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Liberal/welfare democracies didn’t stop growing because there was no room to grow.

Gotta partially disagree with you on this one. After WWII, imperialists got a free pass to expand throughout most of the world. All the way up through the fall of the USSR, the US was privatizing and gutting the public sectors of their client states and the eastern block.

However, with the neoliberal consensus overtaking most of the world, the US didn’t have any more big markets to crack open, which is why they had to turn their sights on gutting their own public sectors which they had free access to. Foucault’s boomerang and such

My common reading is that GDP is an indicator of growth. China is currently developing, so it’s GDP is going to be higher. However, at some point they will be considered developed and there will be less reason to grow and it will be more difficult to grow. So the GDP will level off. This has been the trend in capitalist countries.

Whether or not this will apply to the Chinese economy, I don’t know. But I believe this is the framework that people are using when they make this argument.

Sorry, I’m just speaking colloquially. I just mean the GDP has been very high for a long time now.

Can recent growth rates persist? China’s GDP has been running hot for decades now. Seems like they need to level off at some point.

Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.

Meanwhile, the “only democracy in the Middle East” is allowed to act like a rabid dog.

The liberal model not working for a developing country?

“we’re gonna elect a conservative and then push him left by defending his every action tooth and nail and promising to vote for him in the future”

Incredible gullibility

They’ve reverted to a feudal mindset. The democrats have no obligation to their voters. Only the voters are obliged to swear fealty to the Dem candidate regardless of who it is and what they do.

“Well, we’re gonna lose the left vote because we love genocide, so we should start courting right wingers who are just going to vote republican anyway”

It’s normal.

Especially if you’re writing in a popular style, tons of musicians just use the same chord progressions over and over .

Once you start layering things on the melody, it’s pretty unlikely that it will resemble anything too closely.

As long long as you’re just using your own creativity, I think it’s very unlikely you’ll just clone a song.

If you’re really worried about it, you can just change a few notes in the melody on the page in a way that you wouldn’t think to sing “naturally”

Most of the lore is written about the Horus Heresy. From the point of view of humanity, it’s the worse thing to happen to the imperium, as it has not and will never recover from it.

There’s another human civilization called the interex that was basically the anti-imperium in that they were pluralist, secular, and sought peace within the galaxy. The imperium destroyed them, so it pretty much crushed any alternative system or hope in the universe, so that was pretty bad.

As far as actual body counts and gorey details? I don’t know, the eldaar, dark eldaar, old ones, and necrons are all pretty fucked up.

No, political is things that make me personally uncomfortable

China: we’re going to become a manufacturing machine for the world, but we’re going to use your investment, technology, and infrastructure to build up our country and eventually overtake you.

US capitalists: hah, yeah, sure. Would you look at these profit margins!?

Ukraine Can’t Win the War

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Lmao

You’re right. I just saw they were a comrade bear and made the assumption

Seriously. Bizarre quote to take as truth on a communist forum

This seems so fucking useful on the internet

We’re all subject the cultural norms of the society that we live in. Particularly with religious norms, maintaining them can be coercive.

But that doesn’t mean that burkas, in and of themselves, are regressive.

Shouldn’t the goal be to create a space that is free of coercion so people can actually choose to wear it if they want to? Outright banning them is just enforcing a different cultural norm.

Well, Russia isn’t fantastic