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the american empire will be destroyed by the american empire. Same with Israel. The tragedy is the innocent people that get caught up in the fascist death drive.

Trump is over the fucking moon. This is exactly the sort of distraction he and the other pedos needed from the attention Epstein was getting again.

This is so fucking awesome. Rest in piss shithead.

this motherfucker is dead dead lol

The renewed and rightfull outrage over Epstein is good. Anything that hurts the pedolites is good. Anything that makes it harder for that fucking demon Maxwell and her demon family to get her out of prison is good. Exposing Epstein and the absolutely vile depths that Mossad will sink to for the sake of their genocidal project is good.

about fucking time

Lol. I do get the feeling that people think I'm a bit weird. But yolo

This is fuckin hilarious. Charisma can carry

Also I hope this movie is more like the director's weirder, older films like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (for when I pirate it)

I mean I get why communism is a turn off to normies. Politics is boring and depressing especially if you actually understand what's going on. And people want their treats and to have fun. But I for one will never stfu about communism

It's all good. I just needed to read that to understand your points here

Look how much embodied labor the countries outside the imperial core are losing(bottom right). China is the largest contribution, but they are getting out of this. US wants to stop that and keep the flow going. Other countries can't replace this. They are already paying tribute themselves. Once it's over, it's over.

Which I agree with. I just think that starting a war with China to reverse this trend is kind of insane right. And with other countries not being able to replace this its almost like the west would want China to willingly be the modern India to the British empire.

Your points about moving capital not being a simple thing and was functioning as a profit generator are true. No argument from me there. But there are so many factors at plwy and I can't prove it but I think the deciding factor is racism and the need for white western countries to maintain white privilege. There is a deep paranoia there and nothing is clearer than the treatment of African Americans by the fucking Americans. Like I know you know as much or more about slavery than me. But imagine that the current discourse in mainstream politics is not even about reparations but actually further emiseration of African Americans. This is a deeply racist and sick society. Europe too with their Arab migrants. Destroy the middle east and villify the people fleeing their homes because of your actions. Maybe im doing an Occam's razor meme here but I do think that western countries would rather die trying to maintain their superiority than being equals in a new system. And controlling the population seems way too easy for right wingers (eg hate migrants/LGBTQ as opposed to your landlord enslaving you). So even if the population of these countries is not that racist they can easily be made racist due to dog whistles and the emiseration caused by the ruling clas themselves. Anyway I'm starting to ramble. But this got me thinking

Yes, but it is the economic hegemony that is threatened, not the military one.

So the way I see it is that the economic hegemony is threatened. This is not a problem because they see China as communist but because the economic hegemony will shift to a non western country. The economic hegemony moving from one economic center to another is not an issue for capitalists that can move their capital to the new center (assuming as I said they do not see China as communist threat, which again I don't believe they do). This makes me think that a big part of the western hysteria is racism driven. I don't think the falling profit margins at this time are enough to initiate the level of disruption a conflict with China would result in.

I also think the military hegemony isn't threatened right now but the US can no longer exert it's will entirely as it pleases. It sees the window of opportunity for it to reassert economic hegemony through its military rapidly closing.

Anyway that's a lot to type out to respond to one sentence but I'd need to read that paper before I can comment on the rest of what you said.

I think this article misses the mark tbh. China is a problem because it threatens the US hegemony. It's especially a problem because it's a non white country threatening the US hegemony (compare with the Brits passing the torch to the Yanks). The points outlined I this article are simply downstream of this. And the main point is imho (reduced capital profits due to higher wages) actually less of an issue to the capitalists, that can relocate their production to a large degree, than the issue of China's increasingly rapid technological advancement (discussed as a secondary cause of western hostility). As a non white person I always find it hilarious to come across these blind spots in clearly intelligent people's analysis. Even with Israel a lot of intellectuals were shocked at how far the US was willing to go for Israel. Like really? For them it's brown savages vs civilized white people. It's not even a debate who they'll side (on top of all the other motivations/incentives).