• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 hours ago

    This might sound ridiculous to you.

    But, it does matter. Ultimately, those in charge determine whether there would be a war or not. That’s why their perspective matters.

    It’s ultimately because a war does enormous harm and throws the country’s progress back by decades why the rich are (or should be) against war. That is a very important message that can have a lot of influence on the world!

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      5 hours ago

      The problem is that in the era of Imperialism, war is a necessity to certify new markets and redraw Imperial lines. The US provokes war in order to secure new markets for financial domination. It isn’t about progress, it’s about plunder.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        7 hours ago

        Exactly. Fascism and liberalism are both superstructural elements arising from the Capitalist base, liberalism in better times and fascism in dire times. They aren’t really distinct ideologies so much as they are the same ideology in different circumstances, and this lets liberalism pretend it can beat fascism.

  • Mwalimu@baraza.africa
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    18 hours ago

    Is that top right image from a real Economist post or it is edited? I did not find it by simple search (search is so sloppy of late).

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      18 hours ago

      Got it via their website jumping over walls. From October 2023, not that that diminishes it’s sting.

  • MynameisAllen@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    What’s worse is none of this is new, our access to it seemingly is, but the wall street journal has been a bastion of shit like this for decades

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      13 hours ago

      And WSJ is not even the worst, since it sometimes publish at least real data. But look at rag like the Economist which was purely capitalist propaganda since day one which was so long ago even Marx himself was around to note it’s an organ of aristocracy of finance.