redtea

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

MH is very good at explaining how things currently work and why. I don't think he can be ignored for that because there aren't many who can or are willing to share his insights. That might be why he gets airtime. He does allude to being a Trotskyist. And he clearly knows Marx. But I've never really heard him say anything that I'd consider to be Marxist in terms of what comes next or how we get there. I always thought he was a bit vague on that but I haven't read all his works.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That's not what my Chinese textbook printed on the USA says lol

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Russia was what NATO and it's fans accuse, power plants like this would've been targeted months ago, maybe in the first month after negotiations fell apart. It's not like Russia lacked the capacity.

Got to wonder how liberals can conclude that Russia is Most Evil^TM^ and yet leave critical infrastructure in play for so long.

Maybe Russia now sees Ukraine effectively demilitarised, that it can tighten the screws to end the war now.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard similar. But it's not that most don't want reunification. It's more of a concern for the logistics. Northern Ireland economy relies heavily on the public sector, and Ireland might not be able or willing to foot the bill. Which means that without socialism, the choice is framed as colony or collapse. The Irish government might be able to offer an alternative if it came to it. Make a transitional arrangement while private sector jobs are found or more public sector jobs in Ireland to balance things out. Probably not possible while it's part of the EU, which might be tempted to sneak attack Britain but will probably be salivating over doing what it did before. This is very much an armchair position, though!

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

But doesn't represent the views of the IMF lol

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Macron still trying to get BRICS money and new uranium contracts.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the exact reason for the difference in aspirations is unknown…

The difference is that China has industries, the US has only military industries, and the UK has… TERFs? And one factor that isn't mentioned is the fact that adults apparently give children quizzes where 'vlogger' is a career path; that's going to make children think that vlogger is a career path for the same reason that poor kids soon forget about wanting to be accountants, lawyers, architects, doctors—they know which jobs are and aren't options because adults make it clear.

Someone with better mathematics will have to confirm this but the charts are skewed, too. So it's worse than it seems at first glance. Children could choose up to three, right? The Chinese one really emphasises this, being well over 100%. The fact that the US/UK one is a slope suggests that practically every child chose vlogger, some only vlogger or only two options, with a few willing to choose three. In China, though? Every child chose three and a smaller fraction chose vlogger as an afterthought or maybe as a way of sharing knowledge from/about their primary choice. A handful likely put vlogger as number one, still.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Time to start asking whether anyone shorted Port of Baltimore stock last week.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

What I do is block the lemmygrad instances that I don't want to see. That means 'local' is like my own feed via a blocklist. Then I subscribe mainly to the Hexbear and some lemmy.ml communities. If I sort by 'subscribed', I mainly get Hexbear, or a lot of it via an allowlist. I sometimes miss not being able to see the blocked lg comms, like c/SRS, but this way is better for my mental health in the long run.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2035 isn't that far away.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bourgeois Marxism is accepted. But only if you strip out all the radicalism, dunk on AES, and use it as a framework to make impotent 'intellectual' critiques like all the 'Marxist' psychoanalysts. Basically you can freely be Zizek. The few real Marxists struggle and get disparaged every step of the way. Maybe it depends on the field. There is some hope, though, so don't be put off!

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