The "limits of growth" study has the following diagram:
after having thought about it for a few months, i do definitely see population rates declining in the future due to low birth rates and a worsening economic situation (lower wages, widespread unemployment, ...) but i don't think a war would be a necessary consequence. it could be just barely avoided if wisdom prevails.
What you mean? People on the 20s were clearly traumatized by a recent pandemic, pushing for worldwide economic protectionism and isolationism, revolting against and dehumanizing people that practiced "sexual dissidence"...
They had some years of crazy partying between end of ww1/the spanish flu ine the late 1910d and the great depression and fascism really got hold in the end of the 1920S tho, so couldnt we at least get some of those years first?:(
The poor weren’t at those crazy parties, they were organizing and fighting for workers rights. The rich are in fact having crazy parties right now, if my rich Snapchat friends are anything to go by.
We didn't even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.
There's no way this motherfucker couldn't just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he's just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don't fucking comprehend that's not the God damn solution to everything!?!
Fair point. Just to be clear though, I don't say "right" in support of tarriffs, I say, right in terms of not accidentally multiplying the damage by 4x the original plan.
Although, now you got me thinking maybe the 4x worse damage wasn't even an accident.
Over the last year their stock has been going down, but last week, it was up a little compared to companies like Moderna and Pfizer. Not by much, but it seemed weird the company actually announced a buy back of their own stock.
It would be interesting to know if the majority of shares were bought back before or after the giant crash. If it was before the crash, that would mean the company would be kind of fucked over by their own buy back. If the majority of shares were bought after the crash, that would be an odd choice but I guess if they mysteriously make a recovery it would be a win.
the world wars were basically two halves of the same conflict, the only real difference between the two was the whole Russian Revolution that brought a third communist faction into the mix,
and dont kid yourselves, The Soviet Union was a co-belligerent of the Allies, not a part of them. you aren't allied with someone when you're formally at war with them until the mid1920s, watch them kick off a war by partnering with nazi germany, and then have a little ceasefire for 4-5 years between 1941 and 45 when nazi germany betrayed them. and go back to pointing guns at them
Russia sees itself as "other" to the rest of Europe, for those who dont read history, you need only visit a news site to see how that is still the case today
Capitalism leads to imperialism and fascist. Fascists are the useful idiots of empire. A collective suicide in a exponential function. It will end the human race and most life on earth..
Any day now, Elon will announce that the real reason they need Greenland Ultima Thule is so he can perform a ritual to awaken Azathoth and end the simulation.
" The statement of the Soviet scientist’s is very interesting. Does he know what this alternative energy source will be? No, he simply has faith. Science will find a way. I hear revolutionary Marxists saying that the destruction of the environment, pollution, and radiation will be controlled. And I see them act on their words. Do they know how these things will be controlled? No, they simply have faith. Science will find a way. Industrialization is fine and necessary. How do they know this? Faith. Science will find a way. Faith of this sort has always been known in Europe as religion. Science has become the new European religion for both capitalists and Marxists; they are truly inseparable; they are part and parcel of the same culture. So, in both theory and practice, Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural experience altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society.
I do not believe that capitalism itself is really responsible for the situation in which American Indians have been declared a national sacrifice. No, it is the European tradition; European culture itself is responsible. Marxism is just the latest continuation of this tradition, not a solution to it. To ally with Marxism is to ally with the very same forces that declare us an acceptable cost.
There is another way. There is the traditional Lakota way and the ways of the other American Indian peoples. It is the way that knows that humans do not have the right to degrade Mother Earth, that there are forces beyond anything the European mind has conceived, that humans must be in harmony with all relations or the relations will eventually eliminate the disharmony. A lopsided emphasis on humans by humans — the European’s arrogance of acting as though they were beyond the nature of all related things — can only result in a total disharmony and a readjustment which cuts arrogant humans down to size, gives them a taste of that reality beyond their grasp or control and restores the harmony. There is no need for a revolutionary theory to bring this about; it’s beyond human control. The nature peoples of this planet know this and so they do not theorize about it. Theory is an abstract; our knowledge is real.
Distilled to it’s basic terms, European faith — including the new faith in science — equals a belief that man is God. Europe has always sought a Messiah, whether that be the man Jesus Christ or the man Karl Marx or the man Albert Einstein. American Indians know this to be truly absurd. Humans are the weakest of all creatures, so weak that other creatures are willing to give up their flesh that we may live. Humans are able to survive only though the exercise of rationality since they lack the abilities of other creatures to gain food through the use of fang and claw."
“Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.”
Chief Dan George
This is the kind of knowledge and wisdom I grew up with as a traditional Ojibway-Cree in northern Ontario. A common saying or idea that many of our Elders always reminded us is that 'life is short, so terribly short' and the thought that 'what you gain and the wealth you own in this life means nothing because you can't take it with you when you die'
Now that Trump is sinking us on education and science, China will have or maybe already has the superior military, tech wise. They will be able to pop over and take resources. They’ve surveilled, remember the balloons? Not high tech per se, but if you consider the means as a camouflage on immediate threat and a +10 to hide in plain sight it makes more sense.
Remember. China stopped selling chips to our defense contractors right after Trump, this time around. Why?
Many of the things Trump is doing that are making headlines right now are helping tank the military. I know, we want shrinkage on what we dole out to defense contractors. That’s not this. What Trump is doing is lowering the quality by reducing tech and the education to pull from to run, develop, and innovate that tech. China never stopped working on those things.
Consider the world game here. Climate change is here and that makes the new long game a resource consolidation to try to be last country standing as things crumble. Resource consolidation IS why Trump is going on about Greenland and Canada.
I woke up the other day and thought, "What if Putin launched a nuclear war on the US? And the current administration knew beforehand but did nothing other than leave the country in advance of the bombs making impact?"