Van Jackson
@RealVanJackson
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The class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter and Podcast(s): https://t.co/1pPmD5sDAZ; https://t.co/iwJgEgOTS3.
Joined June 2014
The Rivalry Peril has a cover! Everything Washington has told you about great-power competition is wrong. Come January 2025, @mbrenes1 and I are gonna reveal why! #TheRivalryPeril
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Where are China's EV exports going to? Europe and Asia (incl. Central Asia and Middle East) dominated by far last year. Awesome new report by @mazzocco_ilaria and @Ryanfeath on the rise of Chinese EVs and what this means for the Global South: https://t.co/6Z5HdDh0h5
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The latest natsec bro hypocrisy is to be scandalized by a “Chinese asset-stripping playbook,” ie, private equity asset stripping their foreign acquisitions. A nationalist critique of global capitalist practices. The national security-to-national socialist pipeline is real, folks
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Longest shutdown in US history for literally nothing: immiserated tens of millions & melted down air travel for a deal that was on the table from the beginning
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Liberalism has a Heather Cox Richardson problem. And a Hillary Clinton problem. And I guess a Lin-Manuel Miranda problem?
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Many of you, I’m certain, follow the work of Heather Cox Richardson—a historian who rose to public fame by being a daily chronicler of Trump’s legal woes and Trumpism’s assault on democracy. Her...
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The Democratic leadership is MAGA’s greatest ally
So Dems dominated Tuesday, during a government shutdown, with a message of standing up and fighting this unpopular administration, and their first response is to fold to that administration’s unpopular budget demands for zero concessions? Am I getting this right?
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DNC Vice Chair calls Chuck Schumer's shutdown deal a "mistake"
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What was the point of Democrats allowing the govt shut down if this is what they were going to end up doing
DEMOCRATS, 11 "or more" Democrats are reportedly breaking ranks and preparing to vote for Trump and against their own party and country. They are getting nothing in return. Zero gain on ACA subsidies. They are giving up everything for nothing.
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There are many indicators we can use to identify Sino-US relations as a security dilemma, but the PLA worrying about US decapitation strikes is up there as among the most inarguable
"This may sound far-fetched to Americans, but there is very strong evidence that Beijing really does worry about U.S. decapitation strikes."
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You’ve seen the Hitler meme but have you seen the movie, Downfall? Incredible, had a great time covering it on the pod
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The brutal class reality of life under oligarchy. It has always been thus, but reaching absurdist levels now
BREAKING: MASSIVE line outside FOOD BANK in Cleveland, Ohio.
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THIS IS BAD. PAY ATTENTION! Hegseth says we are in a "1939 moment" and he is moving the U.S. into readiness for WWIII. Catastrophe looms. Diplomacy and collaboration, not war and conquest, is the path to prosperity in the 21st century. We must find courage to say NO TO WAR.
U.S. War Minister Hegseth: "We are not preparing for a period of peace; instead, we are shifting the Pentagon and the military-industrial base into an actual state of war. "The moment feels like 1939—or, I hope, 1981. Enemies are gathering, and threats are mounting. You feel
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Like and subscribe to the only anti-imperialist film podcast host by military vets!
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Van and Lyle are joined by the literary critic George Dardess to talk about Downfall (2004) and its grim mirror, Triumph of the Will (1935).
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You’ve seen the Hitler meme but have you seen the movie, Downfall? Incredible, had a great time covering it on the pod
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If you want to view China v US manufacturing competitively—which I wrote a book advising against—the US has an unfavorable cost-exchange ratio. America’s decaying oligarchy has no business picking this fight and should be trying to avoid it
The game was over long time back but now grudgingly western media is accepting it.
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We’re seeing such panic because reality is starting to slowly catch up. 90-95% of this stuff is never going to be profitable.
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Debt-til-you-die. Assuming a young person can ever get out from the yoke of student loans, they’ll be able to take out a mortgage on a home they can’t afford by committing to a lifetime of debt. How many different ways can oligarchs design poverty traps for us?
BREAKING: President Trump appears to announce his intention to normalize 50 year mortgages, attempting to make it easier for young people to buy a home.
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“Endless war is more than just a slogan. And wokeness is incompatible with permanent war. It’s time to get back to the business of continuing the global wars that never stopped in the first place.”
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Mamdani wanting free buses and child care for working New Yorkers is scary communism but a bunch of already rich dudes asking for hundreds of billions in government handouts is totally okay?
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
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