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the whole “they were only doing a reading club” thing was from what ive heard and seen something exclusively pushed by trotskyist channels

Yea same here. My take is they were basically mini J6ers.

Literally Air Jordans

Tbf Kolomoysky (and all the oligarchs to some extent) did have a lot to do with it. Yes it was the USA that brought a match but who doused the whole place in petrol?

Ukraine will instead be provided with €90 billion raised through joint EU debt from capital markets.

Jesus fuck you idiots are idiots.

Meanwhile porky happy to make an un-repayable loan backed by some tasty European ports, water, or energy grids mmmMM!

I also much prefer the system that leads the farmer to kill himself. I can save money!

Thanks!

“current events” are from last year

significant lack of understanding of Venezuelan politics

I suffer from the same. I watched Empire Files but that’s about it. Do you have any (short) book recommendations that cover recent history in broad strokes, or would news and wikipedia be appropriate? There’s so much to learn about I hate coming up on 850 page books outlining every single detail of the past 400 years and then finding out it’s written by Lt. Col. Nato McColdwar III.

Does that mean technically that these are all wired (as opposed to wireless) drones??

Seems like the oil was going to Cuba?

How does that work? I mean, what is the relationship between drones and the fibre? Does each drone have to have it’s own fibre or something?

Literally 2 posts up on my feed:

This is great for distracting people from the real reason things are getting worse everywhere.

Hey check this out, might be relevant

https://www.thestatesignal.com/us-vs-venezuela-military-power-comparison/

The Visible Hand

Hobbies? What’s the context here?

Eurolibs just gave Ukraine $100B to burn so the only hobby they’re getting is logrolling. (Logrolling is the cheapest hobby I can think of)

Lina Khan was the best thing that ever happened to me 🥰

See the problem here is that you are sane and rational.

After the bankers’ gigantic, compounded fraud blew up in their faces in 2008-2009, Obama came on TV and said that the government will not step in to bail out people who were underwater on their mortgages, no matter how fancy and ridiculous the loan terms were. This would have cost approximately $1.3 trillion, and the reasoning was that bailing them out would set a bad precedent; that one could take out a loan (or be the victim of fraud and deceptive practices) and not pay it back.* Instead, it was decided that the banks would be bailed out, and the cost for that has been estimated at between 12 & 16 trillion dollars. I know you know this but a trillion dollars is a thousand billion dollars. Just an insane amount of money, not to mention it’s been 10x the amount it would have cost to put millions of Americans into the security and stability of home ownership. In the spirit of American style central planning, the extremely wealthy were made even more wealthy as a result of their abysmal performance at… central planning (designing an economy that not only allowed but rewarded the actions that led to 2008). Between the policy of “we (the fed) buy your (private bank) trash (debt) for 100 cents on the dollar at whatever face value you (private bank) decide” QE and the fact that the US has a sovereign currency which is the global reserve currency it means that the US can “afford” literally whatever it wants, and “the US” now means Trump and his cronies.

I’m not saying this makes sense (what you are saying is what makes sense), I’m saying that I don’t think it has to make sense anymore… as if the past 20 years have “made sense” financially.

• the PPP loans during Covid were literally “here’s a ‘loan’, you don’t have to pay it back”, and you know who those went to.

Ok yea that makes sense

Oh shit, sorry. Internet connection is spotty and i kept clicking Reply lol.