It 100% would be better. There is nothing in modern Chinese history that remotely approaches the level of imperial devastation the US has wrought on the world. This is not up for debate by any serious person. How many countries has China invaded recently? How many coups have they instigated? Is their “foreign aid” designed to help countries develop, or to extract as much wealth as possible while keeping them impoverished, underdeveloped, and dependent on the west for their most basic needs? Has the standard of living in China been going up or down in recent decades? Now ask yourself the same questions about the US.

I realized a year or so ago (after a letter from my isp) that I didn’t actually need to torrent anymore. There are websites like bflix.io (and I’m sure many others) that have basically everything streaming for free. Fuck subscriptions. Would maybe go back to torrenting if I got a vpn sorted out, but you’re not gonna get in trouble for streaming shit on a pirate website, so for now it’s the best solution I’ve found. Certainly not paying any of these assholes. Lol. Fuck outta here with that.

The US government doesn’t have to (but still does anyway) mislead its own citizens because it works hand in glove with the class it represents (not you) which does all the misleading via the private “free press” that it owns and operates for it’s own benefit.

For the life of me I will never understand why liberals think something bad is less bad when it is a private actor doing it instead of the government, but the private actors actually control more of your daily life than the government does because you live in a neoliberal hellscape.

You have no control over anything the government OR the corporate overlords do. Does it really matter which one is screwing you when they’re basically all the same people anyway?

With regard to China, please just try to ask yourself why the standard of living has been improving there for decades while it continues to decline in the US. It’s not fucking rocket science, but you can’t rely on western corporate media to explain it to you.

Ceasefire talks continuing tomorrow apparently. Suppose that means Iran continues to sit tight, unfortunately.

Hezbollah situation seems extremely measured thus far. Seeing it suggested that a ground invasion of Gaza would trigger serious hezbollah involvement though. And what else is Israel realistically going to do here? Settlers out for blood now, and leadership more than happy to oblige. But, you can’t rescue prisoners with air strikes so what other option is there? Hard to see a prisoner exchange being a palatable resolution for Israel. Is this just bound to escalate and draw hezbollah in?

I am so bewildered about what went on there. It’s too many cars to be collateral damage. And I seriously doubt hamas would have been this focused on cars. Which really just leaves the possibility that IDF was… just trying to annihilate as many cars as possible? Idk. Super fucking weird.

Just standing here, tapping my foot, looking back and forth between my watch and Tehran.

This whole time I’ve been imagining the retaliation would look like this but also coordinated with simultaneous attacks from Iran and Yemen. I guess they are taking turns. Anyway curious to see how successful it was militarily, and also in “re-establishing deterrence,” as they say. My guess is that deterrence will prove elusive as long as the zionists have the capability to strike. They just can’t seem to help themselves.

Guy on Aljazeera saying Biden’s speech sounded like he’d been manipulated by Netanyahu, as though America is not just as insatiably bloodthirsty and racist in its own right. That shit was straight out of the Bush playbook. Netanyahu didn’t have to manipulate a damn thing.

Fuckin teamsters president speaking at the RNC right now. Surreal.