YEP [he/him]

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  • Last 3 episodes were really bad. The regular show is good when they find a slate of insane ameribrained op eds to ridicule for 45 min also bc of the size of the show they have on very good guests fairly regularly. The episode recently with Ryan grim where they discussed his new book about the squad(absolutely brutal portrayal of AOC) was very good. Their interview with beirut based journalist Séamus Malekafzali was also stand out. All the spin offs that are actual passion projects are also good like others mentioned in this thread.





  • YEP [he/him]@hexbear.nettopolitics@hexbear.netnew confederacy dropped
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    10 months ago

    Sorry for late reply the little bell at the top didn’t have a notification.

    The federal government has gained almost complete control of the national guard over the centuries because they are masters of the purse. The most notable instance of the president federalizing troops to enforce a court order was in school integration. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas national guard and mobilized the 101st airborne to enforce the integration of the little rock nine. He did so by executive order,

    "SECTION 1. I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of Defense to order into the active military service of the United States as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Order, any or all of the units of the National Guard of the United States and of the Air National Guard of the United States within the State of Arkansas to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders. ".
    https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10730

    The us government also used these powers to send national guard units to Iraq and Afghanistan iirc







  • I have heard of it that is why I referenced it, this argument has been raging for decades. The idea of a terror famine has been pushed in popular media even though it is not the common view held by experts in the field of study. I’ll link one of the funnier exchanges on the subject in Getty’s review of Conquest’s harvest of sorrow (one of the more more widely cited sources in popular culture of the intentional famine narrative) in the London review of books.

    https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n02/j.-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine

    For context this was also written before western academics has access to the Soviet archives which further served to vindicate the Getty’s criticism of the narrative.

    No one denies that there was death and hardship. When you call something genocide you are saying there was a deliberate effort to eradicate a peoples, there isn’t sufficient evidence of intentionality or malice to come to the conclusion of genocide. You can say there was a poorly planned and executed state policy(I personally think it could have been better handled) but it also ignores the global context of wide spread crop failures at the time, for example in the north American dust bowl or the West African famines (I’d argue you can make a much more substantiated claim of genocide in West Africa). It also ignores the material conditions that Soviet agriculture at the time was underdeveloped because of the serfdom under the tsars.

    I don’t expect us to reconcile but when your response is just my grandma says so you come off as unserious and that’s why you are getting dunked on. In America a popular boomer conspiracy that people will attest to is that there were Jews celebrating when 9/11 happened it doesn’t mean it’s correct or should be taken seriously.