It’s actually to establish lebensraum

Sadly that information is outdated as of 2024. It looks like Cuba’s incarceration rate spiked hard and the USA’'s came down a bit.

When you include the US parole system, though…

Really? What makes you say that?

• Hawaii
• Alaska
• Puerto Rico
• Guam
• Marianas
• Samoa
• 600+ global military bases
• NATO
• 20-year occupation of Afghanistan
• AFRICOM
• US elite ownership of international natural resources
• US elite ownership of international land
• CIA black sites

Suuuuuuper easy to forget

I just saw a staunch anti-communist liberal say “why the hell should I vote for any of these progressives if the party is just gonna scuttle everything even after a historic victory and significant polling in their favor?!” And I thought “this is exactly what we expected would happen but I never thought I’d see it and certainly not from this person”

What are we? A bunch of Asians?

Every single person has something to teach.

Everyone.

Sometimes, that thing is patience. Sometimes it’s compassion. Sometimes it’s how to communicate better. Sometimes it’s when to walk away.

But if you believe every single person has something to teach you, that is a huge hack.

I really can’t imagine that there’s just no money, considering money is just lines on a spreadsheet at this point.

I worry that the goal is to force the poor to take desperate actions to justify further expansion of violence.

https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/

Not the seed oils!!!

You need to read about Cuban democracy. People spend way more of their daily lives in democratic formations, driving the direction of their neighborhoods, villages, cities, and workplaces than an American could even dream of.

At some point, the Axis is going to see the paper tiger is stretched to thin and they’ll act accordingly

Isn’t this because the US reserves most of its production for domestic subsidies and strategic reserves?

There’s still time

I think the point is that voting is an act of speech. Mayor’s have executive power.

All nations of the world are dependent on all nations of the world. All humans in the world are dependent on all humans in the world. All ecosystems in the world are dependent on all ecosystems in the world.

This is dialectics.

Resisting dependency just because it’s dependency is ideological folly.

Acknowledging interdependency and engaging thoughtfully and experimentally in that interdependency is the way.

Yeah, so what you’re missing is the liberalization period. The SU under Kruschev and his faction decided to steer the country towards liberal reforms which allowed for private accumulation of capital. It also adopted a strategy of trying to become friendly with the West in a failed attempt to co-dominate the world with them.

In essence, the SU didn’t go quickly, it took decades.

What are you talking about? He stores top secret documents at a private resort. He gives no shits. The nat sec apparatus has been in charge of Trump’s career since well before he had political ambitions. Trump’s connections with organized crime, international real estate, international oligarchs (like himself), and his family’s extensive connections all put him right in the core of the intelligence scope of multiple nations. His connections with Epstein and Epstein’s connections with the nat sec apparatus are the easiest connection make.

No. Trump is not driven by trying to distract everyone from the Epstein case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Nigeria

Although Libya has more reserves, there were 37.2 billion barrels (5.91×109 m3) of proven oil reserves in Nigeria as of 2011, ranking the country as the largest oil producer in Africa and the 11th largest in the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Venezuela

The proven oil reserves in Venezuela are recognized as the largest in the world, totaling 300 billion barrels (4.8×1010 m3) as of 1 January 2014

No. It wouldn’t. Why are you people so willing to believe that these fascists are motivated by avoiding public scrutiny? Trump was convicted of 39 felonies. He’s not so afraid of being tied to Epstein in the public eye that he would overstretch the US military.

There are other reasons for these actions.

She didn’t. I am trying to figure out what it means if the US isn’t gonna do regime change but still wants Venezuelan oil. They’re not gonna do a covert operation to install a puppet. And they’re not gonna invade to rebuild it.

So the only option left seems to be bomb the shit out of the place and then occupy it to secure the oil fields.