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They certainly think they’re Christians.

Society and culture are downstream from the material conditions, and under the current material conditions the wealth and prosperity of society is built on the back of superexploitation, war, theft, slavery, and genocide. The kind of culture produced by empire can’t be moral, it doesn’t matter their religion or lack of religion. All moral positions are hollow under imperialism.

You aren’t going to end imperialism, militarism, materialism etc by just changing the society or the culture. It’s the exact opposite. You can only change society and culture by ending imperialism, militarism, materialism, etc etc. This is always the kind of society and culture that would have been produced by advanced capitalism, religion is entirely irrelevant.

God is also decorative in the West. The most religious people in the West are also imperialistic, militaristic, materialistic, hedonistically nihilistic “societies” of amoral, lonely strangers. Clearly the problem isn’t cultural, it’s something more fundamental.

Talking to you is self harm.

Okay, you were given two examples of why this is bad (Qaddafi, Sadam). Here’s another: Syria was a stable and semi-prosperous country before the meddling began, and then it was turned into a basket case. It took over ten years to depose Assad, and in the meantime their economy has been obliterated and half a million people died.

These are just the recent examples, there are so many more: Sukarno in Indonesia, Allende in Chile, Lumumba in Congo, over and over and fucking over the US comes and fucking destroys countries in the name of “liberating” the people. Your government programs you to hate these “regimes” but they’re actually stabilizing forces, and without them everything is worse.

Making things worse is the point. If they can’t install a puppet regime friendly to US interests they’ll settle for turning the country into another basket case, because taking Venezuela’s oil off the market raises prices (and thus profits)

And Trump is already promising to do the same fucking thing in Colombia! It’s so nakedly evil, and you just lap it up like a dog. The US’s internal politics don’t even matter, this is bipartisan.

You need to learn from history.

You mean like how Libya is so much better now without Qaddafi? 🤡

Okay, but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security. This person, specifically, did not fully pay for their own Social Security. They’re living off of public money, not money they contributed themselves.

The OP specifically depicts someone that’s 90 years old.

Doesn’t that mean the amount they paid in to Social Security might have actually run out years ago?

American Rugby

EDIT SHIT y’all beat me to it! 😅

I have mine set on a timer, fill it up with water before I go to bed, and when I wake up I can immediately make a hot broth breakfast. It’s reduced my morning routine by 8 whole minutes! Life will never be the same.

Supply and demand. As long as there is demand for Russian rubles, and there are as long as Asia trades with them, then inflation will be kept in check. Inflation is caused when supply outpaces demand.

Russia prints its own money. It’s not like there’s a savings account that they’re running dry, they can just print more whenever they want.

This article is cope.

Pretty sure it’s the material interests of the ruling class. The fossil fuel companies say we can’t do solar power, so we don’t. That’s not democratic - the opposite, actually!

Can’t you access your password manager from a web browser? Or your phone?

Are you under the impression that democracy is the thing holding the West back from a green transition?

Isn’t that just… every app?

Turns out, microplastics make you immortal.

What if, instead of hiring a company, we organized together as workers and yelled at the boss collectively? 🤔

Legitimate improvement.

It’s in the US too, they just aren’t testing because of the shutdown and deregulation.