Yeah, but what’s more noble than granting Blackrock the freedom to plunder the resources of Ukraine.

Seems like a simple solution here is for US to just not be in the South China sea.

Indeed, I’m optimistic that the left in France will get their shit together in the long run.

Hungary doesn’t really have a strong left movement the way France does though. When there’s no left alternative, then people moving out of the mainstream will naturally move right.

4D chess, you wouldn’t understand 😆

There’s a pretty good chance they’ll fuck shit up though and discredit themselves, so the left being in the second place and libs having already discredited themselves is not a bad situation.

the west is ruled by idiot psychopaths, so yeah we’re in scary times

seriously

NAFOids are freaking out right now.

that’s literally the only requirement

Whether US ruling class decides to consolidate its power on what remains of the empire or kill us all in a nuclear holocaust is the big question. It’s encouraging to see that recognition that US hegemony has come to an end is starting to settle in.

Indeed, Lula strikes me like a version of Bernie in many ways. He’s not trying to create a dictatorship of the proletariat, but rather to stabilize the current capitalist system.

Completely agree, and I think there’s a broader point here that any serious political change is a long and complex process that will have many setbacks. One of the traps people fall into is thinking that change can be accomplished via single action like a protest, a strike, or an election. Lack of realization that it’s going to be a struggle and that people need to commit to this struggle for a long term vision is how movements fall apart.

One of the best recent examples of this was the whole Bernie movement in US. He managed to organize and motivate millions of young people across the country, but all that was focused on winning an election without any broader vision. Once he was shuffled off in favor of Biden the whole thing fizzled overnight. This illustrates why a politically literate and principled vanguard is so important.

That said, Brazil becoming aligned with China and having its economy aligning away from the west will help drive political change as well. These things don’t happen overnight, but I think that the overall trajectory is promising.

The irony is quite rich when one considers how European perceptions of the Chinese government mirror their own, seemingly oblivious to the fact it’s the EU that has an opaque and corrupt unelected regime that defies accountability to its citizens.

Sure, but since nobody else does that it would amount to fudging the numbers to make UK look better relative to other countries.

The sight of a pre-selected candidate being handed the reins of power over a lavish meal is the very epitome of democracy at work.

Indeed, eventually the cost of maintaining the empire exceeds the plunder you get from it and at that point the core becomes rapidly hollowed out.

I absolutely think that US is pushing Europe into this very intentionally to kill Euro as a competitor to the dollar.

You’re right, It’s honestly hard to say what the real mood is, and I could be easily projecting what I want to see into the results here. The national election will definitely be a a much better indicator.