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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • And there’s that western heel turn, right on schedule. Between this and that “Ukraine is testing the patience of it’s allies” article yesterday, it’s pretty clear that US media has now begun manufacturing consent to decouple from Ukraine. We’ve been shipping them insufficient quantities of ammo for a while now, so I guess with the stalling out of the counteroffensive, the Pentagon has evidently decided that the battle lines have solidified, and the final closing of the money spigot, at least militarily, is at hand.

    Most likely some diplomatic deal will be struck in the coming months to preserve the remaining Ukranian territory in a stable enough state for Blackrock and all the other speculators to reap the profit of all their new acqusitions. My heart goes out to the common people of Ukraine, the last ten years have been brutal for them (the coup, the Banderite resurgence, the killing of dissidents and labor organizers, and this meat grinder of a war), and it looks like with “radical privatization” on the horizon, the next ten years are gonna be even worse. I hope they can organize for some quality of life against the megacorporations planning to turn them into a banana republic after the war.

    My second concern, and it’s a concern that’s never talked about until it’s too late, is the blowback. Intervention is never without consequences. America’ funding of fundamentalist militants against the USSR in Afghanistan created Al Queda. Western intervention against Saddamn Hussein (who’s Baath party itself served as a western intervention against pan-Arab nationalism during the Cold War) sparked the Gulf War. The Gulf War set the stage for our invasion of Iraq, and our invasion of Iraq created ISIS. So what happens after the war, when all the leftover Azov guys, these staunch nationalists, look back at the west and see (correctly) the political bloc that put their government into power, sent them juust not quite enough materiel to win the war, and then abandoned their military to the Russian Federation and their people to venture capital? Much has already been written about the dissapearing of American weapons in Ukraine into Europe’s various black markets, and when you combine that with the deluge of newly impoverished, traumatized and radicalized Ukranian combat veterans with an axe to grind against the west, you’ve got a hundred European 9/11s just waiting to happen. Pretty solid chance that 5 years from now, someone shoots down a passenger jet with a secondhand Javelin.


  • Damn you’re right, it’s almost like we need to also restructure society in such a way that prioritizes human need and equitable access to resources and education on an ongoing basis, instead of the maximization of profits at the expense of literally everyone on Earth. It’s a good thing the world isn’t currently being ravaged by an economic order reliant on murder, starvation and inefficiency, otherwise this persistent handwringing about logistics and overpopulation would seem really strange and premature.

    Like dude, no person or faction with the political will to go up against the forces keeping people in poverty is currently in any position to do so. We’re talking about a make-believe scenario, and the fact that even then your mind goes immediately to “overpopulation” is mega sus and indicative of where your priorities are.







  • When was the last time you voted on whether to invade another country, or double the price of food, or to turn something as simple and basic as health care into a luxury commodity until people can’t afford to have teeth? I don’t remember voting to let covid rip, or give tanks and murder robots to the cops, or to ignore climate change for decades. I was never consulted on if we should have the world’s largest system of prison slavery.

    All of these decisions were made for us, at our expense, because they made the donor class more money, and we live in a dictatorship of the rich.

    “The United States is also a one-party state, but in typical American Extravagance, they have two of them.”

    -Julius Nyere, first president of Tanzania




  • The DNC is literally just a corporation and there is absolutely no future for left politics within it’s hostile structure. As the rate of profit continues to fall, they will continue to follow the republicans in implementing fascist policies because those are the short-term profitable policies their corporate owners demand.

    The success of mild democratic socialism in some western countries was a historical anomaly that owed it’s existence to two conditions that no longer exist: the presence of a colonial economic bounty, and the need to complete with the Soviet Union.

    I’m realizing this comes off terse and hostile, sorry, im just typing in a hurry because my battery is dying lol