it's actually been in recession for basically 16 years now but the GDP numbers are half-faked and half-misrepresentative anyway

like the only economic success stories that happen in this country anymore are American chain restaurants opening new branches (and then closing them down after 5 years bc their food is bad and too expensive) and buy-to-let landlords

in any case, this state can't really go on for much longer like this, it's too neoliberalised to invest in a way that would stimulate economic growth and increase the tax base, and without doing that it'll just get further and further into debt which will eventually result in some kind of collapse in its ability to fund itself (probably going to the IMF, resulting in a genuinely catastrophic political crisis that fucks the whole thing)

america, this is what awaits you too

"wow idk maybe I should step back here a bit and see what they even end up doing once elected"

oh come the fuck on. this is the exact same shit you liberals always say about social democrats who are obviously moving rightwards and it always goes the same way in the end. you people are so fucking naive, and you're acting as though I'm some conspiracy theorist who believes he's a "sleeper agent" because I can remember this same song and dance happening over and over again with "socialist" election candidates running as Democratic candidates. no, I just think that this breed of politician plays a particular role in our society, even when their intentions are good, and that role is to restrict the scope of socialist political action and maintain the focus on bourgeois elections rather than any other means of pursuing power, while eventually being totally integrated into the mainstream liberal machine, as evidenced by him STANDING NEXT TO ELIZABETH WARREN IN THE VIDEO I'M POSTING ABOUT.

have none of you fuckers learned from the AOC experience? jesus christ.

as socialists we do not aim to convince people by misleading them about our aims and practices. if you try that then you'll end up disappointing and pushing them away.

i don't expect him to say "ACAB" or be a Maoist but there are ways to phrase that kind of sentiment that will command majority support and legitimise that way of thinking amongst a populace constantly browbeaten into not thinking that way. instead he's choosing to legitimise the role of police in a society which generally mistrusts and fears them. and he already won the election that actually matters. he didn't back down on anti-zionism before he won the primary and it worked, so why start backing down on issues and flirting with mainstream democrats now?

unironically doing 4D political judo to twist Americans' brains into supporting leftist policies

come on man you can't "trick people into supporting socialism". a significant part of New York's population supports socialism and hates zionism, which resulted in his victory. he's not tricking poor people into voting in their interests.

i mean praising the NYPD commisioner and shaking hands with those pigs is pretty alarming for me given that they're an occupying army who murder people constantly and beat the living shit out of anti-genocide protestors, but whatever. this impulse to justify the rightwards drift of DSA electeds no matter what has achieved so much in the past (look at AOC's stellar record for example), so what do i know.

And look at that fucking account lol

idc about the account you can watch the video or google his comments yourself

"doomerism" is just reasonable pessimism about electoralism within a dying empire

i thought he sounded cool too but in the end it's just another counter-insurgency candidate trying to capture and waste as much socialist organising capacity as possible.

yeah that's true

the myth of the clean Scottish nation

I think Reform are basically stuck at 25-30% of the electorate at the moment and are trying to appear more "moderate" to expand their base as that won't be enough for a durable majority. See their statement about the Online Safety Act too. They're backed by American Christian fundamentalists at the end of the day so you can't trust this one bit.

They've been trying to build up drone production according to reports but it's very difficult when the zionists are free to bomb them and the Lebanese "state" just lets it happen. It's a very difficult situation for Hezbollah.

idk it's probably fair to hope that the state wouldn't attack the force that has defended Lebanon time and time again from the genocidal invaders, but i guess the geniuses in the government think that they can be another Jordan, rather than this leaving themselves defenceless against an entity which was trying to annex the south of the country literally within living memory

Hezbollah made a lot of mistakes but the traitorous backstabbing on display here isn't anything to do with those i think