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acabjones

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  • What is your opinion on The Grayzone?

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  • 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.

  • Why do so many Western left-liberals hate BRICS?

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  • 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.

  • [Vijay Prashad] who co-wrote two books with Noam Chomsky condemns scholar’s ties to Epstein

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    Vijay Prashad

    who co-wrote two books with Noam Chomsky condemns scholar’s ties to Epstein

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/04/jeffrey-epstein-files-noam-chomsky

  • what is a good way to learn mandarin?

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  • 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

  • At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich.

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  • They will be the last to attain class consciousness

  • Iran kills hundreds of protestors, shuts off internet; A gravestone for Refaat Alareer

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  • 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.

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  • Thank you!

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  • Very interesting. Can you share general sources of information that have helped you learn?

  • Allianz and Aviva drop Elbit Systems insurance after pro-Palestine protests

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  • 100% Success Rate: All 32 Paralysis Patients in China’s Brain–Computer Interface Clinical Trial Achieve Brain-Controlled Grasping

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  • There's absolutely no evidence they didn't huff jenkem either.

  • Is it wrong to want to make more money?

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  • 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.

  • China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice

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  • Lolll it's the guardian, yes, there's probably literally that rule written down at their office.

  • The 2025 USCC Report Admits US Hegemony Is Crumbling

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  • Im really enjoying your blog--thanks for the analysis and sharing.

    Just curious, how did you read and digest a 700 page pdf?

  • Alarming trend: Record number of Americans tap 401(k)s to stay afloat - here’s what’s driving it

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  • In the back of my mind I'm thinking about how my retirement contributions are probably headed into oblivion. The likelihood of The Economy™ not taking its final shit before I'm at retirement age seems to be decreasing rapidly. At some point the people who liquidated their retirement accounts will turn out to be the smart ones.

  • Rich ‘sniper tourists’ allegedly paid $90K to shoot civilians — including kids — during ‘human safari’ trips to Sarajevo

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  • I don't know about the vegas shooting as it relates to rich people doing crazy evil shit and suppressing it from the news. Can you say more and/or point me to resources pls? Thanks

  • Meet me at the Presidential Lair

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  • Tj Maxx suburbanite word art aesthetic.

  • Even neoliberal economist Paul Krugman admits China is not only ahead, but US is unlikely to catch up even if the GOP loses power in 2028.

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  • Your reply here mostly describes my thoughts on the Sachs/Mearscheimer debate vis a vis "spheres of security". Neither party seemed to me to be engaged in systemic analysis. Sachs' thesis is normative and idealist and fails to take into account why the u.s.' belligerence is increasingly unrestrained (decohering economic base). Mearscheimer kind of trots out his standard realist analysis which imo is mechanistic and can't accommodate factors which don't fit into the behavior of imperialist powers, i.e. also idealist.

    That whole thing was kind of hard to listen to for me. Both of those two are useful in different ways but I thought that discussion simultaneously highlighted their limitations.

    For ref https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9465503?scrollToComments=true

  • Chinese scientists develop new AI method to control plasma in 'artificial sun'

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  • Excellent read, thanks! Relevant as hell. I just experienced some awe at Marxist analysis: 150 year old philosophy applied to the age of AI and explaining why tech bros toil at dreary ass shit.

  • Chinese scientists develop new AI method to control plasma in 'artificial sun'

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  • I despair seeing my most talented tech colleagues in the west on LinkedIn taking jobs at crypto, fintech, ai slop shops. I have the vague sense that nerds yearn to solve real, important problems, but in the west the money and jobs seem only to materialize for bullshit endeavors.

    Meanwhile, in China...