what the damn kind of metric is "23 tons of cash"

If the US left Israel to fend for itself for the first time in history, the US would be flooded with Israeli terrorists within a month.

I'm talking Israel sponsored 9/11

The US becoming the leading source of energy sales to Europe is too recent to do anything other than be a cartoon villain I guess.

Knowing this, we can all become billionaires by threatening to build windmills in Europe.

Disgusting libel

The 90s were the funeral march of the Soviet Union - the bleakest moment in humanity's existence.

Nothing is worse than the 90's. Trump is just a silly carnival on the ashes - nothing really of note.

"No Kings" is such a perfect name for a liberal protest movement, They aren't allowed to say "no billionaires/no plutocracy" because liberalism allows for that shit. So, they have to couch their anger in an illusion that this is some return to monarchy rather than just the logical conclusion of liberalism.

Criticism of China, however valid in theory, functions as deflection from critique of western empire. I just don't see any socialist benefit from this rhetoric. Just reads as a manifestation of the frustration one feels when you're unable to achieve political revolution in your own nation.

If the Chinese people agree that their revolution has been betrayed, then let them re-assert it.

Damn. Seeing explicitly socialist candidates on ballots in my lifetime is inspiring. PSL might actually get me out to voooooooooooooooooooooooote.

Imagine having all that corporate funding and still cutting costs on...stealing information.

We probably should be looking closer at Argentina's fallout to glean what we can actually expect. Starting to feel like Argentina was the beta-test for this similar to Chile with western neoliberal projects.

Neoliberalism may be going the way of Keynesian economics.

Welfare always struck me as a "capitalist solution to capitalist problems" that was unnecessary with a proper constitution and jobs guaranteed for all by the state; insofar as that is a warranted appraisal, a criticism of welfare is nothing more than a criticism of the various organs which keep capitalism on prolonged life-support.

That said, as China is market-socialism, it is concerning rhetoric from the leadership unless they are planning to implement a more USSR style economy in the not-so-distant future.

It is so patently oligarchic. Sucks that it seems like the election winners will be denied power ultimately but moments like this are a rare, great example of when participation in bourgeoise politics is a good tactic; this will make the French painfully aware of how farcical and hollow their flavor of "democracy" is and will radicalize any prole who is even partially paying attention.

Seems like very short-term thinking on Macron's part - but given the current geopolitical stage we're existing within he may realize that the mask is going to fall off regardless, there are precious few rationales to keep masquerading as an acolyte of democracy.

Would love to hear what the political climate is like in-person from a French comrade.