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The late stage capitalist era may be coming to an end faster than we thought.

Don't quote me on this, but Donald Trump's trade war will be the nail in the coffin of American dominance. Even by right-wing economist standards, his new policy is doomed to fail. We've all seen the analyses - isolationist trade policy in tandem with full austerity, no spending to boost industry, etc. In short, economic suicide, and a move even Reagan would have even dismissed as such. America is now a pariah on the world stage.

The interesting take that I've come to agree with is that Trump is the first postmodernist president. However, beyond MAGA's cultish mentality, I believe it goes a lot deeper than that. The ideology he and his ilk (eg Musk, Thiel, Land, Moldbug et al) adhere to, which is Austrian economics taken to its logical conclusion, is inherently postmodernist. Reject material and empirical critique. Pursue self-interest at all cost. Project your beliefs and view of the world as what's better for everyone else. If anything interferes or obstructs your path (eg government agencies and social welfare), it must be eliminated. That's how we got tax burdens shifted on the worst off, oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, rampant advancement in artificial intelligence, for-profit health insurance, etc.

At the same time we see China, a communist country with a controlled economy but some level of market, on the up-and-up. Trump just tried to hit them and the rest of the world with economic warfare, and it was the most pitiful thing ever. The tariffs ended up effecting the US more than them. He gave every country a massive middle finger and they severed trade ties with us. New economic alliances are being forged as a result, with China at the center of it all. China will become the new top dog and the US will be left in the dust.

At this point, the time has never been better to say it. Austrian economics has failed. A society with zero accountability where oligarchs control everything is destined to fail now more than ever. It's not a matter of "if" anymore, but "when". The short-lived trade war is the straw that broke the camel's back, and now everyone is waking up and realizing it. We now have a high ground to stand on to prove communism works.

Glory to the Chinese Century.
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>>2275217
I just come to say I love the way the dragon seems to be , not menacing, but cringing and kind of concerned.

>>2276276
>>2276412
in a way these economists were the proto post modernists. not that post modernism is a sharply defined term anyway.

>>2275246
As a loose thread that unwinds all empires. Even China isn’t safe.

>>2275217
Another point. The trade war has also exposed the moral relativism and reactionarism of American conservatives. Now, I'm no moralist by any stretch, but it is important to note that the country has crossed a Rubicon along those lines.

This is not a new phenomenon. The country has backslid into this way of thinking since the Cold War and the rise of the PRC, USSR, DPRK and Cuba - there was the Red Scare, Cointelpro, etc. The erosion of the country's institutions, however, was not due to socially liberal movements, but rather the institutions' reaction to them. It began with Tricky Dick Nixon, notorious for the Watergate scandal. He privatized the healthcare of the country, colluding with Kaiser to bring about the advent of healthcare industry. This clearly malthusian effort denied coverage to the worst off in America. This was followed by the Reagan admin's oversight of the at-large privatization of basic services, the botched oversight of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the creation of the book of dirty tricks conservatives use today. Following the eight years of Reagan, no real leftist worth their salt would ever have a chance of winning a seat in government without addressing law & order, taxes, etc.

This has ultimately culminated in where the country is today. A nonexistent middle class, a nonexistent social safety net, and an oligarch class sitting above even the top one-percent with the government at their fingertips. And now the people are getting louder with their responses (see vidrel). Say what you want about Luigi, his act is the first domino to fall in creating a revolution in this country. It may not be overtly leftist, it may not even be victorious, but it will most certainly be violent.

"But I thought the left was supposed to be tolerant," they say. "I never harmed anyone," they say. This is their trick. They don't have to be held to any moral or ethical standards, only their enemies do. They can claim all they want that they don't harm people directly, but their control over people's lives and the policies they push do. They will have their day of reckoning, because when corruption is normal, everything is legal. No matter how many times they claim innocence, they will never be good people.

>>2275217
>Don't quote me on this, but Donald Trump's trade war will be the nail in the coffin of American dominance. Even by right-wing economist standards, his new policy is doomed to fail. We've all seen the analyses - isolationist trade policy in tandem with full austerity, no spending to boost industry, etc. In short, economic suicide, and a move even Reagan would have even dismissed as such. America is now a pariah on the world stage.

I think it's too soon to make this kind of judgment. Imo, the old neoliberal economic order is reaching its absolute limits. The most recent presidential elections wasn't a contest between Republicans and Democrats so much as it was between billionaire radicals and status quo conservatives.

2008 was the turning point where neoliberal capitalism failed, and its been living on borrower time since then. In that period, all the economic processes which created the crisis in the first place have only continued, and also grown more tumorous by nearly two decades of economic subsidies. The result is that institutions which were too big to fail in 2008 have become bigger, more dilapidated, but even more economically integral and politically influential. These circumstances have created an existential problem for the US economy and everything which that entails.

To give an example, in spite of vastly outspending Russia on its military, the US and the rest of nato are unable to defeat it in Ukraine. The US's attempts to upgrade its military equipment have also mostly been failures, and extremely expensive ones at that. Now in conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen, and Pakistan, its wonderwaffe have shown to be no better, and in some cases even inferior, to what its competitors are producing at a fraction of the price.

The serious danger for the US here, which I think sections of the Trump faction have realized, is that if the US can't unilaterally exert its will and order the world according to its business needs, then the economy as we've known it is doomed. The inferiority of American products has been a given and even a joke for a long time, which is not so much a problem so long as people either have no choice but to buy them or can be forced to buy them at the barrel of a gun. Competition though is poisonous to the monopolies which dominate the American economic andPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



 

Notorious ex-communist rat David Horowitz passed away yesterday.

Parents were CPUSA members who raised Horowitz to be a Stalinist. After working with the BPP and the 60s New Left, Horowitz betrayed the Panthers and went on to shill for Reagan and the Neocons.

Hope he’s burning in the lowest levels of Gehennom.

Press S to spit on his grave.
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>>2276963
Unironically yes.

>>2276760
Radical Son uses a lot of standpoint epistemology, Horowitz claiming he "knows the left best" because he lived it and re-examined it when it got too hot for him. He uses the "re-examined" trope a lot, actually. A lot of it revolves around him trying to prove how morally superior he is.

I'd say Witness is more about Chambers ranting about the evil metaphysics behind communism and how he left it when he saw the "truth" of Christianity.

>>2248657

Hell doesn't exist. Do something or keep coping.

>>2282148
If hell doesn't exist, then where is Henry Kissinger currently burning right now? Checkmate.

>>2280948
What I find striking about both books is how much Chambers and Horowitz lambast intellectuals and intellectual thought while praising “experience” as the antidote. It’s like standpoint epistemology for right-wingers.



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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅
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Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the pharaoh of proxy wars, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka

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>>2283011
most americans have lead poisoning regardless of generational cohort. haven't you heard the news about rice and toothpaste?

>>2283040
i thought rice has arsenic in it, not lead

>>2283041
it has both, cadmium too

>>2283046
it's ok, i'll keep eating that garbage

>>2282600
these 3 foot beds drive me crazy. i can fit more 2x4s in a corolla



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The genocide being committed by Israelis is unprecedented in human history. Never before have we seen such shameless savagery on open display. I believe in a one state solution, but I'm pessimistic that Israelis will ever accept and live with Palestinians as equals. If they had wanted to, they would have accepted a OSS in 1948 and not committed the nakba. I feel like the only solution is to relocate Israelis to the US or repatriate them to their pre-48 countries of origin. 90% of Israelis support Zionism. And Zionism at this point is inherently imperialist and genocidal. This is a population that has gone beyond the point of no return.
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>>2281389
Why would NATO allow that sort of infighting when they hold all the cards themselves? It was benefitial to NATO to break down Yugoslavia and balkanize it along reactionary lines. The opposite is true for Israel.

>>2281400
Because a strong israel is becoming a liability. Turkey is on the verge of creating a soft power ottoman empire because of Israel. What the west wants is a jewish state that shuts the fuck up and stops antagonising its oil-supplying neighbours. At least nowadays.

>>2281413
>that shuts the fuck up and stops antagonising its oil-supplying neighbour
That is the literal reason why Israel exists though. To keep the compradors in line and exert NATO's influence over their politics so they can keep being western clients. You may aswell believe that NATO wants to demilitarize Ukraine and Taiwan so they stop being obnoxious attack dogs.

>What is to be done with Israelis?
Extermination.

>>2274738
How are they supposed to live with people who overwhelmingly support brazen genocide? https://archive.md/yI4Dy (translate it)



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US Banana Giant Chiquita Fires Thousands of Striking Workers in Panama
Citing an unnamed source close to Chiquita, Reutersreported that the mass firings are expected to impact around 5,000 of the company's 6,500 Panamanian workers. José Raúl Mulino, Panama's right-wing president, defended the banana giant formerly known as United Fruit, accusing striking workers of unlawful "intransigence." The company estimates that the strike, which began in late April, has cost it at least $75 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/chiquita-fires-striking-workers

Petro blocks guerrilla leader’s extradition to United States
Petro decided to block H.H.’s extradition on the condition that he continues to contribute “verifiable contributions and concrete results in the achievement of total peace,” said Petro’s decision on the extradition request. If “his participation is interrupted or his contributions to the total peace process cease,” authorities will immediately arrest and extradite the guerrilla leader.
https://colombiareports.com/petro-blocks-guerrilla-leaders-extradition-to-united-states/

Bolivian gov't announces measures to curb ongoing crisis
Key actions include deploying 1,480 additional military personnel to border patrols to curb the smuggling of 17 essential food products, alongside digitalizing transport permit records; normalizing diesel and gasoline supply in La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz by May 26; authorizing savings products tied to UFV (Unidades de Fomento a la Vivienda) to preserve purchasing power; engaging the National Chamber of Industries to support implementation.
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/05/24/bolivian-gov-t-announces-measures-to-curb-ongoing-crisis

Indian troops shoot dead Pakistani man crossing frontier, officials say
The shooting occurred two weeks after conflict erupted between the two nuclear-armed countries that led to four days of violence and more than 70 people being killed bPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Trump Greenlights US Steel Merger Despite Union Warning of 'Corporate Sellout'
United Steelworkers international president David McCall said in response to Trump's announcement that "we cannot speculate" about the details of the arrangement. But he reiterated the union's concerns that "Nippon, a foreign corporation with a long and proven track record of violating our trade laws, will further erode domestic steelmaking capacity and jeopardize thousands of good, union jobs."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-us-steel

US citizen detained by immigration officials who dismissed his Real ID as fake
According to an interview with the Spanish-language US news outlet Telemundo, officials took out his wallet, removed his ID – which complies with higher federal security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses as well as identification – and told him that it was fake.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/us-citizen-detained-ice-real-id

Lawsuit challenges USDA demand for food stamp data as some states prepare to comply
In new guidance issued earlier this month, the USDA told states they must turn over data to the agency, through their third-party payment processors, "including but not limited to" names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses of all applicants and recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, going back more than five years. More than 40 million people rely on the assistance each month.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407994/usda-doge-snap-nutrition-privacy

DNC to vote on whether to redo election of David Hogg as vice chair
Kalyn Free, a losing candidate in February's vice chair race, says the two were elected under a flawed tabulation process, but Hogg alleges the move is linked to his efforts to reform the party that include plans to spend $20 million to primary older Democratic Congress members.
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More than leaked secret memos are needed to rescue Labour’s mission
IT SEEMS that the winds of discontent have finally started to blow around the Cabinet table. It is dawning, partially and belatedly, on Keir Starmer that he has made a mess of governing. It is also dawning on his colleagues that they might be plunged into a struggle over the keys to Number Ten well before the next general election. First, there has been the possible U-turn over the cut to the winter fuel benefit, announced last year. It took away assistance from 10 million older people, many of whom relied upon the benefit at a time of soaring energy costs. There are hints of more capitulations to come, perhaps even on the cruel two-child benefit cap. Starmer is claiming that these course adjustments are now affordable because the economy is improving. Given that this week’s figures have shown both inflation and government borrowing rising by more than anticipated, this is, like so much the Prime Minister intones, unlikely to be true.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/more-leaked-secret-memos-are-needed-rescue-labours-mission

Behind the Enemy Everywhere: Return of Palestinian External Ops?
In 1971, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) published an issue of its journal Al-Hadaf, dedicating its second edition to the topic ‘The PFLP and External Operations.’ The piece explored the Front’s rationale and its responses to the varied reactions surrounding the operations it had launched since July 1968. Operations that included hijackings and bombing Israeli companies and embassies across Europe. The Front’s response focused on its fundamental principles, chiefly, the nature and definition of the enemy. According to the PFLP, the enemy camp is a triad: The Israeli Entity (Zionist movement), global imperialism, and Arab reactionaries. This, the Front argued, was a precise diagnosis of the conflict. Consequently, it maintained that targeting the enemy should not be restricted by geography, since the enemy itself had made the entire world a battlefield. The second pillar of the PFLP’s reasoning concerned media and mobilization: external operations, far from tarnishing the Palestinian cause, were in fact a form of revolutionary media that forced the world tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna

Patrick Lancaster is in India right now



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Yeah we aren't seeing a revolution or social democracy, we are just gonna get gradual radicalisation until some dickhead puts an end to british "democracy" once and for all. Anyways here's Wonderwall.
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>>2282436
everyone is vulnerable to being labelled a racist.

>>2282436
here you go ,what do you reckon to this?
I am going to stay out of the next thread and leave you commies to your discussions.

>>2282444
its an accurate headline. "racism" is a *particular*, not *universal* claim then, as we see.

>>2282447
It's not a real headline, I edited it to be on par with the ricky jones one.



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I am firmly convinced that the majority of Syrians and Iraqis were at least partially okay with it. Always found it sus how we witnessed the most savage entity with proof of barbaric acts and how quickly it has been forgotten. You keep hearing about Tianamen (which was a big nothingburger) and other mild stuff but this concentrate of atrocities had a few documentaries on it in 2013-2016 and then nothing.
Truly sickening how slave markets, rapes, beheadings, child soldiers etc have been minimised, all to focus on getting rid of Assad.
Never forget.
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>>2277534
>THE PEOPLE LIKED IT
no they didn't.
>I am firmly convinced
by who and how.
>majority of Syrians and Iraqis were at least partially okay with it.
where are the referendums, polls, and societal studies backing it up.
>Always found it sus
I found you sus.

>>2277596
because al-qaeda is a true representation of nato, turkey spearheading it. the Taliban had a tiny wish of self-determination.

>>2277793
small brain take
>>2277637
face the facts Hakim
>>2277602
there were many westerners but the majority was still local lads
it was a pure Sunni fanatic group
We do not like the West but there is no need to fall in this conspirationist "it was CIA all along" nonsense

>>2277902
Actually I agree with OP in some regard. Considering Hakim would 100% side with ISIS

>>2277540
The jihadoids are a means for hwitey to keep Arabs and Africans savage and primitive



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Depression is just another variant of the mental illness that afflict white "people" and their awful way of life.
>Atomized nuclear families
Kek. Birth rate 1.4, median age 45
>African is chilling outside his hut in Africa, demonic Europeans force him to join wage-slave labour to pay tax
>Aztec is going about his business in his hemisphere, demonic Europeans destroy his world in order to dig rocks from the ground and practice monoculture
>East Asian wants to isolate himself from the world, demonic Europeans force him to open up for trade and globalization
>Pajeet is contained by the Himalayas worshiping his plethora of gods, demonic Europeans make him center piece of his colonial-globalization system for some spices
>Arab is tied down by Islam routine, demonic Europeans destabilizes his world for crude oil
>Only hominid known to kill wildlife for fun. Literally nobody else does trophy hunting
The end of the white "people" in 200 or so years will be a great thing. We'll remember them as just another dysgenic inferior hominid that fell off.
>skin literally melts in the sun
Lol
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Western europeans are the closest thing this world has to tolkien orcs: a bunch of civilizations hellbent on spreading destruction and misery. Savages that worship the act of killing and stealing so much that they call it "conquering" and honor their great killers with that word.

>>2281971
It's funny because westoids are getting more mutted (orcs being mixed breeds) every generation, so the it becomes more fitting

>Construes imperialism and colonialism as a vice universally enjoyed by the entire Caucasian populace instead of a handful of petit-bourgeois venturists, noblemen and plutocrats in order to rationalize the mindless transgression of an entire race of people
You're all mentally confined to the liberal systems you beguile yourselves into being divorced from, in turn revealing how american you all are.

>>2281971
You're not good at either of the things that you're potentially trying to do here.
Stop embarrassing yourself.




 

https://archive.ph/DDpl7
>‘It’s a Weird Time to Be Rich Right Now’
>When the one percent starts to feel paranoid, Clay Cockrell is the first to hear about it. A therapist who specializes in treating the neuroses of the ultrawealthy, Cockrell says that many of his clients are in the privileged position of getting freaked out by eat-the-rich sentiments these days. “The Birkin bags are going into hiding,” he says. “I’m seeing a lot of people increasing their security and privacy. They’re worried about being too showy, too flashy.” One client is driving a ten-year-old Toyota and leaving his Lamborghini in the garage; several others have put away their multi-carat diamond rings. They’re all posting less on social media.
>A real-estate agent who sells luxury properties in the tristate area is seeing the same thing. “It’s a weird time to be rich right now,” she says. “All the wealthy people I know are keeping their cards closer to the chest.” Sure, maybe they’re a smidge unnerved by the economy’s flashing red warning signs, but they’re largely immune to such things. “When people have that much money, stuff like inflation doesn’t really affect them,” she says. What they do care about, though, is being judged for their conspicuous consumption. “When the whole world is crying poor and you’re living your life in this wealthy bubble, it’s really frowned upon,” she says. They’ve all seen The White Lotus. “No one wants to be like that.”
>Obviously, the idea of the über-wealthy wringing their hands about looking too rich is maddening in itself. But many of them don’t know exactly where to turn. One multimillionaire I spoke to, who owns about $15 million in Florida real estate, told me that he’s taking extra precautions to be low-key. “We’re just kind of standing around with our hands in our pockets, not sure what to do,” he says. “We’re not taking any vacations this year. I’d like to, but my wife thinks it’s a better idea to just stay close to home and not spend a lot.” They’re not anxious about their expenses, he says. “It’s more that we don’t want to rub it in people’s faces or draw attention to ourselves.”
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>>2282058
Wrong. Marxists support big capital against the petty bourgeois in most cases, NEVER the opposite.

>>2282074
sure, 'centralization' is something only the petit bourgeois whine about, but concerning yourself with choosing sides as a proletarian/communist is still stupid

I don’t know how anyone can tolerate being a therapist for these people. The money must be good.

>>2282073
“Kill Musk” sounds like a punk rock band

>>2282074
fake news. you are saying marxists support the ruling class

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Can we admit that weed culture sucks and is actually destructive for society's well being?
Alcohol sucks too. Drugs shouldn't be banned but drug subculture is cringe. Drug addiction shouldn't be a culture. Psychoactive substances only increase mental health problems and are a detriment for your body. Not saying the end goal of life is to be productive but every stoner I know from high school has seriously failed to even achieve the most basic of everyday tasks such as cooking and self grooming. It's why the crusty stoner who reeks of sweat and pot is a well known stereotype.
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>>2238387
>Granted, I started smoking in my twenties rather than in my teens; kids really should be kept away from substance
I think this is the big difference, where now, at least in the US, like every vape store has some shitty HHC/D8/THCa vape where it's so accessible where you have teenagers burning out their brains on it where they just don't grow up.

>>2238383
Drug addictions are not idpol but close. Its a healthcare issue socialism will hopefully fix by giving everyone access to treatment.


Can we ban OPs like this, mods? Thank you.

>>2270788
>Its a healthcare issue socialism will hopefully fix by giving everyone access to treatment
It is the treatment for some of us you colossal pricks.
t. MS&Epilepsyanon



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