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Death to Canada

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im glad all the tme people are finding Transmisogyny The Musical (2024) so funny.

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If I can't see this shit every day ill kill myself

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Talk about a ‘US alternative to the Belt and Road’ is, in my opinion, mischaracterised. Near-universally, it rests on the assumption that the US’s depiction of the BRI - as a simple Chinese-imperialist counterpart to its own historical debt-trap neocolonialism - is accurate, and as such cannot actually deal with the reality of the situation.

The BRI, existing as it does in reality, has many concrete impetuses: it provides land routes for Chinese trade, avoiding western sea-power; it weakens western countries geopolitically; and it develops the global south. These last two are important. China’s specific position as a global south nation, as an exporter (rather than an importer, as with the west) means that it stands to gain from any development of the global south - the US, the world’s largest importer, has the ability to sanction or otherwise trade-restrict nations by simply importing from elsewhere. China, the world’s largest exporter, cannot develop too greatly, cannot climb up the value chain and increase its standards of living, its wages, or the US would simply move production to somewhere less developed, somewhere cheaper - which it broadly has done for low-value-added manufacturing, most cheap goods aren’t produced in China any more. However, if the global south as a whole develops, if not just China, but all the myriad exporters increase their standards, their wages, then there is no alternative, and that development continues.

It might be obvious already, but the US and China stand on opposite sides of the question of development. China stands to gain from increased development, and the US stands to lose. In fact, as the US’s extraordinary wealth is drawn from the exploitation of these global south nations, their dependency on the US and its ability to hold their economies hostage, any increase in the strength, development, and autonomy of global south nations is a direct blow to the US geopolitically and economically. Not only that, but increased development and autonomy lead to trading networks and institutions not directly controlled and managed by the US, i.e. of alternatives to the US, and when given the choice, most won’t choose neocolonialism. Any US investment in infrastructure and development would only be investing in an alternative to itself, in giving the nations it enslaves autonomy, something categorically against the material incentives of the continued survival of the US. China and the US are not simply recolours of each other - China takes the stand of the global south because it is in its material interests to do so, because it is a global south nation.

The US can have no Belt and Road of its own - which is why more funding has gone directly to ‘countering the Belt and Road’ and anti-China propaganda than to any proposed ‘alternative to the Belt and Road’. The fundamental difference is that while China can and does work towards solving the problems facing the world and itself, the US does not and cannot - because it is the problem.

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It’s el muchacho monday

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My current favourite tiktok trend is the one where people wrap presents to look like something they're not and some people get ridiculous with it

Like:

✨The dedication ✨

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i will never allow you people to forget who was the president of the jury in cannes when emilia perez won all those awards her name is GRETA GERWIG

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adding highlights to my drawings while not knowing or ignoring where the light source is

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no socdem youtuber! don't assume that because you make alright media analysis videos that you can also make political commentary videos! your analysis of politics as narrative is bearable within the context of a literal narrative but reactionary when applied to reality!

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if you're an American nationalist in any way, even the hemming-and-hawing version espoused by the average liberal, you go directly to hell. I do make the rules and the rules are just and proper.

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