Yep. No notes.

Good luck mate. I wish you were right. I really do.

The curse of being a Marxist is that I’m right; but too early. You can save this comment if you want. We can reflect on it in a year or two when your leaders have failed miserably to put up any defense against the American empire.

The American empire is dying. You are right. But if you think it dies without taking every western country with it; well, you don’t understand how the last 30 years have worked. Or history in general. You aren’t living outside of history, you can’t run from what happens when an angry empire lashes out. I’d be preparing and not ignorantly thinking you will weather the storm without any preparation.

I’m sorry. But you are incredibly ignorant of how the world works and have far too much faith in your social democratic policies that will be the first to be cut as the world changes. You’ll see in another year or two. You should be organizing resistance to this change. Not blindly trusting your superior system.

Good luck mate. Maybe you’ll remember this a year from now as you start to notice the decline.

Western media headline:

China’s economic growth slows by 50%!

Just a normal result of development. Going from 10% to 5% in a growing economic system like China is entirely normal and expected. But it is refreshing to not see a click bait headline for these numbers for once.

Edit: for those wondering. Imagine a country with no electrical grid produces a major grid in a year. This would undoubtedly increase economic growth substantially in that year. So the next year would look to be significantly worse by comparison in terms of the rate of growth. That is essentially what I’m talking about.

You should always be skeptical of headlines that refer to the rate of change in something. It would be like looking at a high speed train and saying “the rate of speed has not increased in the last 30 minutes!” all while traveling at a constant speed of 300 kmph that entire time.

Read a comment from OP that sounds like Nazi eugenics shit. Check their profile and this is their most recent post. Yikes. No OP. Please direct your frustration for not having sex elsewhere.

Get that Nazi shit out of your brain. We all have reactionary ideas like this imbedded in us from growing up in western society. So, please, I beg you, purge that “it’s in their genes (blood)” and “iq” shit from your brain. It’s just a modern version of “blood and soil” even if you didn’t mean it that way.

My friend, if you trust your neoliberal politicians to not bend the knee to Trump and their own capitalist class; you’ll soon be enjoying our lack of healthcare.

Please, this is not a “anti European” position. Don’t confuse it for such. This is an American warning you. Unless you personally are willing to go die for Greenland, don’t expect others to. If you are, more power to you, but you’d be sitting in an insignificant minority of Europeans.

I don’t think you understand what “class war” means. (1) One class can be fighting it while the other class is not. See Americans for an example.

(2) There is no “end” to class war when the working class “gets a living wage”. The capitalist class will always chip away at your wage and social programs. They are doing that now in Europe.

You don’t understand what I was even referring to when talking about class conflict. Here is a test: do you think “class” is dependent on how much money you make? If the answer is “yes, a Doctor is clearly of a different class than a janitor” then you have no idea what I’m talking about.

The way you talk about it makes me think you are just misunderstanding what I was talking about at a fundamental level.

I’m talking about class in the Marxist sense.

Dude, there is a case in American history for doing genocide of natives too. What is your “defense” of Trump here? Like, I don’t disagree with you that American Imperialism is not unique to Trump - but you seem to be saying this makes it justified? Maybe I’m reading your comment wrong though.

No. I was literally just wondering to get a context for your comment. But based on your comment I’m gonna assume you’re not.

I responded to another one of your comments so ending replies here. I realized from your other comment that you have no idea what I meant when I referred to “class”

Are you European?

TACO is for things that could hurt the stock market or the the profits of capital. It literally comes from Wall Street traders.

TACO is not for Trump being reckless and cruel. He bombed Iran, he bombed fishing boats, he kidnapped a leader of a sovereign country, he has built concentration camps and is sending his SS troops door to door.

You best hope enough wealthy capitalist convince him not to invade Greenland. Because that’s the only reason he won’t. Don’t expect fascist to not take easy “wins” of cruelty to show power when they can.

Fascist only back down when their capitalist owners tell them to OR when there is a chance they could be resisted and seen as weak.

If you think the fascist will roll over and allow a peaceful transfer of power in 3 years then you have not been paying attention.

It makes sense when you understand that this is class war. The working class is being choked in both the US and Europe all while fueling nationalism within each.

I’m confused. 10k yen is $63 dollars. Where is the “rich” part of this? Maybe I don’t understand. Or is that the point? That the tax is basically not high at all?

If you’re seeing anti China stories about literally pre Bush times - asks yourself: why?

This is “World News?”. Wtf? No, this is historical shit that belongs in a fucking museum. (Thank you Indiana).

Why are people commenting on China like the last 30+ years hasn’t happened? Does it make us feel good when they are absolutely dunking on us as our incompetent form of governance sends us spiraling to another financial crisis? Seriously. How the fuck is this world news?!

Like, would we be criticizing Germany today if some new photos of the concentration camps were found?

I’m sorry. The fact that we let this shit get posted in “world news” is just pandering to the right wings “war with China” narrative that is completely unjustifiable. Reddit levels of garbage mods.