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I wonder how much of this reconfiguration/new status quo we're seeing is a conscious gearing up for hot war in 10-20 years. I also wonder if, this being the case, China's decisions will look sound in hindsight

"undercutting a claim"

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An abstract, mystical claim that simply came into being

Absolutely insane how open they have been about meddling in South America's elections lately

Hellworld outcome: make the new Palestine be led by Zionist collaborators that will carry out imperialist aggression on the enemies of Israel that they'll border. The west is now pro-Palestine, and being against this will mean you're pro-genocide of Palestinians

For songwriting, first figure out the rhythm and melody you want, the words can come later. Sometimes you'll also start by finding a phrase or word that you think has a nice cadence to it, and the melody and rhythm will follow from that.

For written poems, a similar approach: what you want from it? Is it rythm? Wordplay? A story? Images? Sounds? What feelings do you want from it? First figure this out, then start from there then build the rest. Similarly with songwriting, you may have a verse or word that has one of the above characteristics that caught your attention, then you build from that to make that feeling stronger or take it to interesting directions.

I think the best tip anyone can give you, though, is to read a lot. Notice what attracts you to the poems you like. Try to figure out if it's certain themes, certain cadences etc.

Tangential, but I was reading this quick interview where Mao shares his analysis of WWII and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and I couldn't stop noticing how similar it is to the whole Ukraine fiasco from the past 5 years.

Basically, Mao argues that the European empires (UK and FR), by allowing nazism to grow strong, were using Germany as an attack dog to weaken Poland, Spain and the Baltics, and were waiting for it to go all in on the USSR so that both would get levelled, then the imperial vultures would swoop in and bask in the carnage. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact threw a wrench in that.

He also predicts (1939) that america was doing the exact same thing once the french and english were dragged into the war - wait for them all to get got then jump in to become the leading empire.

attempted to instruct domestic criminals to smuggle rare earth materials out of the country

I wonder how common this kind of stuff is, with organized crime in South America being so well developed, in a sense. I remember seeing reports years ago of some Brazilian criminal groups expanding to the Amazon and enrolling in gold smuggling with land stealing, air transport operations and all that. No words on where that gold was ending up at, though.

This was a great read. IV and V are the kind of thing that is so obviously correct that it becomes absolutely self evident the moment it enters your head for the first time.

On another note, I now know why communist parties in the global south tend to be maoist

Lula's worker's party in Brazil has both won the lottery and built a great strayegy with the prize.

After Trump announced sanctions on Brazil, the major media outlets of the country, usually very right wing and all obviously ran by land owners, are either echoing the government's communication on the matter, or have Lula on for great interviews about it.

What probably happened is that the sanctions would affect the earnings of one of the classes that run the country: land owners/large farmers. On one hand, they have Lula's party and allies, who have been mostly anti-us imperialism, and Bolsonaro and allies, whose whole thing was promising to give every last bit of our land to Americans. Well, who could possibly be their best bet in this situation? Now the fucking worker's party is seizing the nationalism discussion away from the fascists and wrapping it around some form of anti-imperialism.

The most interesting thing is the situation that is being drawn: it is now in the best interest of the country's capitalists and landowners that they support the anti-imperialist front, and the leftists are actually taking advantage of this to get stronger. Does this seem absolutely insane to anybody else? It might be the weed I may have just now, but this realization blew my mind

I will! 😁