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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • The US is going to deal with sunk costs especially if there’s a ground invasion and legitimacy crisis in the world sphere and it probably won’t be able to muster enough missiles for Taiwan. I imagine anyone who relies on Iranian oil is going to suffer too

    Various military groups across Africa are probably going to lose one of their financial backers. Shia Islam may lose some of its sway, as Iran is the main actor promoting it I know most of those groups are non-state actors, but that’s a list of people I can think about. The biggest loser is Iran and it’s people right now and it remains whether the powers that be will actually be able to win the peace. Seeing who’s at the helm though?

    …I don’t see peaceful years ahead for them




  • You’ve ended with the conclusion without the evidence to actually back things up. It presupposes that these people aren’t capitalists, so therefore they aren’t capitalists. Which is a bad argument. You need to look at the Chinese economy and how it’s structured.

    This doesn’t address that politicians are big business magnates are usually two different groups of people even if they’re working together. But the heads of Tencent, Alibaba or other Chinese tech giants aren’t going to show up there.

    Let’s go back to Obama. Was the US not capitalist in 2010 when billionaires didn’t have direct power in the USA? No. It was indeed capitalist back then. That’s what the economy looks like. (Well it’s a mixed market economy, but that’s another discussion, and yes I’m aware of the vast indirect power the billionaires have.)








  • The reason why trans people are in the spotlight isn’t because we are new or anything. They just had a hatred for gay people instead. It has been the same fight for gender non conforming people today. Once the obergefell case happened, conservative forces needed something else to be pissed off about and so there was this the unknown narrative that they could shape. The first shot was fired a long time ago in the gay rights movement and it’s a continuation of those same forces today