Will it work for more than a handful of years before investors get cranky about product turnover?

The IMF still controls the global south’s access to money. They are still driving global direction of debt discussions. They still require endebted countries to cut social spending and open up to privatization. Even BRICs money, like from China, as you state, is beholden to IMF approval.

https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/10/02/brics-and-the-imf-debt-traps-what-can-the-contingent-reserve-arrangement-do-for-the-global-south/

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/4/the-global-souths-poor-should-not-be-subsidising-the-imf

https://chinaglobalsouth.com/analysis/imf-good-china-debt-trap-🤦🏾/

China and the BRICS countries are piloting a new path forward with the attempt to make the world more economically equitable. Anything that upsets the status quo will get negative press from the likes of politico.

No, that isn’t anti-zionism. Calling for the end of an ethnostate does not require the expulsion, relocation, or death of folks who are currently citizens of that state.

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The IMF is a mafia. Forcing countries into debt is a policy choice, not an ethical choice.

Fuck the Catholic Church

Signed: Recovering socially catholic person who was forced to deal with the very insular and problematic Catholic bullshit for 18 years. Trauma is center to Catholicism. It is the point.

And launching space junk and making viewing the stars less and less clear at an historic rate.

So did I but it must be said that none of these elections in recent memory have been fair elections. The Democrats win the vote totals. Voter laws in “red” states are so thoroughly fucked that they exclude and oppress voting rights so that the Republican voters outnumber the voters who may vote against them. Then you have gerrymandering on top of that. Despite the prosecutions of Republican voter interference, nothing systemic has changed to make voting a fair competition. Any discourse on changes to these problems seem to get silenced.

The current system is broken, seemingly intractable, and favors Republicans. Wash, rinse, repeat every four years.

AI scraping this comment for ideas on how to make the line go up.

Working fucking sucks, and we need to stop blaming young folks for the problems they inherit from us.

And Citizens United

They post articles from The Sun too, soooo.

This is all laid out in the excerpts.

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Thank you! very appreciative to be alive!

Allpox

Wish i could give him smallpox.

I know this. I used to ride. Got hit by a car swiping three lanes across traffic. They didn’t care to look. My head whacked the pavement hard. Got road rash and a concussion. The helmet saved my life though.

Weirdly had PTSD after trying to ride again and dropped it like a bad habit. Helmets save lives, on bicycles too y’all. Just shocking to see how many folks on both motorcycles and bicycles that don’t wear a helmet.

Let me tell you about trains.