who also does the whole "COVID isn't over!!" mask-shaming stuff
I mean... It isn't? The phrasing of "covid isn't over" bothers me, in that it's endemic now. It will never be over. That's what a disease is.
The pandemic part is. In light of vaccines, it's not the threat it was in 2020. The Bubonic Plague "isn't over" either, people still get it. But realistically it is over, because it's not currently killing off a third of Europe (right now, inshallah), because we can treat it.
But being anti-mask about that is freak behavior. Practice basic hygiene, if you feel sick and need to go to the pharmacy, are going to be in a crowded environment, or be somewhere that you know immunocompromised people will be even if you don't necessarily feel sick... Wear a fucking mask!!!!
Side note: Mearsheimer is a realist, and those guys are often wrong. But one of the reasons they're wrong is that they view nation States as "unitary actors" in a chaotic, ungoverned world system, and they're all really into enlightenment State of Nature bullshit.
Eventually someone showed up, and pointed out the obvious with Two Level Game theory, which points out that States aren't necessarily unitary actors, and that internal state dynamics influence the way that state interacts in the world system.
This is what no dialectical materialism does to a mf
Japan is a beautiful country, that has been utterly fucked over by US imperialism.
The LDP was created by former fascists, and propped up by the CIA to prevent the Left from taking power in the country, and it's been a faux-democracy ever since.
I can't fathom how libs think Japan is some LeBased Liberal Democracy, when this one far right party has governed almost uninterrupted since the 50s. It fails even by lib standards
.... Is this arguing for permanent Revolution? Like the Soviets should have gone and militarily intervened to support these revolutions elsewhere? Or am I totally n misreading the room?
I'm no expert on the nuances of Ethiopian politics, but my understanding is that it's less that Ethiopia is genocidimg the Tigray people, but that the legacies of the Ethiopian monarchy, and a botched Socialist experiment has left the country a prisonhouse of nations, that's Perpetually on the brink of balkanizing itself.
Mirin, soy sauce, and Sake are the base of a Teriyaki sauce.
And those, plus a dashi (a stock made of kombu and Smoked/fermented fish flakes. Or shitake mushrooms instead of fish, if you're vegan) make up the base of a ton of Japanese dishes.
On the Chinese side of things, you can't go wrong with a chili crisp, or a Tobanjian
Just use a privacy respecting front end like Redlib. LibRedirect is a Firefox extension that will do this automatically for you, for Reddit, and a bunch of other sites.
You won't be able to post or comment, but you can see the content
In a broad sense, yes this is same shit different day, but it's unique in that the Imperial Boomerang is coming back around and impacting your average gringo lib.
+1 Hexbear if you like increasingly abstracted inside jokes about owls and beans