i dont see the problem Japan has been fine with being americas removed for like 80 years

Man i fucking hate the way yall talk about this shit every single time, saying that what should actually happen is that the sate helps these people is all fine and well and even true, but that's not reality that's not gonna happen and people cant or wont wait for the left in canada to get its shit together, if maid didn't exists these people wouldn't get help they would just live in misery (enough misery that they would literally rather die) for decades or kill themselves some other less assured more painful way.

It is a good thing that maid exists even in cases like these, it doesn't feel right but it is.

Why does an empire need soft power anyways? once again comrade trump doing great work.

that was not meant to be an exhaustive list, thats my bad i should have used clearer language. I think most people would include most of the things you mentioned in the definition, and yeah its arbitrary but that doesn't make it less useful. People use the term instead of listing everything it includes for the same reason i did and for the same reason that thousands of other terms are used instead of listing a bunch of things.

The distinction is very meaningful, generative ai is a tiny significantly less useful subset of ai basically just llms and image generation, it mostly describes the application not the technology.

lol.

They could literally just give sanitation workers their due and be done with it instantly, but no instead the government declares it a major incident.

probably die... but otherwise do what every anti war movement has done for the last century.

Thats such an insane over reaction that its unbelievable, and yeah all 8000 were the same message sent by the same person from the same email address, still disturbing but while technically true the headline implies something entirely different from the actual story.

That's kinda what gdp used to be. But besides gdp there is basically no equivalent measure thats all encompassing like gdp because any measure that uses monetrary value is basically just gdp minus/plus a few things so if u want actual production capacity u basically just have to look at the actual raw numbers of what each country produces for example China makes 1000 million metric tons of steel a year while Japan makes 84 million (which is probably more representative of the actual sizes of their economies cuz China puts out very conservative gdp numbers while the global north like to go absolutely fucking wild and include everything they can possibly justify like illegal drugs or rent for example). But those kinds of numbers are very hard to find for most things.

not quite there are also taller thinner ones but they are rare.

Probably not but i think it would be cool if they did cuz i like big countries.

You say that, but most of the exploited countries in the EU LOVE the EU and think its great for them; Greece is really the only one where people generally feel like the EU is bad for them.

does us foreign aid actually have a positive effect? im actually curious, cuz surely some of the money they slush around has to end up helping some people who need it but at the same time i look at shit like what they did after that earthquake in Haiti a while back and im back to wondering if it helps anyone at all.

Correct me if i am wrong but im pretty sure Lenin originally said that in defense of the USSR and it policies in the face of criticism by left communist, he didnt originate the term nor the criticisms associated with it.

The answer is simple, state capitalism isnt a thing, the term mean literally nothing. NEP was just socialism in a particular place at a particular time doing what needed to be done to develop the productive forces, if something like it existed today it would probably be called market socialism the term just wasnt in use then if it even existed, and also market socialism probably doesnt sound as bad as state capitalism and the whole state capitalism is something "left "communist"" came up with to insult the USSR.

Seriously state capitalism is a completely useless term, its so poorly defined it describes nothing and people should really stop using it.

you heretic, i demand satisfaction for this insult

no cap thats kinda funny.

1-Russia finds itself in a position where they must fight imperialism to prosper and perhaps even just to survive

2-As communist imperialism is the primary thing we must fight and destroy to achieve our goals

Therefore Russia's goals and our own align and we critically support Russia.

I do think some people here sometimes get lost in the sauce and forget that the Russian government is not only capitalist but staunchly and openly anti-communist and generally pretty shitty, but most people recognize them for the temporary allies they are. Also Russia is not imperialist not in any meaningful way, u probably get the impression that they are because they would certainly like to be, all capitalist want to be imperialist it is the only logical progression for them, but as things are Russia does not control the organizations and institutions that make up the global imperialist system rather Russia is subject to them.

soooo... u know how libs say leftist memes are walls of text...