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lmao there’s a fountain pen on AliExpress from a legit Chinese brand that revolves around the PRC national anthem. There’s a yellow star on red background on the top, a guitar clip (the composer famously played a tiny guitar), there are swords on the nib commemorating The Sword March, and half of the pen is commie red while the rest is clear.

It’s almost ugly but I need it. $12 on AliExpress. Will probably be cheaper when the summer sale starts in a week and a half.

If anyone is as silly as me, it’s the Jinhao Tiandao 1935.

It’s the basic building block of anarcho-syndicalism and I think Western leftists like to kind of just mix ideas together and call them things.

Gonna make a new party called Antiantideutsch-but-still-fuck-Germany

I think there are mods and admins that will panic and so banning won’t be possible without drama.

I would avoid it. I would also only buy a car like this if it came with a decent warranty or you took it to a shop of your choice to get it inspected first. The most expensive and risky parts of a car are all internal and require a proper inspection. Alternatively if you got a fantastic deal from a trusted person that’s trying to help you out (which must be distinguished from a charlatan telling you they’re helping you out while ripping you off).

You have the right idea though imo. A Corolla with less than 150,000 miles is right in that price range and is the most likely thing to keep chugging along for years.

Inflation is just rising costs. It includes price gauging and having to pay tariffs.

I still think there’s going to be a “harm reduction Genocide Joe” contingent here. Prepare for draaaaaama.

A high inflation regime promotes taking on debt as inflation makes it cheaper to pay off. That debt will get spent. If hyperinflation is threatened, buying inflation hedges is the “smart” move - real estate, gold, foreign assets. This similarly applies to simply not holding on to savings, as inflation devalues all money that you save at a faster rate than durable goods.

This is, literally, basic economics. And none of it is mentioned in the article.

JFC I’m sorry Argentinian comrades.

Yes of course this is Amerikkka

Both are a false consciousness that, as such, function to obscure class antagonism and support the capitalist order. They are a form of liberal following a slightly different set of high priests than the others, though obviously they are not separate. While many liberals laugh at, for example, Austrian School economists, they do so while incorporating the ideas from that school that fit the current canon. All it takes is laundering them through other economists.

A Marxist analysis will look at the material basis for these ideologies. They are basically the same as for liberalism - they reinforce a substantial portion of the ruling class’s interests. The obvious one is that when the ruling class is interested in cutting its own taxes or regulations, this ideology is very useful. Though it really goes much farther than this: both are cults of capital in the extreme, justifying all capitalist actions as inherently just and all transgressions against them as inherently unjust. Consequently, they can be leveraged for anything that capitalists want except for maybe government grift. If a capitalist lobbying group wants a policy change they can push a “right libertarian” that wants it, easily. If a capitalist lobbying group doesn’t want a policy that threatens their interests, they can fund, say, the Cato institute to tell you some bullshit about how it’s bad according to their economic religion. It’s not fundamentally different from how capitalists fund others members of the political class.

To the extent that it is different is that it is more extreme. It’s a wrecking ball that competes with the interests of other capitalists that benefit from various government policies. So long as there’s a “big government” means by which to increase profit, there will be a fight.

On the personal psychological level there is plenty to discuss but I think the false consciousness is the most important aspect. “Right libertarians” get to pretend to be an outsider political trend, even one opposed to the status quo, and openly recognize various problems in the capitalist system. For example, they get to be vaguely anti-war, at least rhetorically. And they usually try to wash their hands of the decisions made by Democrats and Republicans. Then they go and reinforce the dominant capitalist system. In this sense they are very similar to radlib socdems, just with a different aesthetic for what it means to be an “outsider”.

In my experience, if you can get a right libertarian to actually read socialist theory they can actually be pipelined. Nowhere near 100% rate but better than your average lib. They will be annoying the whole time, though.

The United States, alleged land of the free, has the largest prison population on the planet.

Because they’re afraid to investigate the possibility that they are wrong

I assume they mean North America, South America, and Australia.

Time to start preparing a bootstraps speech for when meemaw and peepaw can’t live independently anymore.

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Given what American flags are made of probably carcinogenic fumes

It’s a meme that’s not 100% true but is true in spirit.

Gonzalites fucked up hard by picking fights with the people who should have been their allies - both MLs and entire populations in the countryside. And by pick fights I mean launch wars at them, killing entire villages for being “collaborators” or revisionist. In addition to being horrible in itself, this was (obviously) counterproductive and they failed entirely in their mission.

Burn it

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