FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
All good points, although I think multiple things can be true, especially when a narcissist like Trump is calling the shots. I suspect he saw the non-renewal as a threat he had to respond to with a disproportionate show of force, and Venezuela happens to tick that box too.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
The backbone of the petrodollar is the deal with the Saudis where they agreed to exclusively trade oil in USD. That deal is no longer in place. Furthermore, Iran is reaching rapprochement with the Saudis, and the Trump tariffs have destroyed US trade credibility. The geopolitics of oil are shifting, and not in the US’s favor.
This is the real reason the US wants to steal Venezuela’s oil now. Their global oil hegemony is no longer enforceable through soft power.
So the petrodollar may not be dead today, and it may cling onto life for another decade, but (to my view) the writing is on the wall.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
The Petrodollar is dying fast though, with some saying it’s already dead.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 days ago:
China is going to flip the script very soon. They have already overtaken the USA on some economic metrics, their industrial power is growing while the petro-dollar is in its death throes and American trade power is collapsing on every front.
America’s only real power remaining is the military, which is incredibly strong, but maybe not enough to exert power over a world united behind China’s Belts and Roads diplomacy while simultaneously dealing with a divided populous at home.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 week ago:
It’s gotta be less dangerous than letting individuals have it. I mean, look around.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 1 week ago:
Just enough to escape capitalism. 5 million invested in stocks means you would never have to work again. Any more than that and you are part of the problem that everyone is trying to escape.
Honestly though, really we should all be working for an escape for our entire species, not individual escape pods.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 weeks ago:
Political posts on shitposts? Who’s got the corn?🌽
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
Well the impression I’m getting from you is that you’re an asshole 🤷🏼♂️
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
Imagibe trying to police other people’s language in 2025
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
Predators yes, carnivores no. Things that eat bugs are insectivores.
Honestly though, almost no mammals are purely carnivorous, herbivorous, or insectivorous. The majority of species will opportunistically eat what is available.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
It’s ok to laugh at satire of racists 👍
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
It’s especially hard for the state to say no because the state is run by the capitalists themselves. They are the same people.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Yep. People love free markets, but they really only benefit billionaires. The idea that free markets lead to a better society is bunk and should be abandoned along with every other capitalist lie.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
64 per cent of Russians say life was better in the Soviet Union than now
Data is better than anecdotes.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
If you say something is bad, you must have some frame of reference to know how bad it is. So if you say communism is bad, we will want to know, “relative to what?” And since capitalism and western hegemony are the dominant systems, naturally they will draw comparisons. And those comparisons will be unfavorable since capitalism is clearly broken and incentivizes great evil.
So OK, we’re still not really discussing the merits and flaws of communism as they stand on their own, but most of you aren’t ready to accept that almost everything you have learned about communism is a lie and you definitely aren’t ready to engage with the actual historical record.
So instead, the arguments revolve around what-aboutisms. Because most of you deny the evidence of your eyes and just listen to daddy. Long before we can delve into how the soviets actually existed in the world, you have dismissed us as “tankies” and stuck your fingers in your ears.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
I think it says more about how Lemmings and other westerners understand authoritarianism. Because capitalist countries are way more authoritarian than any communist country has ever been. Y’all have just been fed lie after lie until you start repeating them yourselves.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
You’re hopped up on that US propaganda, bud. The USSR was democratic from the ground up. Working people’s voices had more power there than almost anywhere else at any other point in history.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
The USSR never intentionally starved its citizens as the US is doing right now.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Why shouldn’t I be offended on behalf of other people? You just were…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
I reported the guy after he doubled down. Waiting to see if the mods will do something or if I will have to block the comm.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Can you say that again without the misogyny?
- Comment on Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting 2 months ago:
No war but class war.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 2 months ago:
God, all you non-Americans really need to stop bragging. I’m way too jealous over here.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 months ago:
If we survive this, it will be because we all gained class consciousness, in which case we won’t have to wonder, we will know what we were thinking, and why.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 2 months ago:
The Democrats have no interest in prosecuting cops because they’re all on the same team. It’s Capitalists vs Us, and the sooner we all realize that, the sooner we can actually start improving the world.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 months ago:
Apple is hardly the giant corporation you want to be switching to, though.
- Comment on kya 2 months ago:
The problem with American tax payers is that they have been taught that selfishness is the highest virtue, especially when it comes to their cars. You see it with the high beams, and you see it with the ginormous toddler-killing trucks.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, nowadays populism is used almost exclusively about progressive ideas that are popular as a way to dismiss them because they’re not profitable or some shit.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 months ago:
9/11 also marks the end of western hegemony as the West destabilized the world and ruined its reputation as a force for good in its pursuit for revenge, leading to the rise of BRICS and other anti-imperial coalitions.
9/11 also coincides with peak imperialism, the final stage of capitalism, which marks the point when increasing exploitation abroad has diminishing returns so capitalists must begin devouring the imperial core, leading to stagflation, enshittification, rent-seeking, and other parasitic activities. This in turn leads to an economically struggling population of former petit-bourgeois, which is a class condition that is especially susceptible to reactionary propaganda, leading to the rise of fascism.
Historians will almost certainly mark 9/11 as the beginning of the end of the American Empire.