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gradenko_2000
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I googled Amber just now and she looks nothing at all like I expected.

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Tesseraction posted:

hello library of congress and thank you for your service

I just realized the Library of Congress is going to be documenting SA for longer than Twitter.

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https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/951726240091852800

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Irma lent new urgency to a plan, called Tarea Vida, or Project Life, adopted last spring by Cuba’s Council of Ministers. A decade in the making, the program bans construction of new homes in threatened coastal areas, mandates relocating people from communities doomed by rising sea levels, calls for an overhaul of the country’s agricultural system to shift crop production away from saltwater-contaminated areas, and spells out the need to shore up coastal defenses, including by restoring degraded habitat. “The overarching idea,” says Salabarría Fernández, “is to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities.”

But the cash-strapped government had made little headway. Now, “Irma [has] indicated to everybody that we need to implement Tarea Vida in a much more rapid way,” says Orlando Rey Santos, head of the environment division at Cuba’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (CITMA) here, which is spearheading the project. The government aims to spend at least $40 million on Project Life this year, and it has approached overseas donors for help. Italy was the first to respond, pledging $3.4 million to the initiative in November 2017. A team of Cuban experts has just finished drafting a $100 million proposal that the government plans to submit early this year to the Global Climate Fund, an international financing mechanism set up under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Many countries with vulnerable coastlines are contemplating similar measures, and another island nation—the Seychelles— has offered to collaborate on boosting coastal protection in Cuba. But Project Life stands out for taking a long view: It intends to prepare Cuba for climatological impacts over the next century. “It’s impressive,” says marine scientist David Guggenheim, president of Ocean Doctor, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., that has projects in Cuba. “Cuba is an unusual country in that they actually respect their scientists, and their climate change policy is science driven.”

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GalacticAcid posted:

Cuba rules and should be the baseline model for any socialist.

Nordic worship is for liberals, sorry.

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Plutonis posted:

Has any nation seriously tried Strasserism. Just bringing the idea forward.

I looked this up and it doesn't seem so bad? Like, any overthrow of Capitalism is necessarily going to intersect with a lot of moneyed interests anyway.

hmmm okay the Nazi adjacency is bad, disregard

gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Jan 13, 2018

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GunnerJ posted:

The first google result is the Wikipedia article beginning with "Strasserism (German: Strasserismus or Straßerismus) is a strand of Nazism..." and the second is Stormfront.

So I guess I am kinda curious where you looked this up?

I was basing my initial impression off of a Hearts of Iron mod that allowed Germany to switch to it, which in retrospect was probably not the most unbiased source.

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Enjoy posted:

Thought you meant FDR for a minute

FDR "won" World War 2 only in the sense that Mariano Rivera "won" baseball games.

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Enjoy posted:

To make it easier for you to understand, America had more manpower and IC left after the peace deal fired

No duh? America never had to fight on her own soil, so it's kind of obvious that they'd have a lot more industry and manpower left-over, but to credit them with "won the bloodiest existential war of all time" is a huge stretch considering that not only did they come in at the tail-end of the conflict to clean-up after the Soviets had already done the brunt of the fighting, it wasn't even existential for them in the least.

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Work Friend Keven posted:

Your argument is that USA didn’t win world war 2 because they didn’t lose as much as the soviets? Hmm,

My argument is that Nazi Germany wasn't some DOTA 2 creep, and the US shouldn't get credit for last-hitting them.

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https://twitter.com/RedKahina/status/953471662627938304

uhhhh why is this extremely online person denying that the Bosnian genocide happened? Is it because it makes Communist Yugoslavia look bad?

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Impermanent posted:

who are the people denying the rohingya genocide and why are they doing it? my local org is doing some outreach to the local rohingya and some rando yt sent us a weird message about it not being a thing.

My own experience with this suggests that one angle is that the Rohingya were never actually native to the Rakhine state, that they were instead "Chittagongian Bengali migrants" who came to Rakhine after the British annexed the region.

It's not a genocide so much as Myanmar repelling an invasion.

As to why, it's to justify continuing to do what Myanmar is doing.

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https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom/status/955430355955257344

gradenko_2000
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does the left in Russia have any kind of power at all? have the events of 2016 and onwards mobilized them relative to UK Labour or the DSA?

gradenko_2000
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While I don't disagree with WSWS being not-good, I also don't think we should take it for granted that Noam Chomsky can also have bad opinions.

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https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/963465580157243392
https://twitter.com/PatrickStotz/status/963710834559127552

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HorrificExistence posted:

wait where is this joke about DSA being all moles coming from

1. Danny Fetonte was a cop that managed to get into a leadership position that couldn't easily remove him from
2. The FBI has a habit of trying to infiltrate leftist organizations

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https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/965358298185785344

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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:

Isn't stein awful too? I think there's no good options here

wow look at this sexist BernieBro who won't support a woman candidate for President

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Rated PG-34 posted:

the antivaxx thing was a smear though the recount was dum and a waste of money

fleecing shitlibs is extremely good

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Larry Parrish posted:

People think its 'leftist' because its anti-capitalist but you could say the same about monarchists. Not that reducing environmental damage is bad, though.

I think it's more that leftism acknowledges that Capitalism is wrecking the environment and that leftist policies are necessarily, if not explicitly, going to be environmental anyway.

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he's not wrong

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

There's also Monica Moorehead of the unreconstructed Stalinist Workers World Party (WWP) if you want to vote for the tankie.

quote:

Workers World Party (WWP) is a revolutionary Marxist–Leninist communist party in the United States,[1] founded in 1959 by a group led by Sam Marcy of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).[2] Marcy and his followers split from the United States SWP in 1958 over a series of long-standing differences, among them Marcy's group's support for Henry A. Wallace's Progressive Party in 1948, the positive view they held of the Chinese Revolution led by Mao Zedong and their defense of the 1956 Soviet intervention in Hungary, all of which the SWP opposed.

:allears: literally tankies :allears:

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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/967031288283779072

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Support of imperial Japan as a counter foil to white supremacy was a commonly held black American attitude.

were they called Tora Tora Tories?

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https://twitter.com/NatalieRevolts/status/969757320753434624

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240kg bombs can't melt steel deck armor

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https://twitter.com/americas_crimes/status/970099274175385600

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

read settlers, or play settlers of cataan?

play settlers

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https://twitter.com/ciccmaher/status/975745163577516032

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After all, [Henri] Falcon is up against not just a powerful President Nicolas Maduro but also an election system widely considered unfair and an opposition boycott that will deprive him of votes.

And yet, a clutch of opinion polls show Falcon ahead, bolstering his campaign mantra that he is a natural transition candidate with appeal to a moderate majority fed up with political polarization and economic chaos.

Widely-followed pollster Datanalisis, for example, put him more than 10 percentage points ahead in voter intentions.

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In line with his promise of a government of “national unity”, Falcon is reaching out to opposition leaders like former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles to relax the boycott and join his campaign.

He has picked a Wall Street bank analyst, Francisco Rodriguez, to head his economic team.

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Falcon, whose energy is evident in his daily pre-dawn jogs, plans to start street campaigning in the next few days. He vows to keep popular welfare benefits but also open Venezuela’s economy along more business-friendly lines.

His adviser Rodriguez recommends dollarizing the economy, seeking $15-20 billion in annual foreign funding, lowering taxes for oil investors, and dismantling currency controls.

Falcon faces a tough job persuading western nations to withdraw their objections to the May 20 vote.

The United States has been vociferous, threatening to extend sanctions on the Maduro government to hit the oil sector if it goes ahead with what critics are calling a “coronation” on May 20.

Its top diplomat in Venezuela, Todd Robinson, met with Falcon recently, sources close to the candidate said, trying to persuade him to withdraw as his challenge was undermining U.S. efforts to isolate Maduro.

Washington seems to be calculating that if Maduro scores a Pyrrhic victory, and is left governing a ravaged economy, military and social pressure will become unbearable.

“If Maduro wins, as looks likely, it will be a very unstable government,” said Caracas-based consultant Dimitris Pantoulas. “At home, he is flirting with a coup d’etat and abroad he will be a pariah.”

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lollontee posted:

i think i might be missing the joke, but aren't all those things... good?

the "joke" seems to be that none of these people are contemplating blue-collar work?

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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

its the stupid cosplay ridiculousness of discussing how youre going to be a gulag guard after The Revolution

yeah okay I guess we can't all be gulag guards, fine

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Plutonis posted:

I'd work as a retard masturbator

:airquote: work :airquote:

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A lot of the cosplayers I follow on IG have since started "lewd patreons" and I think that might say something about the economy.

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Aaaand I just got banned from r/communism101 for saying Mikhail Tukhachevsky didn't deserve to get shot.

you're not wrong

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R. Guyovich posted:

Hey thread, any discussion forums where my specific brand of leftism is the norm? Wouldn't want someone making fun of me for thinking the US military is socialist.

https://twitter.com/firstworldtakes/status/979475272188575744

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https://twitter.com/ComradeJeb1/status/980210150509305856

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platzapS posted:

This isn’t true! People do change their minds when exposed to new ideas, it just doesn’t happen immediately. Plant seeds of doubt without being an rear end in a top hat or expecting overnight conversion.

Yeah I have to agree with this. When people aren't as far gone as "communists are the same as ISIS and feminazis" or other such nonsense, it's possible to find common ground and have a conversation. You already said that your friend has a somewhat consistent moral standard, so I think that, if you want to continue having a discussion in this space, you can do things like unpacking why left-wing governments still end up in totalitarian straits, or examine why they think that central planning equates to more culpability for deaths than pursuing market-based solutions (especially when the latter is also done deliberately anyway).

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I went from

gradenko_2000 posted:

Plutonis posted:

Has any nation seriously tried Strasserism. Just bringing the idea forward.

I looked this up and it doesn't seem so bad? Like, any overthrow of Capitalism is necessarily going to intersect with a lot of moneyed interests anyway.

hmmm okay the Nazi adjacency is bad, disregard

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