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Don't threaten me with a good time

Tricontinental and geopol econ (ben norton) breakthrough news etc have some sketchy history around reporting on the dirty war in Syria but overall I agree with what you're saying. Losurdo and Rockhill don't have 100% perfect takes either but unlike most writers their work actually prepares you to deal with that 😁

Frightening how much older all these ppl are there is just nothing going on in the US other than imitation of stale tactics AFAIK.

Neckbeard

It comes up with unbelievable frequency because the first reaction from radlibs or unequal exchange nerds to hearing from a dependency theory based perspective of international relations that actually incorporates debt and institutions instead of just particular trade metrics -something more than the boring Mearsheimer tier shit - is to accuse you of being ACP/MWM shills or Russia/Dugin agents (reflecting the Russiagate obsession with him as "Putin's Rasputin"). Crazy bc in that situation I'm not the Heideggerian calling for the worship of the US reactionary working class + petty boug + labor aristocracy + national boug & tailism for a US political party it's them. These parties have huge overlap with the alt media and the larouche ppl

Disturbing how social media has churned out these people who immediately associate antiimperialist analysis (usually from writers in the global south & in the same tradition) with insane reality show heel characters they heard abt from streamers who feed them right wing ragebait 24/7. It comes up too often it's creepy. Robert Evans and Zizek stans crawling out of the walls at any opportunity. Whatever at least people stopped talking abojt the stupid Hegelian e-girls

For books you want https://annas-archive.se/ they also mirrored & continued the now frozen scihub btw

Related: have you read Back to Marx + A Deep Plough by Zhang Yibing by any chance? I'm alarmed that the only people I know for sure have read it are Gabriel Rockhill, one of the Hegelian e-girls (if you don't know trust me better off that way) who was absolutely butchering it, and people I've nagged to read it for montha bc it'a very good. If you've got time read Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukács as well as Blood In My Eye by George Jackson. It's an important niche of writing because it helps people figure out what they should not be reading (low use value). If there were half as many Marxist critics of this stuff as there are mediocre Keynesian critics of neoclassical economics it would at least be a little easier to find people to coordinate research with

Really need more like those two + Critical Theory Workshop

Why get a haircut if you're going bald anyways

I suppose it could be

Thank you based Western Marxism by Losurdo poster

Do you think they can tell

Yeah for a while the only people I ran into who understood the situation were the ones spreading disinformation abt it and being suspiciously aggressive. :/

In general the ppl associated with global south media orgs are a lot more informative and less annoying (e.g. cryptofascism, bad haircut) than USA alt media ppl

You're just ignorant, papers like The Guardian do it too, it's not only the UN Rapponteur for yadda yadda, there are huge NGOs dedicated to lobbying for these legal changes to protect the human trafficking industry. You'd never guess - they're funded by human traffickers themselves to present the cause to intl orgs like the UN and Gates Foundation. The paper trail is all out in the open. I'll walk everyone through it some other time, but this whole thread screeches desperation and loneliness. Seriously creeps me out the way horny idiots fall for the Onlyfans psyop. You're as bad as the dudebro podcasters lol

Yes it is accurate, how can you ask that in the context of Ukraine, a country where too many refugee women have been pushed into the legal sex trade or pornography in western countries out of desperation? One model which is palatable even to libs is decriminalizing the lower levels of the sex trade and providing people real opportunities in life, infrastructure, subsidized education, while deconstructing the industry itself. That is why I framed the UN's inclusion of sex trade managers in the category of sex worker as a threat

I hate it when I have "some consent issues". Like saying coal mining in apartheid South Africa had "some respiratory issues" or "some disaster issues" Yes, I am saying pornography is not magically exempt from the colonial structure of the sex trade because a camera provides a legal pretext.

Sure ya I think someone compared Russia's lingering War on Terror Israel policy to "playing with matches while the west douses you in gasoline" or something to that effect. Look if there is somehow success in [Trump impression] "un-uniting them" then I argue the resulting split will not be Sino-Soviet ☝️🤓

1. Rugpull people on minerals & privatization deals
2. Take insurance payments when factories you finance get destroyed
3. Kill everyone
4. Turn everyone who escapes into a slave
5. ???
6. Superprofits

I will concede that Ukraine existing anti-human trafficking enforcement is in a dire state, but I see no reason to actively enable it??

I knew this one was gonna be a banger

Is this helping the Ukrainian people, in your opinion? Stripping their country of its population and reducing their women (and twinks) to the most undesirable work? Who can be happy about this save for market speculators? Putin didn't even want this war for a decade of Ukraine shelling and torturing people in Donbas