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  • Offer education, contraception, and healthcare universally, regardless of border. This would tank the birthrate in a non fascist way, which is an objectively good thing. This weird procapitalist idea that we need or should want or really could sustain 8+ billion apex predators is ridiculous. In no ecosystem is that sustainable, even if the predators are smart enough to stop directly predating in other animals.

    We should genuinely be striving for the least number of people that still allows the highest quality of life, with a further constraint being the lowest impact to the rest of the environment. Make no mistake, everyone regardless of immutable or even mutable status should be allowed to have kids if they want, but we shouldn’t want or need to frame it as something essential to continue continuity of wage labor.





  • The ones that made it to Florida were the former ownership class that had the choice of staying to face trial for their crimes against the Cuban people, or get on the boat. Occasionally a “politically persecuted” person or group would “escape” in later years. Usually these people either helped the CIA with their destabilization attempts or were just ordinary criminals that fled prosecution like many Americans go to Russia to do. The US was more than happy to accept both groups without any vetting as that helped their narrative that Castro was a tyrant making up charges.

    Floridian Cubans, Gusanos, hate communism for the same reason anyone in the parasite class hates communism; they’re mad the playing field was leveled and they had to answer for their crimes against humanity.


  • The rise of crypto and other limited quantity intermediaries shows that stable value step is far easier than it once was, and of course with China and Russia having ridiculous levels of precious metal wealth a worse case scenario would just be a literal gold standard currency for brics transactions.

    While the US might throw a hissy fit about this (I mean they invaded Libya exclusively because Libya were launching a gold standard to trying to get non US oil trading to adopt it) they dont have the ability to say no. The US has no manufacturing sector compared to China or Russia, the former of which the US relies on massively for the majority of its domestic manufacturing needs. It also can’t compete in the remote service economy compared to India, and again has outsourced a large chunk of that part of its economy there.

    US sanctions only work if the country sanctioned provides nothing of value that can’t be easily done domestically. There’s a reason that China as a whole is not sanctioned despite doing things far worse than Cuba ever did.

    Refusing to trade in USD would be the same as sanctions in this scenario, and I’m willing to bet brics has figured out that they have enough demand across their member nations to support not trading with the US.


  • You could apply the law across all companies in a conglomerate, forcing either competition to be more attractive than monopolizing or forcing the tax to take effect with potential harm to lower income targeted companies within the conglomerate, allowing competition at the lowest income levels to flourish while eliminating it among higher end brands.

    I.e. either Yum Brands sells off taco bell in order to focus on higher end options like KFC, or taco bell essentially gets sold off to a new company without the same leadership.

    It’s flawed, like all attempts to keep capitalism in check, but it’s easier to sell to a brainwashed public than any left wing option that would actually improve society instead of just slowing capitalism’s journey towards the total enshittification criticality point.





  • While it’s definitely true the US loves its war mongering, it’s economy is dependent entirely on China and India. If they try to invade either country, it’s game over for the US(and the world), and neither country is particularly vulnerable to the normal CIA methods. Falun gong in China, for example, is the CIA’s best attempt at trying to sell America to the Chinese via homegrown terrorism, and they’re so pathetically obvious it’s doubtful anyone in China has ever fallen for their shit.

    Capitalism removed the tools by which the US is a threat, allowing brics to be possible.