Oh, neat! So it's like a website equivalent to those old Vsauce DONG videos

What were actual Chinese tariffs on US imports like, prior to this?

Because Trump's little chart said they were almost 70%. A number that feels spiritually true, given how China is actively developing its domestic industrial capacity, but is probably false because they apparently made that chart with an AI slop machine.

Do we know what article or book this table came from?

Marxism–Leninism with Brithonic Characteristics

Iyashikei anime are my go-to anime for when I need something relaxed and uplifting!

Yuru Camp

Non Non Biyori

Mitsuboshi Colors

To be charitable, algorithm driven social media has utterly fucked people's exposure to different kinds of information.

But this lib claiming that they are the only one unaffected by it and see's reality, while on a mainstream social media site, is just watching the shadows on the cave wall of their algorithmic filter bubble.

Not to mention the immediate crippling of the US agricultural sector

Their relationship with the US is really tentative. The US is far more invested in Iraqi Kurdistan than anything, because the US actually supports the project of Iraqi Kurdistan, whereas they don't with Rojava. Instead, Its a weird alliance of convenience that, given other machinations in the region, I just don't see lasting.

The thing I keep coming back to though, and a thing I see my fellow MLs completely gloss over in discussions of Rojava, is their relationship with Turkey, and Turkish/Kurdish relations more broadly.

Turkey is in many respects an ethno-nationalist political project, founded on the forced assimilation, and ethnic cleansing of, Most famously Armenians, but also Greeks, Kurds, and other ethnic minorities.

Given the splitting of Kurdish homelands across 4 separate countries, the Turkish communist movement has had to grapple very extensively with the Kurdish national question. For instance, On The National Question by Ibrahim Kaypakkaya is all about the National Question as it relates to the Kurds.

One such actor in this had been the PKK, who's decades-long insurgency has the Turkish state very much on edge, to the point that any Kurdish actor, even the most milquetoast lib ones, get smeared as PKK sympathizers. This extends to Turkey's continual and ongoing violations of its neighbors sovereignty, going into both northern Syria, and Iraq, to "address PKK terrorism" whether the PKK is actually present or not.

Rojava has repeatedly asserted that it desires to be an autonomous region within a sovereign Syria, and not be an independent state. With its constitution stating: "Syria is a free, sovereign and democratic state". An independent Rojava would be unable to defend against Turkish invasion.

Speaking of invasions, Turkish backed jihadis are currently taking more Rojava territory in the North west, and have been ethnically cleansing parts of that region for a handful of years now.

If we care about a sovereign, independent, Syria, I think opposing Turkish and Israeli violations of sovereignty is currently key. And if we care about weakening the west, we should consider critical support for a Kurdish polity on the border of NATOs second largest power, I think that deserves our critical support.

And if the US wants to strain relations with a key ally, by continuing to support Rojava to the dismay of Turkey (something I don't think will happen long term, but hypothetically if that does happen), I say let NATO weaken itself further.

They are the only socialist project in the Middle East, actually.

RIP to the Democratic People's Republic of Yemen 😭

Is one of them RFK's brain worm?

Obviously, Ukraine (and all of Eastern Europe, lbr) has a huge Nazi problem. But I also won't underestimate EuroAmerican's ability to turn literally fucking anything ever, into a slur.

Something something, The Dialectic

Relevant

The Great Male Renunciation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Liberals learn that there are other ethical schools of thought than the must unhinged applications of Utilitarianism change

Status: impossible

As someone who doesn't know river lingo, can you translate this?

Love me some Milt Jackson! The soft tones of that vibraphone are great for background music while studying

https://youtu.be/Fvmv7MCsCP0

He's a cop, and that's cringe.

Meanwhile, the other half of Resident Evil 2 features a pretty woman who shoots big guns and protects a little girl, and she's not a cop. That's way hotter than cop Leon with his boyband haircut.

The notion that human beings are separate and apart from the natural world is colonialist nonsense.

Yeah, I'd love to see a chart of some kind, for this