The reason latin america is excluded from the west is because 1) they don’t exploit other countries via finance capital, and 2) most of them preserve both their indigenous cultures and populations, in a way that would be intolerable to US or Israeli settlers.

Israel, along with most western countries, have been bombing (or building bombs) the Middle east and North Africa for decades now.

Agree, especially considering how much the EU has screwed over Greece in recent years. Not really an exploiter of global south labor via finance capital, which the US, GB, France, Germany, and the Nordic countries, definitely are.

Capitalism is less than 400 years old, and feudalism took probably triple that to fully die out. These are world-historic processes taking a long time, involving new energy sources, technological developments, and declining surpluses.

Capitalism has had many crackups already, and is now in its late stage in most of the world. Even most of the populations of capitalist countries, when polled, are pessimistic about their future.

One nation, one vote seems like a good idea to me. The US would never allow it tho.

It’s less a geographical or hemispheric distinction, and more a political one.

This page on imperial core is good.

Maybe the US is lying to you about China in other areas too? Israel and the US (and Britain) have been killing Arabs for decades. Are they to be trusted when telling you their enemies are doing the same?

World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country.

That’s been getting much worse in the US at least.

You did the right thing 👍

You can edit posts in lemmy.

North Korea, you’d get blown up and killed

Source?

Admins can see voting patterns.

The nazi’s copying the US colonialist model, but in eastern europe:

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Careful, you’re going to get priviledge checked by the g*mer who thinks reading books and exercise is something only rich ppl have time to do.

None of those things needs a big time requirement. You could work out for 5 minute a day if you want, study for 5 minutes, and do something creative for 5 minutes.

Most people don’t prioritize vitally important things like self study.

• Continuing study after school. Whether its science, political theory, or anything, a lot of people stop reading or studying anything after college / school.
• Doing something creative as an outlet (music, art, knitting, anything). A lot of people are just consumption machines nowadays, mostly consuming things other people have made, rather than creating something.
• Physical exercise.
• Having explicit long-term goals and working towards them.

Part of the post ww2 division of labor. The US would keep its war industry and become western capitalism’s primary enforcement arm worldwide, letting its allies or defeated clients host US military bases and develop consumer products industries.