Sodium_nitride @ Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml

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The rule of law is always synonymous with the rule of force. A law which isn't implemented by force is just a suggestion. The international rules based order could by definition, never have been anything more than the rule of the hegemon.

What about the UN's non political work? It does plenty of work regarding health, education, poverty and so on.

(Consider Russia as an example of a country that the USA had no particular hostility towards, despite the Cold War, but now actively opposes due to its ambitions.)

Is this a bit?

I think the cause and effect here is completely backwards. The western imperial strategy is not shit because they don't know how to think properly about things. It is shit because empire is a fundamentally unsustainable institution. In the latter years when the rot sets in, the empire has trouble coping. Unlike the early years, every mistake, every downside to even a rational strategy hurts.

For instance, it is argued here that the west lost the war in Ukraine. But the principle imperialist, the United States has gained geopolitically in many ways. Europe is decoupled from Russia and China. The war business is booming. Russia is too occupied to help the Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians and has expended quite a lot of military strength and will likely have even worsened demographic issues in the future.

Certainly the imperialists miscalculated their enemies abilities to resist. The narrative they present to the public becomes increasingly convoluted and contradictory. But I don't think that can be used to argue that the imperialists will loose because of metaphysical thinking. They will loose because no empire is eternal.

Guys. You are missing the obvious answer here. More than half of the world's industrial robots are installed in China. Furthermore, they have been developing their internal supply chain for decades on end. Their economies of scale are very strong.

I swear, the orientalism is very strong on this post. It cannot be that a country is yielding the fruits of decades of hard work building up their industry. It has to be slave labor ...

I translated the telegram post with google translate

Rustam Minnikhanov: There is no serious destruction, the technological process of the enterprises has not been disrupted. In Yelabuga, unfortunately, there are victims as a result of the destruction of the premises. They are given all the necessary help. Two people were injured after a drone attack on a dormitory in the Alabuga special economic zone, the SEZ press service reported.

Tatarsthan location. This seems to be quite deep into Russia territory.

Why are you bringing up Russia here?

That is literally what the point of inflation is. To make it less appealing for people to save in order to fuel the short-sighted consumption economy.

The whole "consumers spend less" argument is so fucking idiotic. The consumption of items like food, energy and water cannot be delayed. Deflation for their prices will not impact consumer spending.

As for the consumption of durables, even if their consumption gets delayed, it cannot be delayed indefinitely. If people plan to buy TVs 1 year from now instead of today, then they will save money. If capitalists predict that people want to buy TVs 1 year from now, they will borrow this saved money from the banks and use it to boost TV production. Then 1 year from now, the exchange happens and everyone is happy. This is literally supposed to be how capitalism plans production. The very fact that economists are afraid of deflation shows that they don't have the slightest faith in the system to plan for the future.

The whole drama about deflation and spending money now exists purely because capitalism can only respond to immediate signals. Its ability to plan ahead is terrible (not as if its ability to react to shortages/gluts today is any good).

In a centrally planned economy where monetary accounting has been replaced by labor time accounting, deflation is the natural tendency (as greater automation reduces labor time). Such an economy will have to plan for production on a larger time frame. If you were allowed to pre-order things in such an economy, it would be a relatively easy way to estimate demand for the future.

Right now Russia is tied up in Ukraine. For Israel, this is the perfect opportunity to get rid of Iran. Once the war in Ukraine ends, Israel will be in deep shit because Russia can provide support to Iran and other regional Israeli enemies. Furthermore, the Israeli economy has also been severely damaged by the emmigration that was triggered by the war. Their reputation as a Jewish safe haven is toast. Time is running out.

Presumably, they want to drag USA into a broader regional war.

Liberalism is the ideology developed by the bourgeoise for the bourgeoise. It was born out of the bourgeois revolt against the feudal regime. And as much as people say that the word "liberal" means something else in America compared to its real meaning everywhere else, American liberals are as bourgeois as the liberals anywhere else in the world.

Wtf is going on in the comments section????

Anyway, with China making so much progress on so many sectors, it will soon become increasing hard for westerners to deny China's, and by extension, socialism's achievements. At long last, socialism has begun to surpass capitalism economically.

Edit: The spammer got banned

Literally the first sentence of your first comment on this thread

China is presenting an alternative to liberal democracy

America is the poster child of liberal democracies. The very first in history, the one which inapired the others, the most powerful existing liberal empire. You are the one that started the comparison.

he was investigated over suspected "illegal crimes"

Are there any legal crimes you guys know of that I can try?

The whole part about the opera being empty most of the time was interesting. The article does mention that it would often be full due to foreign dignitaries and workers, but if the opera remained empty so often, why did it survive after independence? That part is a little vague.

I am no expert in music, but the conflict between "modernised" music and traditional music might be overplayed by the article. I don't see why improving the level of music theory or professionalisation of singers and so on conflicts with Tajik tradition. Wouldn't a richer music theory be able to replicate the simpler folk music? Or are there fundamental incompatibilities?

the emphasis on the development of ‘high’ culture, even at its height in the 1930s, sat uneasily with a veneration of everything ‘folk’, while the need to define a sharp break with the past often gave way to a reverence of ‘classical’ cultural production

This whole part here is the most interesting to me. I think it any future socialist society will have to treat the topic of culture very carefully. Almost certainly it will have to develop multiple cultural centers and promote as many varied forms as is possible.

There would be conflict between these completing cultural forms, as there was in the case explored by the article. But I think that's a good thing. It will cause new ideas to be generated and explored.

Where can I see the call for expelling Russian forces to 1991 borders? I don't see anything like that in the articles I'm reading

Even here in the netherlands, every single apartment I got or accepted my request for a viewing was blatantly evading taxes. I spent my first year here as an emotional mess because of how much instability their attempts at tax evading forced upon the tenant.

I only managed to get a stable studio by turning to a corporate landlord would couldn't screw around with the legal system because they would be caught right away. That's how bad it has gotten here.