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Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron(politico.eu)
29 points by RedCondor 3y ago|32 comments
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The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz(redsails.org)
3 points by RedCondor 3y ago|0 comments
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I disagree with just about everything in this post, but I find one particular thing very interesting. >And China is going to be declining over the next 50 years. Their population is projected to decline from 1.4B to 700M-1B by 2100 (depe
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by RedCondor 3y ago
If I'm honest, this comes off like an attempt to write off their inarguable and central role in the creation of the NAM in order to push a theory that they're some scary fourth thing. I don't agree with it but I also don&#x27
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I don't think this is correct at all. You throw in unsourced atrocity propaganda ("starved millions of their own people then imploded") which is like the U.S. abusing someone then asking them "why they keep punching them
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Hmmm, I think it's an arguable point perhaps, but the history of the NAM is not ambiguous: >But it soon after became the name to refer to the participants of the Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries fi
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I think presenting the situation like "China and the U.S. are fighting beneath the waves" sweeps under the rug how the preceding state of affairs—unchallenged U.S. dominance—was utilized by the U.S. to cut off countries like Cuba
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by RedCondor 3y ago
I like Jiang Shigong's perspective on all of these "Two Sides" "Cold War" articles: >The reason why I emphasize here that this is a new type of “world empire,” instead of accepting Darwin’s “world-system” designa
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Whatever ranking you assign to her, she has less reason to lie than an antisemitic exile getting paid to lie by the American propaganda establishment. If you like those horror stories check out the North Korean ones, they have oodles of stu
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by RedCondor 3y ago
It's unquestionably an enormous tragedy, but it's necessarily to reject attempts to turn it into a cheap ideological talking point, for the sake of the people of Kazakhstan and everywhere else. Dealing with a famine against delibe
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by RedCondor 3y ago
It's more than you've got.
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by RedCondor 3y ago
This is just bargain-bin "spraying shit and seeing what sticks." Some falsehoods, some distorsions, most of which are handled superbly by this book chapter on the Khrushchev Report: https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-
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by RedCondor 3y ago
Solzhenitsin's own wife said his book was "folklore," a set of horror stories for Westerners compiled out of the worst hearsay he ever heard about a poor country's prison system: >Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's cont
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by RedCondor 3y ago
The pro-Soviet view is that Katyn was done by the Nazis and blamed on the Soviets after the fact. I've never cared to investigate it in depth. Mass deportations were a sad but not uncommon operation at the time, as seen for example by
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H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (1934)(redsails.org)
77 points by RedCondor 3y ago|47 comments
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by RedCondor 3y ago
"Uyghur Genocide" is as fake as Saddam's WMDs and Gaddafi's "viagra gangs." https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/
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by RedCondor 3y ago
RFA? Come on. >Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of "promoting democratic values and human rights", and countering the narrati
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Water Droplets Drilling Through Rock (1990)(redsails.org)
1 points by RedCondor 4y ago|1 comments
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by RedCondor 4y ago
Reading Xi Jinping is pretty interesting: Upon settling in the countryside, I saw firsthand the power of dripping water drilling through rock. That image, which captured the spirit of persistence, has stayed with me all these years. It has
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by RedCondor 4y ago
Carfascists cause more damage than ecofascists by every measure.
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by RedCondor 4y ago
It's interesting that explorer is like some kind of evil Spanish conquistador chrome is like some kind of terminator and firefox is like a cute, cuddly, endangered fox
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by RedCondor 4y ago
I already explained why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35375320
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by RedCondor 4y ago
I find it interesting/amusing that a lot of the discussion about "China banning Facebook therefore we can ban them too" proceeds kind of ahistorically, as if China had blocked Facebook on a whim. It's also interesting be
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China Blocks Access to Twitter, Facebook After Riots (2009)(techcrunch.com)
3 points by RedCondor 4y ago|3 comments
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by RedCondor 4y ago
It's worth understanding how some people's idea of what is "great" (elite) is formed. Friedrich Nietzsche's endurance as a philosopher is a good index of the popularity of such ideas: >Nobody grows rich or poor a
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by RedCondor 4y ago
Value is a social relation, not an object. It is impossible to design a foolproof "store of value." Money under the mattress is depreciating paper, gold is just a little mineral pebble, fiat money and shares are just contracts, th
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by RedCondor 4y ago
The core absolutely is affected. Total expected compensation includes tips. Employees that don't get what they need will either 1) ask for more salary, 2) work elsewhere, or 3) expose the system as some kind of slavery. Any of these a
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by RedCondor 4y ago
I think you probably should. Then the wait staff would have a big material incentive to turn against management. The whole "spare the edge" attitude just protects the core, which is by definition always protected by its edge.
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Dialectics and “Artificial Intelligence”(redsails.org)
2 points by RedCondor 4y ago|0 comments
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by RedCondor 4y ago
>Theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg had this to say on [the SSC's] cancellation: >>Spending for the Superconducting Super Collider had become a target for a new class of congressmen elected in 1992. They

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