People freak out that China spends a lot on the military even though it’s still a lot less than the US spends, when if we’re using the US as a line for what’s reasonable China could justifiably spend 4 times as much as the US does on their military.
I said so many times in 2020 “Biden can and should have Trump assassinated, it’s a fun and legal thrill! The Supreme Court said so!”
I also maintain that I was correct to not vote for Joe Biden, and that we would be better off if Trump had won in 2020 rather than giving him an his people 4 years to regroup, get angrier, and get more senile, while also not fixing anything and ensuring a Trump victory in 2024.
And that was without predicting that Biden was actually Adolf Hitler and fucking loves doing genocide.
It sucks so bad. I wasn’t trying to a dick like “Oh just look it up,” back when I looked into it it was very easy to find that information
We so quickly went from a world where so much information was easily available to one where it takes special skills and a lot of work to be able to sift through and actually find what you’re looking for.
Lenin is probably the worst example they could’ve used too, like I think this idea could apply better to Marx than to Lenin
That’s not to say it applies to Marx either, just how Lenin’s writings are so prescient in the current moment, State and Revolution could’ve been written yesterday
I read State and Revolution for the first time last week. It could’ve been written yesterday.
Also RIP Lenin you would’ve loved Twitter, he fully writes like our most prolific posters here. That man would’ve thought Maoist Standard English was absolutely hilarious.
Basically every fast food place is close to $15 as their minimum now anyway because if you offer the federal minimum wage you can’t staff a restaurant because that’s not enough money to afford food let alone rent
Which also means there is functionally no federal minimum wage currently
Any minimum wage passed now needs to be at least $20, $30-35 is what’s really necessary
Like, this isn’t a niche claim, this is a documented fact. You can just look it up. You used to be able to just look it up. Now search engines don’t work.
Man ngl sounds like they should surrender and give into Russia’s incredibly reasonable terms that have been basically the same since the beginning of the war
So Kier Starmer and the other people who broke the law by proscribing them will face legal consequences, right?
And the cops that broke the law by enforcing it will also face legal consequences?
The judges who broke the law by sentencing people?
And of course the victims who were illegally imprisoned under this proscription will be able to sue the government for millions of pounds in damages? Right???
Now I’m just some guy but personally if I saw that the workers of one of my most important industries had the power to cripple my country by striking, I wouldn’t make it illegal to strike, I would simply nationalize the companies who are causing the strikes and give the workers their demands
In fact, make it illegal to cause those workers to strike! All strikes are completely and totally the fault of the employer, so put the responsibility on the responsible party.
when you think of postww2 you need someplace to ethnic cleanse the germans towards and that was gonna have to be west and east germany.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean. There were several alternative options to what happened. Germany could’ve been split into more than 2 states and never allowed to recombine. Germany could’ve been partitioned and consumed by neighboring countries. A combination even, large chunks of it being absorbed into its neighbors and then 3-4 Germanys each the size of like, Slovenia.
Hell, The Holy Roman Empire existed within living memory at the end of WW2, they could’ve split it back into ~1800 semi-independent principalities I was misremembering, there were around 25 Germanys before they unified in the 1870s, the HRE had been gone for a while. Point stands though, split them back into those 25. Prussia, Saxony, Oldenburg, etc., although honestly split Prussia into a couple new ones.
In a just world there would be a Truth and Reconciliation Commission of US health insurance employees, and anyone who denied claim or made other decisions that caused someone’s death should be [redacted]
He’s been going hard after Pam Bondi (and Trump) about the Epstein stuff