You’re cute!

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If they direct it outwards and hurt innocent people. In that case, the person needs to kill that part of themselves so the rest of them can live

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cuddles you ❤️🧡🤍🩷💖

but trans people need their hormones NOW!

i will grab you like this :3

understandable

but have you considered that your mayor still refuses to assign you a bisexual gf? Sounds pretty awful to me 🤔

I think Taiwan will surrender after being pressured to buy Trump. If they get invaded and the US needs to back them up, either America will lose or America will be seen as weak by not helping their ally. If Taiwan surrenders, Trump saves the most face. It all depends on how stupid Trump is and how distracted he is by other matters. At the end of the day, allies don’t matter to him, and he’s a bully who only wants easy results against weak enemies. I don’t think he sees China as weak like he saw Iran.

As far as the red scare goes, I don’t think it’ll be as successful as past efforts, especially in the long run. It will be messy and horrible to live through, but the very same sins of capitalism that allowed fascism to rise will prevent the right from squashing socialism like they did before. Socialism was crushed in the past because of the goodwill liberalism earned through social democracy. By trying to crush the left without offering anything in return, liberalism will lose even more luster than it already has. The fascists could capitalize on this, but so could feudalists, so could regionalists, so could socialists. Regardless of who comes out ahead, the red scare will do more to harm liberalism than anything else.

Red scare from liberals. Anti communism in America is as old as communism, with the unions and the majority of the worker class hostile to even a whiff of it. The entrepreneurial dogma runs deep, and anything that questions it is seen as unamerican. This is so baked into the American ethos that the impulse still exists for people who grew up after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The “common sense” I heard growing up is that communism is just as bad as fascism, and that liberal capitalism is the reasonable center. Even if socialism has become destigmatized, the attitude still lies dormant.

With the fall of liberal democracy to fascism, liberals’ faith in their system has been shaken to the core. Many liberals still think that they live in a “free” country, even as a fascist dictator tightens his grip on the government. They are increasingly scared and desperate for answers, and the oligarchs of this country know this. If they can get even half of the liberals to side with the fascists on nationalism against “communist” China, they will have a solid majority. It doesn’t matter to those people that China is a capitalist state, they wave the flag and they are national competition.

The real watershed moment will come when China takes Taiwan. Everything Trump has done makes their takeover even easier, and I thought it was likely even before his second term. Whether Taiwan gets invaded or surrenders, China will instantly become the world’s lead chip manufacturer. If there is any US or Taiwanese resistance, it will burst the AI bubble and send the US economy into a tailspin. If everything happens totally peacefully, then the US will fall behind technological in the long run. Either way, anticommunism will be pushed on the public by our entire media ecosystem and many Americans will fall for it.

No, it won’t be. The rich and powerful of this country not being able to so easily exploit global markets will cause them to squeeze us more. They will pass all their losses onto us.

I just hope I’m not as right about the upcoming red scare as we both were about Trump destroying US hegemony. If Americans end up being that predictably stupid, it’ll be really sad.

Not only that, as an American citizen I can go to prison for existing in public. The immigration officers are a secret police that could detain me on the spot for my gender expression not matching my government ID, and my skin is the right shade of brown to receive their racial profiling.

I’m the type of American citizen who is on the front line for this shit, but when there is no one left to speak up for you, you’ll be next. They will take your right to vote by rigging elections and making the legislature irrelevant. They will throw you in jail for being a terrorist if you oppose fascism. They have shown open disregard for the Constitution at every juncture, and if you become a problem person, don’t expect it to save you.

This is not a distant problem, it is knocking at your door. You can’t claim America is “free” anymore. That era is over.

Apparently people in China have been joking about Trump being their comrade since last year. People keep claiming he’s working for Putin, but China is the real benefactor here. Trump couldn’t help them more if he tried.

The worst part is Americans will not recognize why this happened as we are too uneducated about our own place in the world. They’re more likely to fall for anticommunist fear mongering and blame the left in their own country for problems created by fascists. As a result, no reforms will happen and America will continue to become irrelevant. I’m not looking forward to that shitshow, and neither should anyone in this hemisphere. I’m so scared of the horrors an unstable and desperate US might inflict.

There is no such thing as total automation, there are always people keeping the machines in order. Even then, it’s a skill issue on Toyota and Honda’s part. Labor will reorganize like it always does, and it’s not like any of these companies care more than they have to about labor.

The primary advantage China had was government subsidies prioritizing long term more than the private investors could. In theory the private investors could make most of the same decisions an industrial capitalist state can, but they are too self interested for that collective action. They don’t care about helping any individual state, their money moves freely across the globe, and they are only in it for themselves.

China will only have a less educated population if they follow the same stupid playbook as America, but that strategy has almost nothing to do with family sizes and has not caused birthrates to drastically increase. Population growth has slowed in every industrialized capitalist country, and many of those countries have not gutted their education system like America. There is no way a modernized economy like China’s will see a population explosion without heavy government intervention, as that would go against the established global trend. The 1 child policy was a mistake, but only because the natural course of modern capitalist economies would’ve done the job for them.

America gutted education so the population would be easier to con and manipulate. The rich gave up on having a functional republican form of government, the very type of government that allowed America to modernize and become wealthy. That type of system provided motivation for Americans to support their own nation, convincing them that their liberal democracy was the superior system. Now China has done the same thing, earning the trust of its own people by improving their country’s wealth and international prominence.

China’s investment in automation is only another way to increase worker productivity, and as history has shown time and time again, that is never the real issue that undermines societies. Rising wealth inequality, centralization of power, mistreatment along ethnic and cultural groups can become problems for China in the future, but not automation. Anti intellectualism could fuck with China as it has in the past, but it won’t be because people have more kids to invest in.

China rising in power is scary and could easily cause problems in the future, but right now it is in a very powerful position and it will not fall anytime soon. It’s likely that countries across the globe will seek to emulate China’s strategies in the same way that they emulated America post WWII. They won’t be as dominant as America was, but they will likely be the most powerful player on the board.

o7

Basically all the possible effects were something I wanted, and while I’d be disappointed if I didn’t get them, I wouldn’t be that distraught about it. So far I’ve been happy with it