Adding to my somewhat short list of good things Trump did (I consider a dumber officer corps for the American war machine a good thing).

Seriously, can this woman just disappear from existence? Like at least Biden learned to keep his fucking mouth shit after killing American democracy.

Frankly if you were ever counting on Harris and crew to save you you were already lost.

AFAIK Lemvotes runs a private instance with a bot (???) as an admin which it uses to collect downvote information (as others have explained, the information is already there, it’s just private on the client side on most Fediverse platforms).

No, it gets money; it evidently does not get votes.

the political machine we’re building to combat the Trump administration will flatten the DNC old guard pretty handily.

Except no such thing exists. MAGA hasn’t created any meaningful surge in independent progressive (let alone genuine leftwing) politics; it’s only compelled the center left to close ranks with the center against the rising tide of the far right. There’s zero momentum for “flattening the old guard;” if you want to do that you’ll have to actually try.

And anyone who didn’t vote for Harris over Palestine has now not only doomed the Palestinians,

I keep seeing liberals saying this, but it’s just not true. There’s no metric by which Trump is worse on Palestine than Biden (and by extension Harris, who has was virtually indistinguishable from him on the issue). As for everyone else, what, did you think Harris was going to do anything for poor Americans and minorities? Jk she wouldn’t have done (or been able to do) shit because centrists kill down ballot elections. More fundamentally, though, fascism was inevitable under the political status quo; the choice was between fascism now and fascism later. If meaningful change doesn’t come from the left, people will look for it on the right; thinking 2025 was fluke is nothing short of delusional.

I mean, there’s a reason out of all third world countries only China managed to do it; industrialization is actually incredibly hard, especially if there are foreign powers invested in preventing it. I mean hell, even now China already has the best manufacturing in the world and the gap is only getting bigger; it’s impossible to compete with that using services or resource extraction. Now the West theoretically has the capital to catch up before it’s too late, but by the time neoliberals let go of power it will be too late.

I guess we’re moving towards an era where “the developed world” just means China.

You’d be basically revolting against the capitalist ruling class, so organize and go on strike is a tried and true tactic.

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I remember a time when international law still was worth a damn

There never was such a time. There’s a reason the ICC has only ever prosecuted failed Global South dictators.

To be fair you’re really not supposed to agree with Tanya. “Capitalism is God’s greatest gift to mankind” sounds about right for an unapologetic psychopath.

Aren’t those mostly a Russian thing?

No, primarily because of human rights, but also because they don’t really work as marketed. As seen from this map, plenty of places with much less draconian laws are doing comparably or straight up better to the Asian countries you’re talking about. The lowest drug use rates in the world are in fact in Sub Saharan Africa, followed by the Indian Peninsula and the Middle East and the rest of the Global South. East Asia isn’t high by any means, but it’s not low either.

This technology is supposed to be for disaster response (sending cockroaches to check for survivors under rubble and stuff), but yeah that sounds about right. I wonder how long it’ll take until they put bombs in these.

Every time someone pushes for Medicare for all they get there asses kick in the election.

Can we get a list of those multiple times? Also to be clear a strong majority of the US population wants universal healthcare as of 2024.

Wouldn’t the market just expand to absorb the extra demand?

According to betteridge’s law: No.

Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn’t aren’t common sources of brain drain. There’s a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.