The past few years have made me realize that liberalism is the moderate form of fascism.

Americans are chronically miseducated, they probably think that Einstein is a rugged free market capitalist.

Mass Effect and Halo; they literally depict a neoliberal space America hundreds of years into the future and the Mass Effect codex actually says “the gap between rich and poor widens daily. Advanced nations have eliminated most genetic disease and pollution. Less fortunate regions have not progressed beyond 20th century technology, and are often smog-choked, overpopulated slums” Gee, I wonder what those less fortunate nations could be. :thinkin-lenin:

This kinda makes sense because both series began toward the end of the golden age of neoliberalism, but they aged super poorly because America and its vassal states are literally imploding. The succdem states in the EU are about the become America 2.0 as they vastly expand their military budgets and enact further austerity. :agony-shivering:

:porky-scared-flipped: :xi-gun:

This years Nobel Peace Prize was even worse than I imagined. :agony-shivering:

Can you give a source for the NYT statement?

I find it funny that these morons pretend that liberal “democracy” is so great when, just recently, 6 unelected judges overturned decades of civil rights against the wishes of over 200 million Americans.

Can you elaborate why?

• UK will implode as they are looted by America and Labour are basically more moderate Tories who will continue their disastrous policies

• EU will barely survive; but will enter into their version of the lost decade as America loots them as well; fascists are elected all over Europe but fail to actually reverse the decline because most of them are pro-NATO/neoliberalism anyway

• America will increasingly sustain itself by looting the rest of the imperial core but will still have a major rise of fascism. Trump will most likely be reelected and make things worse

• India has a 50/50 change of doing well assuming they go economic nationalist and avoid joining the west in their anti-China Cold War

• Japan and South Korea will continue to decline as they have been for decades

• China will probably do well, but they have to manage COVID to avoid millions of deaths

• Russia survives sanctions; but it all depends on how left wing Putin’s successor will be; as far as the war, I’m a pessimist so I think Russia will only be able reclaim the Donbass and Ukraine will eventually be forced into a treaty after they and their NATO backers realize that there are no more 12 year olds in the country because they have all been mowed down on the front lines and the 8 year olds don’t make effective cannon fodder

• South America and Africa will drift from America and Europe but will still experience many coups/interventions; Argentina is currently having a right wing coup

I hope nobody here is dumb enough to actually believe this. The claim originates from Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of those “communism killed trillions” people and was reported in a local tabloid. I honestly have never read a Stalin biography, even an anti-communist one, that ever mentioned this.

Safe to say that this is another one of those right wing smear campaigns like “Che killed gay people” and many others.