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  • that makes sense from a hegemonic perspective, but it doesn’t from any practical one.

    russia proved that it wasn’t able to dominate ukraine like the propaganda had suggested it could; yet they’re somehow going to dominate europe.

    the europeans have literal colonies within their borders in the form of american military bases and the americans have inflicted the same kind of political violence that it inflicted on latin america (and now the americans are turning on them); yet the russians are still the problem, somehow.







  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoWorld News@lemmy.mlElon's Plan For Europe
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    i wonder of eu capitulation to american hegemony in all sectors, like tech described in this video, will result in more accelerated forms of fascism since they now have to come up with an alternative to the financial and military backing from the fascist machine that they helped create and is now abandoning them.



  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worlddemocrats got this
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    First, booker is not blocking an appointment and Filibusters are only useful if they’re blocking legislation and he’s not doing that either; that’s why this stunt is only political theater.

    Secondly, Republicans use the quorum and budget ceiling rules when they’re a minority, but the Democrats won’t do the same thing, so they’ve clearly decided that decorum matters more that fascism.

    Finally, fascism has been in the pipeline for atleast 40 years and expecting a silver bullet is unrealistic; read the documentation that you demanded from me (assuming that you didn’t demand it in bad faith).








  • the last largest financial crises averted a system wide shutdown and created a welfare state that allowed this system to continue operating and its wealth gap ensures that there will be millions of people who will voluntarily join the military in the hopes of viable future; as is happening right now.

    it also feels like the media capture of the colonial narrative is holding strong examplified in tiktok’s ban and ukraine’s invasion. those native american pogroms were documented during their time and the people adjacently impacted, ie the mexicans, were cast aside until the memory of them only existed history books.

    i feel that capitalism learns from its mistakes and adjusts since the people who benefit from it are learning, thinking beings who want to perpetuate it for their personal gain; the only thing that can stop it is itself, once it’s inherent contradictions become too large to smooth over.