Comprehensive49
If your concern is about national security, why the heck are you hiring Nepalese Ghurkas who have never seen an ocean in their lives? Why can’t the British do their own laundry themselves?
Is it that they have a fetish for foreign laundry servants, or that the working conditions of laundrymen on their ships are so poor that no full-blooded Brit would ever consider the job?
Please replace “Treasury/ies” in the title with “US Treasury/ies”. There’s kind of a big difference between having a collapsing treasury and having a collapsing US treasury.
It’s ridiculous that this needs to be done. Water utilities are the definition of a public good and natural monopoly. Any developing country whose water utilities are privately owned will have water access and shortage issues, as the “costs” of the infrastructure to provide drinking water to all threaten the easy profit of sitting back and forcing people to pay, lest they die from disease or dehydration.
I think this mostly has to do with the extensive use of vegetables cooked in various tasty ways. Western dishes (specifically West European) seem to have very few good techniques to cook vegetables, leading white children to hate veggies. I think this is exacerbated in Britain and their Anglo-Saxon colonies (cue the meme about British food having no seasoning).
Also, proper Asian dishes tend not to actually use much oil. Stir frying only lightly coats the outside of food with oil, very different from western deep frying.
As the US’s importance in global trade declines, Taiwan’s trade will slant more and more toward China, and the 2 regions will become more and more interconnected until they are de-facto unified.
That is the endgame. It’s also why China has quite generous policies toward Taiwan residents, such as easy-to-get Mainland Travel Permits for Taiwan Residents. It’s all to promote trade interconnection.
China used its large market to play the capitalists against themselves. First to new market wins, so Western capitalists were begging to get in no matter what.
I do think that as China moves up the value chain, they should still improve and automate their low-value manufacturing. That way, they can never get cut off from needed goods. I don’t know whether this is exactly what they are planning. If someone more knowledgeable could chime in, that would be great!
This is a quote from the play The Fever by Wallace Shawn. The play depicts a person who becomes sick while struggling to find a morally consistent way to live when faced with injustice, and harshly criticizes the United States’ record in supporting the murder of communists and socialists. The play ends by saying that only blood spilled on their doorsteps will bring the complacent rich to change their selfish ways (which the NYT didn’t like for being too radical).
Wallace Shawn is a socialist, Jewish actor and playwright who has:
- supported whistleblower Chelsea Manning
- worked as a speaker for Jewish Voice for Peace in October 2023 as an anti-Zionist Jew
- narrated a political ad in April 2024 denouncing AIPAC influence
Mexico desperately needs a better military to withstand this kind of bullshit. At the current rate, the US is gonna try to coup Mexico soon. Once the US starts collapsing for real, Mexico is the first place American fascists are gonna expand into. The current Mexican air force is composed of 40 propeller plane fighters, and the other Army and Navy don’t look much better.
The Biden campaign also suddenly brought up abortion rights again. They had 4 years to do shit about it and did nothing, so another 4 years will definitely fix it, right?
