The future sucks
queermunist she/her @ queermunist @lemmy.ml Posts 8Comments 7,208Joined 2 yr. ago
queermunist she/her @ queermunist @lemmy.ml
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The women in that country would be better off without the US constantly attacking them.
The US empire is collapsing. I really doubt they actually want the empire to fall and for us to enter the Chinese century.
I start from TPOASIWID and then try to disprove it by methodically examining the system. Basically, it's my Occam's Razor.
A bin of reusable cloths would also work - each cloth gets used once and then put in a dirty bin to be washed later.
What I've seen is an endless parade of liberals screaming China is "on the verge of collapse!!!1" for over a decade and I've seen the reality of China only becoming better over the same time period. There's no basis for your claim, it's just part of that same endless parade of anti-China propaganda we've all seen before.
And what I've seen is China become more powerful and life in China get better over that same time, while all those liberals kept screaming that China was going to collapse. I was a typical anti-China Western Marxist before COVID. The pandemic revealed that China is actually still a socialist project and that politics are in command when they shut down the economy instead of marching workers to the deaths, saving countless lives and advancing Chinese life expectancies above the US. That changed everything for me.
And over that same period I've seen the US get worse. In fact, it's basically gotten worse over the entire time liberals were screaming that China was on the verge of collapse. This is an empire in decline and everyone can see it, so even if you're anti-China I hope you can recognize the US is on its way out.
And soon enough, something else is going to happen that will give you the same experience. China isn't going to collapse, it's just going to continue peacefully developing and surpassing the US in more-and-more ways.
I don’t even need to win this argument, history will do it for me.
China is dying
Hahaha y’all been saying that for a decade already don’t you get bored?
Your only argument seems to be "well there's only 50 stars on the flag, so, checkmate 😏". Israel isn't a real nation, it's just an extension of the US empire. Israel literally can not exist without US support and the US will give Israel unlimited support no matter what. They're intertwined so deeply that they can't be separated. Israel would collapse the instant the US stopped propping it up.
I repeat, it's not a real country. It was created with the stroke of a pen and will end with one. Israel's crimes are US crimes.
You don't get it yet, but I think you will. I don't even need to win this argument. History will do it for me.
We are talking about Israel, because we are talking about the US. It's the 51st state. You don't get to separate the two as if they are totally different countries that are unrelated to each other. Israel's crimes are US crimes.
Israel can go fuck itself too, they are worse at the moment.
The US is directly responsible for the innocent people that Israel kills. It's the 51st state. They are so fundamentally connected and Israel is so deeply reliant on the US for economic and military and legal connections that it is impossible to separate the two.
Israel would probably cease to exist if the US didn't give them unlimited backing and support.
You know what that means? That means it's not fucking """whataboutism""" to bring up Israel! Israel's crimes are US's crimes.
Israel runs over people with its US tanks and it's the 51st state, so, let's not throw stones in this big shitty glass house?
So if it's not really an event
And it's not really a math problem
What the hell is it??
Yes, printing more money for hospitals would liquefy the whole economy into jello.
The value of money floats on the market - supply and demand.
On the supply side the government creates money when it funds programs and destroys money when it collects taxes. Importantly, taxes don't fund programs. Programs are funded by fiat and taxes are a way to reduce the supply of money in the economy.
On the demand side, funding programs creates economic growth and taxes must be paid in the currency being printed. Printing money doesn't create "national debt" or whatever, it creates jobs and investment and growth by funding essential services.
Taxation acts on both the supply and demand side of the problem. The way to control inflation is taxation, not austerity. Austerity, in fact, can make inflation worse because it shrinks the economy and reduces demand for dollars i.e. stagflation.
Printing money for the hospitals would be immensely positive. It would create economic growth by giving people longer and more productive lives (which means economic productivity), on top of employing more hospital staff and creating demand for more pharmaceuticals and equipment, which in turn creates jobs for pharmacists and equipment manufacturers, etc etc.
Someone lied to you when they told you we can't afford to fund the hospitals.
Now, money doesn’t explain everything of course – perhaps there are some racially-linked diseases that are underfunded, and here “TPOASIWID” serves an explanation, but a rather bad one because it doesn’t actually explain anything. ... “The purpose of the hospital is to have institutional racism” doesn’t make sense at all – it’s the purpose of institutional racism to infect the hospital, and the purpose of leftists to purge institutional racism.
The purpose of hospitals in Canada is to have institutional racism. That doesn't mean that the concept of hospitals is racist and I think we can be a little more granular than defining all hospitals as racist.
It’s a brazen assertion that whoever is running the world is doing things exactly right and simply can’t fail.
Yet you do the opposite, you're making the credulous assertion that whoever is running the hospitals is trying their best and they aren't intentionally killing people. You do it again here:
But TPOASIWID just leads one to conspiracy theories: since the War on Drugs basically just got a lot of black people thrown in jail, then surely all those people who claim to hate drugs must actually just hate black people, and not drugs at all!
"Whoever is running this War on Drugs is simply doing their best to stop drugs and they aren't intentionally filling the prisons with Black people. They certainly aren't running drugs and guns for cartels to fund CIA off-the-books operations in Latin America!"
You're very trusting of the people in charge and this is why TPOASIWID is so useful - it makes me skeptical of powerful people. At the very least it should be one of the ways you approach systems when you try to understand them, even if it isn't the only one. I certainly don't assume the people in charge are perfect and that everything is going Just As Planned!
Not sure about what? The US is certainly getting replaced, and we'll all be better off if the Great Satan isn't the center of scientific progress.
The fact that the majority of people don't believe in this stupid shit should tell you that, actually, the majority of people are informed.
There's just this persistent and very loud minority of morons who only trust other more charismatic morons who tell them that ivermectin is actually the panacea.
It's okay. Europe and China will replace the US and the world will be better off.
Honestly fucking stupid.
You think these hogs care that you removed the content? It's not about the content! They just hate public media! You can never conform to their standards because their standards are solely about privatisation.
With friends like these...
Oh, I think Israelis are a lost cause.
The only thing that will convince them is defeat. I'm more interested in convincing concerned Westerners, who seem more wishy-washy about Israel.
America has the right to become part of Canada.
Except Canadians don't seem to want that.
What do you think "river to the sea" means? It means Israel will become Palestine again.
That is simply not true. The government may print arbitrarily much money, but due to inflation that will not necessarily fund everything. Who would accept worthless money in exchange for services?
But that still begs the question of "would printing money for hospitals produce enough liquidity to cause runaway inflation (almost certainly not)?" and "why fund this and not that?" and "why do we collect taxes instead of letting inflation do the exact same thing?" or even "so what stops the government from using price controls to fight inflation instead of just austerity?"
There are answers to these questions, but without TPOASIWID these questions never even get asked.
When I see somebody say that phrase, I assume they have no interest in learning more about the system as they already have the only answer they ever need.
Is that what you're seeing from my comments? I think I've shown you that this heuristic can be useful for raising further questions!
When I see people not using this heuristic I see people fall for lies.
That's why I say it has a right to become Palestine. It will still exist, sort of, but in a revolutionary new form.
And Israelis can become Palestinians.
Assuming they aren't just settlers that moved there recently to steal land, of course.
This sounds like a way to get food poisoning.