The degree to which pro-capitalists are right about the benefits of competition is exactly the degree to which actual capitalists pay politicians to stifle it.
Tyrants don't come to power by requiring submission - they come to power by criminalizing opposition.
Well yeah. As long as the tech oligarchs keep kissing his fat, stinky ass and giving him big piles of money, he'll follow them anywhere.
Aside from the fact that the use of the superlatives "perfect" and "every episode is a 10/10," renders it immediately some degree of bullshit, this is a surprisingly not awful list. I wouldn't have included Steins;Gate, which is drug down by a tediously unsympathetic protagonist and too many convenient plot contrivances, but aside from that, I'm sort of impressed by the inclusions, and particularly the generally underrated Paranoia Agent, only somewhat diminished by the use of the clunky localized name "Lil' Slugger" instead of the vastly superior and more correct name, "Shounen Bat."
It's always projection for the Felon-in-Chief
Don't focus on the power. Focus on your passage through life.
Balance independence with consideration and empathy.
That is to say, be conscious of other people's preferences and desires but don't let yourself be dominated by others. Maintain a strong sense of yourself while still accommodating other people.
Keep that balance, so that you come across as strong and independent and in charge of your own life and kind and considerate and concerned for others, and "soft power" is just there to be had. People will just naturally seek your counsel and generally follow your lead.
That's also how you develop and exercise it as a nation-state. And that's why Trump has so completely destroyed US soft power - because he possesses and exercises none of those qualities. He, and the nation under his leadership is boorish and aggressive and inconsiderate, and also callow and thin-skinned and petty.
Israeli
settlersstate-sponsored terrorists
So basically, the US is trying to make it so that Israel can continue their conquest of Lebanon unopposed.
Somehow I don't think it's really Iran that's threatening to kill Trump...
The oligarchs have dropped any pretense that they consider the Earth and its peoples to be anything more than resources with which to fund their privilege.
Some might argue that that's been the case for years/decades/millennia/ever, but it really hasn't. The significant change hasn't been in their motivations, which granted are essentially the same as they've always been, but in the abandonment of even a meaningful attempt at supposed justification or public support. It's not that they believe they don't have to represent our interests, because yes, they've long believed that. It's that they believe that they don't even have to pretend to represent our interests. And what that says is that they not only don't care about the well-being of the planet or the other people with whom they share it, but they don't care if we know that. And what that in turn says is that they aren't afraid of us.
That's a thing that's new to the US, but the world has seen it before. And it never ends well for the oligarchs.
I know only one person who's completely fallen under the spell, but yes.
Though to be fair, I already disregarded most of what he said since he's a reactionary conservative who spends his days pouring right-wing podcasts into his ears at 1.5x. But at least on topics other than politics, he used to be fairly knowledgeable and trustworthy.
But since he's started telling me how impressed he is by how smart Claude is (since it tells him what he wants to hear), I've started disregarding everything he says, regardless of topic.
At this point, I'm reminded of that song on an almost daily basis.
The whole MAGA anti-trans thing is just about pure "what the queers are doing to the soil" energy.
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