According the the WSJ, the US is running out of ammunition. It has been supplying so much to Ukraine and Israel that there isn’t much left. Trump hopes to disarm Iran before this becomes apparent. Simulations suggest that in a war with China the US would run out of ammo in a matter of days.
I see so many people who “won’t use Substack” that are still on X though that I really don’t see the point. (Not saying you’re one of them.)
Yep, as well as Russian Nazi collaborators. See the recent hilarity about Canada’s Victims of Communism Memorial.
Well then you’re clearly not a fan of our system
Instead of asking how many people communism killed in the 20th century, why not ask how many people have needlessly died because the USSR was dismantled? Why not ask how many people capitalism has killed?
In other news, apparently Bad Bunny not singing in English is a bigger deal than the Epstein emails.
Any society that would be fundamentally different if its working class had an actual say in how its economy functions is an oppressive society, end of story.
Or that a technology that could greatly advance egalitarianism and socialism will instead, in our backward system, be leveraged to accelerate extraction.
Amen
A: Making higher education free would greatly reduce the significance of getting a college degree.
B: College is artificially kept prohibitively expensive to help maintain our class system.
C: You’re both saying the same thing.
You can’t make this stuff up. Canada throws in the towel on its much hyped “Victims of Communism” memorial after realizing that the majority of names they were going to inscribe on it were of Nazis.
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At least they get to feel morally superior about it
What if Captain America was actually more like Galactus?
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Stories contain frames. Frames contextualize interpretation. A frame shared by enough people is invisible. It’s “just the way things are”, the background against which the figure emerges in contrast. Just because a frame is unnoticed doesn’t mean it’s not there.
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Are you talking about social media or just the West in general?
If we really want to “make America great again” then the focus needs to be on labor organizing, extreme regulation of corporations, governmental oversight of big tech, and wealth taxes. We will not return to the heyday of working class jobs without the politics that prioritized workers.
After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.
A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.
Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.
In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.
Over a third of U.S. GDP growth is spent on data centers. This has now outpaced consumer spending. The AI hype machine is holding up our failing economy, and the bubble could easily burst.
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This wins the fucking internet
When people would ask if you had any plans for the fall, people used to assume you were talking about autumn. Not anymore.
That’s freakin awesome
I love how pointing out shit Charlie Kirk actually said is tantamount to a hate crime, but it supposedly wasn’t when he originally said it….
My great-grandparents were murdered in Buchenwald. I know what I’m seeing, too.
It’s a control device. Neoliberalism maintained the scorn for leftism while redefining what it means. The result is a narrower Overton Window that keeps people fighting about things that don’t threaten those in power.
