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"We don't want to live in a world where the USians are the dominant country," reply billions.

Yes, the US has never not been the bad guy.

Can't make as much money on treatments when there are fewer illnesses to treat.

Glad to see some bougie academic reaffirm the fact that our desire to see everyone treated like a human being is an extreme position.

Can't make a profit if you give all the margin to your CEO

Countries are already moving towards bilateral currency swap agreements where possible, and some regional blocs are proposing multi-currency baskets or a non-aligned unit of account for their settling of accounts. We will see this trend accelerate as more and more countries realize that they are now free to make these agreements with the US no longer able to convincingly enforce its Bretton Woods dollar hegemony across the world.

There are also discussions occurring around a sort of Keyensian Bancor for the 21st century, something that BRICS is positioning itself to be able to facilitate, realistically maybe beginning sometime in the 2030s.

There are likely more options being discussed, yet more theorized, and maybe some new ones will be born out of the experience and knowledge gathered in the trial phases of various systems. What I do know is there will not be one single currency taking the place of the US dollar as global reserve currency. Not only is it unsustainable, it's the opposite of conducive to a peaceful and prosperous humanity.

China is the only country which currently has both the means and motivation to do something about that. In fact, they are doing something about it.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1306099.shtml

No

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Another straw on the back of the collapsing western financial and monetary system. We'll be glad to see it die.

Yes, it's US imperialism.

IIRC there's way more agricultural goods going from the EU into Ukraine, at least that was the case pre-2022. Most of Ukraine's exports go to other low income countries, as the EU has extremely high standards for food products (which they've turned into a form of neocolonialism in itself).

I would be careful not to mix up what I'll distinguish here as liberal social progressivism and communist societal progressivism. I'm sure there are more established terms for these concepts but I don't know them or can't think of them.

The imbalance we see in the liberal version is because it is, just like social conservatism, a reaction to current material conditions without a proper (ie dialectic) understanding of these how these conditions came to be and how they can be changed. Therefore it falls into the same paradigms and pitfalls which liberalism itself does, and is incapable of actually fixing the issues of the day. Then they get all caught up in things like "traditional" vs "modern" values, distinctions which are meaningless since both broad groups have been enforced across history in intimate relation to the reigning ruling class ideology of the time.

Whereas the type of progressivism we communists see as necessary is a holistic remaking of society, not limited to pushing for equal treatment of out groups, but banishing even the concept of out groups to the scrapheap of history, just to give one example. We go even further though, not in an "endless growth" type of sociopathic way, but in a strategic and structured way so as to fundamentally change the structure of society around us also on the political and economic levels, so that we can peacefully coexist on a human level rather than constantly struggling for who gets the upper hand.

That's interesting, Hugo is the only SSG I've had luck with so far. I'm kind of stuck on Docusaurus at work and it's a disaster.

On the face of things they're all so simple, but aren't documented well for users new to SSGs, and the build often spits out something unexpected with no way to figure out why.

Design the internet around principles of communication between people, based on choices everyone makes and can understand the implications of.

Given that the internet was meant and is designed as a means to surveil, sell, and act as a private means of production, there is no way to fix it without completely dismantling it and starting fresh.

I know I'm not part of the target audience for pretty sites, but the average user gets frustrated with poor design choices and outright broken websites as well.

Just as one recent and therefore present example, I was on a pretty site the other day and nothing happened when I clicked on "About Us". The next thing I did was close the tab. As you say, first impressions mean a lot.

I hear complaints about these kind of things at work constantly as well. As an internal product owner of sorts users think I and the devs make poor design choices on our own, but all we can do is manage the best we can with the UX garbage Microsoft comes up with.

Yes, but generally only bad quality loud ones.

Yes, a communist one.

"There is no alternative."

Ben Norton's Geopolitical Economy Report has discussed this regularly. Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson's twice monthly Geopolitical Economy Hour also discusses the changes brought about by the conflict in Ukraine and interrelated conditions. It all ties into the overarching theme of the 21st century, a US dominated imperial bloc in decline, a resurgent Eurasia and increasingly sovereign global south.