This map just sucks, incredibly biased towards Western "libertarian" sensibilities

This entire image reads like a joke to me

Spicy text generating machine

"Non-market Economy"

It's a coincidence this time around

You're proudly proclaiming that you know little about the subject? Yet you still felt like joining in, because...?

Not to mention the fact that you're essentially asking that people chew up this complex topic and regurgitate a dumbed down version... because you're a yank and being uneducated is part of your "culture"?

You can read, and you have a mind, it's up to you to put those two things together to inform yourself and form opinions.

Dotworld really does seem to be becoming just like reddit

They even have old.lemmy.world, which looks EXACTLY like old Reddit. They want to be Reddit so bad 💀

"Burial Fund - $3.00"

Most domestic bond ownership is within the hands of the bourgeoisie, though.

I'm not saying "no country should ever take on any debt." I'm saying the US debt is excessive, and the money is being wasted on furthering the aims of the bourgeoisie, primarily through funneling that money into continuously arming the military and the police.

Surely this money could at least be used to increase funding for necessary services like education and healthcare, but it's not.

And "inefficient" is a mild way to put it, especially when looking at the DoD

Even calling it “statistical data about the US debt” is overselling it since it’s literally just a screenshot and a link to a paper that (presumably?) the screenshot came from.

This is a statistics website of the US treasury

The vast majority of bonds aren't owned by the average US citizen, though.

Not to mention what the US budget is primarily diverted towards.

You're saying it as though tremendous amounts of debt have the possibility of being interpreted as a positive thing

And of course all the comments are variations on:

• "ackshually they don't exist!!"

• "they do exist, but they're shit!!"

• "they do exist, and they're good, but they're definitely stolen!!"

lmao that sure is an article

Did you also know North Koreans are severely malnourished, while also being able to push their own trains to work?

Crazy, right? But Ms. Park said so, therefore it must be true!

"Nooooo they're (mostly) European!!! That means they're (mostly) progressive-nationalist!!! Nooooo"

When you realize that Soviet-Romanian relations would've deepened, maybe even resulting in an alliance, had the legionaries not assassinated the prime minister 😢

Man, remember when the UK Labour Party sang the Internationale in the Commons and went "oh teehee we broke the rules, we're standing up to the man!"

Motherfuckers, you support imperialism

PSOE and UP be like: "what is a Marx, in this house we only stan NATO 💪💪"