

BRICS thankfully seems to only be using gold as a commodity/collateral, unlike where in the West it’s a holy item.
BRICS thankfully seems to only be using gold as a commodity/collateral, unlike where in the West it’s a holy item.
Socialism as it stands is almost always done through violence, yes. But that’s primarily due to circumstances outside of anyone’s control, I.E. surrounded by imperialist/capitalist powers in a hypercapitalist world.
Theoretically, in a world with no imperialist superpowers, there would be less of a threat for countries to become socialist.
I think that China would be interested in being a unipolar power if the world/situation truly called for it, but I think that the PRC is rightfully hesitant, and would prefer not to. Due to a combination of historical memory/trauma.
The PRC has also said many times, that the time to strike against the U.S./global capitalist order will come eventually. And given the events of the past few years, I get a feeling that “eventually” will be coming sooner than any of us think.
I think it’s extremely premature and unfair to say that BRICS isn’t living up to it’s potential at the moment. But on further thought, I think you have a point. I read “multipolarity” when you said BRICS.
BRICS started as an actual organization in 2009, but the organization arguably didn’t truly start until just around a decade-ish ago.
Institutions typically take years, if not decades, before they become recognized names and begin to truly change things on a large enough scale.
I wish that BRICS was more firmly anti-capitalist, but I could see how that could alienate millions of people.
BRICS is already establishing one or more various currencies/currency related programs through various methods and different extents, with different purposes and goals, namely gold or trading essential commodities.
I think the real fear for the U.S., would be the fall of the petrodollar system or an enormous economic crash of the U.S. empire.
While multipolarity isn’t inherently socialist or anti-capitalist, the current/coming form of multipolarity seems to be anti-capitalist, and a pre-cursor to countries becoming socialist.
The primary problem in the world right now, is the Amerikkkan settler-colonialist, white supremacist, fascist global imperialist dictatorship. Every single capitalist country on Earth, knowingly or unknowingly (most of the time, knowingly) is a lapdog of the U.S. or followsd in it’s cultural, political, social, and economic footsteps and imperial order.
While capitalism will likely continue to exist even after the U.S. empire falls, the fall of the U.S. will likely be a major death knell or the first major domino of a very long chain of events.
With the largest/most powerful stronghold of capitalism/imperialism being dethroned, as countries across the world are rising up against their neocolonial overlords, and supporting each other, they are and will be increasingly turning towards/socialism, bit by bit.
Rather than being dominated by a single unipolar global dictatorship, multipolarity will mean that the countries/continents of the world will finally have a much larger say in their own affairs, and the institution/enhancement of democracy (actual democracy, not capitalist lies sold as democracy) will mean that socialism will be even more on the rise again.
Nobody (or almost nobody) is inherently/blindly supportive of multipolarity, or multipolarity as an end goal. It’s just a major step.
There will no doubt be all kinds of horrific suffering and oppression and death, as human civilization enters a new era. But that will likely, eventually, stabilize.
Or maybe he was busy
I get the political angle, but I at least feel like he should just veto or refuse to sign, or say, “we have more important problems.”
I remember him saying something about traditional values, and what surprised me was that it wasn’t from MAGA-coms.
I really want to like Traore’, but the fact that he seems to be vehemently homophobic, disgusts me.
I’m open to being proven wrong, and I’m not saying that he doesn’t deserve critical support at a time like this, but as a fellow BIPOC and a LGBT comrade, it angers me that Traore’ is even considering or not immediately striking down this series of policies that will punish LGBT people.
I’m in no way saying that he himself is solely responsible for it, and I understand that MAYBE it’s a luxury to live in the first world and criticize national liberation/socialist movements, leaders, and groups, but it’s fucking disgusting that he seems to be homophobic, when Thomas Sankara would probably have told him off for it, who Traore’ claims to admire.
I’m not trying to be a douchebag, and I hate qualifying my statement so much, but JFC, he is sooo close to getting it right. I believe in ruthless criticism of all things. I’m concerned about the LGBT people and comrades who could be hurt or imprisoned over this, nor am I saying that the capitalist imperialist fascist west should be let off the hook for their centuries of homophobia or their dangling of LGBT rights over the heads of African peoples, but fucking hell.
I’m not expecting Traore’ to be perfect, and maybe he hasn’t given this comparatively much thought, given he has a country to run, or maybe this is more on the socially fascist inner circle or interlopers that know nothing but the white supremacist colonial hatred drilled into their heads for a long time, but I don’t find this to be rational or excusable.
If I have follow-up questions, do you mind if I keep in touch?
I’ve looked at temperature/climate/meteorological maps, and done alot of reading of scientific papers, and that’s how I came to my conclusion.
I think you have excellent points
Kit Klarenberg is really fucking cool. And so is Kevin Walmsley. I’ve actually emailed Walmsley, and he is a very good guy.
That’s cool AF. Is there any noticable lag? And is it good for streaming/torrenting,as well?
A No Planes theory? I’m intrigued.
Then let’s make it exciting! Lol.
Yeah, space is fucking majestic, horrifying, awe-inducing, scary, and gorgeous.
This is perfect, thank you!
I was leaning towards SurfShark earlier, but I’m looking at these now.
I’m incredibly jealous of Ben Norton.
Not that he owes me or anyone anything, but I emailed him once and introduced myself as a fellow comrade, and while he had no reason to trust me, and I wasn’t expecting him to offer any assistance or very many tips for my family and I to get to China, I was hoping he could point me in the right direction, and I was fucking crushed when he basically told me off.
I really wanted to tell him to go fuck himself, but I didn’t want to burn that bridge.
And he didn’t even have an ounce of courtesy or anything.
I think he’s a douchebag now.
I love his content, but as a person, my opinion of him really fucking soured, and it hurt and pissed me off because he was a personal hero of mine, even though I don’t like to idolize people.
It’s true: Never meet or interact with your heroes.
Are you seriously expecting BRICS to come out and say “fuck America, we’re de-dollarizing!” That would be fucking ridiculous, as much as I wish sometimes that would happen.
BRICS was also first theorized as primarily a trade/development bloc, but China is steering it into a vehicle for a new vision of the world, which is fervently anti-imperialist, and BRICS has allowed dozens of countries to dodge sanctions and get resources they would otherwise be locked out of.
BRICS collectively increases the GDP of all participating countries by multiple billions of dollars, and allows trade and exchange to occur faster and more effectively than anything the imperialists would allow.
To question if it’s progressing at all, is fucking nuts.