We finally left Afghanistan the fuck alone, and have seemed to cement that we're not going back in - despite everyone in government and the media talking about it like it's the biggest tragedy every
i mean, fuck Biden but that's more than almost any other president in my (young) life has done
withdrawing was a good thing, and the other part of that is that he/the military/etc bungled the actual execution of the withdrawal so spectacularly incompetently that it did real additional damage to american imperial credibility
so thats another plus
Hopefully more countries will stop relying on the US as much as they do.
What that actually looks like. The fall of America as the global hegemon means more war and competition for power in that vacuum. Unless global communism pops up over night and fills the void itself. Doubtful tho, I think
That image is bugged for me rn, can you upload it somewhere else?
Now that you mentioned it it isn’t working for me either. I don’t know where else I’d find the image to reupload it but the gist is it’s a chart of the national hegemonic cycle of capitalism going from the Dutch to the British to the Americans with a list of the ensuing wars in the inter hegemonic periods. Point being the US is declining in power actively and that means we’ll soon see a power vacuum that has historically resulted in global wars
Unfortunately, the opposite is happening. The 5 Eyes bond is stronger than ever, and Germany appears to be trying to push the EU closer to the US as well even if France is trying to pull away. Plus Japan and India trying to posture against China and beg the US to help to do it.
There’s this scenario in my mind in which Corbyn won in 2019, then ends up merked for doing huge infrastructure investment funded by Belt and Road (along the lines of the plot of A Very British Coup, where Harry Perkins works around the IMF’s sanctions for nuclear disarmament by loans from the International State Bank of Moscow).
I assume at some point western countries are going to have to realign out of necessity, and :cia: is gonna :party-sicko:
The absolute funniest thing about pulling out of Afghanistan was the Taliban working security at Kabul’s airport.
That and our defense budget still going up and us just reverting to overt cold war foreign policy
Oh my god this is the first I’ve heard of that that’s fucking hilarious
We fight a war with them for 20 years and they’re providing security for us as we’re leaving. Can’t write better irony than that.
Im imagining them waving people through the metal detectors, and pushing those little bins through the x ray machines.
There's still gonna be a ton of mercenaries farting around Afghanistan doing war crimes though.
We finally left Afghanistan the fuck alone, and have seemed to cement that we’re not going back in
The CIA still has strong ties to paramilitary groups there and will likely continue to use them. So, the US hasn’t actually left completely. This is a great video on the topic.
Didn't we immediately sanction them after withdrawing?
And then unfortunately Buttigege had to step in :pete:
They sent him to a nice farm upstate. There's lots of room to run around. He likes it there.
:fidel-salute-big: to the goodest maoist sleeper cell waging the protracted pupper's war from inside the White House
for every 500,000 dead americans the bidens get a new dog
They improved pronoun options on some government online forms.
I feel like Biden had literally nothing to do with this and they were added by the web devs when updating.
Was kinda good tho.
It's both funny and incredibly depressing that he's more progressive than any other president on that very particular thing lol
i mean for a demented, nearly 80 year old man that's a pretty decent answer i'll give him like 6/10 credit
come on, he probably meant male, female, intersex/androgynous. I doubt Biden cares beyond how he ran around with a rainbow flag one time so he could pander with Obama
Biden probably hires the person who hires the person who hires the person who did that or something
The child tax credit, leaving Afghanistan
Legit I just thought Afghanistan was going to go on forever
I feel the terminally online left never mentions child tax credits because it is either volcel, incel or doomer and just doesnt have kids and therefore didn't see the benefits of lumping it in with government preschool. Biden of course let this shit expire so the opportunity has been wasted.
I'm not learning more japanese to avoid making fun of angry virgins
As far as I can tell, the child tax credit payments were just an advance on what you would normally get back after filing taxes if you had kids. Half paid out monthly, half paid when you file taxes. I don't think anyone gets extra money.
Earlier you needed to have enough income to be taxed to benefit from a tax credit. Now you just get cash, so it reaches a lot of more people.
Ofc it would have been better to run it permanently for sure
Also unclear how much credit Biden has to give to Trump for forcing the withdrawal from Afghanistan too
It is super amazing that Biden's single policy accomplishment is regarded as his worst failure, when a million people are going to die of covid.
American Rescue plan gave some generous grants to students in California, also it appears that it also heavily subsized healthcare for the indigent here through Covered California
super poor people (basically the homeless) get Medi Cal which is pretty much "free" though apparently (from what I've been told) they will go looking for your next of kin if you die to presumably make them pay lmfao
also Covered CA gets pretty cheap depending on how much you make but yeah you still have to pay and from what I've heard it's not great but it's probably better than what the rest of the USA has
California actually does have a lot of help for people relative to the rest of the country, community college is basically free if you are poor
It's true, Medi-Cal is surprisingly decent for what it is and (edit: state) college tuition is basically free for residents... However these "benefits" are only made available if you're in actual poverty (which is plenty of people due to the cost of living)
I'm on PA Medicaid right now, it's called Medical Assistance. Honestly amazing imo would recommend 11/10 besides having to make less than 14k a year to get it.
I guess they all voted yes on the Xinjiang ban, so there's a win for anti-imperialism (clarification: lol, lmao)
There's something sublimely jokerfying about the fact that the only person to vote against that fucking ban wasnt Bernie, AOC or any of the other "progressives", but some brainwormed republican who takes christmas photos with his whole family holding rifles, and as far as I can tell only voted against it because he's so brainwormed he actually honestly believes America shouldnt be world cop or some shit.
Well, as they said, libertarian like a broken clock, they will be correct once or twice, Rand Paul also like that, shite take 99% of the time then that one sane anti imperialist take
Despite getting watered down, the infrastructure bill was badly needed.
