Israel, along with most western countries, have been bombing (or building bombs) the Middle east and North Africa for decades now.
Israel, along with most western countries, have been bombing (or building bombs) the Middle east and North Africa for decades now.
Agree, especially considering how much the EU has screwed over Greece in recent years. Not really an exploiter of global south labor via finance capital, which the US, GB, France, Germany, and the Nordic countries, definitely are.
Capitalism is less than 400 years old, and feudalism took probably triple that to fully die out. These are world-historic processes taking a long time, involving new energy sources, technological developments, and declining surpluses.
Capitalism has had many crackups already, and is now in its late stage in most of the world. Even most of the populations of capitalist countries, when polled, are pessimistic about their future.
It’s less a geographical or hemispheric distinction, and more a political one.
This page on imperial core is good.
That’s been getting much worse in the US at least.
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You can edit posts in lemmy.
North Korea, you’d get blown up and killed
Source?
Admins can see voting patterns.
The nazi’s copying the US colonialist model, but in eastern europe:
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Careful, you’re going to get priviledge checked by the g*mer who thinks reading books and exercise is something only rich ppl have time to do.
None of those things needs a big time requirement. You could work out for 5 minute a day if you want, study for 5 minutes, and do something creative for 5 minutes.
Most people don’t prioritize vitally important things like self study.
I’ve used photoprism for years now, and its solid. Pretty performant, and even has an unofficial android app.
Someone defending the US few weeks ago said: “decisions are made by those who show up and vote”.
No, decisions are made by those who hold economic and political power. That is NOT the citizenry of capitalist dictatorships. Having elections also serves a lot of ideological functions like:
Part of the post ww2 division of labor. The US would keep its war industry and become western capitalism’s primary enforcement arm worldwide, letting its allies or defeated clients host US military bases and develop consumer products industries.
The reason latin america is excluded from the west is because 1) they don’t exploit other countries via finance capital, and 2) most of them preserve both their indigenous cultures and populations, in a way that would be intolerable to US or Israeli settlers.