in the absence of a liberatory education the oppressed seek only to become the oppressor

is this the 1 billion americans guy or is that someone else

is that not the goatse hand?

my favorite way to pronounce tourist is turrist, a weird but great local accent i picked up somewhere

Average Evergreen State prof

aw he’s named after his pop pop

the banker Money-Counts marries the daughter of the banker Deeds, you can’t make this shit up

I’ve unsubbed to here and mainchapotraphouse but spend most of my time browsing them because they have the best content.

there’s a quote from some shit he wrote about his time in spain that really shows how much of a bourgeois war tourist he was there that gets posted here from time to time, lemme see if I can find it

Could say the same for the first two tbh

yes

Here’s another good post that’s contemporary with the shit you posted.

It’s been in the news a bunch the last few months. Here’s an example post.

If you want some in-depth contemporary political economy stuff here’s a decent post in a series.

If you’re going to post very likely reactionary shit you gotta critique it. This is bush league and frankly your response of ‘because this is about numbers not the author’s POV’ is disappointing.

Comrade, why is this shit not in the dunk tank? The opening lines link to a transphobic reactionary screed, calling it a ‘very good post’. Reading between the lines the author of the essay is probably a sexpat and a christofascist.

Over at Scholar’s Stage there’s a very good post with the mildly hyperbolic title: ‘Everything Is Worse in China.’ That essay focused on conservative lamentations about American society, and made the case that almost all those issues are worse in the PRC.

literally the one with a joke name after a city famous for its night life

ok, but the alternative is anprim shit or some start trek sci fi shit so idk what to tell you. resource extraction will happen, and fighting it outright is tilting at windmills

It’s not like there’s an “indigenous-people-friendly” form of extraction.

Eh this feels strongly like an ‘easier to imagine the end of the world’ take, there are better and worse forms of and places for extraction. And I’m sure that contention in Bolivia is preferable to the brutal conditions people faced under the short-lived western-backed christofash regime a few years back.

That doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Another example is succdem AMLO doing an extractive colonial rail infra project in Chiapas. Hopefully through pushback those slightly less shitty guvmints will do better, and if not be replaced by one that does.

that sucks and US uranium mining blows, but it’s important to remember that it’s a feature of white supremacist capitalism, not uranium. fossil fuel and rare earth extraction and development in the west has all the same stories of harm to the marginalized