AverageWestoid

Welp, once the Chinese EUVs come online then it's bye bye to the western tech sector.

Jesus, I mean to be honest I live in the south east (aka the part of the UK that effectively leeched of the rest of britbong land when we began to enter the end stage of capitalism) and even down here I wouldn't exactly describe the situation as great, sure you do get actual protein in your food parcels here but it's only slightly better to be honest, and your certainly not getting enough food to meet your required caloric intake per month that's for sure.

To be honest I think the government is doing it on purpose, in the place I work at we have more than enough food (for fuck shake I was literally having to squeeze in what I could.) probably so that the proles will be too starved to riot (probably won't work mind you, believe me the Tsarists tried this in Russia and all it led to was for the peasants and proles to Join the Bolsheviks.) but yeah, in my opinion most foodbanks absolutely have enough food to go around it's just that the government wants to starve the proles so they don't have the energy to revolt.

I actually work at a Foodbank and I can tell you if people are having issues getting stuff from a Foodbank it ain't because there low on stock, that's for sure.

Like seriously last Tuesday we had issues simply putting away all of the "donations" (in air quotes because most of our supply comes from Tesco's and friends, not from like dudues leaving donations or anything.) so if foodbanks are utterly incapable of doing much it ain't because we got a lack of supply.

Actually thinking about this we usually don't give out much food per donation, like, for a family of four for instance we probably make up like 4 boxes or something like that, which is basically fuck all to be honest especially for a family that size, like I guess if you wanted to be generous it would be enough for 1000 calories per day per person, which again is on the generous side of things, certainly nowhere near the recommended caloric intake for men and women.

TL:Dr, foodbanks are probably holding back on the donations they give out even when you do get vouchers, so yeah, fuuunnnnn.

To be honest this has the vibe of "Omg what happened to by profits 😭" I'm all due honesty. And assumes that china won't like, idk, Nationalize failing companies, and that it'll do what the west did and wait like a few decades for it's industry to decay and won't do fuck all lol.

???? This is a private estimate for one. And literally they missed out on industrial profits by like 0.5 percent, profits, yea clearly the denominator for industrial prowess.

Yeah, this is like utterly bullshit.

Housing prices in china have generally been on the decline since 2021. Really there hyper focusing on like down town motherfucking tier one city apartments despite the fact that chinas infrastructure is so advanced that is is more than possible for someone to live in the cheaper outskirts of town and simply commute by train or bus into the city (this is fairly common in like Hong Kong, onto where living in the city is fucking awful but the wages there aren't that bad, hence most people simply live in nearby Shenzhen and NOT bamboo scaffolding city )

Umm source, please?

Mostly it's because Russia lacks the same governmental systems of protection that China has, plus, while Russia has disconnected itself from the West a lot more than it was in like the 2010s, it is still involved in the global economic system (for an example, most Indian oil purchases of russian oil are literally just the Indians buying russian oil, refining it (sometimes) and then exporting it back to the west at markup.

1. Oh yeah it's going to pop at some point and, for the west, and well pretty much every other capitalist country, it's going to be devastating, most people are already on the brink, another crisis on the scale of, or even exceeding, that of 2008 is likely to cause a lot of turmoil (e.g., it will either kill the US outright, or at the very least rapidly speed up it's dissolution.)

Now for other countries I think the effects are going to vary alot, china probably won't be effected to much as the only reason why it was effected by 2008 was due to the decline in consumption in the west, which obviously isn't as big as an issue as it was before as china pretty heavily diversified it's export destinations as well as increased consumption internally via increasing their citizens wealth.

For Russia I would say it probably won't be as bad as the west but will absolutely effect them, which will likely make Putin's life a living hell at literally the worst time possible for the Russian Bourgeoise class (currently Russia is experiencing a large scale resurgence in socialism thanks to the SMO as well as increases ties to china making surpressing campaigns, complicated.) which could potentially be a catalyst for a socialist restoration.

Burggerreich and pals, honestly it depends on how bad it is and how your average westoid is, American is probably the worst in this regard, most of its citizens are already on the brink (something which is pretty notable as most Americans before the great depression and 2008 where relatively well of.) which means that the actual crash itself doesn't nessercery need to be as bad as the great depression or 2008 to well, utterly implode the United states. Europe is well, it's varied. Germany and France ain't in the best positions economically but I think they are far enough away from the blast zone as well as sufficiently insulated to well, not die, TERF island, no, no, it's fucked.

Other third world nations would probably vary alot, India relies a lot on foreign investment so will probably be hit hard, same thing with other third world nations which rely a lot on foreign investment for eco omic growth (well, western economic "investment")

2. "Dying in the jungle, harvesting up the black gold, dying for profits..." - song by AWOL (as in defected) amerikkkan draftee Samuel Coke, US invasion of Venezuela, 2027.

Yeah, I don't really need to tell you how badly this will end for America if they actually do this. basicslly the war is either going to be Vietnam or Another Ukraine, either way both are incredibly shit for the United States.

3. Eh, to be honest nothings going to happen with this one, again, china and the CPC are more than aware that the buggerreich is currently devouring itself wholesale, so why should the CPC like invade Taiwan now when they can just wait five, ten, maybe even less years till America is either dead or at the very least embroiled in a civil war, don't make much sense to do it now.

4. Similar thing here, the SMO is slowly, but inevitably, being won by Russia, and really Europe wont directly intervene less it has to.

To be honest I think what's more interesting is what's going to follow, assuming that Russia only takes the five oblasts they currently control outright (and don't like, try to push the Ukrainians west of the Dnieper or something) then it's going to leave the Russians in a interesting geo-political position.

Basically ever since the Russo-Ukraine war began Russia has seen it's economic ties shift considerably, with it's once strong trade ties with the west being effectively obliterated, Russia is forced to rely on exporting it's goods to eastern markets (more particularly China, Vietnam, and India.) to support it's heavily export focused economy.

This in turn has notable political consequences, for one it means that Russia's main trade partners (excluding India obviously) are socialist, which does have notable implications for Russia domestic political situation.

Even after three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, socialist thought and support has maintained a strong presence within Russia despite government crackdowns. This "Socialist Nostalgia" has only continued to persist and grow within Russia as internal material contradictions, in a similar manner to how they spurred dessent against Capitalist thoughts in the west and pretty much everywhere else, continues to empower socialist political movements such as the KPRF.

While in the 2010s the russian government was able to fairly effectively surpress revanchist socialist thought, the increasing ties of Russia to Socialists states, and more particularly the reliance of Russian Exports on Chinese buyers, has places the Russian Capitalist class in a rather, unfortunate for them, predicament, where there options for surpressing growing socialist appeal becomes rather limited, less they face a soft scale retaliation by their new partners (e.g., China potentially tariffing russian exports, for one.)

To be honest getting rid of the sycophantic aspect of openai is actually probably the best thing Sam altman and friends have done in like, forever

And then you provide them with the sources and they'll say "oh, that's just Judeo Bolshevik Propaganda, now here's a source debunking it." - proceeds to post Nazi/Neo-Nazi propaganda.