Thanks comrade. Hopefully it's the ideas and not because of my weird writing style though I guess it could be that too. That or the spelling mistakes...
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China is trying hard to give the US a slow decline. They've taken direct hits themselves because they want to avoid the confrontation. This would result in a hard decoupling of the US. What would really matter is if India stands with Russia as the US can't afford to attack both. Their supply chains for drugs and electronics would cease to function.
What I worry will happen instead is this passes, the president has authority on how to implement and can grant waivers, they use it very harshly on China, exempt broad swathes of India and use it as a cudgel to beat on Europe further and force them into their orbit and into reliance on their expensive energy imports as well as beating on other countries that want to align with BRICS and Russia and China specifically and thus hastening the formation of a bloc system with increasingly high barriers to trade and India probably allowed to play neutral if they continue to help the west with reshoring from China to India.
So that's my issue, there's almost always discretion and waivers so in practice it would likely be used as an attack on China. They might even given individual Chinese companies waivers to attempt to pressure them to ensure they don't use Russian products or energy and some Chinese firms would absolutely take that deal to keep the US market.
So while I don't think this would make the US implode overnight from sanctioning everyone I do think it passing would be a real win to the war hawk freaks like Graham (one of the closest human beings to being some sort of demon who gets off only on suffering and pain and war) who are also proponents of a hard decoupling and a dramatic near-term confrontation with China and thus a sign of things to come in terms of US policy and intent towards a hard decoupling with China, formation of bloc system, cold war 2.0, then pick off and attempt to destroy the smaller parties in the China/Russia bloc with coups, direct wars/proxy wars, sanctions, color revolutions, etc to isolate, encircle, turn up the heat and destroy them.
They may also think they can engineer a sino-soviet type split between Russia and China but they're absolute fools for that. This won't cause that. If anyone is going to split it will be Russia from China as frankly they have more to gain and as a capitalist nation pushing increasingly reactionary culture on their people means they'll see some difference between themselves and China.
It's because China is selling itself as impartial. They are selling themselves as an alternative to the US who is well known for using sanctions against countries who displease them, countries who do things they don't like, countries run by people they dislike.
China's idea for peeling the world away from US hegemony is offering a better deal. To do that they feel a need to be consistent so that the US has absolutely no examples it can point to of them violating their policy of being impartial and neutral, of not conditioning trade ties on obeying Chinese edicts on domestic policy, on basically trading with everyone fairly and letting countries set their own policies and leaving it to be their internal business.
This kind of selling point is very attractive to many global south countries, some of which may be run by people who are oppressive, the gulf monarchies for example are a group China would like to at least pull closer to their corner.
The second they break this rule for any reason, people start asking questions about why they won't break it for reason x or for country C doing bad things and it becomes a hammer to hit China with from two fronts: 1) That they like the US will try and use their might to influence your domestic policy, that you risk becoming a vassal to China like with the US if you side with them 2) they start getting hammered for doing it in this instance but not in another instance and the US does it in that instance and they start comparing themselves and China starts looking badly and can either buckle and risk significant real-politik consequences being lured into a trap of sanctioning whoever the US pleases or having to weather that storm.
This is a consistent position that places them beyond the morality of individual nations. They believe they need to build their strength first and for US hegemony to cease before they can even conceive of using power that way because any early use and they risk people fleeing from them. Let's remember most nations are capitalist and already have a built-in wariness of siding with or being with a communist power like China over a capitalist one like the US.
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Needless to say this is horribly wrong. Reading Parenti would disabuse you of this to say nothing of actually reading Marx and understanding DiaMat.
Moscow says it won't be pressured over Ukraine 30-day truce --RT
This is foolish. As foolish as Trump's tariffs war. It's trying to bully someone with a strong hand into a deal when they already offered you one. Trying to bluff them in a situation where if they call your position collapses entirely is foolish.
Trump is showing he truly is someone swayed by whoever talks to him last. Zelensky was instructed by psychological experts from western intelligence I'm sure just how to appeal to him at their last meeting.
Russia's bottom lines have been the same since the start and the only change has been the addition of recognition of the eastern oblasts (which Russia within its own legal system incorporated as de jure parts of Russia (under Russian law)) as part of Russia.
I can only assume that this ceasefire is another Minsk agreement deception. They intend to attempt to force it, to re-arm and re-train and re-group Ukraine's military so they can put more of their men into the meat grinder and stall a collapse of the front another 10 months. And quite frankly given all the talk from France and other members of sending in troops once a ceasefire is achieved of trying to push the envelope of the acceptable slowly until Ukraine is de-facto but not de jure part of NATO.
Trump is going to ensure the US gets very little or no minerals to plunder from Ukraine if Russia has to push through to the finish.
I also wouldn't be shocked if Trump is testing the waters with this, says nothing and then when Russia pushes back hard he'll claim he never agreed to that and attempts to leave Europe on the hook for it all.
"This"
Wrong. This is just an attempt to make Netanyahu the problem. To pick him out, to say that the zionist occupation was good and fine but he ruined it, to ignore the reality of decades of apartheid and colonization and settler violence against Palestinians. They're doing this too little too late because there's a problem, too many liberals have seen through the illusion and propaganda and see the genocide, this threatens the whole project. So just blame it all on the current guy then when he's out of power they can say he was corrupt and under indictment and things were bad then but are good now.
There are different definitions of win. I certainly fear nuclear war. But I think the west believes their island chains will strangle China, prevent a break-out beyond the SCS or retaliation against US interests and notch them a win. China will repel them from the SCS, reclaim Taiwan and unless subjected to continued attacks I think it's possible they won't pursue the US much further though who knows. The US will use the fall of Taiwan and the inevitable missile attacks on island chains around China such as Philippines which were used in attacking China/PLA, etc to further justify their presence and cast China as an aggressor and "threat to democracy" and as justification for Russia level sanctions and attempts to economically strangle or at least isolate China and push it into its own bloc which can gradually be attacked and undermined.
China itself doesn't want to put the US in a spot where there is zero relations and incentive for the US to just go sicko-mode so they're likely to go along with the decoupling and ship products for finishing to third countries while counting on US decline. This would allow the US to prevent China from claiming the commanding heights, the name brands, the finished products, and totally removing the US ability to sanction countries by denying them product (China could still sanction but so could US, both would have a veto) and allow the US a very ugly kind of managed decline in an attempt to reclaim greatness.
West still thinks it has tricks up its sleeve. Their special forces people talk vaguely of swarms of AI sea-faring drone-mines they'd plan to deploy in the SCS to totally deny China its use for their navy but I also believe for the purposes of stopping Chinese shipping and forcibly decoupling them from the world.
They're better products when made in China no doubt.
Russia doesn't particularly care. They're not some bastion of progressivism. Realpolitik dictates it's useful to bang the drums of "Russia saved the Jews in world war two and Ukraine and the EU are run by Nazis".
Barbarism.
I fear that RFK is not just a crank put in to create chaos but as an intentional ploy to cull the proles, to make us sicker, to live shorter lives, to be more desperate for healthcare that must be paid out of pocket, to go into medical debt more readily because the only covered healthcare is quackery and the air and water and soil are poisoned.
Just to be extra anti-communist they literally declared it the "national day of prayer". :agony:
Once that happens I expect the west to go nuclear on this.
They've already said it's national security concerns to sell latest AI chips to China and to buy Huawei, they will slap a total import embargo on these chips and I feel most likely ban western companies from developing software for them to attempt to choke their utility. Could lead to a hard forking of Linux at that point among other more interesting things. I also would expect the west to start enforcing their "clean network" initiative on allies a bit out of the anglo-verse, say leaning on counties in Latin America, Africa, Asia, etc as well as individual companies within them to not use Chinese chips, maybe even slapping on sanctions that western software cannot be used in the same institution or in contact with systems using these "dangerous CCP spy chips" to again attempt to lock in markets for themselves, crush Chinese exports, etc.
We'll have to see how the current trade war pans out, it could leave the US in a position where it can't do this, it could leave the US in a position where it can, it could leave it in a position where it's very easy.
It will be an uphill battle, the west has the high-ground in terms of controlling all the major software, the operating systems, gaming, entertainment, productivity, specialized applications, etc and will likely try and leverage that to lock people into a western hardware/chips+software ecosystem. But it's good because it will mean a reckoning and a real fight and real independence for China from the west though it will come at the price of some pain obviously.
Needless to say I don't think westerners will be able to get anything nearing cutting edge or 10-years-recent in terms of these chips due to restrictions.
It's not just about maintaining the edge on high technology, backdoors in chips like these and sitting atop the vulnerability disclosure process allows the west unprecedented hacking abilities and Chinese chips threaten their global hacking and intercept spying network and thus blinding them (as Huawei did by displacing Cisco/Juniper).
I see one Italian Blu-ray rip for that with Italian PGS subtitles. It’s on a pt. It would be possible to ocr the Italian subs then use a translation service to get an imperfect but perhaps serviceable result. I know subtitle edit can do ocr and translate via google for free with lesser results. Otherwise you could ocr, chop into smaller files and feed them to deepl which may give better results.
AFD like many Euro reactionary parties is shall we say racist but pragmatic. They don't care as much as the centrist EU project parties for committing economic suicide just to defend liberalism. They're at least in word (in deed I'm more skeptical) therefore more open to a kind of practical partnership with countries like Russia and China. That doesn't mean they're pro-Russia or pro-China, they're still quite racist and quite chauvinistic about the superiority of "the garden" (though often interested in changing that 'garden' to suppress gays, migrants, etc) and are not free trade fanatics so quite fine with racially tinged protectionist policies but also at least in word with working with China or Russia.
In practice it's hard to say whether they'd actually do this, it might be the US finally pushes the EU bourgeoisie too far and they elevate these reactionary elements who have been steadily gaining steam into a wave of reaction that takes over EU governments and seeks a bit more engagement with China and Russia while still staying in the US sphere.
So glad to hear that comrade! I wish you a speedy recovery. Don't push yourself, give your body attention, take it easy and I'm sure soon this will be behind you.
I don't suppose there's a window you could sit by that might let some sunlight fall on you for a bit every day or so? Not the same as walking but it might be something, a half measure that might give you some of that, maybe a window you could crack open too to get that fresh air and some sunlight in and just sit there in it early morning or evening to get some of that experience.
I'm sorry comrade, I hope you're able to find something that offers a measure of relief for this whole situation though I don't have any ideas other than these I guess. I know personally just sitting outside for a bit at the right hours in good weather can be very refreshing and energizing even without the walking so I'm kind of hoping you might be able to find some solution involving a window and the right time of day.
It’s understandable but well I guess you can try to look at the bright side. Online connectivity means though you’re inside you don’t have to be trapped mentally, you can do so many things. I think just occasionally maybe looking out a window, looking up nature videos online, things like that might help. It’s hard but it’s best not to dwell too much on can’ts and what we can’t do but instead try to find cans we enjoy. I mean it’s bound to be tough and it’s natural I think to feel frustration and not be able to totally get over it or forget what’s longed for but out of reach for now. But you do what you can and try to find little pieces of enjoyment. Maybe try meditation with nature sounds or something. I wish I had more specific advice.
I’m sorry about all you’re going through. Have you considered trying to find some enjoyable social things to do online? Hexbear has movie and TV show watching nights every evening of the week for instance and there are all kinds of other activities from playing chess to chat rooms that don’t have to cost money.
I would avoid catastrophizing about what might happen with a condition. Instead just try and focus on doing what you can to take care of it within what you have and not overdoing it, don’t worry too much and find things to distract yourself with whether it’s reading a book or online activities with others. Try if you can to find little moments of joy or laughter in a comedy show or movie and do what you can. I really hope things go well for you and your appeal works out.
I feel for you comrade but I really must advise you that unless your parents are wealthy and willing to set you up you really need either a HS diploma or a GED. You can get GED's online often. RV's are expensive, even used ones cost a lot of money and there are maintenance concerns. The type of money you're going to struggle to get without a GED or diploma.
I'd recommend if you think school isn't for you that you get that GED, you find a trade, you get certifications in it or whatever and you start working on that path. I knew someone in a similar situation to yours, ADHD, only they lied about college not HS. They had dreams of van-life and things like that but didn't do anything about it and though their parents let them live with them for a while what eventually happened is both retired, felt money was too tight and they moved away and left this person homeless. If they hadn't had an uncle willing to take them in they would have been on the streets and in terrible danger but even so things are not that great for them.
So I'd highly recommend getting that GED since conventional school doesn't agree with you and then picking up a trade. Because life will be sooo much better and easier for you if you do those two things and it'll give you the money and ability to move away from your family and live how you want in a secure way that retail work (where you're often not paid enough to survive and have to roommate up) just often won't in many areas (especially heading into a trade war with tariffs where retail could crash). You'll have so much more to fall back on than without them where you're going to kind of be a leaf on the wind which can sound kind of romantic but for every great writer who has that kind of bumming around and bumping into success as a backstory there a thousand people who are suffering and stuck on the streets sometimes until they die who tried doing the same thing but failed and were abandoned whose stories are never told in our capitalist society. Don't think the odds will favor you, take care of yourself, be safe but get a plan, find a trade, get a GED. It's some work and pain now yes but it saves you a lot of work and pain later and for the rest of your life compared to trying to go without.
Looking at that list darkernations posted, pretty much everything there requires at least high school degree (or GED) and/or on top of that some certifications or community college.
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News of a big restoration of Lenin’s tomb has come out in the past week or so. More generally reverence for figures like Lenin or Stalin in capitalist Russia divorced from what they stood for.