@camlok,
camlok wrote:
Piffle, ll. If the first falsehood were true, the US wouldn't be the new global-capitalist thieving empire which replaced the old global-capitalist thieving empire, the UK.
The great and terrible/false thing about capitalist imperialism is that your slaves can make more money than you do. The issue is how much freedom they have to gain independence from trade.
E.g. lets say you turn a cotton (cash crop) plantation over to slaves, whom you then pay lucrative wages/prices to for delivering the cotton. Now the 'slaves' are supposedly free, but what happens if they figure out they can stop growing/selling cotton and just farm for themselves and attain self-sufficiency? At that point, there will be corrective actions to dissuade them from doing that. Likewise, many products and services will be offered to them that keep them dependent on the larger economy so they will keep providing cotton to the empire.
So the US can make more money and even 'lead' global capitalism, but you have to look at all the forms of (interdependency) that have been created and are maintained. What the current administration has been doing that is causing it to be attacked on so many levels is to interfere with some of the mechanisms for maintaining interdependency and thus subjugation to the global economy.
Illegal trafficking is one, because many businessmen are motivated by the spoils of economic warfare in the form of expensive drugs and sex/prostitution. Tariffs to promote greater local independence from trade is also directly a problem because it effectively reverses the direction of taxation accomplished by importing expensive goods like cars and car parts. Those goods and their various support goods, such as oil, are the modern tea that transfers economic power from the colonies to the empire. Once upon a time they threw the tea overboard, but nowadays the people are so addicted to driving, oil, and drugs, those goods don't have to be taxed directly here 'in the colonies,' if the corporations that make the money are taxed by European welfare state governments and elsewhere.
What the tariffs do is require those global corporations to pay taxes to the US government instead of exploiting the US to pay taxes to other governments. The whole purpose of global imperialism is to exploit foreign economies to benefit your own citizens, so these tariffs are under attack by all those welfare states and corporations that exploit the US to benefit their own people, including US corporations that do so to benefit certain corporate-subsidiary populations within the US (which function in the same way as welfare state governments).
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There is no US ethic of liberty. It's all a ploy to get dumkoffs to support all their illegal invasions where the US then installs brutal, right wing dictatorships. You all know this because all you have to do is look at the historical record, which is perfectly clear.
I said "the traditional US ethic of liberty." The media and other forms of cultural subversion may marginalize the true meaning of liberty, but is a timeless ethic that should be re-affirmed and strengthened. Liberty's enemies want to kill it, the same as they wanted to kill Ft. McHenry while "the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that the flag was still there."
Quote:US media always supports these war crimes, which, if the people of the US were actually honest, would be journalists as the enemy of the people. But the people are complicit in these crimes.
War media serves the imperial purpose of making the public squeamish about war and thus more vulnerable to accepting global corruption. If they reported more on the exploitative reasons freedom and democracy are hated and suppressed, people wouldn't be as comfortable allowing global power to do all the things it does.
Quote:So journalists are still the enemy of people, poor innocent peoples the world over.
In many ways, the media help the people be their own enemy by bringing out and nurturing the worst within them. People are naturally indulgent and self-interested. It takes conscience and willpower to overcome those base tendencies, but the media and business exploit them in the interest of generating sales, revenues, profits, growth, etc. As long as the economy is given first priority and ethics, morality, and the greater good are put second or dismissed completely, exploitation reigns.
To compound this problem, the media has the ability to construe various forms of indulgence, self-interest, and economic interest as serving the greater good, righteousness, justice, etc. This is why/how socialism gains so much power in modern culture. When you can market a system that stimulates business growth as a means to spread money around and enrich people through expanding frivolous and wasteful forms of economic activity, you are just expanding the ability of the population to indulge and waste resources, which is the cause of environmental unsustainability and most of the social-economic problems that socialism pretends to be solving.
