It’s an edited meme (as can be seen), the original text was “let’s talk housing policy” for kamala.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the source. I found the original in my folder and thought it was hilarious.

By the chronology of the show, no. It would have been infinitely easier for Walt to have swallowed his pride and taken money from gretchen, or even borrowed from hank.

Him becoming a drug lord was always about his own personal pride and sense of worth. It made him feel alive and powerful.

Yeah, Walt is fully responsible. The bourgeois couple are revealed to not even be that bad. The idea that they stole from him is walt’s delusion. He left because of his inferiority complex (which he developed at a very young age).

Honestly, the show is closer to being a Greek tragedy. Many people take it to be a critique of capitalism because of the background context and world models we as an audience bring to the show.

In fact, the show goes out of its way to show that every moment in time, Walt has an out that he refuses to use because of pride. The show itself also analyses the role of the state or big business in the crime or poverty happening only tangentially and gives very little screen time to it.

Impossible to tell the difference honestly.

My God these articles piss me off so much. The world is more uncertain, unpredictable and risky than ever before? Western values are being undermined?

Stfu. Not only does the lib speak grate on my ears, but even after saying these things, the approach outlined does not change in the slightest.

It’s still just calls for more of the same failed strategy that the west has been using since the end of ww2.

“We should allow and promote the spread of diseases […] to win with the least amount of Israeli casualties.”

Yet more proof of israel’s intentions

"Despite the fact that Putin was obviously extremely angry about the breakthrough in Kursk Oblast, he did not make emotional decisions, so we did not see the strategy of ‘quick, grab everyone and send them to retake Kursk’.”

I don’t know if this is just propaganda, an idiot, or the actual thinking behind the operation. Because if it is, then hinging your plan on having the enemy make dumb decisions is itself rather stupid.

They have other means of retaliation, notably, arming western enemies. Although thisninstance was cancelled

3 day invasion

The idea that they planned for it to be 3 days was completely made up.

Let’s see if it pays off for them.

Quite the attitude to have when the west is losing wars on like 4 fronts (gaza, yemen, ukraine, and lebanon) simultaneously. That too while having shit military industrial capacity.

By capturing Russian territory Russia now has a reason to come to negotiations to just call everything off to get their land back.

Ukraine captured land in kursk and this did not cause the Russians to come to the negotiating table, nor signal that they will weaken their demands. In fact, they simply started taking land even faster in Ukraine because Ukraine had committed resources into kursk instead of the front lines.

All it goes to show is that westerners have a complete non-understanding of this war.

Well, at least Russia will further supply enemies of the west in retaliation.

Access costs €69 per month

Lmao

Well, that is also true, but Ukraine has clearly suffered in its use of tanks if they are just being blown up when being taken out on the road. Both the tank species mentioned in the article (abrams and leopards) have been taken out of the picture mostly, either through underutilisation, or destruction.

This talk about timing is really strange. There is always a back and forth in wars. That doesn’tchange anything about the trends and fundamentals. What does it matter that the letter came out at a time when Ukraine had a push? Even one of my lib friends who loves Ukraine understood that Ukraine had a tough path ahead.

We know that tanks still work well when properly supported by other parts of he military tso they don’t get instantly blown up. this just means that Ukraine is not using the tanks they have with proper support. I wouldn’t be surprised, after all, they have a severe manpower shortage.

Would be based as hell if almo brought back attendance democracy (without thr slaves)

Copying tech is not so easy, especially when much of high technology is designed with preventing such copying in mind (thanks capitalism for spending effort on important matters such as slowing down technological adoption).

Consolidating the investment banking industry in China is nice to see. It will probably be very helpful in both economic planning and having good alternatives to western banking (especially important given developments around BRICS).

I am wondering if there will be any negative effects to this move though. For example, until pretty recently, smaller chinese banks were doing business with Russia because they were insulated from the west. As much as I like centralisation, there is some benefit to having things disconnected at times.

Furthermore, I do not look forward to new liberal cope if some big Chinese investment bank becomes famous and successful like they did with huwaei.

while the broader economy sputters.

Is this still the liberal line on China? Over 5% real gdp growth is sluggish? That too for an upper middle income economy? While the first world struggles harshly?

I seriously doubt trump will de-escalate in Ukraine. Not only is he incredibly incompetent (he spent most of his time while president watching fox news and such), but he is also very impressionable and opportunistic.

The fact that the dollar and the euro are the world’s reserve currencies allows both America and the EU to do 2 crucial things.

Firstly, whenever a country prints money (they don’t exactly, the money supply increases when banks give out loans. Countries can loosen lending requirements/costs), it acts as a tax on everyone holding the currency, because the value of products purchasable by that currency is spread over more currency.

Since everyone holds dollars and euros, American and European banks are able to tax the world. The same applies to their treasures, which increase the money supply by running deficits (financed by borrowing from their central banks).

Secondly, these countries can sanction individuals, organisations and countries by cutting them off from exchange markets (as described by soviet entropy), and by cutting them off from the swift banking system (which is tech to transfer financial messages/transactions internationally).

These are the 2 fundamental tools of imperialism, and practically define it. The role of currency in empire is so important in fact that the first currencies were invented by ancient empires to tax subjects.

BRICS becomes an obstacle to the American and European empires by offering financial alternatives, and allowing countries to, if they choose so, to free themselves from imperial currencies. But this capability hasn’t been fully developed yet.