I guess Burgerland audience might get confused otherwise

Liberalism as an ideology basically exists to justify capitalism though.

That’s right, rapidly approaching best before date. 🤣

I kind of look at it more as history repeating as a farce. The US empire isn’t unique in any way, and it’s following the same trajectory as other empires before it have.

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nice

Basically the US isolated itself with the trade war, and they sanctioned an uninhabited island in Antarctica hence why it’s in the meme.

the penguins

I was gonna say, Europe already committed economic seppuku three years ago at the behest of the US.

I think we can safely conclude the meme is not actually real :)

Yeah, I basically can’t think of a method that would let you detect something so tiny even from a Mars orbiter, unless it just happened to get fantastically lucky and this thing flew by the camera at the exact right moment.

lol yeah this thing would have to be incredibly dense, also I can’t imagine how you’d even detect something so small

I feel like Britain might as well just adopt this as the national anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJGt67Mwmo

negative on both accounts, although after doing an image search it looks like the mastodon account just lifted it from here

Haha yeah, I think the main take away from the whole thing is just how deeply US media is integrated with the state.

At this point you don’t really have to because all the countries the west got used to exploiting are now starting to organize with BRICS being a prime example. What you can point out to people is that the ability to exploit other countries isn’t going to last forever, and as the exploited continue to shake the empire off then the standard of living in the west continues to collapse.

And I expect we’ll see secondary effects too, cause people using XHS will be talking to their friends and show them stuff about what life is really like in China. I imagine there’s going to be a lot of positive coming out of all this.

Unfortunately, a lot of people bought into the whole narrative how people in the US are living their best lives. Meanwhile, older people of having lived in USSR, and they know what it was like from personal experience. I do expect this will start changing going forward cause of the rift with the west, and China becoming more prominent in terms of Russian politics. Interestingly, there’s now a lot of tourism from Russia to DPRK happening now too, and most people have positive things to say about it.

Unfortunately, English media coverage is scant, and mostly negative as you’d expect.

I haven’t followed too closely to be honest. As far as I know their position hasn’t changed significantly over the years, and it’s largely the same people in charge.