The success of the 9/11 attacks cannot be understated (see Jean Baudrillard’s The Spirit of Terrorism).

After a supposed victory over an ideological opponent (USSR), the US engaged in building the “rules based international order” and, after a frenzy of neoliberal export (Bosnia), began to show rot. The cultural angst of the late 90’s - unintentionally enunciated in Fukiyama’s “End of History” - reflected the hollow promise of the capitalist vision.

The 9/11 attacks forced the contradictions of this aimless and self-destructive impulse into overdrive and spawned an unfocused frenzy of jingoism which served to mask the profound disquiet festering at the core of the American psyche.

That ideological bankruptcy has forced into focus the fundamental inability of capitalism to build a resonant faith in structural stability and justice.

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Luffy diagnosed with oppositional-defiant disorder and dosed with lorazepam from age seven.

Goku in special education classes and sent to wilderness camp at age thirteen.

I know this is the most tired of tropes but … Wiemar liberals reborn.

You can definitely tell they they went … whoops and tacked on the last 30 minutes of the movie to make him seem like the bad guy. The entire film goes into a severe tonal shift.

Ahoyhoy, my Black Book of Agriculture has the count at trillions. Checkmate

So I’m relying on more knowledgeable bears here, but this is basically a manifestation of unions without theory right?

Without state support unions will be assaulted by capitalistic mentalities and turn into gangs?

Laughing in hell eating pizza

The power of beans and rice compels you to succeed!

Liberalism is in the spinal cord - this move excises liberalism.

Ahhhh - well that definitely plays into the Midwestern dad who tells fish stories vibe he’s doing.

I mean, the “Tiananmen Square” that Americans think of is just one picture on one day, but there were student protests for at least three months right? So he could have just said he was there during the student movement of '89? Daddy football was pretty garsh darn flustered tonight for sure.

Arachnox the Butt-Peeker

Haha, great video thanks

I still love them anyways

Yeah… :-(

I still love them

Boo

The poorest Americans are constantly fighting with the bureaucracy to get assistance, this is by design to make them hate it.

Any addition to the expansion of the state will be met with hostility.

All of Le Carre’s novel have the secret double agent retire to a comfortable dacha - how do you claim that now?

“President Xi, there is information you should know. To acquire this information, you only need to provide me with a one-bed apartment in Sichuan Province and an unlimited credit to the closest lo mein noodle restaurant. A regular street vendor who purveys lo mein noodles would be sufficient. Respond now, for this offer is time limited.”

Self immolation in the Imperial Core is an expression of profound helplessness, and speaks to the utter inability of the left to provide those people with a comprehensive ideological framework.

The U.S. State has done such an effective job of destroying revolutionary movements that those who could be drawn to a clear-headed Marxist perspective cannot find purchase; there are no revolutionary organizations that are not captured.

Blame Trotsky and the New Left I suppose (after you blame the State for the murder of the Black Panthers and the original BLM leaders).

TL;DR - Imperial Core collapse in slow motion