Message from @Death in June
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which is why trump's tarrif strategy is a good one
The other thing I mentioned was military tech. US seems to be a bit stuck in the 20th century. China is leapfrogging straight to space weapons and hypersonic rail guns.
If china can develop effective anti-ship railguns, that pretty much counters the whole strategy of the US military. If they can railgun the aircraft carriers, what's the US gonna do?
The us could easily be almost entirely self sufficient in a few years if our leaders had any clue what to do
the US also has little will to fight, though that might be changing
yes agree, US is well poised, but it would be a big effort
and even a 0.1% GDP cost would have the corporate media howling at trump's anti-market agenda blah blah
look at brexit -> hey we can have sovereignty again but it will cost us a couple percent of GDP
oh heavens tebetsy
I think the us populace in some level realize like there's was no reason to be in Vietnam or other similar wars
well, there was a reason. communism
it's not a reason for them to be involved
and the US successfully stopped communism from spreading around the world
But like Japan and 9/11 no one was against it
this only matters to the ruling class
that's why vietnam was continued and escelated by 5 different presidents from both republicans and democrats
they thought it was important to do, and we don't know how it would have turned out if the US didn't do that
Why is it our job to save you dumbasses when you all fuck up, if we remove the safety net you'll have to learn
communism is an inherently violent, expansionist and seditious ideology. the US was right to vociferously oppose it's spread
and look now how cultural marxism finally has a foothold in the US and the west
what you're calling "cultural marxism" is the product of liberalism
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totally disagree
So much this
the key difference is marxist power dynamics (oppressed/oppressor) and identitarianism
liberalism without those 2 things is very different from what we have today
the oppressed/oppressor dynamic is a feature of liberalism and has been since before marxism even existed
don't agree
think sargon but left of centre
marx's class analysis was influenced by liberal philosophy
influenced maybe, but it's not the same
of course it's not the same
to me, liberalism is basically the opposite of those 2 things
Also for the record there's a middle ground between the US being world police and the US being Switzerland and the world getting fucked without us
liberalism is there to enforce equal treatment under the law, and to compensate for being dealt a bad hand
compensating for being dealt a bad hand means that you are not limiting egalitarianism to equal treatment under the law
I mean in terms of universal health care and that kind of thing
In the semi modern age like mid 1900s liberalism and marxism have been driven by the same 2 things profit and some sort of freedom or equality
social liberalism already opened the door to the sort of egalitarianism we see from progressives by prescribing political action to rectify inequalities that transcend legal inequalities
They are strongly related