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Major companies all around the world, but ESPECIALLY in america are in a phase right now where they are trying to automate as much of their business operations as possible.

Why? Because it is part of the fundamental building blocks of capitalism as an economic system: minimize your expenses, maximize your profits. Employees are the ultimate business expense so eliminating them entirely means that you only pay the people supplying you with AI and robots and you pay them maybe once a month.

Now won't that create unemployment? Yes, but that isn't their problem they don't care. But wait, won't they lose sales because people can't buy the products and services? Believe it or not, that actually doesn't matter any more. If you want an example, look into tesla's sales targets and its current share price. All that matters to these companies is the share price.

China is the one country that is a one to one mirror of america. They have equivalents of everything that makes america worth investing in. Foreign investment is keeping many of these companies going. Earlier in the summer a japanese steel company straight up bought US steel. Trump right now is doing apparently his very best to scare off foreign investors. So what happens next? They pivot to America's only true competitor: China.

If this continues and foreign investment continues to leave America and instead go to China, that will result in a drop of the share price. Remember how I mentioned automation earlier? Well now that unemployment is up, people will be cashing out their 401ks. People will log into their Robin hood or fidelity trading apps and see what's happening with their shares and realize that shyt isn't going up and they need money to make their rent/mortgage until they can find a job. That will further devalue the share prices.

Wall Street will panic seeing how well asian companies are doing because that foreign investment that used to go to America is now going back to asia. China will seem like the country that actually has motion. A perception that will be underpinned by the number of patents their scientists have been filing and number of impressive, useful infrastructure projects they're completing. It will look like a country that is technologically advancing past the United states while Americans cannot agree on basic facts and cannot even understand the things that they have strong feelings against. So white people will do what they always do when they're losing. Blame someone else. They're already trying to say china is cheating even while playing by the rules of trade america designed. Theyre priming the public to think chinas economic success is the result of "cheating" somehow. Wall st will run crying to the government just like how big tech and tesla went crying to Trump and Biden because tik tok had a better algorithm and byd had better and cheaper cars. Theyll tell congress to "do something" about China. That will be something that they'll be willing to do because their portfolios are being affected by that investment dwindling in american companies.

They'll make some shyt up so they can declare war on China. But here's the thing: The Chinese government is FULLY aware that this is coming. They are gearing up to protect their trade routes and investing thousands of hours of time trying to build relationships with countries close to them so that when the white man crashes out as he always does(it will cause INTENSE, unbearable psychic distress for the white man to recognize his racism, arrogance and proud stupidity is the reason for his troubles, so he will rather harm himself and his people than take accountability) theyll be ready. They will be ready and they'll have the support of their biggest trading partners in Asia and Africa who see it as a country that is on the rise while america is in a death spiral.

The only thing we can do as black people is what we've always done: invest in our communities. Mutual aid, community safety, and offering olive branches and a network of support for black people from less black areas to move and have a safe space from the insanity that a war against a non white nation that they could potentially lose will awaken in them. Limiting social media will be more important than ever, however I think at that point it will infested with a.i. spam and shytty content creators that are now part of the growing number of unemployed that need money and need to farm rage, fear, and horniness for views. It will be an even filthier cesspool and a lot of us won't even be using it like that. Its a trend that's already happening with more and more people preferring to use group chats and discord servers. We will survive by relying on each other the way we did through slavery, jim crow, and 2 world wars.
 

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Nah, this ain't it. I'm not done with the vid yet but so far it's largely just Russian propaganda. Multiple European nations have significant natural resources, especially Germany. The idea that these are naturally poor nations that only survive due to global exploitation isn't supported by any information we have. You can literally pull up their GDP numbers, look at their sectors, look at their exports, etc. Nor is the continent primarily at risk of freezing to death without Russian oil. Nearly 80% of France's electricity is nuclear. Germany is still using coal as their primary electricity resource, and the country is pretty rich in coal.

Europe is increasing military spending because of Russian aggression and nearly a decade of Trump eroding traditional US positions on this. Europe is afraid that without the US spearheading NATO, nothing will stop continued Russian incursions post-Ukraine. Likely starting with Poland. But Russia's virtual stalemate in Ukraine, including a significant loss of military power (men, equipment etc) gives Europe some time to arm up and see what the US is going to do. So far Trump continues to support NATO and send aide to Ukraine. Which admittedly surprised me, but for whatever reason Putin hasn't done a great job in catering to Trump (which is pretty easy) enough to alter US policies.

Hard to really engage the video when he keeps getting basic stuff wrong, and because this mirrors a trend of black (male) content creators making oddly pro-Putin or pro-Russia videos like this.
 

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Nah, this ain't it. I'm not done with the vid yet but so far it's largely just Russian propaganda. Multiple European nations have significant natural resources, especially Germany. The idea that these are naturally poor nations that only survive due to global exploitation isn't supported by any information we have. You can literally pull up their GDP numbers, look at their sectors, look at their exports, etc. Nor is the continent primarily at risk of freezing to death without Russian oil. Nearly 80% of France's electricity is nuclear. Germany is still using coal as their primary electricity resource, and the country is pretty rich in coal.

Europe is increasing military spending because of Russian aggression and nearly a decade of Trump eroding traditional US positions on this. Europe is afraid that without the US spearheading NATO, nothing will stop continued Russian incursions post-Ukraine. Likely starting with Poland. But Russia's virtual stalemate in Ukraine, including a significant loss of military power (men, equipment etc) gives Europe some time to arm up and see what the US is going to do. So far Trump continues to support NATO and send aide to Ukraine. Which admittedly surprised me, but for whatever reason Putin hasn't done a great job in catering to Trump (which is pretty easy) enough to alter US policies.

Hard to really engage the video when he keeps getting basic stuff wrong, and because this mirrors a trend of black (male) content creators making oddly pro-Putin or pro-Russia videos like this.
Appreciate the break down. And I feel you.


I guess the ultimate point is something is coming to a head and we’re all gonna feel it someway…that’s what folks are sensing.
 

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This is uninformed arm chair analysis at best. It would get you laughed out of any major college global economics analysis class, let alone state department team.

Agreed.

I could only get through 1/2 of it before I had to turn it off.

On a positive note - I ain't realize you could get 75,000 subs spouting bad geopolitical BS to black people.

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Just for the fact you said Russia do not want UN on their front door, considering Russia are in the UN, makes this a terrible thread.
 

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Remember how Chinese manufacturers broke TikTok earlier this year by telling the truth about manufacturing?
They checked Europe and America earlier this year when they told the world that all of the luxury goods that say “made in Paris”, “made in France”, “made in Luxembourg”, etc— everything is made in China at different levels of quality. The purses we buy from $1000-$25000 are all made in China. The most popular car manufacturer in the world right now is BYD, which would totally take over Tesla’s market if restrictions were lifted in the US market.

Apple admitted the high skilled labor is in China.


This was proven false. The Afrothinktank dude means well but he has a lot of dumb videos steeped in Wakanda Panafricanism from what I recall.

NO ONE COUNTRY IS THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

Luxury goods, Iphones, etc all go through multiple countries in the supply chain.



 

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Another thing...how come people keep saying China is doing great things for Africa and isn't fukking them like the west? We've had multiple threads about Chinese exploitation over there, the way they treat African workers like slaves, and the debt schemes. It may not be the IMF but it's similar wild shyt designed to keep African nations in debt.
 

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NATO even without the U.S would beat Russia in a confrontation. Russia is currently struggling to invade a nation right across its border while having superior numbers. The Russian economy is weak: which is vital if you’re going to be waging war outside your borders. The Russian military is poorly run, they don’t even have functional supply lines/logistics to fuel their tanks or equip their own soldiers . The biggest problem with Russia is that they have nukes.

Western Europes concern with Russia is that it is an agressive rogue state attacking nearby weaker (former ussr) nations. This causes refugee crises, and disrupts the global economy. People don’t want chaos that close in proximity especially if the doofus instigating it has a destroy the world button.
 

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Another thing...how come people keep saying China is doing great things for Africa and isn't fukking them like the west? We've had multiple threads about Chinese exploitation over there, the way they treat African workers like slaves, and the debt schemes. It may not be the IMF but it's similar wild shyt designed to keep African nations in debt.

Illegal mining a huge issue right now
 

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USAID needed to end. US uses it to support opposition groups that favor "free market capitalism" foreign individuals or corporations owning another countries natural resources over the government owning the natural resources.
 

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Just this week we had Russia doing flyovers of Estonia and Poland (both former Soviet Bloc countries - Finnic and Slavic respectively) - the idea that Russia might get a 2 front war popping is looking possible.

It doesn't matter if Russia can win these wars. (and defining what "win" means is impossible). Russia can't really win Ukraine, they can only grind each other down. Any territory taken would be on some Palestine/Gaza steez. They couldn't actually get the wheat fields that they allegedly are after.

The fact they would spark something means that folks would have to defend and Nato (minus the US) would get dragged into it.

A pointless drain on Eastern and Western Europe Resources. UK and France and Spain are "far" from the "action" and are they really trying to jump into the fray?

Might mean the end of Nato.

On top of that, everybody (except the Middle Easterners and Africans) is old as dirt. Giorgio and Pierre not trying to fight.

And a resource drained Europe isn't good for China - because the EU is a major trading partner. The CCP must keep their pwn people employed or they might fight a civil war. Despite having a billion people, everyone's too cheap or too poor to move their economy into a service based economy.
 

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Seeing meet Kevin get into geopolitics is wild. Haven't watched him since he was pumping tesler

As for the first video the smart dumbness got turned up to 11 at the 9:30 Mark
 

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Just this week we had Russia doing flyovers of Estonia and Poland (both former Soviet Bloc countries - Finnic and Slavic respectively) - the idea that Russia might get a 2 front war popping is looking possible.

It doesn't matter if Russia can win these wars. (and defining what "win" means is impossible). Russia can't really win Ukraine, they can only grind each other down. Any territory taken would be on some Palestine/Gaza steez. They couldn't actually get the wheat fields that they allegedly are after.

The fact they would spark something means that folks would have to defend and Nato (minus the US) would get dragged into it.

A pointless drain on Eastern and Western Europe Resources. UK and France and Spain are "far" from the "action" and are they really trying to jump into the fray?

Might mean the end of Nato.

On top of that, everybody (except the Middle Easterners and Africans) is old as dirt. Giorgio and Pierre not trying to fight.

And a resource drained Europe isn't good for China - because the EU is a major trading partner. The CCP must keep their pwn people employed or they might fight a civil war. Despite having a billion people, everyone's too cheap or too poor to move their economy into a service based economy.

:mjlol:with what fukking people? You realize they relying on prison labor to fight in Ukraine, and those who aren't raping women and children are chucking the deuces and heading for the hills.
 

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Also why are we pretending like Russia is not minding gold in Africa too? Nordgold (A Russian gold mining company) has contracts where they split the profits with some African governments for a 85/15 split. And best believe Nordgold is getting 85% of that split.
 
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