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  • robear@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldDeflation
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    5 days ago

    You’re conflating an economic problem that is causing deflation with deflation itself.

    There is nothing inherently more negative about deflation compared to inflation for the average person. It’s just generally not caused by anything positive under our current economic model.




  • If you believe NATO is simply a puppet of the US, why didn’t Turkey, France or Germany participate in the war in Iraq? Why didn’t they obey their “emperor’s” orders?

    I think you have a problem conflating a voluntary defensive organization with the actions of some of its members.

    The US is an evil, imperialist power. So is Russia. For smaller countries bordering Russia, the only protection they have from Russian aggression is NATO.

    Ukraine decided to try to join the EU. They even agreed not to join NATO. Russia decided that Ukraine was their imperial property and wanted to deny it self determination so started a war that has caused over a million casualties.

    Any attempted justification of that is a justification of fascism and imperialism. And there’s only one thing to do with fascists…



  • Why do you believe that Lenin’s narrow and skewed definition of imperialism is the only true and authentic one?

    The word was in common use for at least 100 years before Lenin even started writing, mostly used to denigrate French and British expansion and colonialism.

    I believe Marx would also disagree with Lenin on this definition, but I understand that .ml are much bigger fans of Lenin and Stalin than Marx.