They have no shame.

“We perpetuate systemic crimes against humanity but the real crime is in calling that out.”

One of things I have found is that the hubris of imperialism and colonialism means they openly admit their crimes and write it down in their newspapers, books and webpages, and in this day and age video themselves doing the crime. I first discovered this for myself when I was younger reading about British Imperialism against India; they were essentially boasting back to the base that they shouldn’t let go of India in the Scramble for Africa.

This is a thing that exists (and the wikipedia article is written with no self-awareness including no arguments from black communists or any historical context including America’s segregation and subjugation of black peoples being one of the chief inspirations for Nazi Germany):

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

/edit: grammar

Another example of capitalism treating humans as refuse. Disparingly, and rather predictably, this immiseration is being used to propagate further anti-immigrant sentiment (and inevitably violence if not already happened).

Politico’s “dream economy”. Hopefully future whistleblowers survive this time.

Happens commonly in Europe too. I remember reading a while back since China stopped a significant amount of recycling for Europe (I think due to trade restrictions) a bulk of the waste ends up in the hands of organised crime? Hopefully someone with more up-to-date knowledge can correct this if not accurate.

Like I have said before if one is voting for Democrats because of the perceived threat of potential fascism under Trump against them they are then admitting they believe they are immune from the current and future barbarism of the Democrats. For many they are not a “lesser evil”; the Democrats deserve Trump.

Thank you Bernie Sanders for turning me into a Marxist-Leninist.

I used to think along the lines of if only these people knew the truth!; the perspective of brainwashing that I outlined is a relatively new understanding and point of learning for me.

Your perception of that apparent incongruence is correct; they are not brainwashed.

They purposely seek bigoted narratives and outcomes because they believe they will personally benefit from it. They say one team is “objectively” better than another; we have to question for whom they are better for. The Democratic (and likewise for the Republican) party are perceived to be better for classes that are privileged enough to receive the benefits of their preferred bourgois political party, and they see themselves part of those privileged classes.

Those who vote for Democrats saying they are worried about fascism enacted against them personally if the Republican party comes to power are thereby admitting that they feel they are sufficiently immune to the barbarism enacted by the Democrats currently, and believe they are exempt from the barbarism the Democrats will enact in the future.

But is it OK for capital to deny those freedoms? If not then you need something more powerful then capital.

FE:

Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.

Dripping water drilling through rock.

I wonder if China will pull critical supply chains (or just threaten) to the west before it gets to a hot war. I’m not sure how the west including the US will sustain any large enough manufacturing and production without critical inputs from the global south.

But then again they may be just MAD enough to do it:

Israel isn’t crazy, it’s just MAD https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26203

And yet too many people still believe that inflation is primarily due to “too much money chasing too few goods” (and therefore need to stiff the working classes of their income some more).

Harris’ personal problem: the internalisation of white supremacist imperialist politics.

In an alternative timeline she would have been better off internalising Frantz Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks” instead.

/edit: clarity

It’s almost as if the economic “science” for the justification of neoliberalism is ad-hoc.

A lot of IMF “warnings” can be summarised as:

• you are not / may not be able to pay off the privatised national debt in the timely manner the private banks have requested

• solution is to raid public wealth even more to pay off this debt

• let’s give you some funds to help with you that in the form of more privatised debt; if you are from the global south then it is your wealth we have exploited from you which we are lending back to you as a loan with interest to be paid along with some structural adjusments to help plunder your country even more. We can help you by installing our own agents in your governing bodies and if you resist our help we can encourage you with some gunboat diplomacy, sanctioning and coups.

• if you are from the imperialist core then we advise on austerity while we help you plunder the global south some more in the interim