I see he was NAFO adjacent. That’s 0 for 2 from those dweebs and their attempts are the most pathetic ones. At least Crooks came close.

Yandex is really good at images. Maybe the best. Haven’t been as wowed by the web search.

I don’t like it because it feels like it allows people to stop thinking further beyond “I’m not a drab and lame liberal, I’m something a little cooler and more radical” and they don’t really think farther than that. They stop examining their beliefs and worldviews and analyzing the world. They were chill with Bernie and want something a little more than the DNC has to offer (what that is, who knows) and that’s good enough. Often, they’re still a little scared of bandying about the “socialism” s-word.

This isn’t to say that I think every person with politics to the left Elizabeth Warren needs to become a scholar of theory and pinpoint their tendency like “oh yes, I’m a MLM-Gonzaloist Thought.” I do wish people would be less skittish around the s-word though, and maybe just a super high-level overview of what Marx was laying down, like a brief idea of the labor theory of value. Or even a “socialism isn’t just the government doing things” type of understanding.

So yes, I also feel the yuck and do whatever I can to avoid saying “leftism” and identify as a socialist/Marxist/communist to try to be an example of that change I’d like to see.

The Events in Ukraine substack guy says a lot of these guys go AWOL and go back home first chance they get. There’s hundreds of thousands of desertions at this point.

I don’t mean to do the thing where we’re like “oh actually I always hated the guy” but Edward Herman wrote most of Manufacturing Consent. Even Chomsky says as much.

Just want to properly credit Edward Herman is all.

I think most people in the Anglophone world read the Penguin edition. I just bought it from a regular ol book store.

I think that person got cancelled and that list is no more lol.

Blocklists aren’t great, but I think they’ve lost their shine. Most users I think understand now that it’s very easy for those to become personal grievance lists and don’t pay much attention to them.

It’s not a great site and I’m only there because of how Twitter is and Mastodon feels dead and unwelcoming to me. Really, maybe we don’t need microblogging anymore.

I have no experience or advice to give you, just want to say good luck. This war isn’t worth losing your life over.