Thanks for this one can never have enough shit to listen while gardening

RIP Klanada, we hardly knew ye

Me south of the border like

Watch libs still deny that this is a US war when the US did the coup that started it and as soon as the US pulled funding peace talks commence.

Least rabid lib

It was obvious even back in 2014 https://www.mintpressnews.com/road-moscow-goes-kiev-coup-detat-threatens-russia/180712/

If Trump blows NATO up with his negative points in statecraft we’ll never hear the end of it from accelerationists

It’s an incredibly obvious joke

Just look for which EU countries do not have a US military base within missile range to find who would actually do such a thing.

I never said it was. I just said he’s liberal economist who has come to some of the same conclusions as Marxists, obviously because of different motivations.

I’m well aware of his work and the impact it has had (although a bunch of it has been overblown). It makes no difference to how valid his point is. What’s more his credentials lend him great credibility among those who still believe in the dogma of liberalism, and make it undeniable that if a highly accomplished working economist, shares the opinions of many Marxist analysts then delusional libs should probably listen for a change.

It’s really amazing how many racist tropes and deflections you manage to fit into so few paragraphs

Really curious how western economists/journalists/organizations are shouted down as imperialists not worth listening to when they’re advocating against imperialism.

Sachs might still be a liberal who buys into the freedom and democracy shit, but he has been consistent on this and one of the few sober voices with regards to US foreign policy.

No no you don’t get it. A dictator isn’t when you outlaw opposition parties, call off elections, and push charges of treason for dissident leaders and publish their names in a kill list.

Dictatorship is when you don’t obey every whim of the US.

The issue with reddit’s fascism problem isn’t just that it’s filled with glowies, it’s that it’s filled with westerners.

Are you similarly concerned about the recruitment practices in the aggressor country?

Is there a reason to be concerned? There’s proof of Ukrainians being kidnapped off the streets to be conscripted, do you have any evidence of the same happening with Russians or are you just both sidesing this thing because “ok but Russia worse” is your automatic defense to justify atrocities?

other people in the world absolutely were using the term American to refer to citizens of the US before the 1900s.

I mean, a few, I imagine. There’s always been people saying shit wrong. Would help your case if you actually had a source and not just a vibe to refute an evidence based position.

By population, however, most of the world isn’t the anglosphere. Spanish speakers, which is most of America, by and large call you “Estadunidenses” whenever it’s not “gringo”. A good chunk of us also speak English and object to gringos colonizing “america” much like Indonesians or Indians or Malaysians probably would have if Japan decided it was “Asia”.

You might not have decided that we speak English, but the same government that made it a necessity for us in the global south to learn the language is the one that decided to steal that term. Language matters.

Sure, in the way The Spiders From Mars didn’t go anywhere after Bowie fucked off.

Shit, 1. ain’t looking that unlikely either, give it a few years with the amount of debt it was forced to take up.

Which is exactly how much it means to everyone else as well