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Three red lines was introduced in Aug. 2020. The collapse started in Sept. 2021. It was a centrally planned, managed collapse, with the intent of making the capitalists take the hit instead of the working class. It was very unlike the 2008 one in the US, where no orthodox economist saw it coming, and the government was caught with its pants down, and it ratfucked working class homeowners to save the private banks, who had written bad mortgages that they knew couldn’t be paid.

Don’t forget to

Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, and IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab were named as "central to Israel's surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction."

First as tragedy, then as… also tragedy. IBM and the Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich through to the last day of the regime, at the end of World War II when the US and Germany were at war with each other.

Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punched cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.

modeled after “anti-disinformation” rules that were crafted by the NATOid security racket

Indeed. Previously:

The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach [real media literacy] to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

Also previously.

Capitalism is right-wing; socialism is left-wing. Private property is not about your toothbrush or house, it’s about private ownership of the means of production, which is what capitalism is founded on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.

Probably spent the weekend on Reddit, where liberal debate bro sophistry is king.

• ☑ Do something every day to help undermine public perception of the empire.
• ☑ Draw attention to its abuses in places like Gaza.
• ☑ Get people laughing at its absurdities and hypocrisies.
• ☑ Spread distrust in the imperial propaganda services known as the western press by spotlighting their deceptions and manipulations.
• ☑ Help people to recognize all the ways their government is screwing them over for the benefit of the rich and powerful.
• ☑ Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie.
• ☑ Help people to understand that it really, truly does not need to be this way.
• ☑ Use every means at your disposal to help open up the next pair of eyelids to the ugly reality of the empire.

Do you think we pull these things out of our butts?

• Wikipedia: Three red lines
• EAC Int. Consulting, ~2022: Three Red Lines Policy – Regulating China’s Real Estate Developers
• Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, 2024: Real estate inflection point approaching? The Three Red Lines Policy in China and enterprise valuation

Don’t those same people often accuse hexbear of brigading?

I’m not sure that works, because AFAIK there currently are no such regulations, and this bill was preemptive of any future ones. In any case, what got blocked in the Senate was a ban of any future such regulations.

Maybe there’s hard data for that somewhere—I dunno—but since COVID, the Chinese state intentionally popped their housing construction bubble and made the capitalists take the hit.

There was growing wealth inequality, while at the same time all boats were rising. But now wealth inequality is shrinking, and all boats are still rising.

The Iranian government has a very heavy hand in that economy and economic freedoms don’t exist like they do in capitalust economies.

Many of us are socialists, and we don’t take issue with a state constraining the capitalist class’ economic freedom. If you live in a neoliberal hellscape like most of us, you ought to want it more constrained, too.

Reuters: Russia takes full control of Ukraine's Luhansk region, Russian-backed official says

Leonid Pasechnik

Leonid Ivanovich Pasechnik […] is a Russian politician who has served as head of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) since 2017. He holds the position in acting capacity ever since the Russian annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2022. Pasechnik had previously held office as the LPR's Minister of State Security from 2014 to 2018.

Prior to his political career, Pasechnik served in the Security Service of Ukraine until the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, which he supported.

not so much grammar as e. e. cummings orthography.

They tried the Corbyn technique in the primaries. It didn’t stick, and that’s why they’re freaking out right now.

Jonathan Swift offered A Modest Proposal.