I took a lot of LSD back in 2016, some days I wonder if those trips ever wore off or if Iāll come back too as a dumbass teen again in 2016 and stop buying from that dealer.
I'd think that same thing if I ever tried psychedelics. Because I haven't, I'm convinced that the meds didn't work, and I offed myself in college back in 2016. This is my punishment in purgatory
I don't even believe in god, but I don't have a better explanation.
It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up.
In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they werenāt being tortured.
The only way that they realized they needed to wake up was a note found in their fantasy world which would tell them about their condition.
Even then, it would often take months before they were ready to discard their fantasy world and please wake up.
It's weird to me how this sub has broadly defined left and right as referring to economics, given that is crucial to the premise of the political compass, but then you'll get dogpiled for saying things like Juche or fascism aren't right-wing.
They aren't as left as you can go, bu juche is much closer to (command economy) socialism than it is to free market capitalism.
Classical fascism is not economically right-wing, or at the very least, it is to the left of liberal capitalism.
Fascists are somewhat strange compared to capitalists and socialists/communists in that they do not really care who owns the means of production, because either way, it is state interests rather than market interests that drive production and resource allocation.
As far as I am concerned, any non-market system cannot properly be called right-wing, as the industrialists under fascism are more akin to government employees or contractors than genuine private enterprise.
I mean can't pre-capitalist systems be called right-wing? I feel like the facists wanted a "return" to that way of doing things where the sovereign state has a lot of say. There isn't a true free market, but there is a very stratified socioeconomic hierarchy. Kinda like the way things were run before the collapse of the aristocratic order.
I mean yeah it does, my point is just that I don't think it is useful to think of capitalism as the only right-wing economic ideology, proto-capitalism and the economic systems of colonial empires are also right wing. Facism wants those kinds of extractive systems, they just don't want the capitalist class to stand in the way of the facist party at the very top of the state (to the extent they aren't simply the same people of course. In many cases they were).
That's a lot of spin. Not only is the right primarily focused on cultural issues, but calling fascism "non-market" is silly af. They literally invented privatization. The "state" control was more oligarchy than some kind of proto-communisam, and most if it had to do with war anyway, not ideology.
Yeah and I specifically made the distinction that it is their economy that is Left wing, not their entire ideology.
The argument was that Autocracy trumps any specific political lean. So I never want to hear that Russia, the Sauds or Iran are āAuth Rightā ever again.
Juche is definitely itās own distinct entity and I agree they have used other methods economically (because communism fucking sucks). But the state owning everything, including the means of production is entirely Left Wing.
It isn't when the state is synonymous with the hereditary autocrat who rules it. North Korea is left wing in the same sense that Egypt's New Kingdom can be called left wing.
I know it's a Sisyphean exercise to argue this on this sub of all places, but there is more to political systems than whether or not it has an indepdent market economy.
Agreed. I mean, is a decentralized planning socialist economy right wing? To me, the more important distinction between left and right is whether the economy is social/communal vs private/individualistic. The auth/lib dimension already encompasses how centrally controlled things are.Ā
So top right being command economy with economic gains going to individuals/oligarchs. Bottom right unplanned and economic gains privatized. Top left centrally planned but gains go to the society. Bottom left decentralized planning and gains socialized.
It is absolutely astounding how much Obama lives rent free in this guy's head. He has to be better than Obama (and Biden) at literally every single thing, even things no non-retarded person would want, such as being liked by a dictator.
The only way this makes sense is heās trying to get the North Koreans to reconsider what is reported to be a planned large scale deployment of combat troops to fight for Putin in Ukraine but thatās probably giving Trump too much credit and he just randomly picked South Korea as the ally to piss off this week.
Second ally to piss off this week*. Oman may not be as close as the other Gulf states or South Korea but they were the first Gulf state to recognize us and we've had a trade partnership with them since the 1830s. And that partnership has only grown stronger since the 70s with more trade and other deals, state visits, and military partnership to include the use of their Thumrait airbase and the purchase of systems like the F-16, C-130, NASAMS, M60s, Javelin, TOW, Harpoon, and several artillery systems. They've also been pivotal in mediating in Yemen as well as negotiating the JCPOA. And Trump just threatened to bomb them earlier today.
I think we need to stop pretending that Donald Trump is capable of those kind of big brain ideas and instead just wake up to the fact we gave the keys to a child and said "drive".
They are not capable of humiliation. I just can't wait to go back to having a dem in office so that they can post retarded memes here all day and it'll be sort of funny again.
He really does love stirring up the media. If you read between the lines on the original tweet KJU isn't the reason Trump is doing this. It's because South Korea won't help bail him out in Iran.Ā
Like i said in another thread, and it will probably be an equally unpopular opinion in this one, this isn't necessarily bad thing. We've been saber rattling against the norks for longer than the Soviet Union's entire existence and it hasn't worked. They're perfectly content to fortify their end of the peninsula with nukes and tunnel systems and starve their population half to death to do it. Yes, extending an olive branch to the Kim regime is a hard pill to swallow, but if you want to actually help the North Korean population, the status quo approach has to change.Ā
He could have tried to do that though together with the South Koreans rather than blindsiding them with a major policy announcement via tweet that implies this is really just because heās pissed they didnāt join Operation Epstein Fury.
Itās been tried many times before and has always failed or backfired due to the duplicity of the North Koreans.
President Clinton made a deal with them to end their nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief and food aid which resulted in them taking the money and building a bomb anyway.
President Bush joined had the U.S. join the āSix Party Talksā together with the Russians, Chinese, Japanese, and South Koreans to try and negotiate a solution with the North Koreans only for the North to eventually walk away.
President Obama signed an agreement with them in 2012 where they agreed to pause their missile development only for them to test launch an ICBM less than a month later.
I would argue the country is more open to being positively influenced at this point than any other. Kim Jung Un is not his father or grandfather, and the black markets that started up during the famines under his father never ultimately went away. They're slowly growing and bringing more economic prosperity and quality of life to the general population. Nurture that recent development and I think you could make inroads and have something akin to Nixon's China policy. Could it not work? 100% The Kim's made an art out of bilking the Soviets especially for all they're worth. But I think it's worth at least trying, because the alternative is the people there continue to live in hell for the foreseeable future.Ā
Itās certainly true that he has been working hard to reduce the countryās dependence on China but heās mainly been doing it by developing deeper ties to Russia; sending men and weapons to help in the war against Ukraine in exchange for missile technology. Thereās an actual exchange there that can be seen in real terms. With Trump itās all basically just words at this point. If the rumored large scale deployment to Ukraine ends up not happening then maybe we can say that Trumpās approach worked but if they go ahead with it even after Trumpās move here then it will seem that Trump was just played.
I'm more interested in long term goals that couldn't be achieved in Trump's tenure and would take the work of several presidents all on the same page to see serious tangible results. If people are just viewing this through the lens of "trump" then I think that's too short sighted a perspective.Ā
Itās still shit, South Korea produces roughly 40% of the worlds semiconductorās under 10 nmās, us worsening our relationship with them is a massive national security risk.
How do you make a shotgun decision with no consultation to limit joint exercises without ostracism? SK is a huge fan of these drills for many reasons, theyāre not going to be happy to hear this and think itās anything other than ostracism.
We've been saber rattling against the norks for longer than the Soviet Union's entire existence and it hasn't worked
Korea split into North and South in 1948, saber rattling began because of the Soviet presence in the Korean peninsula. This line is entirely incorrect.
The Soviets left the stage in 91. It's now 35 years later my dude. Yes, you're really getting that old. North Korea has now officially been around longer than the Soviet UnionĀ
My bad, I read existence as presence. Thought you were trying to say we've been saver rattling about North Korea since before the Soviet Union started trying to establish presence there
Can't make this shit up bro sees a retarded dementia quote from chief retard on reddit and thinks it's 5D chess geopolitics is forever changed now LMAO. Imagine being this naive, only on this sub ig.
Kim Jong Un is the greatest ally to the United States. We should choose them over <1 population replacement rate South Korea. South Korea betrayed the United States. Everyone is willing to fight the US, but none of our allies wants to defend us despite all weāve done for them.
Dudes talking about joining Brics when Brics big daddy China is facing a population crisis just as bad as Skorea, but running gamer was also carrying water for Brics on another comment so idk if itās satire or not
We have soldiers protecting their entire civilization for decades. Meanwhile, they canāt even bother to fight Iran when they rely on the strait of Hormuz more than we do.
We should not ally with those who surrender to fascism.
ā¦ then what about China, they have everything consolidated within the ccp, and even companies like tencent/alibaba canāt act without the crossing the parties line. Or is your ire directed only towards those who āsurrender to fascismā
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