Sodium_nitride @ Sodium_nitride @lemmygrad.ml

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Why the heck would the US government do a 180 on our stance of helping Ukraine after President Trump was elected.

There hasn't been a 180 degree shift. Under the Biden admin, the Ukrainian government was mass privatising state assets to raise funds for the war. In fact, you can still go to the privatisation website and loot Ukraine with your own hands.

Furthermore, a not insignificant part of the aid is loans (the eu has for instance provided at least one 18 billion loan package, leading to a dramatic increase in ukraine's external debt. The policy towards Ukraine was never generous.

It just seems bizarrely delusional when viewed in first person. Even more so when the media, which is nominally anti-trump, just seems to go along with it.

I don't think we need to listen to the political opinions of a party (or its base) so incompetent they lost to trump twice.

The Saudi military is a proxy of the us military, given how much of Saudi arms come from the Americans.

To put it in computer science terms, you are mistakenly believing that your "greedy algorithm" of harm reducing (seeking the best option at this time step) will lead to the global optimum (the best possible outcome at the end).

"Harm reduction" is what got us to this place is why I have a problem with it. This is the inevitable result of lesser eviling your way through politics.

If you guys weren't so gung ho on supporting the dems no matter what, and forced them to do some good for once, Trump wouldn't have been elected the first time much less the second one.

The only reason the Democrats are willing to spill so much blood is because they know people like you will defend them.

Both parties are bad but one is clearly less bad by a mile.

This is irrelevant and falls into great man theory. The US government has 23 million employees and is a massive sprawling system with its own dynamics. It reacts to world events based on these dynamics. The US government is not controlled by this or that party, or the elections. It is not designed for such democratic input since it was designed as a dictatorship of property owners. In its early days, this was quite literally explicit, but even to this day, the iron grip of the bourgeoise is maintained on government strategy.

I’m allowed to have an opinion on the trolley problem while also acknowledging it’s one of the most famous problems in philosophy precisely because so few people agree.

The trolley problem is garbage nonsense, and applies to basically no real world situations. The trolley problem is only famous because it's easy to think about, not because it is philosophically sophisticated. In the real world, there are an monumental number of possible paths that can be taken, each with outcomes that cannot be exactly predicted in advance. The trolley problem only works in real life if you are basically God.

Both tracks have the same people on them. The elections aren't there to influence US policy, but to give it legitimacy. The capitalists and bureaucracy are what actually control government policy.

I don't have my laptop with me right now or else I would have made that meme about the music which would have gone something like:

liberal on one side can pick between: fascism, neo-fascism, social democracy, anarcho capitalism, libertarianism, neo-feudalism, corporatism

socialist on other side

it's all capitalism

Yeah, he's openly very loyal towards bourgeois interests, but I do think it's funny how billionaires have to walk on eggshells around him (meta changing it's moderation policies for example). He's clearly the one in charge. It's an interesting 2 way relationship that I'm sure some marxist has written essays about in the past.

What will Russia and China do on the global stage? Offer you cheap commodities? Continue not bombing the middle east?

It may not be intended as an end to aggression, but the soft regime change tactic is a lot cheaper and more effective than direct aggression.

the United States isn’t structured in a way where the President can go against the will of the Bourgeoisie.

I think we are overestimating the amount of solidarity and power of the American bourgeoise, partly because that's the image of strenght they love to project.

The state always holds a dominant position wrt the bourgeoise. If tommorow trump wanted American billionaires merced, there isn't much anyone could do to stop him.

Yes the bourgeoise control american civil society and have some influence over various parts of the government, but trump is the commander of the armed forces and has a strong movement backing him.

I don't think musk understands the workings of the American empire. He has more important things to tend to than reading theory (get into fights on twitter).

No outsider needed to do anything to get the genocide riech to elect a hateful lunatic. That shit happens on its own.

“Our administration got the Colombians to take between 100 and 200 repatriation flights of Colombians back to Colombia,” the person said. “That’s not a new thing. We did that over and over again. What’s different is Trump wanted to do this with military flights. Colombia initially said no to that. Now they’ll take the flights. In terms of limiting migration, it doesn’t matter if the flights are military or civilian.”

We (dems) had the exact same policy as trump, but with better pr!

Fucking clowns.

to influence countries around you in a way that is beneficial to you, and may be either beneficial, inconsequential or detrimental to them

What an amazing definition. Hand crafted to be as all encompassing as possible so you can label anyone as an imperialist.

.worlders come swinging with bangers like this.

How about you blame the oligarchs and big tech CEOs for reprogramming your mind to think and dislike what they want you to think and dislike.

The oligarchs aren't reprogramming anyone. They facilitate right wingers to spread propaganda, but the actual propaganda is produced by right wingers. Do you think the oligarchs spend their personal time carefully crafting narratives, memes, posters, news article and Facebook posts?

Legal terms are the only terms that are factual and avoid what people feel about the issue.

Pure ideology. What a joke. The institutions of the state do not exist as divine arbiter of truth.

Biden is a genocider because he did everything in his power to provide arms to a state engaged in genocide. Given the level of dependence the idf has on us arms, if Biden made the decision to stop arming Israel, the genocide in Palestine couldn't have been sustained for more than a few weeks at best.

It is just blatantly counterfactual to state that Israel has the military means to continue the genocide without us military aid.

Some stats on us-israel military cooperation

Israel not only received 22 billion* dollars in aid (the second biggest military spender china spends 140 billion per year ), but also buys almost all it's military equipment from the us. Israel's airforce for instance is fitted with us produced planes.

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Always funny to see how trump is way less pro-russia than liberals keep screaming. Man completely failed to warm US-Russia relations in his first term and I doubt he is in the second.

Trump’s latest statements highlight the unease many in Moscow’s elite feel about his unpredictability, which has led to a cautious response since his re-election.

Lol the trump admin is only unpredictable if you take trump's statements too much at face value. The US government doesn't run on 1 person's tweets.

Trump’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine notably omits any mention of providing additional weapons to Kyiv, instead signalling a shift towards deploying economic measures against Moscow.

Shift? The west has been using economic measures since day 1.

Trump administration officials have previously indicated that they believe the US could further target Russia’s economy by sanctioning its energy sector.

Lol. Sanctions raj on overdrive.