Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

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    You don’t think small appeasement of the masses is possible? I think the apparatus has gotten pretty good at giving just enough comfort that it’s too much work to shift the status quo.

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      It has been possible so far in the imperial core, owing to superprofits gained by exploiting the workers of other countries outside of the imperial core. However, the inherent contradictions of capitalism like the tendency of the rate of profit to fall mean that this can’t be sustained indefinitely, especially not once the third world shakes off the imperialists and refuses to be exploited any longer.