You can call it "nuance" all you want, it doesn't change that such a critical stance is always rooted in state department propaganda.
Western "leftists" trust imperialists more than foreign PoC, which surprises nobody.
So instead, we should trust... The other ogliarchic and blatantly fascist empires?
Call me crazy, but I don't think unapologetic fascism is "leftist."
What conclusion are you proposing that I came to? My only statement was that denying Western media in favor of Eastern media is not "leftist." Everything else you and Dessalines have attempted to drag into this discussion is creating either a false dichotomy or a strawman, in some cases both. The options are not "either you listen to PoC or you listen to Western Media," because not all Western Media nor people of colour agree on every position. Whatever imaginary propaganda you are creating about the State suggesting that China is torturing minorities this minute is not something I have experienced, nor referenced. We have not presented the arguments that you are trying to deconstruct.
You are boxing with shadows, throwing fists with invisible monsters in the dark. I'm not sure if it's our of poor reading comprehension, poor critical thinking skills, or intentional dishonesty, but there's clearly a bias here that is useless to engage with.
The post is talking about the DPRK and China.
instead, we should trust… The other ogliarchic and blatantly fascist empires?
Plural.
You're not being sneaky by refusing to state a clear argument and hiding behind liberal platitudes. There is no empire other than the US, and opposition to it is always framed as irredeemable evil and y'all eat it up.
Make an argument, cite your sources, or stop wasting everyone's time with deflection.
I heard this like a decade ago, but it's still is spot on:
Question: What's authoritarianism?
Answer: When you tell white people they can't do imperialism.
The US has 800+ external military bases. All other countries combined have < 20.
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US imperialism, and more specifically, the division of the world into rich and poor countries (which US imperialism upholds with its military, dollar hegemony, and media dominance), is the primary evil in the world today.
When you accuse people pointing this out, of being "campist un-nuanced america-hating tankies", you're just showing your ignorance of the reality of images like the one above.
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If you think you're gonna bait me into defending or denying America's history of foreign intervention then you've got another thing coming. It happened. Plenty of it is downright evil.
But sadly, it's not uniquely evil. Russia is waging an imperialist war of aggression and attempting a genocide of the Ukrainians, all while enriching their oligarchs as their civilians starve. China is repressing the Tibetans, committing genocide against the Uyghurs to create a Han ethnostate, threatening Taiwan, and is violating maritime borders in the South China Sea with their expansion of their naval presence.
Dissent, especially in China, is heavily policed. They took our dystopian monetary credit system and cranked it up to 11 with social credit, and work their people to the bone with companies in the country defying the ban on the 996 schedule enforcement. Russia considers LGBT people as a whole dissenters and arrests them simply for existing. Prominent political dissidents of Putin are simply murdered.
The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America's past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them, and principally why I categorically reject the notion that we are the world's primary evil. It's just not that simple. But I'll take our flawed, bourgeois democracy over domination by than the outright fascist rule by our competitors.
But above all that I prefer peace and freedom. No more violence in Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, Tibet, and Xinjiang. Civil rights and decent living conditions for all.
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The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America's past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them, and principally why I categorically reject the notion that we are the world's primary evil.
Interesting. Why did the US go after Assange, Snowden, and Manning btw?
As usual, you gave zero evidence for any of your assertions. Every single one of your pro-US propaganda talking points have been disproved. Some links elaborating on them are in here.
So many of these sources are laughable. Reddit randos coping hard that their dictatorships sometimes get compared to the "bad" dictatorships. That is, provided one can even parse that out from all the deleted comments. Mountains of brainwashed articles that, when combined, can only be summarized as "pure hypocrisy".
I've already admitted that the US has committed genocide. You're not ready to admit the same about your precious China and Russia/ USSR, or any flaws for that matter. Just reflexive denials and whataboutism. Not a great hill to die on.
The quote at the beginning of this wall of delusion is actually pretty telling: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
You're not immune to propaganda.
You are not immune to propaganda.
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Dissent, especially in China, is heavily policed. They took our dystopian monetary credit system and cranked it up to 11 with social credit
Lmao. Not even ForeignPolicy falls for such a blatant CIA talking point. Social credit is a measure to curb companies that act against the interest of people in the pursuit of profit, individual people don't come into the equation, you're to the right of warhawks on this one. To claim China is doing worse than the US is pure copium, it's like citizens of Nazi germany going "sure, Hitler might be bad, but wait til you learn about what he says the soviets are doing" which to be fair y'all also do.
The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America’s past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them,
Oh, yeah. Huey P. Newton, MLK, Malcolm X, the entirety of the Ferguson protest organizers, Leonard Peltier, all of them free to speak their mind. Gary Webb and Julian Assange have been so highly commended for their work as well, you're so free in the land of the biggest carceral population in human history. I stg you could slot a gringo into fascist Italy and retexture it with icons of Americana and they'd feel right at home.
Lots of claims with zero sources but I wouldn't expect it from people who read a RFA-regurgitated headline and consider themselves thoroughly informed on the matter. Glad you don't want more violence in Xinjiang, but fret no more, China worked on solving it via schools instead of black sites like the US did, and succeeded where the US and its weapons makers profit from ensuring failure.
Opinion | Xinjiang: what the West doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror
In 2002, the US and the UN both declared a Uygur militant group a terrorist organisation. The US then considered China a partner in the war on terror.Weijian Shan (South China Morning Post)
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This is so much more reason that these tankies deserve tbh. I appreciate you taking the time to put it into words.
These people should actually try talking to foreigners, students and immigrants. The picture Ukrainian refugees and Taiwanese students paint is a lot less forgiving than the completely unsubstantiated, pseudo-intellectuslist "but that's CIA propaganda" arguments these authoritarian "leftists" like to throw around. I'm sure such first-hand accounts would be as readily dismissed, mind you, because the goal is clearly not to have an honest discussion to begin with.
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I have. I taught Chinese students at the same time as those Taiwanese ones, and having them in a room together was often a challenge. The brainwashed ideologies the Chinese students often held in the face of evidence was much like that of fervent MAGA supporters.
The only thing I can say with absolute certainty is that Nationalism is fucked, whether it's the American or the Chinese brand.
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maybe your "evidence" was a load of crap and they knew it
social credit has never been a thing in china. i've lived there.
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The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America's past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them, and principally why I categorically reject the notion that we are the world's primary evil.
Court Jester mindset.
A bunch of sourceless claims.
China is repressing the Tibetans
It's always nice seeing you shitheads on the side as the slavers. Fuck China for liberating Tibet amirite my fellow redditors?
committing genocide against the Uyghurs to create a Han ethnostate
Arab countries have send representatives to China and unmasked the false western propaganda of Uyghur genocide, please try something new, this horse has been beaten to death. Not even the west is clinging to this narrative anymore.
Dissent, especially in China, is heavily policed.
Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters outside of New York Stock Exchange.
They took our dystopian monetary credit system and cranked it up to 11 with social credit
China's Orwellian Social Credit Isn't Real.
The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America’s past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them
MLK and Huey P. Newton. Also the police arresting pro-Palestinian protesters I already linked.
But I’ll take our flawed, bourgeois democracy over domination by than the outright fascist rule by our competitors.
The US is the one supporting fascists worldwide. Just look at the history of US interventions. Here's three examples in Latin America alone: Fulgencio Batista, US backed military coup in Chile that put Pinochet in power and the US backed military coup in Brasil in 1964.
But above all that I prefer peace and freedom.
As evidenced above, no you do not.
China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real
Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies.Jamie Horsley (Foreign Policy)
The fact that you and I are allowed to post about America's past transgressions and speak highly critically of the government (and believe it or not, I do that quite a lot) is proof that we as a global superpower are freer than them
I'll be sure to tell this to my friend who got his skull cracked and phone stolen by cops for protesting our involvement in Israel's genocide.
Citizens in China of all ethnicities are satisfied with their government, even Harvard, Pew, and Statista quote a number higher than 90%.
If they're authoritarian, what is Klanada, where like 30% were satisfied with the government but all their options are somehow "the same" or "more nazi"?
The enlightened position of hating your fellow worker whether at home or abroad (but mostly the ones abroad).
Wow, wonder who gave you such a revolutionary, ironclad idea and why.
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Not only are you wrong, but you also omit the important fact that the standard of living in Europe is built on brutal exploitation of the people in the Global South being the clown that you are.
Typical Chinese adult is now richer than average European: report
Credit Suisse released its 2021 Global Wealth Report this month, which estimates the wealth of households around the world.Jyoti Mann (Business Insider)
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What has wealth do to with everything? Thinking money has anything to do with happiness is the stupidest take I've seen in day. Not months because there's still the AfD.
Also, everything is built on exploitation. And again, I'm not saying our government and system is good, it's just not as shit as others who surveil and execute their citizens.
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Once again you honor us with a reductive argument based on a soundbite you heard and didn't spend any time actually thinking about. The reality is that wealth beyond a certain point stops making people happy penntoday.upenn.edu/news/does-…
Also, everything is not built on exploitation. Only an utter ignoramus brainwashed by capitalism would believe that.
Does more money correlate with greater happiness? | Penn Today
Reconciling previously contradictory results, researchers from Penn and Princeton find a steady association between larger incomes and greater happiness for most people but a rise and plateau for an unhappy minority.Penn Today
So if your whole live is surveiled, you are on the brink of being executed if you are different, you work 9 to 9, you are then happy because you are slightly more wealthy and can do ... well what? Pay Xi to be more free? Bribe the Maktoum? Or just do drugs to not suicide?
Which countries are actually free and not build on exploitation then, excluding the arctis?
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It's not surveiled. I don't have a phone with spyware preinstalled. There are no cameras, by law and in practice. I can pay in cash. I can wear what I want. I can choose a provider and they don't even know who I am.
If you ask north koreans, they are probably happy too. Because they don't know that it can be different.
The reason you believe all this nonsense is because you’ve uncritically accepted the propaganda that Western governments and Western corporate media have been flooding you with your entire life.
I try to point people toward developing real media literacy.
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If your view on Ukraine is opposite that of the state dept, you're probably just ingesting unhealthy amounts of Russian propaganda.
Also ask any Russian LGBT activists how their lives are going right now. Oh wait, you can't because they're in jail. Sickens me that supposed "leftists" will run interference for such a blatantly bigoted regime.
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no, I don't think so, I think it's actually funny how you belive everything out of russia and china without critical thinking, if you'd hold russian and chinese media outlets to the same level of responsibility you do with american media outlets, you'd realise, that you've been fed some lies
also just fuck russia and china, they're authoritarian and at least russia actively imprisons members of the opposition or the lgbt community
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Is Russia imperialist? | MR Online
Is Russia Imperialist is a look at capitalist Russia today and its place in the world economic system. In this article we look at the degree capitalist Russia today shares in the features outlined by Lenin in his book Imperialism.Webmaster (MR Online)
> imperialism is when invading other countries
> russia invades ukraine
> russia isn't imperialist
mfw
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already replied to a comment suggesting something similar:
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imperialism (from ddg):The extension of a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
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imperialism (from ddg):
The extension of a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
I think you can read
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"Hey friend, can you share some of your potato chips?"
"Sorry, prisoners dilemma, can't."
This isn't your sleeping place! It belongs to the community. And share your food. Why do you think it's just yours?
Real talk, the difference is property. This doesn't exist in pure communism. Can you live without property?
- en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Private_…
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Personal property - ProleWiki
Personal property is property owned by a person for their own use, i.e. their possessions. Examples include one's toothbrush, car, phone etc. This is not to be confused...ProleWiki
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The Cuban people are doing better now under Socialism than they were under the fascist slaver Batista. Their life expectancies grew dramatically, literacy rates among the best in the world from widespread illiteracy, and they have one of the world's most progressive family codes despite massive embargo.
Ukraine is Capitalist, the fall of the Soviet Union resulted in 7 million excess deaths over the entire former USSR and obliterated what was once a stable economy. There were issues with the later Soviet Economy due to poor economic reforms, but other Socialist countries have learned from this, and these problems were correctable without nuking the economy.
I believe this is a classic tankie community. You won't be able to reason with these morons. Communism has never worked and it's a shit idea. There are other, better democratic socialist systems. Communism results in everyone being poor except the fucking dictator running that shit show.
That said, communism might still be better than the shitshow the USA has to go through.
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Have you visited the UK?
It's a cesspool of poverty and despair. Hell last time I was there some poor girl was literally crying on the street because she was starving.
The problem with the Soviet Union was the lies and propaganda they tried to push was used against them when they got caught.
You can't have a government for the commoners when you silence them to the point that the commoners no longer believe the government is for them.
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The problem with the soviet union is that they got invaded by both germany and the "allies" the day they kicked the tsar out.
Faced between communism and fascism, liberals will always pick fascists.
The soviet union got coup'ed by the United State to put a national-capitalist regime there.
If they didn't, how would they manufacture proxy wars to beef up weapon exports?
Communism has the same problem as every other system
People
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Mao actually said deeper stuff
EDIT: Many communists claim there is no record of this. They are correct - there is no official record of this ... in China.
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Socialism works
Examples from this post by /u/bayarea415, Stephen Gowans - Do publicly owned, planned economies work, Ian Goodrum - Socialism vs Capitalism and quality of life, and yogthos's USSR acheivements post about the USSR specifically:
- USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA. Calories consumed surpassed the US. source. Ended famines.
- Productive forces were not organized for capital gain and private enrichment; public ownership of the means of production supplanted private ownership. It was illegal to hire others and accumulate personal wealth from their labor.
- Had the 2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan. The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular.
- Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world. 42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.
- Had near zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years. The "continuous" part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible.
- USSR moved from 58.5-hour workweeks to 41.6 hour workweeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960
- USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996., 2
- In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67.
- All education, including university level, free. 2
- 99% literacy.
- Saved the world from Fascism, Taking on the majority of Nazi divisions, and killing 90% of Nazi soldiers. Bore the enormous cost of blood and pain in WW2 (25M dead), with the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare.. An estimated 70% of Soviet housing was destroyed by Nazi invasion. Nazis were in retreat after the battle of Stalingrad in 1942, a full 2 years before the US landed troops in normandy.
- Doubled life expectancy. Eliminated poverty.
- Combatted sex inequality. Equal wages for men and women mandated by law, but sex inequality, although not as pronounced as under capitalism, was perpetuated in social roles. Very important lesson to learn.
- Combatted Racial inequality.
- Feudalism to space travel in 40 years. First satellite, rocket, space walk, woman, man, animal, space station, moon and mars probes.
- Soviet power production per capita in 1990 was more than the EU, Great Britain, or China's in 2014.
- Housing was socialized by localized community organizations, and there was virtually no homelessness. Houses were often shared by two families throughout the 20s and 30s – so unlike capitalism, there were no empty houses, but the houses were very full. In the 40s there was the war, and in the 50s there were a number of orphans from the war. The mass housing projects began in the 60s, they were completed in the 70s, and by the 70s, there were homeless people, but they often had genuine issues with mental health.
- 66% of Russians polled in 2015 want the USSR back. The story is the same for all the former eastern-bloc countries: 72% of Hungarians say their country is worse off now than under communism, 57% of East Germans, 63% of Romanians, 77% of Czechs, 81% of Serbs (for Yugoslavia), 70% of Ukrainians, 60% of Bulgarians.
When it is claimed that a system works, we should ask, who it works for. Capitalism benefits a tiny number of rapacious capitalists, to the detriment of the rest of us, while Socialism works for the masses.
Now let's take a look at what happens after the USSR collapsed, and what came with capitalist privatization:
- Life expectancy decreases by 10 years. 2. 7.7 million excess deaths in the first year. 2
- 40% of population drops into poverty.
- GDP instantly halves.
- One in ten children now live on the streets. Infant mortality increases. Was 29.3 in 2003 which is around (current) Syria and Micronesia, 7.9 in 2013. Infant mortality in USSR was 1.92, literally the lowest in the world.
- 1996 election rigged by the US, Yeltsin sends in tanks to disperse the supreme soviet.
For an overview of the soviet experiment, watch this brilliant talk by Micheal Parenti, or read his article, Left anticommunism, the unkindest cut.
Also read this great article by Stephen Gowans, Do publicly owned, planned economies work?. Audio on youtube
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The most intriguing of these is Ukraine with 2nd highest "communist notalgia" fondness. The survey was done in 2013. You may be aware of a drama thread against you posted yesterday where US nazi empire sympathizing simps circle jerk around denying basic history and current events in Ukraine. Possibly as a result of this survey, CIA/State department invested so much in NGOs to "westernize" youth with agenda of delivering them to the small diehard nazi cohort as rulership class after 2014 black flag operations and coup.
I wonder how much of the nostalgia is that the 60s and 70s provided an easier job environment without pressure for new skills. USA would probably also have a preferred nostalgia for that period, despite draft and Israel related submission pushback. Throughout first and second world, a steep rise in inequality and oligarchy resulted from 1980s afterwards, though Yeltsin corruption was especially bad.
In terms of annecdotes, I do know Yougoslavian friends whose parents could afford cars and summer cottages. But then affording a car in western europe was also easy, and homes in the west, fairly easy. I would say the very strong corruption in elections and media mind control serving oligarchy and empire was the defining moment in manufacturing modern misery.
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This is also why the CPC names their system Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. They want a multi-polar world, where hundreds of different socialisms can bloom on their own without fear of intervention, and especially being attacked by the US:
"Socialism with [insert any country here] characteristics"
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I think there's a bit of a disconnect here. The Anarchist conception of Communism and the Marxist conception are similar sounding, but fundamentally entirely different. This is due to Anarchists seeking to abolish hierarchy, while Marxists seek to abolish class. What does that look like?
For Anarchists, this path generally takes the form of a horizontalist network of communes, or other such unit. Communes have equal ownership within themselves, and trade with other communes via systems of Mutual Aid. The general Marxist critique is that this turns everyone into Petite Bourgeoisie, all interested in the success of their own commune over the entire system the way a Capitalist is more interested in their own profits than those in their supply chain, even if they depend on each other. This can lead to inefficiency and a resurgence of Capitalism.
For Marxists, this path takes the form of collectivizing all industry into full public ownership and planning in a global republic. This requires administration, government, etc, though many of these functions become less necessary when moving beyond class society. The Anarchist critique is that this retains hierarchy.
So, in a way, Marxism is the only path to what Marxists describe as Communism, and is absolutely not a path to Anarchism.
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This image is silly though because you could just replace the text with "the sky is blue" or any other fact to make the opposite point. Like if you're going to make a political cartoon the cartoon itself needs to be making some point. Don't be like that seppo loon that just writes labels on everything.
Something like this is much funnier as the image and text play together.
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China Has Billionaires
US Presidents historically reach their highest approval ratings due to war. George W. Bush reached an all-time-high of 90% in 2001 as the wrathful nation geared up to invade Afghanistan, and his father George H. W.redsails.org
It's interesting how many people here have succumbed to Amerikkkas propaganda machine.
I was on TikTok and went to redNOTE and just signed up as a way to say fuck you to the government. Got bored and checked it out and there lives are incredibly more impressive and full of life. Full of family and love and compassion.
If "communism" is so evil, why do they have no ~~slaves~~ prison ~~labor~~ like the Amerikkkas? Free healthcare? Little to no homelessness? Accepting of others who are different?
We can't have that communism in this country! That's not Amerikkka enough! We need to make people afraid to live as we the people are the capatilisms resources. We are not the people.
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Same rules as Instagram apply. Don't compare your life to someone's highlight reel.
With that said, I'm happy to be a part of what may be the greatest cultural exchange of the generation.
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Do you trust any government?
Imagine Donald Trump becomes communist and seizes the means of production and gathers all of the wealth America has that will be owned solely by the government he's running. Do you really trust that he would have your best interest at heart or would you be concerned that he'd exploit us plebs?
Distributism isn't flawless, but a million miles better than communism.
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India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening
India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening
The gamble behind $17bn of fresh deals with the Kremlin on oil and armsThe Economist
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Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
Patrick Spence is no longer the CEO of Sonos. His decision last year to prematurely release a new app, plagued by bugs and missing features, ultimately cost him his job.Chris Welch (The Verge)
Vincent D'Onofrio Explains the Wait for 'Daredevil: Born Again' Trailer, Promises the Show Won't Be Delayed
Vincent D'Onofrio Explains the Wait for 'Daredevil: Born Again' Trailer, Promises the Show
'Daredevil Born Again' was reported to be in development back in 2022. After several episodes of the new reboot show were filmed, the show went through aValentina Kraljik (Fiction Horizon)
US bans red dye No. 3 from foods amid evidence it causes cancer
US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.Carly Stern (New York Post)
Statement of the Cuban Foreign Ministry on Removing Island from State Department of List of Countries Sponsoring Terrorism
Statement of the Cuban Foreign Ministry on Removing Island from State Department of List of Countries Sponsoring Terrorism
Edited by Ed Newman on January 14, 2025 from Havana On January 14, 2025, the United States government announced the decision to: 1) exclude Cuba from the State Department’s list of countries …Resumen LatinoAmericano English
Al Mayadeen obtains terms of Gaza ceasefire deal
Key terms of the agreement:
- Israeli forces are required to fully withdraw from all areas of the Gaza Strip and return to the pre-war borders.
- The Rafah crossing must be reopened, with Israeli forces withdrawing entirely from the area.
- "Israel" is mandated to ease the travel of injured individuals for treatment abroad.
- "Israel" must permit the daily entry of 600 aid trucks, as per a humanitarian protocol backed by Qatar.
- "Israel" must facilitate the entry of 200,000 tents and 60,000 caravans for immediate shelter.
- A large-scale prisoner exchange will occur, including the release of 1,000 prisoners from Gaza and hundreds of detainees serving lengthy sentences.
- "Israel" is to release all women and children under the age of 19 from its prisons.
- Israeli forces must gradually withdraw from the Netzarim corridor and the Philadelphi Route.
- Displaced residents must be allowed to return to their homes, with guaranteed freedom of movement throughout the Gaza Strip.
- Hostile aircraft must vacate Gaza's airspace for 8 to 10 hours daily.
- All hospitals in Gaza must be rehabilitated. Field hospitals, medical equipment, and surgical teams must be permitted entry.
Al Mayadeen obtains terms of Gaza ceasefire deal
Al Mayadeen has obtained the terms of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, with key terms regarding the release of Palestinian detainees and the rehabilitation of Gaza's hospitals.Al Mayadeen English (Al Mayadeen obtains terms of Gaza ceasefire deal)
Moving away from high-end emissions scenarios
Moving away from high-end emissions scenarios
I have a new commentary in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes in current policy scenariosZeke Hausfather (The Climate Brink)
US President-elect Donald Trump says a ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza.
LIVE: Hamas approves proposal for Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel
Group tells Al Jazeera that a Hamas delegation has delivered its approval of a ceasefire and captive deal to mediators.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
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will start on Sunday, January 19
"Starting on Sunday we won't hate you as much anymore. Until then, fuck you."
There's a shit ton of liberal denial on this. Trump did make it happen. Not because Netenyahu bent the knee to Trump. But because Trump bullied Netenyahu. And had Biden not been a psychopath, he could have picked up the phone and stopped the senseless slaughter of Palestinians on day one.
This is not to say that things are still going to be extremely bleak for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza but Democrats fumbled the ball on this and ensured themselves a loss.
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Kamala Harris Paid the Price for Not Breaking With Biden on Gaza, New Poll Shows
Twenty-nine percent of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U.S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat the 2024 election, according to a survey by YouGov.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
He didn't bully him, he made him a deal he couldnt refuse with the greenlight to go full steam ahead on the west bank and return to gaza once the heats died down
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Netanyahu compromises with Smotrich, Ben-Gvir to secure ceasefire deal
Israeli reports reveal that Netanyahu offered Ben-Gvir and Smotrich proposals to expand settlements and strengthen security measures to secure their support for future agreements.Al Mayadeen English (Netanyahu compromises with Smotrich, Ben-Gvir to secure ceasefire deal)
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As usual, Trump claims credit for something he had nothing to do with:
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Damn dawgs, Trump campaigned saying that he would fix this as a mere president-elect. This is my "wow holy shit" face, actually seeing it happen maybe :O
Ok so he said same about Russia, let's see it
This situation reminds me of him🦇🦇
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You heard it here folks! There is only one way to have hardship in life!
Seems like the whole “a real man does ____” which is always something the speaker does.
What an emotionally immature meme, life isn’t a competition. It can be hard for people even when some have benefits and circumstances others don’t. You don’t know every detail and all of the context to everyone and trying to compete in the struggle Olympics doesn’t make you any more special than anyone else. You have no right to more sympathy just because you may have things harder:
Life sucks for us all in one way or another. How about learning some empathy instead of trying to turn your struggles into a badge to flex on others with.
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