I keep seeing fucking Andrew Tate with a deeper understanding and a better position on geopolitics and capitalism than most of the the western "left" and it's giving me psychic damage
@gonca2710
@anapradomuack
Tem gente q pode achar essa diferença pouco saudável ou inapropriada.
Mas o fato é q uma mulher de 25 é uma pessoa adulta q tem todo o direito de tomar as próprias decisões e se relacionar com quem bem entender.
Não tem nenhuma comparação com um adulto cometendo pedofilia!
Prediction time:
By the end of the decade, China will be the dominant economic and scientific power in the world by a large margin. People will be shocked (even the Chinese).
@ehneurotica
Uma das coisas q me surpreende (negativamente) sobre a psicanálise é o quanto a meu ver se subestima o componente materno no supereu. Concretamente, a autoridade familiar a ser confrontada para se poder existir em geral costuma ser a mae, não o pai
@Noahpinion
In my humble opinion, I think what happens is that even smart commentators like you, for being part of the affluent liberal culture, tend to wildly underestimate just how toxic the new utterance of liberal worldview is and how much people hate all of this identity politics stuff
@gonca2710
@anapradomuack
Não, Rai. Inclusive eu nada falei nada sobre isso.
Eu apenas falei da importância de não misturar diferença de idade entre adultos com relação amorosa entre adulto e menor de idade, pq o segundo caso é crime HEDIONDO.
All the talk about reshoring/deglobalisation/decoupling is baseless posturing. At this point, supply chain complexity has achieved deep world-historical lock-in. In almost a decade, how much serious headway did Trump or Biden's America make in that direction? Almost none.
I don't have the numbers, but you can also clearly see this divergence happening in Brazil.
Average boys and young guys are way more likely to be against the liberal mainstream and to support conservative parties than girls and young women.
No matter where you look regarding this whole Ukraine debacle, it's just really really bad for the US and NATO. This was such a disastrous foreign policy, I think it's going to enter the Hall of Fame of stupid things empires have done during their decline.
The great firewall was not only an absolute necessity for sovereignty and geopolitical reasons, but the greatest W of any country when it comes to the digital sphere.
This will be more and more recognized from now on
The world has become such an insane place that I now see myself aligned with Andrew Tate on geopolitics while many in the western "left" are quiet and in cunplicity with the US empire.
How the fuck did we get here? How?
@princesacore
Fato. Porém, eu devo dizer... Pessoas inteligentes muitas vezes demoram para entender que o "sucesso" profissional está muito mais ligado à oportunidade e auto-disciplina do que necessariamente à inteligência e talento. E o preço disso costuma ser caro
People tend to deeply underestimate how hard industrialization (or re-industrialization) is. Even if you do everything right and under good conditions, it takes huge national effort and at least one or two generations to get to the frontier. It's not a short term thing.
People who think high IQ grants you "success" in life deeply underestimate the role of: 1) parenting (to a substantial extent, your parents can set you up for either success or failure — in fact, they can destroy you); 2) resources (aka social class); 3) looks; 4) contingency.
if you are 150+ iq then everything is literally a skill issue and your biggest barriers for actualizing your potential is probably your own emotional dysfunction
the only thing stopping you from becoming an übermensch is your lack of emotional control & flawed worldview
@gonca2710
@anapradomuack
Mas quanto ao relacionamento entre adultos, a minha perspectiva em geral é de não me meter e de não julgar a não ser q haja algum indício claro de q algo errado ou ilegal.esteja acontecendo (ex: chefe tendo relação amorosa com pessoas q trabalham para ele ou ela)
As someone who actually thinks Zizek is a brilliant theoretician, in many aspects the best intellectual of his generation, it has been wild to watch he becoming nothing but a promoter of liberal hegemony and US imperialism over the last few years. Beyond retarded.
💪 Putin, a dark conservative religious fanatic, must be stopped ASAP, and the West should even provide Ukraine with nuclear weapons if necessary, believes Slovenian leftist philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
@NEETWorldOrder
I think there is a decent chance that millennials are going to beat the boomers for the title of worst generation. It's honestly wild how bad my generation has turned out without giving any signs of approaching a come to Jesus moment, there is no bottom apparently
In China they had this crazy idea that the State should actually govern the country and develop it.
And they also had another crazy idea that, in order for you to make money as a capitalist, you need to produce and sell an actual product in a competitive market.
They don’t make “money” in China. They make stuff, the thing you need money for. In Econ 101 a perfectly competitive market is not supposed to be profitable either. That’s what supposedly makes markets “optimal”.
@topiranath
Terrível. Obsessivo tem q cumprir a missão q foi dada por Deus: sair por aí dando os melhores conselhos para tirar a noia das pessoas e fazer a vida delas fluir, ao mesmo tempo em q se fode por não conseguir aplicar esses conselhos a suas próprias vidas 😎
Liberals are maniacs.
So Israel is gonna take the remaining Palestinian land by force and Egypt (an extremely poor country) is supposed to take care of 2 million people fleeing from the bombs raining on their houses? And they are the bad guys for not accepting this deal?
Egypt is truly underrated as one of the bad guys here - the humanitarian disaster in Gaza would never have reached the proportions it did if Egypt was willing to take in 1-2% of its population in Palestinian refugees
@annakhachiyan
Not sure if I got it. But it's a fact that the West has been raising people without any meaningful reference beside their own ego. And women are in the worst position in this regard, because the narcissism in this case is being sold as liberation against external oppression
@FelipeMQuintas
Rapaz... Os EUA manda e desmanda nisso aqui, conspiraram contra o trabalhismo/getulismo fudendo o país, faz isso aqui ser bordel da especulação financeira na marra... E a Rússia é a força anti-civilizatória a ser resistida?
What I really envy about China, besides a functional government which is not hostage to liberal "democracy", is the metro system. Every major country should have this and somehow it doesn't because the political economy is literal trash
Here are 30+ stunning metro stations in China.
How about you, USA? What did you do with $32 trillion of debt?
BTW, the total length of metro system in China is staggering 9,500 km!
53 Chinese cities have subway systems with combined 300 or so lines.
How socialism can
@princesacowboy
Sim! A visão da China no Ocidente está totalmente desatualizada. As cidades chinesas são provavelmente os lugares mais futuristas q existem no mundo atualmente
@FarisInArabia
You don't know what you're talking about. There are major similarities between Brazil and the US. But Brazil was a colony of exploitation, while the US was mostly a colony of settlers. The political economy, the social structure and the politics at play were profoundly different
It's wild how much of a low trust society Brazil has become. There is no consensus about anything, especially among young people, a lot of nonsense coming from all sides. A very unstable society, besides underdeveloped.
The American continent is a mess.
@jessejanderson
A honest question for you guys with ADHD: how do your doctor knows that you have this and not something like OCD (or, in the psychoanalytic terminology, obsessive neurosis)?
The way people describe ADHD to me sounds almost identical to obsessive-compulsive symptoms
@princesacowboy
Um país periférico numa trajetória decadente e caótica que abraçou de vez a política e o imaginário de uma superpotência decadente e caótica. Uma maravilha
@nise_yoshimi
What Xi did in terms of actually outlawing corruption and promoting the party discipline on that front, along with the broader push for national pride and geopolitical awareness, was the most important thing he could have done for China. Huge W
@Kanthan2030
The fact that Zeihan is so popular in the US is a great indicator of the level of desperation in that country... Sad and a little bit scary tbh
@topiranath
Se a psiquiatria não fosse majoritariamente vendida, teria pelo menos o culhão de colocar no DSM o distúrbio "falta de dinheiro (liso)"
O diagnóstico de maior alcance no mundo capitalista 🥲
People don't believe some stuff until it happens. The US government debt spiral is one of them. This thing will crash as the sun will rise tomorrow. And it will crash through devaluation, since the people running this shit show won't let it crash by default.
🚨JUST IN: US Debt Rises $1 Trillion in 100 Days
The US national debt is rising $1 trillion every 100 days, according to Bank of America.
They estimate it will take just 95 days for the debt to climb to $35 trillion from $34 trillion, compared to the 92 days it took to grow to
Did a quick experiment of two weeks without twitter (or any SM) and I have two things to say:
1) Life is really much better without it
2) The real world is not made of people who are all super smart and know a lot about stuff happening in the world, so I'm back 😂🥲
@Kdenkss
You can immediate see the effects it has on people's psyche and humor. I would bet money that a lot of depressed people I see posting here would be better in a week if they just moved to a warmer place with real sun light.
@lichunan
@hzsong
Yes, this kind of "we'll be number 1 in everything" / "we'll remake the world with BRI" rhetoric wans't a smart move from Xi. Would be better to keep a sort of low profile. I hope they've learned
@blob_watcher
Unpopular opinion, but I think the PRC reaction to the protests confirms what I've suspected for a while: the government there is more responsive to popular pressure and more concerned with their people material aspirations/demands than Western liberal "democracies"...
@PAstynome
It's all the same process, with some important turns. Westerns like to cope. Even beyond politics and culture, already at the level of economics and industrialization, Mao laid the foundations for Deng
@nise_yoshimi
Marx was MEAN and NASTY with those he criticized, especially in Das Kapital. I don't really know who those people are, but I'm sure they deserved! 😂
@LatestandNatest
@growing_daniel
100%. People who are not used to street fights don't understand this. If you're going to pick a fight with an older dude, you better really know what you're doing or you're gonna regret it
"The country is simultaneously wealthy and bankrupt. It makes no sense."
It's called financialization. It's mostly paper wealth in a rent seeking economy made for rentiers. A ponzi scheme sustained by debt and money printing.
Fugayzi, fugazi. It's a whazy. It's a whoozi.
I don't understand how many Americans afford the USA because that country is expensive AF.
It used to be cheaper than the UK but those days are loooong gone. No wonder most people have zero net worth.
The country is simultaneously wealthy and bankrupt. It makes no sense.
@YoDonizetti
Eu acho super curioso o componente narcísico desse adiamento.
Tem aquela frase, não lembro se é do Woody Allen ou do Groucho Marx, acho q descreve mto bem o dilema obsessivo:
"Eu não quero fazer parte de um clube q me aceite como sócio"
@pplsartofwar
@unusual_whales
5-day work week is so insane it's hurting capitalism imo. I'm willing to bet money that 4-day work week + 6 hours of (real) work per day in an industrialized economy will not only increase growth and productivity but also profits
This attempt of every side to stress the idea of "national unity" at a time when America is *going bankrupt* and neither side has any plan whatsoever cannot last.
It is the dead cat bounce of the American political system. They'll be at each other's throats soon enough.
This is 100% true imo.
For people who grew up educated in a Western view point, being constantly fed Western propaganda, today's world dynamics and events must feel like a psychotic experience.
That's why western mainstream pundits sound delusional, living in a parallel universe
We're at point in history where one simply cannot make sense of what's going on in the world from a Western viewpoint. That's why things seem so confusing and chaotic from our perspective.
Kissinger was a demon.
But the same is true for almost everybody involved in running the US empire.
He was also truly intelligent and a real strategist. Compared to him, those running the show in the US today seem like kids and amateurs.
@Logo_Daedalus
Agree. But this coup effectively happened in the 70's imo, when the US effectively "solved" the impasses of capital accumulation by surrendering the State to the financiers and the dollar global domination project —instead of going with the communist route and nationalizing stuff
2% of all labour income in Brazil is currently being spend on gambling apps. Some projections shows it can reach more than 5% in the next few years alone.
Smartphones have to go and the internet must be heavily regulated on all fronts
@FelipeMQuintas
Meu caro, existe um bloco geopolítico chamado Ocidente, dominado pelo Império Norte-Americano, e no qual nós não estamos incluídos. Nós sequer somos "vassalos honorários" como a UE, nós somos tratados como o quintal dos caras, puro e simples.
Como q a gente é parte do Ocidente?
I hold firm my position, which I've reached since last year, that the combo smartphones/social media/apps is just too disruptive of all dimensions of human life to be managed in a sane and feasible way by any major modern State -- with the possible exception of China and Russia
@PoliMartins_
Ciência se faz com teoria e com estudos e observações empíricas.
A ideia de q nós vamos "provar" hipóteses no campo da psicologia e das ciências humanas da mesma maneira q a física ou a química é uma completa maluquice q só faz gerar péssimas teorias (como o behaviorismo)
@WindDustStars
@signulll
It's caused by social media and smartphones imo. Social media gives men and women infinite choices (as many as they can attract). So, for real connection to happen, you depend on men to not be perverts and women to not be delusional. A hard ask when you give them infinite choices
@DAlperovitch
the US public was reminded that China is a major adversary because of a white balloon that floated around the country for a while without doing anything before being exploded over the sea? Do you even hear yourself?
I'm not a conservative, but it has to be said... The overall levels of hypersexuality, promiscuity and pornography which now more and more permeates every aspect of social life in the Western world are neither normal or sustainable. This is a clear sign of a decaying civilization
@policytensor
China alone has more industrial capacity than the USA and EU combined (this without saying anything about surge capacity if China decides that she wants to expand industrial production and weapons manufacturing...). Noah Smith is retarded, as always
The USA cultural industry is much more dominant in the world stage than its economy and military, it's not even remotely close. There is no country in history so competent and obsessed with spreading its culture than the US. That's why liberal hegemonic ideology is so insidious
On this day celebrating American greatness, I will tell you something that is contrarian but true.
On the world stage, Hollywood is a 100x times more powerful than all the aircraft carriers America has combined.
@princesacore
Sim. Mas o erro mais fatal ainda me parece ser supor q as pessoas têm o tempo, interesse e alcance emocional disponível para se relacionar profundamente com diversas pessoas ao mesmo tempo durante períodos extensos
An amazing must-read thread on US influence and cover ops in Ukraine (though NGOs + State Department + tech companies) that led the world to the current situation 🧵
This god-awful NATO tweet intended to trick Westerners into supporting Ukraine is a good reminder that Ukraine is the birthplace of the digital psyop. It's where the US State Department, intelligence agencies, and tech companies truly came together for the first digital coup. 1/
India has 1 billion people of working age and 430 million jobs. Most Indians are stuck in the "informal" sector, i.e., with no capital and no prospects. Manufacturing is a smaller share of GDP today than when Modi first took office. It's many leaps away from offering competition
Russia has become the fourth largest economy in the world and the largest in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity:
1. 🇨🇳 China: $34.6 trillion
2. 🇺🇸 USA: $27.3 trillion
3. 🇮🇳 India: $14.5 trillion
4. 🇷🇺 Russia: $6.4 trillion
5. 🇯🇵 Japan: $6.2 trillion
6. 🇩🇪 Germany: $5.8
The proliferation of smartphones and social media turns people into "attention addicts".
Each new thing causes less rush for less time. So they fade into irrelevance quickly.
Also the reason why young people now have a hard time reading or even watching movies.
Has anyone noticed that the average time for the "current thing" is getting ever shorter?
This has greatly accelerated after COVID. We see events that are declared to be historic by the intellectuals and commentators only for it disappear into ether a few days later forgotten.
@Logo_Daedalus
My parents raised me and my brothers in the worst version of what you are referring to, though not necessarily so much when it comes to physical stuff (they didn't have enough money). It almost destroyed us. Our 20's were all about undoing the damage.
@KARIMAXXING
They are helping the US empire and Israel to collapse by minding their own business and building a hugely successful country without invading anybody or fomenting any chaos, just increasing economic relations with the Global South and preaching peace and cooperation.
@Logo_Daedalus
That's one of the funniest things about the current geopolitical moment, that almost no one in the West understands the basic fact that China is already a richer country than the US. Not even honest and, in some ways, sophisticated intelectuals like Mearsheimer understand this.
@pplsartofwar
I'm more and more convinced that, at some point, governments with vision will just have to limit people's access to smartphones and social media (like the PRC is doing with children). This is basically a opium war happening at global scale against humanity as a whole
@okaythenme
For real though. Your ethnicity has built a State that is, in many ways, the most successful in the world at the moment. Why are you behaving like this? It's wild
You can be near perfect and still get fucked due to a lot of things out of your control.
Generally speaking, there is no way for a large number of people to overcome poverty without a political economy and a State whose aim is to make sure this happens.
The worst thing about the current ideological era in the western(ized) world is that not only "progressive" liberalism is cursed but the ideological reaction against it is also mostly cursed. The people are hostage of a competition for who can be more evil and retarded.
@Logo_Daedalus
They don't understand a property is literally the result of a title granted by the STATE. And that all transactions and contracts are only enforceable if in accordance with the LAW promulgated by the State.
Just living in wonderland
@pplsartofwar
When you see these people talking about bringing back industries and "making things here at home" as if industrialization was a switch that you flip at will... You just have to laugh.
Ngl, these small things are what makes me really envious of high trust societies. I need to leave the American continent asap, I wasn't made for this 🥲
President Xi Jinping: "We need to focus on meeting the growing needs of our people for a better life, and constantly enhance their sense of happiness and safety."
@PAstynome
A weird country tech wise fr. They are futuristic in several industrial areas but way behind several developing countries in info and electronic stuff.
The current levels of low-key psychosis found in the public discourse of liberal democracies, emanating mostly from its center, the USA, is very impressive
People are unable to discuss anything with lucidity and good faith, illiteracy and memetics absolutely dominate
Let's talk about
@KamalaHarris
saying "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been." This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious. It's esoteric. That is, it's occult. It's a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that's easily seen.