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When you post archive.today links, 1) I get sent to CAPTCHA infinite loop jail and 2) I have no way of knowing what the original link was, which is ironic because 3) my browser extension would have bypassed the soft paywall automatically anyway. (And no I’m not on a VPN, so that’s not the reason it happens to me.)

Edit: Found it: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/opinion/china-taiwan-war.html

The only theory I’ve scraped up so far is that he thinks he can get the war president bump like Bush Jr. did.

And most movingly, I met with Israelis who’d personally lived through horrific horror…

And Palestinians too, right?

And Palestinians, right?

Consortium News on Gaza, 2018: ‘Worthy’ and ‘Unworthy’ Victims

Genocide Joe would rather see the Gaza Strip be ethnically cleansed than win the 2024 election.

Wow that was some highly passionate fascist📽

Because an instance’s community isn’t going to appreciate brigading, especially when it comes from other instances, and the instance’s mods would need this information to in order to manage such abuses.

Downvoting Inconvenient truths is a common L.

Sorry sweaty but Sanders is the only Colonel for me.

Even the SocialismForAll guy writes China off as being a capitalist state now. I’m no expert on China, but that seems like some black & white, purity fetish thinking on his part.

We found .worlders to be the most fashy posters on lemmygrad.ml, so I can’t say I find their projecting fascism onto us all that surprising, and I can’t say we’ll be missing them.

Where was their support for Eastern Ukrainians against government-backed neo-Nazis in the eight years before the Russian invasion?

Actually there was a small amount of support that ultimately got crushed: The Nation, 2016: Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill

And so, in July of last year, Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Ted Yoho of Florida drew up an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2685) that “limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.” It passed by a unanimous vote in the House.

Stochastic terrorism is what you get from the Blob’s incessant Cold War II sabre-rattling. My Midwestern Chinese wife is increasingly unsafe in her own country.

I don’t know about Max having vast wealth, as Ben put it, but his dad, Sidney Blumenthal, probably has a few million bucks, is well-connected, and seems to be a shady political operative, having allegedly been involved with Obama birtherism and the debunked Steele Dossier.

Aaron & Katie don’t seem to want to reveal their actual ideologies, but they seem to be reliably anti-imperialist & anti-chauvinist, and they never seem to portray capitalism in a favorable light. So they seem to at least be sympathetic to socialism.

Aaron Maté still live streams with Blumenthal on The Grayzone’s YouTube channel. Has he not yet left for contractual reasons or what?

Article link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/04/my-friends-prabir-and-amit-are-in-jail-in-india-for-their-work-in-the-media/

Ackchyually the preferred nomenclature is housing provider. Berkeley Property Owners Association: Why We're "Housing Providers":

We politely decline the label "landlord" with its pejorative connotations.

Right, landleech it is then.

The AFL-CIO has anticommunist roots if you follow their lineage back to the ICFTU:

In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU’s central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations (including the U.S. AFL–CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.

I’m not quite sure what they mean by stabilisation reform, but at fist pass it seems to be just rearranging chairs on the austerity Titanic .