Leftists want to move beyond it.

That’s not always true. Many self described leftists support authoritarian state capitalism.

That’s a fair evaluation, but it removes agency from the American populace.

From my time in the US, I got the impression the roots of the current oligarchic regime mostly lie in the cultural attitudes of the American population. It’s not like the US got invaded by an external force or it had to deal with extraordinary circumstances.

Just one example, is the superficial attitude to things like “freedom of speech” or “free markets”. IMO, that is the real source of oligarchic/criminal power in the US.

Surely a modicum of responsibility can be attached to the US public more broadly and not just public sentiment manipulators.

As someone who has lived in the US for several years (before Trump), the impression I get is that Trump is more of a symptom and not the cause.

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Middleeasteye definitely has bias on this issue.

They are also big supporters of russian genocidal imperialism.

What a childish worldview.

You’ll know, believe me.

I live in Ukraine, so I know what a war starting is like (and living through it).

Blaming everything on the CIA effectively white washes the Iranian regime.

WW3 is not starting, it’s not even close.

Don’t be so dramatic.

I don’t get it, headline seems reasonable.

“From the river to the sea” is a Pro-Palestinian slogan. I don’t think it’s anti-semetic. Anti-Israel sure, but that’s not an inherently bad or negative thing depending on your frame of reference. If you come from a country that has been suffering from colonization historically or even significant occupation for a long period, there is nothing wrong with calling for the destruction of the occupation regime.

I am big supporter of tactical voting, I just don’t understand the framing of the article.

Not to be a downer, but so what if the US center right comes back to power?

Leverage tactical voting as much as you like (I’ve done it myself), but also there have to be outcomes from tactical voting.

When I lived in the US, I didn’t find this sort of logic convincing.

If you want to address “Republican malfeasance”, the US is going to have to address corruption and criminality and take on the oligarchs. What you describe is going to happen anyway, institutions can protect you, until the day they don’t. This is something even centre-right Americans seem to find it difficult to understand (I still have friends from the US that I talk with).

And let’s be real, that’s very unlikely to happen in the next 20-30 years.

Crazy that rules for birth certificates are not national.

The whole “global south” framing is suspect. It includes a large list of countries differentiated by level of democracy, economic development levels and geography/culture.

Even two countries seemingly from the same region and with somewhat similar levels of development; India and Nepal have a very different foreign policy and global economic outlook.

In general, there is a tendency to put the global south on the pedestal so to speak. This is incorrect both from a functional perspective (dumping a group countries together by an arbitrary measure) and that the leadership of said countries have different priorities. It’s not uncommon to see hypocritical approaches on things like imperialism and many of the said countries don’t support the current Cuban regime (a corrupt authoritarian dominated by oligarchy consistent of state insiders).

Haha, that’s funny. I didn’t even recognize it was him in the photo. I didn’t realize he was 62.

It’s a chicken and egg problem.

There are alternatives:

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone (supports Ubuntu Touch in addition to non-google Android distros).

I am going to keep my Samsung for banking and government apps (it has the latest Android ver, so it will work at least for a few more years), but I am planning to switch to Jolla once it is released. I also think Euro government will eventually realize that they need to move off Android/iOS.

Hahaha, I always chuckle when I see people online parrot PR copytext about how Apple cares [about digital privacy]. Just read their privacy policy…

While this is true, European political systems are generally more competitive and flexible (i.e. not a two party state).

US is a two party state where both parties are very corrupt, but worst thing is that the base of the centre-right opposition is largely tolerant of corruption.

I’ve been constantly looking at long term weather daily forecasts for the past few weeks.

About two weeks ago, it was showing an increase in temperatures starting from earlier this week and extending into Feb.

The latest forecasts show temperatures going down to -25 (at night in the coming days). The russians will definitely strike around that time.

And fuck american “communist” online roleplayers. Let’s hope one day they end up in russia (with their citizenship cancelled).