Analysis I don’t agree with = coping and malding?

This was a phrase I first saw used by Daniel Bessner.

So what message would the average fourteen-year-old take away from Black Ops Cold War? To riff on a phrase coined by Mark Fisher, the game evinces an “imperialist realism” that can’t quite justify American actions abroad, but also can’t imagine a world outside of a militarily dominant U.S. empire. This idea is clearly expressed in Bell’s trigger phrase (“We’ve got a job to do”), which implicitly affirms that in the Cold War, and perhaps in every war, all a soldier can do is put his or her head down and get to work. Though nothing — not the CIA, not the Soviet Union, not even one’s own mind — can be trusted, no other world is possible, so you might as well support your own empire. https://www.thedriftmag.com/the-cultural-contradictions-of-call-of-duty/

The biggest degrowth guy is Kohei Saito. Check out his book, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

I mean, we live in an incoherent time, which can make incoherent ideas like MAGA Communism become relevant. Haz and Hinkle are probably supported by a LaRouchite group (is that itself an op?), but are they funded by some elites to tarnish communism with conservatism? I’m open to that possibility if there was concrete evidence to suggest it

Sounds a bit conspiracy brained to me

Start making love instead

My two favorite Democrat sheepdogs

I don’t know if you’re in the mood to read theory, but if you are, I would recommend Stigma by Erving Goffman to better understand/contextualize these feelings

Huh, that’s a much more sophisticated understanding than what I’ve learned in school. I’ll check out the dialectical biologist

Yeah you’re right, this is not really that rigorous

That graph is interesting but I think it’s beside the point for this discussion. The question is not the level of income inequality but which families occupy the high status positions/accumulate the most wealth in a given society. In the case of China, ‘elite’ simply refers to the families that had status/wealth before the Cultural Revolution, lost it for a generation during the CR, and somehow got it back a generation afterwards.

Why BLM and the statistics book?

This kinda sounds like BS. Article doesn’t mention economic relations changing. If China is still Israel’s second or third largest trading partner, can one really say they are burning all their bridges?

China does have a boom-bust cycle now https://kanebridgenews.com/chinas-40-year-boom-is-over-what-comes-next/

Ok yeah that makes sense

and there is not a community of people for you to fall back on in times of need.

Doesn’t family fit this role for many people?

I welcome this, actually. More people should learn the distinction between liberals and leftists

Why are you continuing this beef?

I would do the same tbh

Pretty funny cross-posting it here