Wow someone should have tried threatening peripheral countries by withholding trade deals, aid, loans from the World Bank and IMF in exchange for political changes. Why didn’t anyone think of that already? 🤣

The global financial system does not care about human rights, firms want peripheral countries to remain undeveloped to keep costs down. With improvements in living standards come improvements in civil rights. That is what every single person who studies any society will tell you, except for liberals who want to justify extortion and sanctions, but only to “help” of course.

Ah yes, the gamer race. I wish I could show this message to Adolph Reed.

So you want them to remain undeveloped. Do you even know how Afghanistan ended up under Taliban control to begin with?

in b4 liberals come in complain about how countries they consider backward should not be allowed to develop in any way

Another pedant afraid of actually doing his homework. Here I was about to actually explain to you why there is a difference in wording and what my joke meant. Very well! 🖕

US Navy got caught lying about it the first time, I am sure they did.

Still haven’t decided if I hate this fucking album the original song is from but I keep listening to it regardless.

I see a lot of reading lists with a link to a dead group chat that put the onus entirely on the reader to sort through the books. There need to be more reading guides that include some responses or recent articles about a book along with chapter questions so readers learn not to slog through a book without knowing whether they truly learned anything.

A pamphlet, even offline, should be a doorway into the hypertext world of the history of socialist praxis. It should mention a book or a website for those interested in the message to continue learning about what they just read, but there needs to be something there to actually receive them. For instance entry level well-cited history books that deconstruct imperialist history or “international relations” or neoliberal “economics”. Helps back up a message. But websites and e documents are still not used to their full educational potential by much of the left.

I think ban messages should always cite and link to a rule, the banning interface should make that an easy task, letting you check off a few reasons, with an "Other: [text]” area. The ban message should contain the rule citations and a custom message. This would lead people to receive bans in a less arbitrary manner. Arbitrary bannings are likely to make people disregard rules entirely, in my experience.

There are plenty of ostensibly Marxist organizations that function as alt-media outlets and generic activist NGOs for liberal causes. There are few online spaces actually educating socialists rather than browbeating them. Best not to learn by example from contemporary activist organizations and online spaces frankly. Look at what works everywhere, not what exists, failing in the first world.

Ooh definitely send this feedback to them. I am gonna forget to.

The alliance may have been revitalized, but have the member countries been revitalized? You must have your nose buried in stock market-based numbers rather than quality of life, true consumer price inflation, housing costs, and personal debts. The western world has greatly burdened itself in the hopes of bringing down the Russian standard of living, and it sure isn’t conclusive that is working, and it’s undeniable it has failed to achieve the political goals NATO countries shot for, especially weakening the great necromancer Putler himself.

Hell, why not. The whole world of Falun Gong, the Moonies, the Unification Church, and their links to the Trump admin figures everyone loves to hate is pretty fun. I will post about it and ping you in the comments.

That would be nice, I think you’re right. I don’t think they are serious though, sadly.

Unbelievably common YT-DLP W. YT-DWP if you will.

My buddy says he’s going to stop drinking next year. 🤠

They are all buying and selling that information to each other, any door you leave open will be used by all of the major datamininers of the western world due to their many agreements.

Ok Steve Bannon, LMAO.

Gonna hand a large advantage to societies that don’t allow this on their social media and regulate AI. Another do nothing: win situation for China for instance. Of course if your country is controlled by people who live off gouging away at societies this will be framed as an advantage, and good luck dissenting on the terms you used to believe were avenues to pressure the powerful.

Interesting policy of wreaking destruction upon every “regime” that doesn’t align with your hypocritically professed values, irrespective of the history of the country and how the group you want wiped out came to power in the first place.

There is a problem though, that your wish to isolate these states from diplomacy and trade does nothing more than create stripped-down capitalist states, at the mercy of London and Wall St. and their blob, the conditions and the political influences that produce these “left” and “right” neoliberal parties (for neocons are a variety of liberal, economically, despite your ahistorical use of the term). Your whole approach is mindlessly destructive and counterproductive.

The endgame of this strategy looks like Milei, like post-Gaddafi Libya. Your approach always results in starvation, rape, and murder of the population, and this collapse of society allows far right groups easy pickings.

I have 32 dozen accounts.

Also re: @[email protected]

I want to be able to drag around folders into other folders and select multiple feeds at once. Fluent has one of the best ways of displaying a completed feed. I still use CommaFeed to organize my feeds and edit the OPML document from it in a text editor because the organization of the nested folders is still crap.

I want to, for instance, select one folder to export it as an OPML file