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Cake day: January 26th, 2024

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  • No somthing more than just “mere” syntax highlightinng or prettifying like e.g. in VS Code. Being able to change line height for a “headline” when you declare a new class. Or maybe lines that illustrate how a temp variable is used. But it’s all vague ideas and I can’t picture or describe it well and you’d have to demo this with a graphical design tool I think.




  • The US will not allow them to take Taiwan, too much at stake. Doubtful we’ll initiate.

    But the US already did since Biden. They named Taiwan an “important strategic military partner” which goes much further. Basically the US is putting it’s finger on the map halfway around the world right in front of China’s doorstep and saying “this is ours” while China says it is theirs. Obviously Taiwan DID belong to greater China and even though I don’t especially support reunification it’s a slap in the face. Instead of letting sleeping dogs lie.

    It’s always the press and people portraying the US has not doing anything but inviting countries into their military alliance. It’s dangerous warmongering. Yes, and the same happened in Ukraine.

    I can see the opinions after another proxy war breaks out, oh those evil Chinese devils / yellow orcs! Appeasement doesn’t work, they want to gobble up all the world like Hitler!

    Hopefully China is smarter or the USA collapses before that can happen.










  • You bring up some interesting points about the billionaires and their desire about a new world order (dark enlightenment, longtermism etc) in the US, those who hold the most power. But how in the world do you square that with this:

    Anyone who claims that Russia is NOT behind all of this is either Russian, a traitor, or stupid.

    So are the billionaires also controlled by Putin? How can both be true? Or do you think Putin holds more influence over US elections that the US billionaires and tech bros do?

    PS: Let me make my point clearer: I don’t doubt that Putin helped Trump and sow discord in the US - but who is to blame for allowing this? These are cheap things to do for any foreign actor now because we allowed to run news and social media purely for profit. If greed is good, nothing but money matters, why wouldn’t those companies make advertising deals bad actors? So blaming Putin for this is propaganda itself, because it disguises the actual causes of the democratic backsliding which started way before Trump, and would have happened despite Trump.


  • But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to

    lucky if Europe and the rest of “the West” survive China/Russia expansion

    So who is the enemy we should focus on? Is it Trump? Is it Putler/China? Neoliberal and austerity policies of both parties that created the fertile ground for neofascism?

    The OP article is about Trump and US economic policy, and I replied to a comment that segways away from “stopping the nazis” and instead focuses on the evil “Putler”.

    Yeah the parallels to weimar are there, but it’s that you can’t see them - you are the ones who distract with this conspiracy theory that Trump is somehow Putin’s asset or his creation. It’s like saying that Hitler is Stalin’s puppet because they want to divide up Poland (Ukraine) - just because they help each other out it’s not reasonable to start persecuting the socialists - which they did and do now! (Tankies bad, defederate).


  • The issue isn’t Trump. Trump should be in a mental institution. The issue is that we build a world that “allows” for such people to gain power. The issue is that our news and social media allow a (very real) Russian psyop. But it’s not just the Russians. It also came from special interests like fossil fuel, China, and formerly Ukraine too.

    You’re loudly yelling at the dog tearing up the flower beds, instead you should be yelling at those who let the dogs out.

    But instead of talking about that, we’re talking about the latest bullshit that is being pumped into the ether. Stop the shit-factory. Nationalize the news and social media and turn them into cooperatives run by the workers. Arrest the billionaires. Take the power back. Of course now it’s too late for that, thanks Obama.

    But this isn’t even thinkable for the majority. Hence you seek some bad guy you can blame.


  • There is no mastermind or master plan. If you think Trump is a Russian asset then you’ve fallen for conspiracy theory and you yourself live in a “post-truth” fantasy. Whatever Trump is, he’s not someone who can be handled (except by playing on his megalomania). If you don’t understand that yet, and pretend otherwise, you’re just adding to the noise.

    Similarily, that Foundations of Geopolitics is an interesting “cookbook” but it’s just that. Russia exploits glaring weaknesses in our neoliberal society by simply buying their way into social media. Any rational country would prevent news or social media to be owned by oligarchs, spew lies for profit and and generally being open to the highest bidder. The US has failed to get money out of politics and media. And that is a result of the neoliberal world order, so - thanks Obama and all those who came before him.

    The liberal mindset has been poisoned since 2016 to think there is some big enemy like Russia or China, that there is only black and white, good or evil.


  • It’s sort of surprising that this article gets so much backlash, since it’s just a rehash of the NYT article with a more critical analysis of the historical facts. And those facts aren’t even really something new - at least it was all suspected, now a bit more confirmed, or something the mainstream would see as problematic.

    But I guess they can’t attack the facts presented by the venerable NYT so they take it out on the “far left” and “fringe” Aaron Mate.

    At this point, I just want to see China arming Panama or Mexico or Venezuela to the hilt with modern weaponry, missiles and drones, and then when the USA invades them helps with constant logistics and satellite information of “points of interests”. We’ll see how the whole mainstream would defend this because they just had to liberate the poor people oppressed by those regimes there. That would be the equivalent to what the US, Nato and EU have been doing. Although I doubt China has any interest in such funny games.