I continue to work day and night at the Lathe. South Africa! It’s time to become even cooler!
holy shit this would be glorious! plz South Africa do a funny one
Could use a "lol, go around bitch!" though.
What a brilliant move by the Genocide Joe administration to take the Yemeni blockade of Israeli commerce and turn it into a blockade of Israeli and US commerce. All it took was some airstrikes that literally everybody knew would not work!
they don't work, jack, but we're going to keep doing them!He's dumb and senile, what did anyone expect
This loser was bottom of the barrel in his college class, and has been ruthlessly schooled any time he had to go negotiate for anything, to say nothing of the litany of 'Bidenisms' that exist
It was a miracle he managed to sound as coherent as he did when he was young considering how dim he is, now he's decaying into a husk
I'm disappointed he isn't MORE off kilter more often
My favorate part is after it did not work, the US government released a statement saying they where going to list them as terrorists and expected the PRC (Who is not being targeted) to fix it for the USA
The US state dept and administration are both hopelessly clueless and inept - this is just like in 2022 when the US went to China with some kind of intelligence on Russian movements and asked China to tell Russia to stop. China, of course, just handed that US intelligence directly over to the Russians because why the fuck would you help the hegemon who keeps saying internally that they'll definitely be at war with you in five years?
just the dumbest motherfuckers around running the show
I've heard that the Arab words for Suez Crisis translate to the same thing as Suez Opportunity.
Oh holy shit! What did the Yemeni people who did the attack want, just so I know? Have the US and it's allies been doing anything in the region that might arouse their ire? Maybe there's something they could cease doing in order to bring about more harmony in the world.
price of consumer goods rise
if it escalates into something bigger, it might lead to the end of cheap consumer goods in the west
Do you claim that the era of cheap consumer goods has already ended in the west? You really haven't experienced what expensive consumer goods feels like.
Tell me, what does it look like? (Srsly I don't understand)
Because the groceries here in Canada are damn expensive, compared to Dubai, U.A.E or Singapore, considering my migrant parents' salaries there must either be more larger, have better purchasing parity or both....
It looks like the cost of the latest iPhone or premium Android device being over half a years salary at minimum wage. Eating fast food becomes a luxury because it's expensive.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f66GfsKPTUg
Luanda, Angola is what will happen when global supply chains collapse. KFC cannot be had for less than 20 US dollars. A pint of Haagen-Dazs costs 17 US dollars. This is what will become of imported consumer goods once global supply chains collapse.
Consider that in the USA even poor people drive cars. Do you think that poor people in all countries can afford to drive cars? In many places, a Toyota Camry is considered a luxury item.
KFC cannot be had for less than 20 US dollars.
Oh, looks like the collapse is already here in Australia then. KFC is expensive as fuck over here.
20 US dollars is quite a bit more when you view it from the perspective of an Angolan salary, rather than a western salary. But I do reckon we are in the early stages of a global supply chain collapse.
Good thing Israel can fix this overnight if it wants to.
Unfortunately, Israel cannot fix the Panama Canal drought overnight if it wants to.
Panama Canal traffic cut by more than a third because of drought
Yeah, I was mostly joking, but inflation has increased a lot lately, people can afford less and less these days, rent's going up, bills are going up, cost of living is going up. I've been used to not being able to afford much my entire adult life, but quite a few of my friends are finding out that "living within their means" has quite a bit less spending than it did a few years ago.
The entire world really is turning into Guatemala lol This is pretty close to how we live as well. It sucks.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
We're gonna learn the difference between greed expensive and "oh shit we can't import the production of our abroad slaves" expensive
Prices + unemployment 📈 -> people won't make enough money to buy stuff other than maybe food -> companies can't pay off their debts or sustain their inflated production, feeding into a feedback loop of higher prices and unemployment -> no more credit from the banks, as they know they won't get paid back -> companies won't be opened anymore, trying to expand will become impossible, global monopolies will take over the production vacuum and become even stronger, dragging the world deeper into imperialism.
You know, ye olde capitalist crisis.
Read Marx
Have we considered what this feedback loop will do in China? All of those consumer goods are produced there.
I have no idea, since they can be more or less hands-on with their economy as they need. Maybe their industry would need an even more developed third world to make up for the lost consumption in the west, but now I'm just guessing
Edit: enter BRI
In the very long run, it probably ends with the west becoming "colonized" by more productive economies. Being the imperial core takes the heaviest toll on you, and Lenin noticed that over 100 years ago
Sisi uturn on some policies as all that tax revenue dries up, hoping to end the reason for Ansarallah's actions and get the ships flowing again.
i mean i hope it's helping handicap the israeli war effort and they'll face defeat on the battlefield--but i think the west can probably cope for an unfortunately long while
The Houthis are about to find out why we don't have free healthcare!
(Our imported medical supplies are being diverted around the Cape of Good Hope)
Someone i know second hand couldn't get his chemo drugs and had to go to his health insurance to ask for approval for a different medication.
