Was that the old woman who threw the coffee? I saw the video on Telegram.

Edit: yes it was

I’m sure the ADL is gonna swoop in an try to make her seem like the victim, somehow. And the media will buy it.

DID THEY GET HIS SPERM IN TIME?!

I have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL:

Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare.

Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie.

Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say.

But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.

Maybe it’s just a matter of degrees. In the past, before the end of Top Gear and when they moved on to Amazon, I feel there was a certain unseriousness to his buffoonery. It was a role he played up, but more or less silly.

In recent years it feels like he’s taken the “character” of Clarkson and absorbed him fully and made this character into a much worse version.

(And to be clear, I’m only talking about Clarkson the performer, he definitely was always a huge asshole irl)

Top Gear used to be my favorite show but I can’t even watch their old episodes anymore because Clarkson has become such an insufferable bell end.

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think Russia should (and probably will) see it more as a red guideline or at the very least not respond in an equivalent way, just enough to express displeasure.

It’s the right move too IMO because Russia is winning and winning at a pace not yet seen before. To use a sports analogy, what NATO is doing now is the thing where you’re down 2-0 and time is running out; so you start chirping at the other team and playing dirty to get them off their game and maybe get them to draw a foul. Of course the right thing for the team in the lead is to swallow your pride and ignore it; stay on your game because if you do, you win. The only way Russia can lose right now is if NATO gets significantly more involved, and they can’t do that without some sort of fig leaf casus belli. That’s what NATO is trying to do with the DPRK troops thing, but rightly no one is buying it. Russia cannot give NATO anything they can use as a reason to get involved.

As much as I would love to see Ansarallah get some really good anti-ship missiles, the US is likely going to see that as a massive escalation. Russia would be an accomplice in potentially sinking an American capital ship. I don’t think just hitting Kursk would be seen as “equivalent”. There’s definitely a time and place up the escalation ladder for giving Ansarallah those missiles, but I don’t think we’re quite there yet.

Eh he’s pretty funny in Community.

The Anti-Empire Project Gaza / Lebanon War 406 / 60: Genocide intensifies, war escalates

This is Justin Podur’s channel, and here he’s discussing things with Jon Elmer. Justin and Jon are my two favorite (English-language) sources for finding out about what’s happening militarily on the ground in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank. I’ve only just started watching but I will highly recommend this video in advance, it will be a good use of time to watch it.

Do we have any users here in The Netherlands? I’m curious to know how this Israeli football hooligan story is playing out with more non-political folks or those who at least didn’t stake out a position on Palestine before. From what little bits and pieces I have heard, it appears that no one is buying the story that the government and the media are pushing, and quite a few “normal” people are taking notice.

I get where you are coming from, I experienced something similar. It wasn’t so much that I desired meat, because I didn’t really. I was ready to give it up. It was more that I just didn’t know how to replace all the meat I would normally consume. Like, it would be time make dinner and I would just sorta blank out and have no idea what to make because I was so used to basing meals (dinner especially) around meat.

If that describes your situation, then I would suggest a 2 step process:

1. Go online and try to grab as many interesting vegan recipes that you can find. Even just pictures of vegan food can open up ideas.

2. Invest time, if you are able, in planning out each of your meals for the week or even just the next couple days. If you have a plan and have all the ingredients set up in advance, I think you’ll find it’s much easier.

An additional tip if you happen to live in a larger city with vegan restaurants… see if they will sell you their “meat” separately. For example, one of my local places will let you buy any of the vegan “meats” they make by the pound, but they don’t advertise it. It’s a great replacement for lunch meat. You could just email them and see if they would do it. I find most vegan restaurants are pretty cool about stuff like that.

Justin Podur is great, I follow him and Jon Elmer from The Electronic Intifada as closely as I can. Between the two of them I feel like I get an as-good-as-is-possible understanding of the situation on the ground (and occasionally they each show up on the others’ media).

Not that I rewatch Games of Thrones really but I would always watch that intro, and got unreasonably excited when some new region was “unlocked”.

Come out ye black and tans!

I remember a podcast where Michael Hudson was dunking on Krugman, it was something pretty basic lIRC Krugman was talking about trade deficits as if they’re the only source of currency imbalances between countries i.e. completely ignoring government transactions for example.

This comes from a very Atlas Shrugged-style view of reality. That all government workers are parasites who literally do not work; they sit around and laugh about how they’re paid to do nothing all day.

Unironically this is what Che thought even revolutionaries should do, that being stuck in a “desk” job disconnects you from the work being done so you need to get your hands dirty. The man himself would go and just cut sugarcane in the fields some days.

I believe Kurvitz is involved in a project in London called “Red Info” but there’s no information about it at all. He’s also currently involved in the “original” lawsuit so it’s certainly possible at the end of the day that Kurvitz will get ZA/UM (or what’s left of it) and Disco Elysium back. There was a woman on the DE sub a couple months back who was at a restaurant in Estonia where Kurvitz was eating with his mom. She overheard him say the lawsuit trial was “going well”. She asked him for a picture with her and he obliged, so it’s not like she made up the story from whole cloth.

We often talk about drip here. Of course, drip is subjective (I love my boy Kim but his style is not for me). But my word do I love the Yemeni drip of a sport coat or blazer over a robe and a scarf. I want to go there, wear that getup, and drink coffee with some Ansar Allah folks while we all talk about death to America. Of all the clothing styles in all the world, this is my favorite rn.

I also think some of it is simple wishcasting. Americans (whether we’re talking about professional economists or Joe Six Pack) cannot wrap their heads around the idea of China not only growing how it has, but even moreso the idea that there is nothing the west can do to stop China’s economy from lapping us. We’ve been checkmated. Saying China’s economy is doing bad is just cope. Any bad news gets latched onto like a bone a dog won’t let go of.

I do wonder how Americans will react when the average person in China undeniably has a better quality of life than the average American (we may already be there afaik, but it’s not readily apparent if so)