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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

are you sure there are no imperial tendencies at all in the Russian establishment? This seems unlikely, even if one does not read present policy as imperialist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

this is a good corrective to a tendency I would say I have recognised in myself, particularly having read some Cesaire for the first time recently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

great stuff, kind of a nightmare to take on a real attempt at understanding the state of play and all the factions in and outside the region

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would like to be paged when said expert explains it, can I do that somehow? or does someone need to @ me?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
 

"He has forgotten nothing and learned nothing, he is living in 1956."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It really has been too long, I wish I could have recognised the sublime in 100 days no garfield as it was unfolding.

It was truly a beautiful time in my life, but to reminisce is to relive and to treasure what is lost in all its excellence. The frost of winter however, must inevitably be followed by the spring of 200 days no garfield.

When 100 days no garfield times are done, must the stars also go out?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But isn't so much journalism nowadays characterised by unsubstantiated speculation? (i.e. propaganda, if not simply clickbait filler pretending analysis)

It seems to me your criticism amounts essentially to your dislike of the thesis of this piece. This can be legitimate, but not what you've argued here.

Isn't this piece an example of precisely the supposed promise of the internet, in the sense that journalism becomes democratised and anyone can publish and disseminate analysis, which can be evaluated on its merits rather than institutional validation and inertia based on opaque criteria? (I would of course argue the aggregated needs of capital, but I won't force that in)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I shit you not exactly this happened to me today in the grass touching place, I was listening to a guy take down neoliberalism, impeccably in my view, and was nodding along (yes, YES) and then he hit me with the: "I'm just angry that real good liberalism has been supplanted with neoliberalism." (paraphrase) WHAT THE FUCK (at this juncture Losurdo seemless co-existance of liberalism and slavery, founding fathers etc.)

Some of these people are so often allergic to the implications of their sometimes quite admirable critical thinking.

Makes you want to shake them and shout "don't you see how the one lays the groundwork for the other??" Follow through for fuck's sake. So frustrating

But I did get a good introduction what an exceptionally twisted piece of shit hayek actually was so eh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

LE MASSE C'EST MOI

(fuck my french is ass, la foule??)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the thing I don't understand is how you manage to become critical enough to call yourself "unlearning economics", but not exploring other approaches in anything approaching depth.

Especially one so obviously opposed to everything he criticises.

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loathsome (lemmygrad.ml)
 
 

The gig economy circle of hell holding up the FAANG bubble. shit title, good documentary

content warning: desperate poverty and techbro callousness

 
 

This video has decent AI generated english subtitles (added by the uploader). I think it's a fantastic lecture, including some references which are quite apropos as we think about contemporary events.

 
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