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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • Russian missiles strike more than half of Ukraine's regions

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  • I was simply making a joke about the idea that the Russian perspective should be thrown out and we should only listen to Western-Aligned sources because the latter were insisting in the wake of the blast that Russia blew up its own pipeline while Russia said that they obviously weren't.

    A better example might have been the prison full of Azovites that got rocketed, but I was going for something that I was sure anyone who gave a shit about Ukraine/Russia, even from a superficial culture war perspective, would be familiar with.

  • Russian missiles strike more than half of Ukraine's regions

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  • Who blew up that Nordstream pipeline?

  • Russian missiles strike more than half of Ukraine's regions

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  • I actually agree with it in this case that excluding what Russia has said about this is silly at best, but Media Bias Fact Check-style websites aren't actually free of bias, they are just question-begging a certain paradigm.

    Like, if an article covering the US election only mentioned what Republicans have to say, that doesn't mean the only other viewpoint it needs is what Democrats have to say; there is more to an issue than what the two most influential parties have to say, but to say that you need those two perspectives while not advocating for the Greens or, say, one of the communist parties, is already assuming many different positions on foreign intervention, environmental policy, and so on, where the two parties mostly agree.

    Likewise, depending on where it is, there are various popular groups throughout Ukraine and Russia that might have a substantially different perspective that is closer to the truth.

  • Yep.

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  • You must not merely criticize, but offer a positive alternative. Capitalism has not coopted communism except it the most superficial sense (selling books, merchandise, and so on). It is all those works that bemoan capitalist conditions but offer no solution which are used to enforce capitalist realism.

  • on our way to fascism

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  • Literally just read the list. It's not ahistorical because it gets history wrong, it's ahistorical because it has nothing to do with history. It has no ability to explain how and why fascism emerged when it did rather than sooner or later and thereby has very little understanding of what it actually is. It's like defining a disease by a very loose checklist of symptoms, the fundamental causality is completely absent, so there is very little you can even do with it besides make a shaky diagnosis.

    Incidentally, Trump isn't a fascist. He flirts with being a fascist and in many ways has lit the way [something something tiki torches] for future fascists, but fundamentally, he's just doing fascist-like rhetoric as a way to sell people on relatively normal neoliberal policy. Probably the most strange thing he did was bomb Qasem Soleimani, something that Democrats didn't even really oppose on any grounds other than it being rash, despite Soleimani being a leader in the fight against ISIS. If I had to pick a second thing, it was probably lowering military funding to South Korea, which was just him being stupid and accidentally a clearly good thing to do. He's not harder on immigrants than Democrats, he's not harder on China or Russia, he's just a normal rightist wrt to queers, he likes giving tax cuts to rich people, and he's fussy in diplomatic meetings. He had very few policies that Biden didn't immediately perpetuate. If you want to call the whole neoliberal edifice fascist, fine, whatever, but he's not special in anything but aesthetics.

  • on our way to fascism

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  • Eco is not a definitive authority and his little checklist is extremely ahistorical.

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-83-the-unchecked-conservative-ideology-of-us-medias-fact-check-verticals

    I can do it too. MBFC is a hack website that equivocates between centrism and lack of bias. See this arbitrarily picked page for an example. See that graphic, the very first thing beneath the title? It's giving the game away right there, with a left-right spectrum where the center is "least biased". What about a centrist bias? Doesn't exist, and the closer you get to centrist, the less "biased" you are.

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • Trump doesn't have even a double-digit number of loyalists in the Senate and proportionately probably about the same in the House. This is a relevant detail because his enablers in Congress are overwhelmingly party loyalists who will drop him like a sack of potatoes the moment it becomes more expedient to. The reason that matters is that it was mainly the Republican Party that got all those Congresspeople elected, not Trump, even in the races where Trump endorsed them, so the relative locus of power is the Republican Party (and really it's the donor class, but we don't need to get into that).

    All this to say that AP's simplistic and unsubstantiated flattening of Venezuelan politics to "There's one guy in charge of everything, his lockstep minions, and the brave rightists fighting them" is below you to believe.

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • He has shat the bed for his country

    US sanctions fucked over the country, so unless you think "being disliked by the US" is a grave sin, this isn't an accurate framing

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • I believe this is the "whataboutism" that liberals love to cry about so much (more properly, you're deflecting to a completely different topic)

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • Maduro isn't a socialist, Chavists aren't socialists and he's openly a Chavist (i.e. a follower in the tradition of Hugo Chavez, who was a great progressive but not really a socialist).

    I don't give a shit what the Carter Center has to say about any of America's enemies, and they provide no means to evaluate the substance of the claim by "experts from the UN" (which is different from a report by the UN or an official committee of the UN).

    And, again, Maduro did not appoint the judges; he doesn't even have the power to.

    Maybe most pertinently: Do you not remember last election cycle, when all the neoliberal news outlets were joined together in their outrage over the NED and friends saying Maduro stole the election, only for that claim to "just turn out" to be pulled from thin air? Do we need to do this every six years when a US-backed reactionary loses?

  • Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice confirms validity of Maduro victory

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  • Quoting something that AP says without substantiation is not actually a good citation. It's not like Maduro appointed the judges.

  • How would you react if Reddit joined the fediverse?

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  • None of its supposed assets make up for the corporate overlords who run it and promote or permit all sorts of terrible things

  • Peak Fantasy

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  • I saw a tiny bit of World Trigger and it came off as another Overpowered Protagonist manga, but then I also see people hyping it up as one of the best current manga, so idk what to make of it.

  • Peak Fantasy

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  • Personally speaking, I loved it, partly because it was so ridiculous in scope. You are probably right that it's good to read from back around when they depart, if not a little before, in order to preserve some degree of orientation given how convoluted it gets. I'll probably need to reread a bunch too once it zooms out from the current situations that are easier to understand.

    I guess the thing that I really like about it is that, when you make the effort of really paying attention to it, it all makes sense and is engaging, whereas a lot of media falls apart when you drill down on it.

  • Peak Fantasy

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  • That's right, it was just like 30 chapters or so since then most likely, and it's all been the succession war on the boat headed there. I think most likely the story is written so that they never actually reach the Dark Continent because the ship was always meant as a vessel for the sacrificial ritual of the succession war. On a meta level, there's not a specific enough stated goal for the expedition, so I think it's meant to be a pie in the sky. I'm fine with that though, since the succession war has been my favorite arc in the whole manga so far. All just my personal opinion on it, of course.

  • Peak Fantasy

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  • The map reminds me a little of the world in Hunter x Hunter. The viewer is initially shown a world map (a flat projection) that is basically the typical cluster of continents in a vaguely ring-like shape, but it is much later revealed that it's not a map of the whole planet but just a fraction of the surface area, and all the inhabited continents are actually completely encircled by one giant super-continent labeled "The Dark Continent", meaning every known ocean was just part of one super-continental lake called "Lake Mobius".

    p.s. watch/read hunter x hunter, it's a cool manga

  • Centipedes Don't Fuck

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  • They could have been fighting. Maybe there was a lack of available food or fluid.

  • Golden age of English universities could be over, says head of watchdog

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  • I'm pretty sure that pandering to racists is what passes for a popular mandate there.