets-support-the-peoples-war-in-india

you know any good sites to keep up with the indian maoists ?

Been seeing some sad news bout Cuba lately nice to see kids still having fun

What sad news?

Why do people say the 1932 Sovier famine was a genocide against Ukrainians when the Kazakh republic was affected even worse lol

we already know the answer is propaganda