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The world’s second-largest economy just decided, with one of its top African partners, to do away with the use of the US dollar
(africa.businessinsider.com)
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A few days ago the US sanctioned an Egyptian bank for trading with Iran. (This means they are refusing to sell them USD.) Could this be a response to that?
Likely, and this also goes beyond Iran. The US has basically weaponized the dollar system now, and everybody knows they need to get off of it ASAP.
There's a really good interview with colonel Lawrence Wilkerson who was the former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State where he talks about how the US has full capture of the European political class. So, what we see happening in Europe isn't too surprising.
Not saying you all must, but things won't get better without organizing, until then it will keep moving right until all the mainstream parties are indistinguishable from fascists (which is already happening in many places, to some degree)
No they aren't. The Dutch just pulled their gold reserves out of the US. The tech bros and Trump are TRYING to crash the dollar. Trump has said that he likes the dollar going down because he is making money.
This is why they push crypto. People don't understand the crash that is coming. At least after the great depression and the 2008 financial crisis we were never questioning the dollar.
When this next crash happens, all that matters are assets. We will have new money. They have said this, project 2025 has said this, Peter Thiel has said this, it is objectively happening.
There is no doubt that people will fight. The major problem is everyone is just watching the enemy dig in, organize, arm themselves, and sabotage us before acting.
For the US anyway, we are broken in to almost thirds. 1/3 hate it, 1/3 love it, and 1/3 literally don't know anything is happening right now. The ultra rich fractured us really well. Other countries will be better off because you guys still have free healthcare and education which makes your populations INCREDIBLY smarter than a normal american. Don't ever give those up
I am intimately aware of the sheer apathy of the American electorate. That being said, it always holds true that any government is just a few empty meals away from violence. Starvation had already captured people Americans are taught deserve it; we'll see when msm can't cover up in encroaching on more, though.
I respect that. Closest I get is FreeTube. But, as dying as msm is, it isn't dead yet. Nobody trusts it, but everybody watches it. It's state-media at this point, and its talking points disseminate all the same. It will get to a point where it can't contain the stories anymore, though, of that I have no doubt.
they will once things get so shit for them that they have nothing else to lose.
The cope in the imitation .ml thread is funny.
I find it really funny how libs see the US losing its geopolitical dominance as a bad thing.
It is, for them. It's not fun for those of us who see it necessary. But it is necessary, if life is to have a chance, and moreover, ab free life, healthy in body and mind.
indeed
So when I see libs (liberals?) in reference to right-sided groups, that’s different than what the US calls “liberal” yea? Because I thought, in the US, the liberals were left. No?
Liberalism is inherently a right wing ideology. You have political liberalism which focuses on all these wholesome ideas like individual freedoms and democracy that are used to market it. But economic liberalism is the meat of the system and it centers around markets, private property, and wealth accumulation. So the whole idea that liberalism supports everyone’s freedom is fundamentally incompatible with enshrining private property rights as sacred because that removes them from political debate.
Equating private property with individual freedom provides the foundational justification for the rich to keep their wealth while ignoring the needs of everyone else. So all the talk of freedom and democracy ends up being just a fig leaf for capitalist relations.
Liberals are the people who support/defend/upholds neo-liberalism/capitalism.
So they are right wing.
They are also conservative if you think about it, because if the status quo is neo-liberalism supporting it is opposing change.
The so called conservatives are the ultra conservative.
I think a better label for the so-called "conservatives" is "regressives". They don't even want to preserve the status quo as it is, they want societal development to be rolled back 60-200 years depending on the issue
Fascists believe in inequality based on race or gender.
(Neo)liberals believe in inequality based on class or wealth.
So they both believe in inequality. A rich man gets better healthcare, better legal help. Better education. Better food as a child. Have more say and hold more power. Social democrats try to ameliorate that a bit but fundamentally still believe rich man should be above others. This is all right wing from a socialists perspective. This shared belief in inequality also explains how easily they can ally themselves with fascists.
Your question is just one more example of how the USAians are cooked.
How many mandatory History, Geography, and Philosophy classes did you have in your education?
4, 1, 0 in that order. I don’t think the four history lessons count. I learned Christopher Columbus was a cute little explorer, for example.
OK, cool.
I realize I may have been slightly misleading, though not much. For each number, I meant that’s the number of years I was assigned to a class. The classes have a year long curriculum in grade school, spanning from about September to June. So I guess I could have said 5xweek for 4 years, 1 year, and none at all.
OK, cool.
It is backwards. It’s rather often that, as an adult, I learn something that is fundamentally contradictory to what I learned in grade school. Usually it’s the framing of events, details that got left out… They paint a story that usually ends with the US saving the day somewhere. Kids learn more politically accurate stories from their family members. Teachers will shush down a kiddo who speaks up on these details, because “professionalism” means yielding to the potential that any one of their student parents might not find the alternative material acceptable.
Moreover, when US schools teach history, it's mostly a pack of lies. A grain of truth per 1000 kg of 🐂💩.
So how can I react when an American guy calls the simple class struggle and mode of production terminology "cliquey" and "hermetic"? 🤷♂️ Because I met some of these idiots this week. 🤦♂️
Whoooo doggy! That's a question with an answer that depends on several variables.
I guess you can lead with, "I understand how you can think that, but it really isn't, it's just something that isn't taught in ____ schools."
If they show interest and time is short, you can explain it was once taught at certain levels, but this society stopped teaching it because they focused on business interests and profit motive? And discuss as much as you can in simple terms, and pick up again at the next opportunity.
If time is long, then I would say follow the same line but I hope you have patience to correct a lot of disinformed perceptions and answer questions.
But also be aware that ignorance very often leads to arrogant disinterest. As much as I want to make people interested, it's a fool's errand. That doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't put forth the effort, but it means if your energy and time are better spent following another avenue, then maybe you consider that.
what are you talking about? i think i've been banned from most of the lib instances so i can't see it? lol.
Is from the cm0002 that keep copying pasting every .ml post to another moronic community. Epstein's bravest soldier fighting the damn tankies alone.
Yes.
I can't seem to find it.
It's on a instance that blocked .ml try looking at kbin.earth or any other.
Holy wow, it's even funnier, now. To date:
I saw that. Went to check global debt-to-gdp ratios and the highest – Sudan– was at 272% but none over 300%, US at 124% and China at 88%. So complete horse shit being spewed. Though it might just be I don't understand what I'm reading.
Well Sudan is sanctioned, struggling but somehow surviving.
It would be lovely of an MBA could help us understand
This literally the mainstream knowledge even in the liberal circles now! What the he'll are you on about, dawg?