The UK reddit thread thread is predictably filled with seething rage, mainly about the cop that got hit by a sledgehammer whose spine just did that.
Can't believe a British jury understood that when you defend the genocide factory, you not only deserve to get bonked, but the person who did it is innocent.
The ONE downside to this thawing of relations, is that I truly think a major step in the reconstruction of the British psyche would have been to see the entire Royal Navy turn into artifical reefs at the bottom of the South China Sea... but I'll put my faith in the CPC to have worked out some more peaceful route to civilizing the pirate slavers of the north Atlantic.
Voldemort dying to an obscure legal technicality is a perfect quantum of the liberal worldview - I feel like there's some kind of spiritual connection or a phantom here of the liberals trying to impeach Trump, except in that case nothing happened because in real life the rules don't actually matter and you don't win just cause some arcane trivia says that you should.
Edit: Oh, this is why you should finish reading the thing before you comment, they precisely called exactly this happening. The immortal science wins again!
This is correct, AND not only does the government print new money, it decides who to give it to.
In the US, the government almost exclusively gives this money to banks and financiers to invest for their own profit, especially inflating the prices of stocks, bonds and real estate. All this free money going into these specific markets causes house prices and stock market valuations to continuously increase, but no one calls it 'house price inflation' or 'stock price inflation', they call it 'a good economy' because otherwise it would give the game away. The increase in asset prices relative to wages and the price of goods (which still increase more slowly) means workers end up paying a larger and larger portion of their wages to land-owning financial capitalists. They then have less to spend on actual goods, putting pressure on manufacturers who end up with a smaller market. It becomes more and more difficult to turn a profit by hiring people to actually make things, so the economy becomes deindustrialized.
Alternatively, government could use the money to hire more employees or purchase goods and services, which would cause the inflation of wages and goods relative to assets and cause the formation of an industrial economy. But that would challenge and eventually overturn the control of the economy by financial capital, so it can never be allowed to happen.
I keep seeing a constant churn of "Look how many flag-draped coffins we spent on helping the US in its imperial wars!" posts on the front page of reddit, and I'm trying to decide whether it's organic Eurolibs indignantly pointing out their own servility, or a concerted effort by some intelligence group. It has all the consistency and persistence through a couple of news cycles of an organized propaganda push, but who would be behind it?
It's not hard to imagine the EU or an individual Euro country has the capacity to put this together and that they would have a reason to do so, but reddit is most heavily astroturfed by US intelligence agencies, who should be able to bury these posts if they wanted. Are they allowed because of disagreements within the US national security apparatus on what to do about Greenland and Europe? Do the euros have enough power to post through it regardless? Or does the US simply not care?
My most conspiratorial theory is that it's the US itself pushing these posts, because even while they superficially seem to be negative towards the US, they're actually reinforcing the idea of European loyalty towards their imperial masters, and that it's Europe that most wants this relationship to continue, in defiance of the US who wants to break with them - and once the current crisis is gone, or Trump leaves office, the Eurolibs can joyfully pledge their fealty even more strongly to the US now that it's 'back in safe hands'.
And the wild card is that it's Russia trying to put a wedge between the US and Europe, but compared to the liberal imagination, Russia's propaganda efforts in reality are much weaker and less subtle than this. It would still be extremely funny to accuse Euros of spreading Russian propaganda and trying to sow discord between the Western powers with these kind of posts.
Of course, it could just be organic and I'm still somehow underestimating the craven, kicked-dog moping of the European technocrat class.
I agree with that, there is certainly an element that the material abundance from superexploitation allows the liberal middle classes to be completely ignorant and incurious about the world and geopolitics, in a way that they treat it as an optional interest or almost a personality trait, unlike those suffering under the boot who have no choice but to be confronted by imperialism.
Even state department mouthpieces have to grudgingly admit that even the thing you could wilfully misconstrue as some kind of cultural suppression has already ended
The CIA tried to fund a breakaway sect of violent Islamic extremists, whose main target was other Uyghurs, and China conducted the most thorough and successful deradicalization campaign of all time
The most important thing if Trump annexes Greenland is that any Democrat that comes after won't give it back.
I know, liberals will be physically incapable of remembering the event, let alone processing the contradiction, but it will still be an extremely visible example of imperial interests superceding every trapping of the US's sham democracy.
And I also think, as the US gets more overtly brutal in winning its gains, even if the total body count is lower than in previous wars that had better PR, it will be harder to justify keeping those gains after the bloodied glove of the previous president is discarded and a fresh one put on, especially if they want to keep doing their cyclical Dem/Rep good cop/bad cop routine. Then again, we might just be heading towards the endgame now where the facade of pretending to care about international law is discarded by both parties.
I still remember the moment I joined the dots and realized that all those horrific cartel torture methods originated with Operation Condor and the School of the Americas.
Desperately awaiting the moment a CIA agent gets to experience first-hand the very techniques his predecessors came up with.
I know the fascists won't care, but how will the libs react when losing Maduro doesn't topple the "authoritarian Venezuelan regime" and the people stay loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution?
(It's a rhetorical question, I know they won't even try, their brains will automatically sanitize such thoughts from entering their consciousness)
