I wonder what they'll do with those weapons once they're no longer pawns of the US empire? It's a shame that this is an entirely new situation and there's no lessons history could teach us about arming extremist militias.
Oh good, now Amerika's a nazi collaborator too! Couldn't just be complicit in a zionist-backed genocide, no, now we gotta arm the Nazis too. Amerika really is the Fourth fuckin Reich.
Yeah, facts; I just wasn't expecting them to go mask-off about it when the climate among the people of the Settler Empire has been tipping against this conflict. It's like the Democrat party doesn't want to win in November.
That's how it goes though. The only way for these people to survive is to double down on the white supremacy when the tide turns against them. It's escalatory logic
I think a lot of people are learning the hard way that the party does not give a shit about them. Did outreach at an event this weekend with my socialist org and I can't count how many times we heard some variant of "I don't want to support Biden anymore because of what he's doing in Gaza."
America inspired the Nazis in the first place. America is more like the 0th Riech. Manifest destiny and the transatlantic slave trade were foundational to the entire ideology of the west and liberalism. It is infact what liberalism was developed for, finding a way to justify slavery + genocide while being against the monarchy. Liberals replaced the divine right of kings with "merit" and "genius", which have always been conceived of as products of race and/or "culture"/"attitude". That's why liberals always froth at the mouth for more imperial conquest. They think of other nations as possessing inferior genes or "culture", and thus deserving of subjugation.
The vulture capitalists will want to. The moderates will warn them not to take too much too fast. In the end, refinancing for anything that isn't repossessed. Rinse and repeat until the empire eats itself. Then: xi-communism-button
Edit: ignore me; this applies more to consumer debt and the article is about national debt.
The absolute state of global neoliberalism when IMF sounds like a progressive organization:
Gopinath said that in all advanced economies there was “no way of getting around” the fact that fundamental reforms were needed to pensions systems and medical spending as populations age. [I am not sure what kind of reforms she is talking about here but I am being generous.]
“We see grounds in several countries for more progressive taxation,” she said, adding that capital gains and inheritance taxes could be more effectively implemented.
“We do think that the generosity of unemployment insurance can be higher in some countries,” she said, adding that wage insurance to cover the gap between workers’ old and new salaries could also work.
Inheritance tax was floated just as a suggestion by a Congress member here in India in an interview. BJP used this opportunity hatemonger. Modi in a speech said that through inheritance tax Congress wants to take wealth from Hindus and give it to Muslims. The language that he used was more inflammatory but I don't know how to translate it without footnotes.
I still think the US debt is meaningless. Don't see why they would need to do austerity regardless how big the debt is. If they do implement austerity, which they may at some point, it won't be because of the debt but because they have decided it is in their advantage to do so. Austerity is a means of disciplining the working class. It's for beating us into submission so we come begging to capital for scraps.
The US debt is meaningless so long as the USD remains the global reserve currency. With the current trends of dedollarization that may not last for much longer.
It may be a splitting of hairs as well, but I would argue that domestic US financial policy vis a vis US workers has been austere for fifty years. Expenditures on private industry only grow, while any and all services for the services for the people are ruthlessly cut.
I agree. Which is why the IMF rhetoric is suspect. It almost feels like a new narrative thread is being developed with the end goal of manufacturing consent for austerity in the USA. Why would they do that? I can only imagine the goal is to "reform retirements and pensions" meaning loot the old, loot social security, end Medicaid and Medicare, and blame it on "the other" in order to generate more support for mass imprisonment, sanctions, and war (but I repeat myself).
Let the record show June 10 2024, Freagle puts a bet down that these words from the IMF will be referenced later to justify austerity and a bunch of liberals are going to support killing the poors via neglect because "fiscal responsibility" and "vote blue if you want to fix it".
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