Mao paid the clouds not to rain.

Modern state is when you fund yourself off of opium profits, you appoint your gangster relatives to be in charge of state finances, your officials occasionally run off to form collaborationist governments with Imperial Japan, and you’re so corrupt and incompetent that your own allies are disgusted by you and you lose a war against your own people despite the military and financial backing of the most powerful country in the world.

Democratic and republican ideals is when you retreat to an island because you got your ass handed to you and then perpetrate the White Terror against your people for 40 years.

Lockheed left

War crimes with pink washed LGBT characteristics.

Every great empire in human civilization has fallen. China is the only one to have fallen and then gotten back up multiple times.

Like yeah China will probably fall again in the future, but the great grandchildren of everyone on this site will be long dead by then. Contrast that with America, which has had hegemony only since 1945 and already looks like it’s in terminal decline.

The PRC is the confederate equivalent, as they weren’t the original legal government unlike Taiwan, which legally is the heir of the ROC.

The left wing of the KMT split from Chiang’s KMT in 1948 to form the Revolutionary Committee of the KMT. It was headed by a senior KMT General and Song Ching Ling the widow of Sun Yat Sen. Madam Song would later serve as a Vice President of the People’s Republic of China and the Revolutionary Committee of the KMT holds seats in the National People’s Congress to this day.

If you even look at the history of the KMT, you’d see that it’s incredibly prone to factionalism, including a period during the First United Front where the CPC agreed to join the KMT as a wing to fight the Warlords but left after the KMT stabbed it in the back during the Shanghai Purges.

Legally, the PRC is recognized by the UN as the sole representative of China under General Assembly Resolution 2758 and the overwhelming majority of the world’s nation’s recognize that there is only one China and that China is the PRC.

Cope and seethe.

Fucking obnoxious that the whole article is about Putin saying something but nothing is quoted until the 10th God damn paragraph.

I don’t think WW3 would actually help the US economy. WW2 pulled the US out of the Depression because the manufacturing capacity was there but there wad a crisis of confidence and liquidity. The government pumping tons of money into military spending solved both of those problems.

Nowadays, the US doesn’t have enough manufacturing. Even the weapons America supposedly builds are riddled with imported Chinese parts. Go to war with China or any major power and the US Government will flood weapons makers with money but that money has nowhere to go so it’ll just drive up inflation even more.

Poland was invaded by both the Soviet Union and Germany.

The USSR entered Poland after it was clear the Polish army was collapsing. The alternative was to let the Nazis occupy the whole thing. Britain and France went to war with Germany to preserve Polish independence. If they thought the USSR was just as bad as the Nazis, why didn’t they also declare war on the Soviets in 1939?

I think it’s telling that even during the worst period of US-Chinese relations in recent memory, the US sent Yellen over to Beijing to beg China to buy more dollar bonds.

There’s a faction in Washington that knows the US economy is on the ropes but their appeals for cooperation are being drowned out by the other faction just chanting “WAR! WAR! WAR!”

If the main cause is increased monetary supply, it’s going to get far worse as the world de-dollarizes.

The USD enjoys an exorbitant privilege because its the world’s premier reserve and trading currency. Under the old rules, if the Fed printed more money, other countries would buy it to settle their international trade and as a safe harbor for their wealth.

The extraordinary sanctions against Russia have caused countries to shift to other currencies to settle trade since they still want/need to buy oil, gas, and food from Russia. That means that there’s going to be a lot more USD with no foreign escape valve.

You could just move to Canada where their wonderful system will cure you of your poverty with a prescription of “Just kill yourself”.

I used to be a bourgeois land owner, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

Did you see that poor person? Filthy creatures.

Go and have a look at Russia to see how how this communist/socialist mindset worked out for them.

With an 89% home ownership rate? Yeah, damn, it would really suck for 9/10 people to live in a home that they own.

Almost all the top countries on that list are socialist or were socialist until the 90s. It’s almost as if socialism actually results in homes being treated as basic needs for people instead of commodities for landlords to make money off of.

Tilly says she went to a school named after Musk.

I firmly believe that someone had to talk the writer responsible out of making Tilly a graduate of Bit Connect High School.

Ambivalent KPRF noises

As much as I think Musk is dumb and shitty, von Braun was personally aware that concentration camp slave labor was being used to make his rockets and continued anyway. According to some prisoners, he also ordered corporal punishment of slave workers and had a hand in selecting who was fit to work and who would be sent to an extermination camp. However, we can’t say for sure because of lack of documentation.

Even if we assume that the prisoner allegations are mistaken identity or whatever, I think directly being in contact with and benefiting from the Nazi death machine is quite a lot worse than Elon.

I’ve seen a few Western news reports refer to him as a billionaire but even if we say that that’s made up bullshit, everyone agrees that he was very wealthy.

Dude like him must be up to his neck in off the books dark money and assets, so we’ll probably never know.

The only thing I’ll miss about him is his unhinged videos yelling at Shoigu and Gerasimov. Where else am I going to see billionaire completely lose his shit, yell at government officials, and then post that shit online?

I feel like they had a really good opportunity to foreshadow Lorca being from where he is by making him say Von Braun instead of Musk.

It’d be one of those “of course this guy thought an SS officer was a good guy!” Moments