a.k.a. the little touch i'm in love with

Idk, I think a lot of people are too quick to essentially parrot “It’s all in your head” narratives about neurodiversity. Like, yeah, where else do you think people’s brains are lmao. You know that the brain controls everything else about your body, right?

4. Former opposition networks, Chavistas that want a fresh start, civil society can't stop a multi-sided civil war as Trump posts racist memes and Vance does a podcast, violence spreads across borders forcing Trinidad, Guyana, Brazil, Colombia and the Netherlands thru Curacao into difficult choices

3. Returning Venezuelan exiles and opposition networks find themselves without promised US support, army factions, militias, narco-gangs, illegal mining paramilitaries, Colombian insurgents like ELN pick sides and a country with 6 million weapons in circulation plunges into escalating conflict

2. Decapitation strikes hit Venezuela, prove successful, Trump declares victory and then gets bored and walks away.

Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps:

1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.

of course the *anti*-marxists would agree, but what about the marxists

hell

i remember that karl marx himself said that capitalism was an improvement of what was before it

i'm not sure about it, but my university history course will give me a refresher real soon

Interesting side note, works also often depict Evil Wealth as sophisticated and aesthetically pleasing, while it feels like Heaven and Good Wealth often get weirdly more Trumpian tackiness coding? Not only Neoclassical but often Trumpian *tacky*, cheap Neoclassical?

let me consult with my presbyterntist about this

None of this is, of course, to say there aren't serious problems stemming from inequality. I think billionaires shouldn't exist, for example, not because of "intrinsic" distributive justice concerns but because it's a concentration of power corrosive to liberal democracy.