Corporate interests (either via the military industry or finance capital) are definitely still the main driver of US imperial policy.

Home ownership rate is the percentage of homes occupied, not the percentage of people who own their homes (or even have positive equity in them).

From what I could find, 1/3rd of the adult population rents, another 3rd have mortgages with negative equity, and 1/3rd have positive or paid off mortgages. I couldn’t find the number who fully own their homes.

Either way all of the above categories could still be house-poor, meaning you’re spending most of your income on housing and upkeep, and could still be a paycheck away from homelessness, unable to pay rent/mortgage. I had a relative who fully owned her home, but was unable to pay the property tax and her house was seized.

If that isn’t the definition of imperialism, I don’t know what is.

Yeah, its clear you have no clue what that is. Trade and development are not imperialism.

Banned. Some people really do have zero compassion for others that might be harmed.

Democrats were and will be happy to continue to bomb all trans ppl out of existence, as long as they’re not from white countries.

Democrats were staunchly against even gay marriage… Hillary Clinton was against it until 2008. They’re an opportunistic controlled opposition party and will be against your rights as soon as it becomes expedient.

After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.

After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.

So he switched from crypto to LLMs now?

Codeberg took down my torrent projects I put on there. They cited german anti-piracy laws as the reason.

Not saying they’re not better than github of course, but they aren’t the real solution and will comply fully with german law. The solution decentralized issue tracking via forgejo or something.

Is unobtanium easy to obtain?

This popped up in my feed today:

The vast majority of these people died before the US even conceptually existed.

Disgusting take, acting as if genocide was not colonial policy. You desperately need to read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - an indigenous people’s history of the US.

Killed an entire continent of peoples and enslaved millions of people from another one to make agricultural commodities.

Also during ww2 the US refused a ship of jews fleeing nazi germany and made them return.

They also won’t make anti-semitism illegal cause freeze peach, so US cops often protect white supremacist groups during protests from righteously outraged ppl. US cops also often recruit directly from those groups, and use them to carry out illegal things actions they don’t want to be responsible for. There isn’t enough space here to even get into the US’s anti-semitic past.

100% agreed. Ruling classes make laws to suit their interests, and law is opposed to morality and compassion in a lot of cases. US slavery was legal. South African and Israeli apartheid were/are legal. US torture camps like Guantanamo bay and Abu Ghraib are legal.

Even plea-bargaining in the US is a form of medieval-type coercion (confess your sins and we’ll reduce your punishment), and is a pillar of their justice system.

Broad estimates of US war victims range up to 12 million (a liberal estimate), whereas the Nazis killed over 13 million through mass killings alone (eg the Holocaust + exterminated minorities). The Soviet Union alone lost 20 to 27 million depending on who you ask.

In addition to the 500k-millions of native peoples and hundreds of tribes the US systematically nearly eradicated, lets take just a few more examples.

• Vietnam: 1.5M killed
• Laos: 300k
• Iraq: 1M
• Indonesia: 500k-1M
• Korea: 500k
• Japan: 200k-1M in civilian bombings

And I haven’t even started on operation condor and latin america yet.

Give me any nazi atrocity and I can provide an example of the US doing it, and probably far worse and on a larger scale.

List of US atrocities.

Nazi germany explicitly tried to copy the US project (lebensraum evicting eastern europe, rather than manifest destiny evicting native americans), and failed.

The only reason nazi germany is demonized more than the US, is because they lost. The US has committed far more atrocities, and on a larger scale.

The western powers led by the US use tanks far more often also. The US never gets accused of being tankies, even tho it used tanks in almost every one of its wars, including the wars on Iraq, Panama, Grenada.

It also uses tanks domestically against the people (police in every city have tank-like vehicles). They also used tanks in the waco standoff also where they burned ~100 people alive.

Of course the US prefers bombing people from the sky, but that’s not considered an atrocity by western chauvinists.

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