starkillerfish [she/her]

The world economy is built on serving US consumers and capitalists. I think 2008 crisis will be a good place to start if you want to see how a collapse of purchasing power in the US caused ripples worldwide.

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Reminder to back up tg surgery info

thinking that people are stupid and uninteresting is a very dumb teenager take, so consider how much perspective you have actually gained

can you provide some more context? or are you just asking if people have created their own wesbites? you can find a lot of stuff on neocities

sure, but i wouldnt call that a long history

long history of animosity? seriously?

Yes

I don’t think anyone seriously thought that the Dems would change. The issue is that there was zero reason for someone to vote Dems, since they do not propose any alternative to Republican policies.

I think its also liberals, but scratched.

I think the biggest red flag is that his analysis of fascism is purely an analysis of rhetoric. And it got repetitive after a while since it all boiled down to “oh no the hypocrisy”.

too bad citations needed is not on it

i think they just accidentally stumbled into being correct on anti imperialism. they still pay their nato dues and provide arms iirc, so im afraid the stance is also mostly retoric. and in terms of socdem they are just the only major party that doesnt want to cut pensions.

rare earth mining

Idk about sustainability. It still requires massive computing infrastructure, which for now requires unsustainable ways of sourcing metals

i am very pedantic about using these terms

i just think that “democratic values” are an illusion at best in the first place. these democratic values didnt protect gay nor trans people a couple decades ago. they didn’t protect racialised people. so i don’t think these values are somehow inherently intertwined with rights for minorities. on the contrary, they are usually used by one group to dominate over another. for most of history of liberal democracies, these values were used precisely by the christian, white, cishet patriarchal ruling class to assert their position. and they are using institutions, constitutional law etc to take power. i think it is not materialist analysis to say that this group is against democratic values as you say.

on “totalitarianism”, it is a false term too because every system is “totalitarian” since every system affects the totality of social relations. marxists recognise this as the superstructure. i agree with acidsmiley that fascism would be a more applicable term if you want to point to the violence of the system.

Agreed

im not sure im on board with the references to democratic values and totalitarianism

What did the dems do exactly to prevent Donald Trump from taking office