Is your point to say this is good for the US? Good for Oil companies in the US maybe. On the short term. But oil is a global commodity. The oil goes to whoever is willing to pay. Unless you think Trump is going to nationalize the oil industry. Americans are just as fucked as anyone else. Doesn’t matter where the oil comes out of the ground. It matters who is selling it and who is buying.
That’s not what happens in a crash. I’m not sure what history books you are reading.
Millions lose their jobs. Millions can’t afford housing. Supply chains shut down. Food isn’t delivered to grocery stores. Hundreds of thousands of people die.
The rich consolidate more power and control as the losses are taken by the working class. The profits are private, the negatives of the crash are socialized.
I don’t know where the idea that the stock market crash doesn’t effect people that “don’t own stock” came from. You don’t get to benefit from its rise. But you sure as hell will be treated as meat for the capitalist machine when it’s contradictions hit their breaking point.
Don’t wait for it. Prepare for it.
Here. Hollywood explaining it if that didn’t get through to you.
You’re the people dying. The rich are the guys in the clip.
It serves the interest of capital. The biggest difference between the fascist interest of the past and the present is that capital has globalized to such a degree that there is essentially no loyalty to a nation as you would see in to some degree in the past. If it existed at all really - many American capitalist were aligned with the Nazis more than their own country. Henry Ford being a household name as an example.
Now, this doesn’t mean fascist don’t still use nationalism as a tool. But, the capitalist interest that the fascist protect are the priority and have been disconnected from the imperial core so much that their is no material benefit that they need to offer. The imperial core essentially serves as a speculative financial market and nothing more. Their only value has been reduced to upholding the societal structures that allow that to continue.
They just don’t care about pretending anymore. American foreign policy has always been that of imperialism and colonialism. It only makes sense that those interests have empowered and moved to its most valuable proxy state in Israel. To such a degree that any foreign policy action is now centered around its own attack dogs interests.
The people that say “Israel is controlling American foreign policy” or the people that attempt to explain that “Israel is just the attack dog for American interest” are both right and wrong to a degree.
The conversation based on national interest is just not sufficient to really explain it. It is definitely still important to understanding the past and how we got here. It is important in understanding how national identities still impact media narratives today.
But, the idea of “Israel controls America” is about as useful as “the Jews control America”. The identity of states in our current world is as unhelpful as Liberals of the past aligning with fascist to use Jews, Communist, or any other scapegoat to point to as the problem.
It’s why we are seeing a preparation in the right wing and left of American politics to pivot away from Israel in a post Trump era.
It is only my hope that the socdem politics of Mamdani on the left win out against the upcoming Tucker Carlson anti Israel politics of the right.
America will use Israel as it’s scapegoat for its own Imperialist crimes. This is certain. However, the right will only move into rascism, Imperialism, and fascism further. The leftward movement is the only chance we have to actually hold the true criminals and capitalist oligarchs accountable one day. But, for now, it’s a left that benefits from Americans believing their national identity is still “separate” from the crimes of its military and Israel. We just do not have the level of class consciousness for Americans to understand this yet. The left will not benefit from explaining what I’m explaining now. The masses are not there yet. So a message of “Israel is the problem” is a better explanation at this point. It allows us to combat the anti Israel shift on the right by agreeing with it and offering a better solution.
The masses aren’t prepared for class based explanations. All they will hear at this point would be “Israel isn’t the only problem” while the right falls for simple “what is going on” Tucker Carlson like explanations that allow Americans to feel better that “it’s just Israel”.
I just hope we can build class consciousness before it’s too late. Because fascism doesn’t end with Trump if we get another 4 years of of neoliberalism that follows. The left needs to show it can deliver real material improvement to the working class of America. And right now. That’s only done by agreeing with the post Trump right that “Israel is the problem” and not getting stuck in trying to get people to understand the class based explanation like this comment gives.
Americans won’t be swayed by the moral arguments of the left. They won’t even be swayed by explaining that the billionaires are their enemies. They will only build class consciousness when they see the material benefits to their lives of leftist politics. And their whole lives they have been conditioned into believing that that is something as neoliberal and capitalist as “Obamacare”.
I think the rope they’re selling us might, one day soon, have a net positive impact.
The Cuban people are the best of us.
You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.
AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.
You’re right to point that out
Really weird to think the “China bad” brain rot is only a thing to specifically mistrust during this admin. It’s always been bull shit mate.
If China spies it’s for the same Reason Cuba has or Iran has. The US is the one that invades other countries and fucks up trade routes for the entire world. I’d fucking spy on us too.
If XI would read my comment history; maybe he’d pay me enough to spy, that I can make rent next week.
I’m a PSL and DSA member with an arrest record for staging protests [removed]. About to fly home international tomorrow after being in Asia (China included). Unlikely as a white citizen to have any problems. But, still, not a fun thing to hear my home in Seattle has gotten worse.
Edit: [removed] details that might just be a self dox.
Yeah. It’s hard to tell. But at this point the oil price just drops even though a blockade is in place? Shit is fucking wild. Money has never been more fake.
Not really that simple. Iran wasn’t blocking the strait entirely. They were allowing oil held by or bound for nations friendly to them through, some with a toll depending on how friendly. Some corner cases of some other nations as well. But, even so, a lot of ships just don’t want to take the risk either way. It’s literally a war zone.
A blockade by the US would stop more ships. But it doesn’t seem like that’s actually happening. Or it’s hard to tell right now exactly what is going to happen.
I wouldn’t say it’s a dumb move (in that it doesn’t do anything. It does) but more of a dumb escalation of tensions that the US will likely not follow through on again.
The Trump tactic seems to be to say he’s going to do something extreme and then not actually follow through with it. It looks stupid from the outside. But that’s assuming the billionaire pedophile is trying to do something other than benefit him and his rich friends and family.
We’re watching an admin that is literally just playing games with the world economy (and peoples lives) in order to enrich themselves.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking he’s just dumb. There is more to it than that. Massive amounts of money are changing hands every time he escalates and then deescalates. And knowing when exactly he decides to do that can literally net you millions of dollars in minutes.
This is just a game to them.
Are we even sure if the blockade is actually in place? Like, it’s one thing to say it and another to actually do it and enforce it.
The ship tracking website I use shows 31 ships in the last 24 hours with 15 currently going through it. Which is definitely higher than the day before. I think it was 2.
Like, unless something is actually verified I’m expecting Trump to go live and say “ships are transitioning freely under our control” without anything actually being in US control.
He likes taking credit for undoing the fuck up he created.
Lee’s comments followed a post by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on X, which accused him of digging up a story from 2024 and presenting it as a current event.
So their objection is that the video wasn’t from this week? Israel is really not even trying to pretend anymore.
What if we just, idk, handled those corner cases with something like a human created control system that follows a set of very specific instructions that always produce the same result.
Stick with me here. I know this is a radical idea. But, say you were able to parse the input from the user and map it to the same resulting, let’s call it, function.
So, the user says something like “start a timer for 60 seconds” or “60 second timer please”. Using a basic word mapping we could infer the confidence of English sentences and produce results.
We could even improve our results through automatic user feedback based on behavior and popularity of their mapping choices. Yes.
We could even do this for like multiple “features”. Like have one “function” that maps requests to timers, another to setting an alarm, maybe even something radical like doing mathematical computations.
But, again, instead of throwing the input into a block box that burns massive compute power that we have no control of. We just. Write the box ourselves for very common tasks.
Idk, maybe I’m crazy. It probably wouldn’t work. I’m probably just oversimplifying it.
This is great. But I don’t think Iran is being entirely accurate here either. This whole ceasefire feels like Iran flexing on the US. But I don’t think that they actually expect the US to give into all of the demands.
Iran is “claiming victory” here in the same way Trump has been. But they actually have the leverage. Trump just has to bend the knee though. They won’t let him “look good”. And he’s already crying about this being “fake news”. His ego will never let him do that.
They are basically saying “here is your way out. You’ll look weak as fuck and be our removed”. Or, you can disagree, keep fighting, let us kill hundreds of thousands of your troops on the ground; and then agree to all of this once your economy is in ruins"
They called Trump’s bluff and are now holding all of the cards. They are not going to allow Trump a nice way out of this to claim “victory”. They either force him to look weak as fuck and literally abandon Israel. Or, they continue the shutdown of the strait in a couple weeks.
I think both sides know that this ceasefire will not last. But Iran is being honest and giving Trump a way out. I just don’t think Trump will take it to this degree. He’ll think he can actually win with more war.
Iran has done damage. But unless the US actually accepts all these terms (I don’t think they will). Iran will not have done nearly enough damage to prevent the US from doing this again. And they know that.
They need to actually damage the US where it hurts. With a red stock market. That’s the only thing the rulers of the US care about.
Yep, more money to be made in a war the US is funding and fighting in directly than in some proxy war. Ukraine will get betrayed by the US again and be put in an even worse position than it ever has been.
Why do people think the toddler in charge is not just being directed by his handlers?
Part of me thinks they have him talking to these new “non extremist” leaders of Iran to keep him happy. They just have some fake negotiations for him to do while they setup their invasion plans. Dude, is clearly having signs of dementia, having health problems, and talking about how he won’t get into heaven. I wouldn’t doubt he’s not just being directed by war capital and Christian Zionist promising him he’s doing the work of God of something.
But its not a bunch of people just doing whatever the old idiot says. It’s a bunch of people directing him for their own self interest and profit. Which is primarily aligned with US war profits, Christian Zionist, and Israel. It’s why what he says doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t have to. It just has to go in the direction that is profitable for a few at the expense of the rest of the world.
“Says Iran”.
Dude, says literally every book or law written about warfare since we were using muskets.
Total cuck behavior if they do. This the same country with the leader that made that speech about middle powers working together for peace in the new world order? Same country?
I guess it only matters when the country that is being targeted is a part of the western world like Canada or Greenland. When it’s one of the acceptable victims of Imperialism they can help out.
As an American. We fucking suck. But holy shit do the rest of you western countries deserve us as your leader into the collapse of western hegemony.
All good. Sometimes the context (or lack there of) in which people mention things makes me confuse the intent.