I mean yes, I love airshows, but there’s something about a mass celebration of these machines of death where a crowd gathered for a completely unrelated purpose gets to see the last thing an afghan child at a wedding sees gives ick in a way that normal airshows, even with all the military recruitment and propaganda don’t.

It doesn’t even apply to all flyovers, sometimes it’s like F-14s or Chinooks or WWII era planes where the message isn’t so dark.

Does anyone else also fly bombers and fighter jets over stadiums at the start of a game? Do you take 2-5 minutes to honor some guys in the military during half time?

I literally listed countries where you wouldn’t be meaningfully contributing to the system.

Periphery countries still contribute to the system; the US doesn’t have military bases in most of those countries by happenstance, but because keeping them in that position benefits the bourgeoisie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory

To be clear, the answer isn’t to say everything is futile and hopeless, it’s to participate in organizations which don’t contribute to the system and build duel power within these countries, or just move to non-capitalist countries.

They do increase the monetary supply though, in 2008 it was .9 trillion, in 2020 it was 6.4T, and now it’s 5.6T.

Turns out inflation doesn’t quite work the way most economics courses teach. That may be related to the way billionaires fund a lot of university’s economics departments.

stop working for those billionaires

There is only a few countries you can move to that allows you to not contribute to those billionaires.

I’m not saying that fleeing the US isn’t a good idea.

That’s money (ideally) used to benefit everyone.

Not really; the federal government prints money; they don’t tax you to fund programs, they tax you to reduce the monetary supply.

State governments do have to be funded though.

I am not talking about taxes, I am talking about the profit the capitalists make off your labor. The trillion dollar media empire OP is talking about, Fox News, CNN, Reddit, twitter, etc aren’t funded by your taxes, though they are subservient to the state department.

Not to say that dodging federal taxes isn’t either good or neutral, but the problem isn’t specific to this administration.

Where are you living that the wealth you create doesn’t end up in the hands of billionaires who then spend it on propaganda to convince you and others that that is just?

Cuba? Vietnam? Laos? China?

If you’re working for a wage while they reap the profit or subject to market forces they dictate, they’re taking your money.

It’s better to let them look at the sentence and be like “Wait, I can read this”

A Huawei version of Android.

Ice cream in iceland sounds awful.

Yes, amateur astronomers can make out some of the clouds with a decent-sized reflector, and have even taken photos for us.

Well we still have Jupiter and Saturn.

Yall know he’s pro-Israel right?

Most Hollywood actors have garbage geopolitical takes. The only exceptions I can think of are Boots Riley, Roger Waters, and Pedro Pascal.

You do understand that Helldivers is a satire of America? This didn’t change in 2024. The Helldivers yell about freedom and democracy while having zero meaningful freedom or political influence, and invading other places to steal their oil or murder them for being communists because that is what Americans do.

by 1856 all states had removed the property ownership requirement for whites.

The purpose of that was to marginalize the freed slaves and keep the working class divided. The removal of the requirement wasn’t because a faction in power decided it would be nice and create a freer society, but because it gave them further power.

To quote LBJ a century later: “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Please, just the bare minium reading comprehension next time you try to engage someone.

Don’t condescend when you haven’t read shit on a subject.

What books are you reading that you think 1776 was about anyone’s freedom except for the bourgeoisie’s freedom to exploit the working class and genocide the natives?

That’s not to say the people who did the fighting and dying didn’t think they were fighting for freedom, just that they were surprised when they were disenfranchised by property requirements and laws that favored the big bourgeoisie over themselves. You may remember Shays Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion?

If you’re looking for further reading, The Counter Revolution of 1776 is a good one.

Third heading down, “former colonial powers and Africa”

Ferero international S.A. is an American company, whiches largest majority owned by Blacrock

Blackrock owns 4%. The majority of its shares are held by the Swiss. It is headquartered in Switzerland.

We’re getting in the weeds, the point is that Europe’s actions maintain an incredibly unbalanced trade with Africa; colonialism never ended, it just took on a different form. America does this too.