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Why do foreign communists love Iowa so much?
Pamphlets@PamphletsY
🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 Young Xi Jinping in Iowa.
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@Kathleen_Tyson_ The U.S. doesn’t have nukes. It urgently needs do create some.
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The US tried to steal Iran’s enriched uranium too last month.
Does the US have a target list of states with enriched uranium and oil to steal?
Who will be next?
Arya Yadeghaar (Backup)@AryJeayBackup
Maduro was the iron curtain that held the US outside Venezuala…. The US has removed all remaining 13,5kg enriched uranium from Venezuela, and sent it to the US to reuse.
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@policytensor UAE sucks but can we stop calling oil rich countries who have control of their resources “rentier” states. That’s a false label.
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They love their visions. But what role does the UAE play in the world? What is its functional specialization?
A microstate that relies entirely on the skill of foreigners, it has a million nationals and ten million Western expats and Asian migrants. A rentier state that endows the royals with absolute autonomy from society. A creature of the empire with a hyperactive foreign policy that has destabilized a dozen countries. A playground of the third world rich, of the illicit money of oligarchs and dictators, of the outcasts of the West.
The functions that the UAE performs in the world are all intrinsically-tied to the structures of power of our world: of fossil capitalism, of the empire, of the world racial order, of global finance. Everything comes together in the person of MBZ. When he flees into exile or is killed, it will signal the collapse of this world order.
Bruno Maçães@MacaesBruno
Very puzzled by the UAE’s vision of the future. You can’t be Israel or Russia and Switzerland or Singapore at the same time
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@baoshaoshan This will also help keep food prices down in China. The west on the other hand is protectionist on all fronts.
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@baoshaoshan Also agriculture. The classic economics dynamics is non industrialized economies sell commodities and agricultural in exchange for machinery that would in turn help them industrialize.
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It’s actually about the next generation of products … ones that are more likely to be part of supply chains with SMEs than classic bulk commodity plays.
Kyle Chan@kyleichan
China dropped all tariffs on imports from Africa (except Eswatini which has diplomatic ties with Taiwan). But: “Of the $115.6 billion worth of exports from Africa to China, 94.5%—including oil, minerals, copper, gold, and cobalt—already entered duty-free.”chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/china…
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@Brad_Setser @StephenPaduano I’d rather the UAE who we know has the wealth to reciprocate than broke ass Argentina. It’s also a swap not a bail out.
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The US Treasury is too poor (and has too few reserves) to bailout -- or even provide a swap to -- the very rich Gulf family oil and investment businesses ...
With @StephenPaduano
ft.com/content/1f93e4…
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@Peter_Nimitz Intelligence agencies should be about spying on foreign countries not citizens. Ours is the opposite.
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@souljagoyteller And it’s very obvious it’s trying to get China in a military partnership so he can involve Chinese military in one of his pointless wars.
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@souljagoyteller Yes. No offense but Russia is constantly at war and the Russian leadership don’t seem to understand what borders are. Russia could become self sufficient but it’s concerned about weapon sales and middle eastern oil.
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@kyleichan @61LiuYi Lmao what. Chinese have high savings rate and home ownership.
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The concept of “involution” in the Chinese context basically came from anthropologist Xiang Biao describing a deeper cultural trend.
Here he is in a powerful interview with @61LiuYi:
“The main change is this: effort driven by hope has become effort driven by fear. When we said work hard and you can change your fate — it was naïve, almost muddled, but people genuinely believed it. You looked around and there seemed to be examples of it working, so you worked hard. Now it’s: if you don’t work hard, you’ll be tossed out entirely.” chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/14/wtc…
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@MaitreyaBhakal We’ll just start exporting our black Hebrew Israelites or Nation of Islam to that region to mix things up.
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We are currently witnessing the rise of Iranian influence in the region, and the corresponding decline of Jewish supremacy.
There's a perfect word to describe this phenomenon: "Aryanization".
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@MaitreyaBhakal This is just another Hindutva propaganda tactic. Take both sides of the argument (proHindutva and anti Hindutva). That way it’s your peeps making money or catching attention which stance is popular.
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This is why I always argue that such revisionist and orientalist western historians have only bookish knowledge about India, with little experience on the ground talking and interacting with Indian people. They just read books and papers and then write a few of their own.
For example, nobody uses the phrase "founding fathers" in India. She's just copying terminology from her country to describe another.
Also gives you an idea of who her actual target audience is.
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Quirked up whiteboy ultimate achievement: getting this picture published in the Times
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@alexbhturnbull Noah Hawley seems like the narcissist. His wife’s wrist is broken and he’s expecting verbal concern from an autist instead rich man.
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@Logo_Daedalus @LessthanBrand Most are just glad to collect a six figure salary from their pseudo jobs like NGOs. Unless faced with a real crisis, they’ll just keep faking platitudes.
But I do agree, that most revolutionaries tend to come from wealthy backgrounds and are class traitors.
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@ItsSamsa @LessthanBrand No-- one has more actionable intel than the other.
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The left is more suspicious of “children of privilege” than of “upward strivers”— & this is exactly wrong. The “upward strivers” are the arch reactionaries who believe in their own individual affluence while the children of privilege are “downwardly mobile” & prefer the company of the “lesser” to the continuity of their class position. Exactly backwards.
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@essmaestro @Logo_Daedalus Yes for the most part. Some of the other fobs are also just sponsored by their gov to lobby the U.S. gov to do foreign policy on their behalf against another country.
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@Logo_Daedalus @LessthanBrand The truth in America there’s no difference between the “downwardly mobile” and the “upward striver”. The later just like to give a sob story while the former like to engage in gov funded political advocacy. But both are same.
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@Logo_Daedalus @LessthanBrand A lot of “downwardly mobile” are also just activist anxious that they won’t be as wealthy their parents. US has been in an economic depression so they’re also getting poorer. They can be revolutionaries or opportunists. Mao Zedong succinctly described them.
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