intuitively I would have guessed heavy rains would dilute crap in the water, but maybe there are a lot of conjoined sewer/stormwater systems such that when heavy rains occur, raw sewage gets fired into the river too

But she’s a woman so she’s inherently more political (read: woke) than alternatives

I find it helpful to distinguish between the ukrainian state under the zelensky regime, other state-like forces in ukraine like their fascist militia, the ukrainian citizenry broadly, and the people of eastern ukraine/donbass/Crimea. If you just lump all of those groups together as “ukraine” it is harder to have a coherent analysis of the situation because each of those groups have distinct interests and incentives. I’ve gotten libs to engage with those distinctions before by talking about different levels of government/regions of my own country, highlighting places where the federal government does things that don’t align with my interests.

The concept of indivisible security is useful to discuss in the context of nato/US v Russian relations as well. Again, this relates to incentives of the different parties.

All this to say, I have a lot of sympathy for the ukrainian populace at large, especially those in the east most directly affected by the war. I have less sympathy for the formal ukrainian state and their roll of the dice/being led down the garden path by the US, and I have no sympathy for fascists.

This kind of “omg he saw propaganda, his mind is forever impure” attitude is deeply unserious. We live in a river of imperialist propaganda, writing off anyone who ever drank from the river is a losing strategy. You don’t have to be the person to do the 101 work mind you, and maybe this person does just suck shit, but your rubric is overly reductive

the Earth will tell you stories

This is exactly it

drink a verification can to confirm your choice

I saw totality in 2017 as well and it was indeed incredible. another protip - there is no possible way you will get a reasonable photograph so just put your phone down. some things can’t be recorded, just experience it

The HAN is Chinese propaganda

could have been andropov

fair enough. however, aipac might do a bidding war. whoever does “stick their neck out” will reap fundraising rewards I bet

no

I wonder which senators will take their turn being the bad guy on this issue so that dems get to say “oh well, nevertheless” and blame failure to change course on the republicans

People talk about things being idiot proof but they make better idiots every day

Or dogs having sex with cars

https://imgur.com/gallery/K8MqicN

Thanks for this, this is going to give me some props in the group text

MODS? MODS!!

If you crack spaghetti in half to make it fit into the pot using this method then you do go to Italian hell 👌👉✌️👍

I don’t have the time to summarize this at the moment, but this piece from 2021 linked in nakedcapitalism.com on “is the PRC more financialized than the US?” is interesting. I’m curious what our local China heads have to say about this (@[email protected] ?)

Original piece: https://www.cogitations.co/p/financialization-is-it-worse-in-the

Nakedcapitalism commentary https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/on-a-relative-scale-theres-a-strong-case-that-financialization-is-worse-in-the-prc-than-the-us.html

This isn’t a dam breaking. The pod jons don’t have power. They and their simpering fans will vote for biden regardless, even if they are biting their tongues while they do it.

Several years ago, the state preferred to see police stations burned and millions of people in the streets and disappeared BLM organizers before making any concessions to the cause of “black people don’t want to be extra judicially executed.” when pro-palestine protestors start being murdered by the police in the US, then that is a sign that the machine is at least being threatened, even if it isn’t a sign of breaking. We are not there.

American foreign policy is not influenced by the electorate in any meaningful way. Even if it was, the American electorate does not vote based on foreign policy issues. Full stop.

Like what’s the worst consequence here for pro Israel forces in the US? Biden loses? Who fucking cares, trump is 99% as much of a nazi on this topic, he just uses different rhetoric. He will not make any meaningful changes.