Left out the word 'conveniently'
lemmyseizethemeans
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It's also inextricably linked to capitalism.
Charlie Booker the guy who writes Black Mirror etc uses it as a reward mechanism. Write for an hour? Balatro.
This crack is very moreish
I mean, long range missiles to Ukraine and saying go ahead strike within Russia gonna send a pretty clear message
Ad the good old 'outside agitator ' chestnut. Never gets old, been used since for fucking ever
This is my shocked face
Cant capitalism out of a capitalism caused crisis
One classes austerity is the 1% prosperity
Say the thing bart!
Up the escalation ladder we go
Right up until the commercial that was pretty mind blowing. To think everything around you that ain't a tree or something existed in someone's mind and then boom reality
The anti war movement against the illegal war on Iraq was the biggest mobilization in history. Millions of people all over the world tried to stop the war but we're ultimately unsuccessful. Which brings us to a bigger question, why don't we the people have political power. I believe it comes down to greed, and capitalism. How can we stop these wars? The genocide on Palestine? The only weapon we have is to withhold our labour. Organize, unionize and strike.
Let's drive down wages so they can't buy our products! Let's eliminate competition by monopolies! Let's create shittier products that break sooner to keep people buying stuff they already own! Let's buy all the houses and jack up rent so nobody can live anywhere. Perfect system!
No mention of why Romania was in such a bad state. Turns out it was the same playbook as today with the Global South. Romania gets IMF loans mid 70s. And just like John Perkins discusses in his book 'confessions of an Economic Hitman', the IMF made the terms of the loan contingent on austerity. Then due to global macroeconomic conditions and interest rate hikes, Romania can't repay the debts and starts to implode. This of course by design as per IMF/World bank strategy.
The people rise up against AUSTERITY but libs scream about 'communist dictatorship'.
Zero historical context. Just 'Communism bad, mmmkay?'. Like the Ukraine proxy war, nothing happened before Russia invaded. No it was 'totally unprovoked'.
Here's the background of this lemmy.world propaganda:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund
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Love how this is coming from the Pentagon. Not the secretary of state, not the president, not even a Whitehouse spokesperson. Straight from the military industrial complex to the world: fuck you we are in charge
Let's see how it plays out lol. Iran and Iraq and Syria and Yemin and Lebanon are all on the same page now.. you want a larger regional war? Go for it dumbass