Also some of your example indicate decline, but it also depends on what point you look at. Russia has taken back the Crimea, and certainly the US did not want this and has been involved in political and military operations in Ukraine ever since. So is that a decline? From the status quo in the early 00s for sure. But…

I agree about the US being in decline. The fact that it no longer has the total world domination that it had in the 90s does not mean that there is a close second.
 

No, capitalism requires less labor now than it has in the past. The fact that it still requires more in poor countries than in rich countries or in some industries more than others does not negate that fact. That’s like claiming that the earth isn’t getting warmer on average because we have colder winters in some…

lol I’m very obviously engaged in a spat of being extremely online the past couple days - it happens from time to time when I need to procrastinate. I’m sure you are doing something similar. So I never said I was moving on- I’m a fucking keyboard warrior of the first class these days. I said that whatever argument you…

Are you serious? Trump - and most politicians- deserve to be publicly ridiculed and shamed every time he shows his face in public.

If you want to grovel before your “superiors” and lick their boots, go ahead. But don’t call it a tragedy that I don’t.

I dunno. I think we basically have a state media. It’s not literally a state media, but it’s set up in a way that anyone who disagrees with mainstream narratives will be filtered out. And since it’s for-profit, they are driven by the news cycle and clicks, not by any actual desire to report the truth.

So it’s…

Yes I think that is the definition, and also I think that is what Bolton was proposing.

The fact is, Iran is very unlikely to just sit there and twiddle their thumbs in response. That is why it’s absurd to call it a limited strike. It’s literally unilaterally bombing a sovereign nation which is in fact an act of war.…

My dude, I’ve moved on to more interesting discussions. As I told you, I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say. I could go back and tease it out, but I just do not give a fuck. Not a single fuck. About you or Biden, because I have a short attention span and your conversation bores me and there are other…

You are really boring.

Absolutely. The US economic hegemony is in decline. The US military is not. So what we are going to see is the US ramping up its escalations- overexpanding- in order to protect its declining economic hegemony. Eventually there will be a breaking point though- we will move eventually into a multicurrency world. And…

Wow. I disagree with your premise, but let’s take it at face value. You’d prefer a Republican who became a Democrat to a lefty Independent who became a Democrat?

This isn’t about theater or people’s hearts. Why do liberals obsess over stuff like this? It’s about politics. YES of course Bernie is running as a Democrat…

I have no idea what you are rambling on about. Biden is a hawk and has voted for and supported most of the wars the US has been involved in for decades. He has a long history of doing this. Bernie has a long history of fighting against US imperialism, though he is by no mean’s perfect. Most Dems are better on Iran…

More than two wars, and the debt doesn’t matter so long as the US dollar is the main currency of capital which is what all these forever wars are about. What matters is the pace of growth, the debt is fine so long as that continues. And that requires imperialism which is why the US is by far and away the largest and…

Yeah I think what’s powerful about it is that he’s calling out the double speak shit. The media talking heads repeatedly use political speak if not all out war-mongering speak every time there is a US military action. Things like “limited strike” make starting a fucking endless regional (if not global) war sound clean…

IF IT’S NOT AN ISSUE, WHY’D YOU BRING IT UP?

See this is what I’m talking about. Your bizarro land rationale about how they answer this particular question out of context. Why in the world should any of us give a shit about the theater of how these politicians would answer this particular question out of the context of…

Yes Sanders- like every other person in both houses except Barbara Lee (who should honestly have a statue built for her) voted for the AUMF. It’s pretty consistent with what he said here about responding to an attack- an emergency- and also what he said about Congress having the power for war.

It was also the wrong…

Her tone might’ve been the same, but her foreign policy is not. The second matters more. 

This is a terrible example. We are already involved in a war in Syria. Yes it is true that within an ongoing mutli-year war that involves countries from around the world, some of those countries might ramp up or scale down involvement and try a variety of tactics that change from time to time.

We are not in a war with…

Yes exactly. But that’s where his outrage comes from. The way the media talking heads (and honestly most Americans) talk casually about starting wars in other countries is just sickening.

Meanwhile they are still going on about 911 as if it were this great unprecedented tragedy in the history of mankind. But starting…

What do you mean by maybe 2nd? That part really confused me and made me wonder if I misunderstood your statement. There is no country with anything near the wealth of the US nor its military reach and power.