yes… YES… YES!!!
saw some langley boys r/worldnews users shitting their pants over this.
:wojak-nooo: you have to do trade with the dollar what if China manipulates the currency? Don’t you know that almost all of BRICS is authoritarian? Really weak shit.
Also holy shit I still have not adjusted to having a Brazilian president whose voice doesn’t make my blood boil
Lula is in danger of winding up in a ditch Gadaffi style if he keeps this up.
in seriousness, he’d only be saying this publicly if he felt he was sufficiently safe and had the political capital to do something here. full solidarity with comrade Lula!
:fidel-salute-big:
Biden. The most electable candidate is destroying American hegemony lol.
Sanders would of done a 100x better than this
You’re not wrong. Making sure peoples’ needs are met with social democratic concessions would make it far easier to manufacture consent and would revitalize the well of consumers/workers. To say nothing of the fact that the US under a “socialist” president could try to play “good cop” with countries moving from le international rules-based order as opposed to instantly resorting to strong-arming/sanctions/coups/whathaveyou.
But it seems to me that the neoliberal hegemony is either resigned to its decline (and thus trying to extract as much value as possible to enrich the right people while the “good times” last) or is convinced that magic will happen if they stay their course and just patch any leaks with the right amount of tape.
It’s all hubris. They believe their own lies. They breath it.
This war with Russia and seizing billions in countries dollars would not have happened under Sanders. That’s what started all of this. Bidens admin is filled to the brim with condescending moronic libs that thought America was still untouchable
I’ve been saying this since bernie lost in 2020, the new crop of liberal managers have all the beliefs but none of the skill of the ghouls of the cold war. Managers so high on their own supply they lack the vision to see they lack the skills needed to rule, simply thinking it works like a switch cause they said so.
Broke: “DeSantis is the more competent fascist”
Woke: “Sanders is the more competent fascist.”
:michael-laugh: my favorite thing the chapo guys would say during 2020 is that Bernie represented the off ramp to the empire. A way for american empire to die gracefully and slowly while allowing its citizens some dignity (potentially i.e. medicare for all). Thats basically all off the table. Every other candidate from then on out is the accelerationist candidate
I don’t see the Empire dying in the case Bernie was allowed to win, anymore than it “died” after FDR’s New Deal (or the British Empire after it elected Labour). If anything, Bernie was their ticket for maintaining the course in a more measured manner.
