https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rotating+villain

How to smuggle all three volumes of Das Kapital into prison with just thirty dollars, a condom, and some lube.

The Kuomintang and certain aspects of S. Korea after WWII share a very similar backstory, did they do socialism? You would probably deny this.

Fuck no they didn’t do socialism. They did fascism[1][2]. How is this detour even relevant?

Literally Prussia

literally wtf r u talking about m8

If you don’t know anything then don’t say anything.

Trade is not tens of thousands of years old. That is ahistorical.

Trading goes back to prehistory, as as archeologists will tell you.

Dialectics (and more specifically dialectical materialism), as opposed to metaphysics.

Great, I however grew up in post-communist country and seen with my own eyes the fallout of it’s existence.

But you didn’t see the fallout of the USSR’s existence. You saw the fallout of its ceasing to exist.

The infrastructure is in shambles because the USSR fell and neoliberalism replaced it.

https://mander.xyz/u/Anyone

Hmm, could be.

One of them—the one that often writes in German, seems to be used as a “reply guy” account that seldom posts, unlike the others.

The other one seems to fit the normal pattern, except that they comment almost as often as they post.

While true, it’s not the panacea that liberal MMTers make it out to be, because we live in an oligarchy, where the wealthy decide how the government spends, not us.

A more class-conscious explainer: Why The Government Has Infinite Money

Maybe, though I’m not so sure that @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world is as obtuse as he presents himself to be.

Why is all of Lemmy politics?

Do you know why the Lemmy platform and the lemmy.ml instance were created in the first place?

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy
• What is lemmy.ml?

Lemmy is very shallow and politically motivated it seems.

Politics is orthogonal to depth. The existence of shallow politics in no way suggests the absence of deep politics.

In October 2021, she was brought on as an intern at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a CIA propaganda project founded by notorious spymaster Allen Dulles which nominally separated from the Agency in the 70s.

I think she probably knew what she was doing in joining a US military-propaganda-industrial “news” outlet run by the USAGM.

Habibiazad frequently collaborates with Deepa Parent, the disgraced former fashion blogger turned Iranian protest-whisperer who deleted her Twitter account this February after The Grayzone exposed her role in fabricating protest death tolls. Like Parent, Habibiazad rocketed to mainstream media prominence during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests which shook Iran in 2022.

That’s how corporate media works. If you peddle for empire you get promoted, and if you challenge empire you never get work again.

US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential.

Indeed, not only have none of the hawks who promoted, cheerled, or authorized the criminal invasion of Iraq ever been held accountable, they’ve since thrived: they’ve found success in the media, the speaking circuit, government jobs, and cushy think tank gigs, and they currently occupy the Oval Office. Meanwhile, those in the mainstream who openly opposed the war—like, for example, Phil Donahue and Chris Hedges—were either fired or relegated to alternative media outlets. The almost uniform success of all the Iraq War cheerleaders provides the greatest lesson about what really helps one get ahead in public life: It’s not being right, doing the right thing, or challenging power, but going with prevailing winds and mocking anyone who dares to do the opposite.

To be expected from The Grayzone.

Ironically The Grayzone is more often correct than Wikipedia.

That is also true, just not on account of the the US being democratic.

Yes, specifically a colossal fuckup in attempting to exfiltrate enriched uranium.

It’s Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses

The geolocated wreckage of the C-130s which were apparently using a local “agricultural airstrip” (32.223369, 51.897678) just happens to be right over a mountain, about 35km away, from Isfahan’s nuclear facility, where Iran’s ‘near-weapons grade’ enriched uranium is alleged to be stored.

In an article just last month, [Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency] Rafael Grossi stated the following:

Almost half of ‌Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Rule 1. Substack blog, not an actual news source.

Another visitor from Lundistan 🤷

The people in Crimea and the Donbas requested military assistance from Russia to stop Ukraine’s ethnic cleansing of them. Or do you think this war started in 2022?

I remember our last extraction operation, which cost Carter a second term.