Agreed, absurdly irresponsible to be acting like this is somehow conclusive. @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net, give a time line with views and likes over time with the dates of the internet outages and shutdown of starlink to get a full picture. I’ll believe it once I see that. But these 2 static numbers at 2 separate times do not make a good argument.

I for sure don’t want to claim they do the exact thing. But the strategy of making yourself useful but on your own terms is possible in some way. That’s essentially what China managed, and Venezuela may be able to leverage something of theirs in a similar way. But I know little about oil so no idea what they could do specifically. Other than this, idk what they could do except go into guerilla warfare and stagnate as an economy.

Damn hexbear internal video playing. I can’t turn off mute in my browser on my phone

I have no idea. I think they should likely try to follow an accelerated version of China’s path, starting with a revolutionary purge to have a party in power and then allowing US investment but with ultimate ownership within the state. But idk how the US will react considering the difference of distance between the two. But this is just speculation, I’m no VZ expert

This is stating nothing that Maduro hadn’t been saying for well over a year + discussing consequences (not sure what this part will mean). This is not an indication of a coup.

I’d prefer the reality where they can just say “shove it up your ass, USA” but that’s not the world we’re in. This is a government buying itself time, maybe to its detriment, but not out of willing overthrow of their revolution

Oh Nia Frome said what I was thinking much better actually and I just saw it a second ago: https://x.com/i/status/2009651161289162838

Agreed that this commentary (which I haven’t heard, but the sentiment is more common) is entirely useless. But there is a real fear that the big burly dudes doing the most radical thing are feds (burning a flag isn’t radical, but is more radical than chanting or marching). It’s good to discuss this in a way much more understandable and useful though. I doubt Hasan (idk about the other person) means that leftists shouldn’t burn a flag at a protest, but that you should be weary if someone else does who shows other signs of being a fed.

Now I think this is wrong, too, but not simply because we don’t know if the person is a fed or not (and I doubt this one was tbh, but that’s irrelevant). I think that, regardless of the identity of the person, a movement should do the actions set out to do and allow those to be done by whoever is around. If a fed burns a flag, let it incite others to do it too, it’s fine and good. If the major or says that flag burning is undesired, I find it weak, but it totally changes that. If a fed starts beating up passersby who have no relation to the protest, they should be stopped and called out. This is an argument of discipline instead of intent

But the Pentagon budget can just be reallocated without anyone with power caring. They’ll say it’s to fight China and Russia, vote for it, then the executive will just make a Gestapo out of it .

The difference is a strategy. Tech bro bullshit is based on belief that the magic of technology alone will justify any sacrifice now. This belief in China isn’t based in magic, but a very planned strategy with concrete steps. And it doesn’t justify any sacrifice now, just more than you may feel comfortable with.

The fault of tech bro longtermism isn’t in thinking about long term effects, it’s the magical thinking which is grounded in little to no material reality

I got them all right until then, then quit immediately after that one

I recently became a new parent! It’s super fun but I’m not finding the time to do anything like reading anymore. Hoping that time comes back to feel capable of working and organizing but for now it feels impossible. Love the kid tho, damn it’s fun

Whoa I thought Suess was like a fascist or something. This is cool as hell

What’s the hook? Why should I watch it?? Willing to take 1.5 hours for it, but nothing online about it has hooked me into wanting to

When you’re right, you’re right. I thought this was a veto-able vote. Still stands that the difference between no and abstaining is nothing in these cases. I’d bet the Israel representative went to the bathroom or something.

To be fair, this sort of thing just doesn’t matter. Though if it’s unanimous, it would give in to the idea that the UN has some role in the matter (as opposed to just preventing wars as much as possible between members), and so the list of countries that want the US to be the real leader just switch off breaking unanimity to prevent that idea from being too deeply planted.

I will happily watch it on illegal and ad-free streams. Will also be proselytizing this strategy among everyone I know (as I always do, but extra now)

We can all hate Chomsky, and should, but saying his linguistics has been discredited it absurd. This sounds like saying “Marx was so wrong that an entire field of political economy had to develop to prove all that he got wrong.” (I used Marx as a common point we all have, not to argue equivalent value between the contributions) He caused a significantly large shift in thinking which caused the field to develop further than his initial thesis, sure. I think several of his claims have been shown to be “too strong” but that’s very different from just being horribly wrong.

I’ve argued it here before, most people really misunderstand the value of the “universal grammar” argument. And I think often attribute a much stronger claim to Chomsky than he was making. It’s useful to think of humans as predisposed to certain rational/logical connections between the experiences they have at a very young age. And language has that logic built in at some deep level as universal ways that concept connect. It was just a shift from linguistics as descriptive to something which could make wider predictions. Often wrong, but it’s developing like any other science.

Attack Chomsky for being a pedophile and/or pedophile supporter. Attacking his linguistics only makes us seem clueless.

Also attack Chomsky because he’s a chauvinist unwilling to consider contribution by non-stereotypical-academics to revolutionary theories.

Others abstained for various reasons. Israel because the US would veto it anyways so who cares.

Is that true? There was famously a lot of industry in Ukraine, but like space shit was mostly in southern Russia and Kazakhstan, right?

Well that makes it sound super cool. If this were all it was I’d be 100% for IP Theft machines lol

I vote for pulling that british bullshit where we push it into an abstract version of itself: “Hussein”