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Most economics degrees expose people to the toxic neoliberalism I'm joking about in the intial reply though. It's been weaponized against the third world to horrible effect.

Dude you are not going to get better results by looking at further cherry-picked statistics from first world countries. The standard of living in the first world is collapsing because of finance capital and economics as a science there exists to cope about it.

If you go through a list of BRICS applicants countries and find a few news outlets for each that aren't run by London and NYC firms you will be a mile and a half ahead of these fools.

Indian MAGA dudes are insane they will just start monologuing about InfoWars shit in the middle of a hiking trail on a sunny day. I have encountered the same phenomenon. Dude was making his Gf super uncomfortable.

I've studied economics as a discipline too much not to acknowledge its institutional biases. The statement "economics isn't real bro" is a joke, but it's a joke about how bad the state of the academy is in promoting neoliberal economics.

If that weren't true it wouldn't be powerful enough to turn Argentina into a fourth world nation. Milei is a product of these academic institutions.

If you actually went to or taught at a university that eludes these biases like the Braudel fans at Binghampton, you wouldn't be scolding me for making a joke about how stupid most economics degrees render people.

If you follow the flowchart and dive into most economics departments you will encounter what I'm talking about.

What are you talking about Keynesian liberals or something? I do like to read Adam Tooze to see him close in on an interesting point only to veer wildly. Foreign Policy in general has some interesting writers if you want to mine the most advanced liberal cope.

The model of economics I'm describing is the one which has been most heavily promoted by the west, neoliberalism, it has been used to dissolve the social welfare state which was set up to compete with the socialist bloc since defeating its chief rival and counterbalance in the USSR. It's an ideological persuasion that works along with coercion and subterfuge to eliminate capital controls and suppress the masses with starvation and crackdowns, especially in peripheral countries which are starting to establish socialistic policies or nationalize natural resources. Look at Chile for a perfect example of liberal economics in practice.

I am aware of plenty of different non-Marxist models of economics and none of them are great because they treat various sectors of production wrong. China and Vietnam have their shit all figured out that's why finance capital and food aid can't decimate their agricultural production and then extort them into unfavorable IMF deals.

The human body can potentially metabolize a pound of soy protein a day. That's roughly 1500 calories. You can't stop me

My mindset is when you get a physical movement or very large messaging campaign or online organization going that's inevitably the point you will encounter law enforcement in some form. So this tracks. Probably a lot of people on the old man yells at cloud list no offense. Ideally everyone in the entire country could pen a furious letter daily.

Understanding most of the Israelis have descended into full-blown Telegram psychosis explains so much of this because they are so far past worrying about fact checking. It just needs to scan.

this is one of those things which writers call "not socialism but socialistic in nature"

True, but Afghans don't let their dogs back in, and I want that for us too.

I'm being deliberately long-winded but that's true, especially when you get into explaining the context of how the lefty antiwar press makes money. You have to start talking about Project Mockingbird and stuff.

I'm kind of joking, if you want legit economics check out Mike Hudson and other MMT authors or preferably become a communist. Mainstream economists live to justify rent seeking by the ruling class. They don't distinguish between production and rents and debts etc

See this is what I want to get a read on, because they're also having cops visit people over inane comments. Are you using name and return address lmao?

That's cool dude, except you worship it like a religion. Did you know your GDP numbers count rents and debts the same as production?

I mean mainstream economics is a farce. MMT at least approaches sanity. Yeah you need Marxism-Leninism but there aren't many of those economists in Western academia.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/07/23/729890/Hezbollah-rockets-rain-down-on-Israeli-Tzuriel-moshav-over-southern-Lebanon-attacks-

This is the first time that Tzuriel moshav, with a population of just 400 illegal settlers, has been hit. The community is not among those at the northern side of the occupied lands that have been evacuated by an official order from the Israeli regime.

Anything you can get through Indian news these days outside a select few outlets

I say turn it into a full wall of text thread. In fact, padding is a critical component of a lot of compatible left writing. After doing a lot of once in a lifetime research into the Phoenix Program and how the CIA conducted a mass torture and blackmail operation by using connections from writing a book about his vet father to play CIA officers off of South Vietnamese police officers (which is impossible to do today, you have to make do with typing in the comment section of news articles, you will rarely make contact with any investigative journalism or real front line footage), Doug Valentine complained that writers like Chris Hedges, Jeremy Scahill, and Seymour Hersh were bowlderizing research like his into long winded descriptions of a single massacre & worked together with the intelligence agencies they are supposedly running exposes on and receiving whistleblowing communiques from to secure the very notoriety that gets them reposted here on this forum.

The more you pad out the writing the harder it is to notice all of the sources loop back to the Guardian and the NYT and other AP and AFP sources. Don't get me wrong, it's helpful to use internal logic and inconsistencies of the press against itself like that, but for these non-Marxist antiwar leftists it's just a way to earn favor with a more erudite audience. It's like the people who use their understanding of imperialist economics to invest better. I don't like them if you didn't pick up on it.

That's horrifying schizophrenia is worse than tinnitus you're gonna hear a demon man yelling insults at your door at 4am and knowing for sure it's fake won't make it stop