Love cormorants I find them so goofy

Orioles because orange and black looks cool

I am curious if any comrades here from the global south can give insight into how Hollywood and US media in general has affected their countries

I think they mean in terms of ideological threats to capitalism in the imperial core

Already seeing libs call this a false flag attack. So that stage has been set already if proof comes out that Ukraine was responsible

While he simultaneously tells the press that he doesn’t believe in bodily autonomy

I always think about stuff like this. Westerners love to talk about how much they hate other people and how miserable everything is but will still turn around and preach to marginalized and oppressed people domestically and abroad that this is the best system and we are justified using war to “spread” it across the globe

Eventually Christopher Nolan will be correctly and ignominiously remembered as a great propagandist instead of an artist

Ugh we still have so far to go with ableism :(

Haha there is a lot of time spent staring blankly and resisting the urge to explode on some of these hopelessly dense fuckers

For the most part, academia exposes a lot of the bullshit going on. However, liberal ideology prevents researchers from seeing “the elephant” i.e. the horrors of capitalism, so they go searching for answers down blind alleys. For example, in my field, research has established the brutality of our healthcare system; but, research will always seek to answer this by recommending and then further exploring “novel healthcare solutions” instead of, ya know, the solution that’s right in our face (FUCKING DESTROY OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM)

The US can’t address its issues without creating further contradictions. I think the biggest success they’ve had is definitely sucking Europe dry, but that’s just kicking the can down the road really. Domestically, conditions continue to decline at an accelerating rate. There is no plan to address this. That’s a major contradiction right there. When the next major crisis happens, who are they gonna steal from? I feel like if they had to turn to other countries in the imperial core for wealth extraction, doesn’t that say a lot about the long-term viability of their economy? How will Europe function as they decline from relative prosperity into a hellhole similar to modern America? Will people take it lying down? People in the global south have also definitely taken notice of the Ukraine war and how weak America actually is at defending its interests militarily. Can the US prevent the decolonization of West Africa and the Middle East forever? Will bigger holes start to form in South America or other parts of the world?

The US has definitely taken notice of the seeds of its destruction i.e. de-dollarization and growing Chinese and Eurasian hegemony and taken some measures to address this. However, the contradictions of neoliberalism and financialization have not changed. There is nothing they can do to change them. The death of the U.S. is a process that will take some time and there will be ebbs and flows. Unfortunately, even 100 years is a relatively short period of time in terms of human development, so we could go our whole lifetime without seeing America destroyed even if we can see its inevitability. Also, economic indicators are essentially religious divinations designed to prop up the system, so unless it’s coming from a Marxist or at least some non-mainstream source they really can’t be taken at face value.

It’s not just the ruling class, unfortunately.

Are you telling me double-counting mortgage payments as imputed rent isn’t real production?

It also would require giving labor a lot more power which is a major contradiction with neoliberalism

Cannibalism and bestiality is honestly small potatoes compared to what these ghouls are actually like lol

I believe they said airstrikes but either way they said unequivocally that Israel hit them with explosives.

When I was 10 years old other kids in my class talked about dropping nukes on the Middle East to just get rid of them. Absolute hellscape

Biden fucked up so hard with this. Whether in this war or the next the global South is uniting. Internally, people do not support Israel like they need them to get away with this level of denial and propaganda. And they are now going to pit themselves against fucking doctors from MSF, one of the most highly respected western organizations, who are providing unequivocal firsthand testimony that these were airstrikes. They will pay.

Nah this feels big