Tankiedesantski [he/him]

Dedollarization and constant US imperial overreach are the two factors which are most likely to break US imperialism in the mid to long term.

American economic dominance is propped up by the ubiquity of the dollar in general trade as well as the Petro dollar. In general trade, more and more countries are pivoting to trading in their own currencies or Euros and Yuan and Rubles because of the destruction of confidence in the US dollar as a neutral reserve currency due to recent sanctions against Russia. In terms of the Petro dollar, the trend of decarbonization means that oil will be a less critical commodity over time and even now we see the likes of Saudi Arabia agreeing to sell oil to China in Yuan. Without US dollar dominance, America will not be able to print as many dollars to service its debts, which will lead to either inflation or debt default.

America, like the UK and France before it, doesn’t have the ability to fight all of its repressed imperial subjects at once. The cracks are starting to show at the US giving up against the Houthis in Yemen. The US and EU has also pegged its military prestige to the war in Ukraine, which is also starting to turn. Not only are they taking a reputational hit with every picture of a burnt out Abrams or Leopard, but lesser US allies are also starting to see that full US support doesn’t guarantee victory. Even within US policy circles there is some acknowledgement that defeat in Ukrain could lead to some sort of Suez moment for the US and NATO.

Waiting for memes to all converge on crabs.

I’m doing my part

The UK has come to terms with it’s inexorable slide into developing nation status and figured it might as well shill a few boner pills along the way.

In evil totalitarian China, you can be banned from buying high speed rail tickets if you default on your loans.

In good democratic freedom America, you can be denied all forms of air travel because your name happens to resemble one that’s on a secret list.

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit.

Has job hunting gotten so bad that it’s just LLMs reading the output of other LLMs?

Well yeah, why wouldn’t China block a site full of libs?

Western equipment is considered less efficient than Soviet due to maintenance issues and degraded mode capabilities.

“How often do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”

Russians practice “Maskirovka,” appearing weak to hide their true strength.

Fair enough. You could only know this if you studied an obscure conflict called “World War 2”. Very esoteric knowledge.

The Ukrainian failure at Avdiivka demonstrates that Kiev is not capable of re-establishing the collapsing front with an “elite” brigade’s dispatch.

Throwing an “elite” (read: more well equipped than usual) formation to stop an advance is what the Nazis resorted to doing after the war had decisively turned against them. Didn’t work for them then, doesn’t seem to work for Ukraine now. Almost as if it’s a bad strategy only employed by losers.

The commies can’t keep getting away with … checks notes … running a free market!

Lol it’s like how the average Westerner probably pictures St Basil’s Cathedral when you ask them if they know what the Kremlin looks like.

All the Xinjiang Genocide proponents who waved and pointed to UN reports are suddenly very quiet about this UN statement. Weird.

The main lesson I took away from Bernie’s runs is that trying to reform the Democratic party is a lost cause because the entrenched interests are too strong.

This is what happens when you drink your own racist Kool aid about how Chinese/Asian people aren’t creative or innovative.

We’re high IQ tech bros who deserve to be paid millions, but you can’t expect us to work out basic management and payroll techniques literally every industry has implemented!

“Our business model sucks and we don’t want to do the work to pay the people who perform labor for us. Therefore, our CEO deserves a hundred million dollars.”

Yeah, makes sense. Carry on.

“I’m not a bot, my attention span maxes out at 5 words!”

One country subsidizing an industry while imposing tarrifs on another country for subsizing that same industry is literally an actionble dispute in the WTO so it is very much an actual rebuttal.

Try defending a WTO subsidies dispute with “Whataboutism!” And see how that goes.

The issue is they’re wanting to sell $30,000 cars for $15,000 (with the rest paid for by the Chinese government)

[Citation needed]

China ended its national level domestic EV subsidies in 2022 so it makes very little sense to subsidize foreign buyers for 50% of the cost of a vehicle while cutting subsidies for domestic consumption which is much more economically and socially advantageous.

Even before he lost all credibility, the Dalai Lama said he would drop independence and pursue autonomy for Tibet as a part of China.

All this is ignoring the wide popular support by Tibetan serfs for overthrowing their Lama masters in the first place.

I love that the generic lib response to this is to engage in Whataboutism regarding Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan. If you see someone doing this, remember to ask them how many countries recognize Palestine as a state versus any of those other places.