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  • You just said Zelensky was wrong about Europe being unable to compensate for US military aid. Without wading into the industrial capacity issue (which European nationalist redditors refuse to acknowledge), can you explain why is he saying this? Why is the Washington Post saying it?

    Moreover, why is the US unwilling to make these deliveries? Even when pulling out of Vietnam, the US wasn’t running out of weapons like this, it was restructuring the financial system to pay for the war, and unable to match the tenacity of the proud Vietnamese people. What’s going on? Where did all of the Patriot missiles go? Did they fall into the couch cushions?

    While we’ve got you on the line, how many Patriot missiles does the US produce a year?

    You didn’t think we were joking about all this the past few years, did you?



  • Lemmy.ml should abide by Brazilian laws because otherwise they’ll get blocked in that country. I’m not much of a free speech fanatic. Ideally if people post a bunch of Nazi shit then Brazilian ISPs will be legally obliged to block it. The socdems in Brazil are rather lame so I have little faith in all of the “dark humor” Fb and Telegram groups getting nuked.

    I’m not a lawyer, but, if you understand this isn’t even a new law and it’s just the end of impunity for US companies I don’t see why you would frame this as an imminent threat to free speech. That’s why I doubted you read.


  • Quit pulling stuff out of your ass, I’ve been trying to explain this to you because I find the subject engaging. Unc I spoke to you for the same reason I speak to hobos, we’re all human beings, but you were already testing my patience, this is ridiculous. I’m still not convinced you read the article. I’m saying other websites in Brazil have to follow the law, US social media companies have been ignoring it, while enforcing their own code of conduct modeled after US definition of “disinformation” and internet laws. The supreme court of Brazil is enforcing the preexisting laws on them. It seems like you are not grasping the basic details to me or you’re just a lunatic
















  • No I’m not spreading apathy and I support the communist party of Russia as well as the economic development of Asia. Please stop doing the fucking Adam Curtis monologue about how Putin is psychically poisoning society it’s so overdone and irrelevant. Your country has a problem with Russia because it has nationalized its oil supply and other resources, and is contributing to a trade and monetary system that is increasingly independent of the dollar. If Russia stayed in full post-USSR collapse Yeltsin policy mode and refused to develop at all there would be no issue and Germany would take the cheap energy, but that’s just not really possible since the country is one of the few geographically capable of autarky.

    This isn’t a pissing match between countries this is about neocolonialism and Germany’s leadership is fighting for its place within that system rather than integrating based on geography and resources. Stop repeating the same old con to me. Russia isn’t a great power or Sauron to real development economists. It’s just got the kind of backbone Europe and the US have repeatedly bombed out of Middle East and African nations, and just failed to bomb out of Iran. Germany cannot have that backbone until you give up being one of porky’s favorite little slaves.

    Hope this helps


  • Japan essentially committed economic suicide so that its ruling class could continue to benefit from financialization. Lot of theorists predicted that European and Japanese industry would cause issues for the US because they misunderstood how the sovereignty of bourgeois democracies is tied to neocolonial relationships now. Instead it’s China upending the whole system. The infrastructure and social services they provide, the well-structured overall and increasingly industrialized agriculture, the energy autarky you mentioned, this all keeps the costs of its industry highly competitive, but it’s the land reform, management of capital, industry competition, and sustainment of the talent pool through employment, education, and childcare that makes all this possible. Best I can say about Germany is there is a better effort to sustain the talent pool with education and childcare. The rest of the stuff is mandatory and business + political leaders can’t take any deep lessons because admitting that rent seeking is fundamentally fucking up everything is impossible because rent seeking is the whole point of the system they uphold. This problem is as deep as the philosophy, history, economics, poli sci departments in all of these countries, you can’t just push back against economic dogma designed to enable capitalists with wicked policy logic these people are all evil lawyers abiding by the rules, which simply describe what rich people want to do.

    That’s really my whole point, I’m not just starting a pissing match here, although it can be funny. Without understanding where the US first world allied countries fit into global trade, capital & debt flows, we’re just comparing different policies as if we can just select them in a video game research tree arbitrarily.

    I’m sorry but you can’t go behead all of the oligarchs in Russia until you take care of your own. They’re just distracting you. “You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat.”



  • No not Russia, do you even know any other countries? It’s China. If you can’t even read + only understand the most rigid statements, I’m not going to bother.

    Germany cannot do any of the things you are proposing because it is not even politicians who make these decisions, it is investors, who will put their money wherever it is most profitable. Fundamentally this is different from a nation which has capital controls, industrial planning, and is not reliant on energy & manufacturing inputs from lower-income countries. This is why we are seeing industry in the highly financialized core countries decline: it’s more profitable for investors, who are increasing labor costs by charging workers in these countries as much as possible for housing, goods, and essential services. To talk of a concerted effort to make more solar panels or missiles domestically under this political system is just entertainment. A haphazard thought experiment