i have been thinking about the dynamics of the kwantung army and the imperial center in trying to find good models for the relationship between actors at different levels of zionist fanaticism/aggression within western power structures that don’t reduce to simple control. potentially useful imo

is the website working today

there’s overcapacity in legacy industries. but yes, for green transition tech, definitely underdemand, caused by political systems not valuing the future correctly

i mean i heard of him later than that but back then i would have believed depression music not tied to short term trends in the industry could have stuck

you go back to like 20 years ago and tell people this is happening and they just mutter it fuckin figures

ethnic cultural power in america revolves around simultaneously seeking proximity to whiteness and privilege while self-narrativizing as distinct and having faced discrimination, so jews were temporarily way op in latter 20th c. no talmud magic or protocols networks involved. but algorithms disagree

i think it depends what the big narratives about the rest of reality that win out are. if people in 100 yrs are all about race science or religion yeah that's probably gonna be bad. my take is the one where american foreign policy is a big gun that different ethnic lobbies grab and point abroad

i like the article; as i’ve remarked elsewhere, separating out the conceptual components of “antisemitism” and figuring out what’s actually dangerous, what’s just rude/mean, what’s harsh but necessary, and what’s “normal” american ethnic discourse is an important part of figuring out a future

didn’t biden already try this. it costs money to compete in high technology and quality of life. how are you going to do it with half the arsenal spent, way more debt, and zero legitimacy. at this point they can say actually they are more a democracy and young people outside the west will agree

no “pro capitalist” pundit has ever read adam smith

The whole world is not America's chew toy

i don’t think they should let him say that

not sure if there’s a more specific term but it’s a stacked line chart for daily power usage and the particular shape is usually called a duck curve

i’m surprised he hasn’t gotten madder about the hotel drone strikes

Two-thirds of Israelis believe that the war will strengthen Israel–United States relations. A majority of opposition voters share this view.

This is so funny

the scale works p well for square pyramids, not sure about cylinders

China has put forward three proposals regarding high-quality universal energy access, artificial intelligence (AI) plus energy and coordinated energy governance to promote energy cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

it’s very obvious to anyone who has argued with any american about climate policy that the concern is not with science but with the appropriate level of reverence for power and the association of power over nature with social and familial power. the current insanity is the apotheosis of this mindset

china will grow gdp 4.5-5%

tricking a dumb guy into overlooking consequences he might’ve cared about had he known, by appealing to his widely known bad impulses and desires, is perhaps technically deceptive, but clearly doesn’t count as either control or a stab in the back. not sure what people are struggling with

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my understanding is iran is offering to let ships keep sailing through under conditions of trading oil in yuan and not being associated with america or israel. so maybe china should send ships to buy the goods and see what the various chains of third countries engaged in transshipment want for them

iran is making propaganda saying that they are under treacherous attack by crusaders, zionists, and warmongers, cruel demons united in perversion and greed, and seeking to destroy their innocents. this propaganda is fairly effective on account of being obviously true and somewhat understated tbh

hope they can wrangle a fatwa to temporarily legalize doing him crassus style

traders in general have had downside risk adjustment behavior conditioned out of them by aggressive dip-buying action in all the trump2 crises

the good news is anyone who starts is only like a year behind me at any given time because old vocabulary is always falling out of my ears as new words are stuffed in

this is an impressive level of 指鹿为马 but it’s still unclear to me why they don’t just order a pair in the correct size and pretend he got the size right

manga has fantastic line work

are you sure you don’t want to waste all your political efforts to get chased around from one term to the next one they try to demonize by rightist word tabooing in some kind of vocabulary whackamole

how is it everyone else’s fault that evangelicals are illiterate and have to delegate power to right-wing jews, mormons, and catholics, who are able to function in elite institutions just fine