Trump literally said that he will not use military force, but economic force, to annex Canada, and there is nothing Canada can do about it if the US really wants to.
What you’ll see is Canada folding under sanctions just like the Europeans did.
Plenty of lonely people, especially old people, on the internet who have no one to talk to and are vulnerable to falling into internet’s rabbit holes. Now they’d have a personalized digital companion to talk to, who cares about them and is willing to listen to their grievances, and probably guide them toward certain purchases based on their conversations, or at the very least collect information about their preferences, private thoughts etc. This is going to be a business.
Moral of the story? Talk to your parents and grandparents.
Reusable rockets have made the cost of launching rockets very cheap, to the point where it’s feasible to launch new satellites every week if not every other day.
They’ve also gotten the Raptor engines to (mostly) work, which is a full flow staged combustion engine that is more efficient than their Soviet counterparts built… 40 years ago.
Obviously none of the concepts is new, but they’re ahead of everyone else at this time.
I don’t think Capital would ever allow Trump to win the election without putting a leash on him.
The far right chuds have always been a tool for the Capital to suppress the left, where the real challenge to the establishment would come from. Fascism is part of (neo)liberal capitalism invented in the 1920s to fight back against Bolshevism in Europe, and has since been perfected by the US empire post-war to curb labor movements all over the world. It was never a threat to them.
That’s the point. Governments from the rest of the world used their taxpayers’ money to raise their kids for 20-30 years only for them to come to work for America. The developing world literally worked their asses off to subsidize the cost of creating new labor for the US empire.
It’s been an exceptional deal for the American capitalists who get them at virtually no cost.
Nakamoto = “(of) central origin”, or a surname so rare in Japan that not even a single notable figure shared this surname
Satoshi = “intelligent”
Not yet, Trump is using Elon as a sweetener for his deal with China.
I think if Trump’s rapprochement with China fails, then Elon gets fired.
Santa is a higher dimensional creature though.
That’s why they have to start petition for the statehood now instead of ending up like the EU, who has accepted the fate of becoming another Puerto Rico without resistance.
Being able to travel to mainland United States to work is still better for the ordinary people instead of being without citizenship while having their economy swallowed by the US empire, like what is happening to the Europeans right now. They can’t just leave Europe and move to America without petitioning for an immigration visa, but if they become a US state, they can move freely to the US for work.
The US can end the economic sovereignty of these countries at any moment just as easily as it ended Europe’s, and they will happily accept the outcome just like the entire Europe Union happily welcomed the destruction of their energy infrastructure by the US empire.
It’s better for both sides to give up the pretense and start petition for statehood instead of waiting for the illusion to be shattered. A statehood is still better than being a colony with no political rights at all. At least the people have citizenship and the legal status to travel to mainland United States to work.
I don’t see why this would be bad for those countries. They are already colonies, and instead of being another Puerto Rico, you might as well petition to become a proper US state so you get two senators and a handful of congress representatives and federal funding. At least you get some say in US politics.
Europe should obviously do the same too.
But I was told that Russians have been genociding millions of Ukrainian civilians.
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The illusion of Western liberal rules-based order was already shattered when the US confiscated $300 billion of Russia’s foreign reserves in 2022.
Everyone back then said “the trust of the dollar has been broken”, nobody’s going to trust the US again. That’s completely correct, and what has been unveiled instead is that US imperialism is never run on “trust” or “rules”, but on coercion.
So, guess what, nearly three years later, the foreign treasury holdings in the US has reached an all-time peak in 2024 at $8.5 trillion! Despite the blatant “stealing” of Russia’s foreign reserves, foreign countries still continue to buy US treasuries like it is the most precious asset in the world.
The dollar hegemony remains unbroken because there is no alternative to the dollar system, and as long as there is no alternative and challenge to it (to be fair, the Europeans tried, and look how the US properly disciplined the EU), everyone will have to play by the rules set by the US. There is no Soviet Union to save us this time.