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As an institution the guardian is Cool with fascism provided the fascists in charge are Democrats/labour. Watch these kinds of stories return to brunch when the pendulum swings back.

That article was deeply annoying. Why do we need to pad out an article fundamentally concerned with geopolitics with a bunch of celebrity expose fluff about how the lame Finnish president likes going for runs and grew up bilingual (that's gotta be at least half of Finnish families btw). Unserious nyt-style tripe. Also I like how his main criticism of the u.s. is lamenting the American clowns de-sanctioning Russia, not waging wars of aggression. I don't know anything about the Finnish president but according to this article he seems like the kind of loser I would expect to be in charge of that country.

$800m seems like a big, intentional undercount, just like the undercount of us casualties.

That was wholesome. Really cool and inspiring.

Grayzone does actual investigative reporting from an anti imperialist position and as such I'm very glad they exist. I think we should read them with a critical eye, as we should when reading anything, taking what is of value and leaving weaker/incorrect bits. Grayzone and Max B sometimes give me libertarian vibes, but I feel like with the orientation of their work being mostly war/conflict reporting, any weird economic takes can be discarded. In that sense it's actually very good Ben Norton and Max B went separate ways bc Ben's work is much more focused on economics, so the outlets have different focuses.

Sidebar: I remember watching Aaron Mate and Ben Norton reporting together like 10 years ago on The Real News. Cool to see they both are still doing important work.

Wow it's making sense now. I casually read the links threads and the China section usually has some "china bad" or "china gonna collapse" garbage. Also the smugness of her comment replies.

I found Prashad’s actual writing, which the guardian chose not to link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/03/on-the-emails-between-jeffrey-epstein-and-noam-chomsky/

I'm maybe around HSK2, native eng speaker. Here's what I've done:

• mostly used HelloChinese (I believe this is very similar to duolingo)
• I browse xiaohongshu
• Pleco: dictionary and hanzi char meaning
• Recently I've been trying out comprehensible chinese. See the "Lazy Chinese - comprehensible input" youtube channel

They will be the last to attain class consciousness

Man I used to really like Jeremy Scahill, but Dropsite now clearly can't be trusted. Why leave the intercept if you're gonna start another shitty news org carrying imperialist water.

Surprising considering Allianz insured SS units, Auschwitz, among other Nazi properties https://shunins.com/article/did-allianz-insurance-auschwitz

How seriously did the West take denazification after WW2 if Nazi collaborators were allowed to keep operating

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with managers or management. Such a function is required if larger and larger teams are to work together effectively. Coordination, strategy, and planning are all valuable and sometimes cannot be effectively undertaken by individual contributors.

Probably plenty of managers are petty hitlers, etc. and plenty of managerial roles are set up to pit manager against worker by setting managers up as slave drivers, but it doesn't have to be this way imo.