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sometimes I think the people in this thread are so childish. I'm almost certain none of you knew anything about british guyana, and he did a good job teaching about it. so he's not ideologically perfect, it's something to complain about? it's really pathetic if you're so shallow in your beliefs that you can't even listen to someone tell you about something new if they're not ideologically pure enough.
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NoModsNoMasters69 posted:sometimes I think the people in this thread are so childish. I'm almost certain none of you knew anything about british guyana, and he did a good job teaching about it. so he's not ideologically perfect, it's something to complain about? it's really pathetic if you're so shallow in your beliefs that you can't even listen to someone tell you about something new if they're not ideologically pure enough. 
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NoModsNoMasters69 posted:sometimes I think the people in this thread are so childish. I'm almost certain none of you knew anything about british guyana, and he did a good job teaching about it. so he's not ideologically perfect, it's something to complain about? it's really pathetic if you're so shallow in your beliefs that you can't even listen to someone tell you about something new if they're not ideologically pure enough. Pretty much everyone seemed to be saying good interview but lol at those specific parts?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I really hate how the new guest keeps harping on the invasion of Hungary and Guyana being the "ugliest incidents" of the Cold War. I know what he's getting at but it's impossible for me to not think of Korea & Vietnam, or Afghanistan. to me the closest comparison is Indonesia, which is pretty indisputably worse than what happened in Guyana, and this guest seemed to have no awareness of it.
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This Guyana ep is fantastic fair play. I only got angry about 100 times!
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Good newsletter. I do get mad about the patreon tracking links though, sucks a lot.Mark Ames posted:As RWN guest Ryan Grim discovered at The Intercept, in 2022, the US engineered a coup in Pakistan in cahoots with the country’s military, overthrowing its democratically elected leader, Imran Khan, over Ukraine. Khan refused to join Biden’s economic war against Russia following the February 2022 invasion, and so Biden collapsed Pakistan’s democracy. After the US helped overthrow Imran Khan, another secret deal was worked out with our friends in the Pakistan military to secretly ship Pakistan weapons to Ukraine, in exchange for the US green-lighting an IMF multi-billion dollar bailout for Pakistan. genericnick has issued a correction as of 11:37 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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looks like all the links in the newsletters go to a patreon URL which then redirects you to the intended site. The URL is just a hash so you can't easily scrape out the redirect. Given how long the hash is I presume it's a unique identifier for each recipient, and if you're subscribed to this then patreon has your real name and billing info to match up with the links you click 
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Clark Nova posted:looks like all the links in the newsletters go to a patreon URL which then redirects you to the intended site. The URL is just a hash so you can't easily scrape out the redirect. Given how long the hash is I presume it's a unique identifier for each recipient, and if you're subscribed to this then patreon has your real name and billing info to match up with the links you click yeah, it’s so you can compare your metrics all on Patreon, rather than having to build your own. this has both good and bad points from the perspective of the person using the metrics—it’s nice to have it all in one place, but it can also get you into a silo where you can only work off their metrics and hope they’re being accurate and honest
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NoModsNoMasters69 posted:sometimes I think the people in this thread are so childish. I'm almost certain none of you knew anything about british guyana, and he did a good job teaching about it. so he's not ideologically perfect, it's something to complain about? it's really pathetic if you're so shallow in your beliefs that you can't even listen to someone tell you about something new if they're not ideologically pure enough. I am a Jamaican citizen so I'm pretty sure I'm the closest person to a SME on this topic He was goofy but the US and UK turning Guyana into a racial hellzone is one of the top crimes they did.
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I asked my Trinidadian dad what he thought of the guy and he said “oh he was a communist so that’s why the US never really let him do anything”
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this episode on haiti rocks my socks. excellent, excellent episode, and very enlightening about how a lot of the "soft power" sausage is actually made
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"we have a lot of pedants listening" lol
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beer gas canister posted:"we have a lot of pedants listening" lol 
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genericnick posted:Good newsletter. I do get mad about the patreon tracking links though, sucks a lot. its interesting to see how ames's view of the intercept and its work seems to have shifted over time, considering how much they poo poo on it during the exiled/nsfwcorp days and wrote the whole thing off as a cia cutout.
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post hole digger posted:its interesting to see how ames's view of the intercept and its work seems to have shifted over time, considering how much they poo poo on it during the exiled/nsfwcorp days and wrote the whole thing off as a cia cutout. I don't think they shat on it on being CIA as much as it was funded by EBay founder Pierre Omidyar
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Plutonis posted:I don't think they shat on it on being CIA as much as it was funded by EBay founder Pierre Omidyar pierre, and his connections to groups like usaid, is why they were calling it a cia cut out
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post hole digger posted:pierre, and his connections to groups like usaid, is why they were calling it a cia cut out It's more like a CIA public private partnership (like a lot of things, really). Always thought it appeared as a front against the wikileaks phenomenon. The Snowden stuff was certainly a lot more under control, as far as I know the majority of the files he provided are still locked somewhere in a vault, but that doesn't mean the people working there don't believe in what they're doing. At some point management will stomp them though. Maybe they already are? https://twitter.com/InterceptUnion/status/1615386914739077121
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What the gently caress lol a HOI4 mod I follow (Cold War: The Iron Curtain) is adding Mark Ames in the future as a General/Advisor for Limonov if he manages to get in power in Russia
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Plutonis posted:What the gently caress lol a HOI4 mod I follow (Cold War: The Iron Curtain) is adding Mark Ames in the future as a General/Advisor for Limonov if he manages to get in power in Russia what advisor bonuses / general stats does he have
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Limonov as an alternative to Brezhnev would be pretty funny.
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Lmao, Daesh. Also how they clearly had already completely given up on that guy explaining the acronyms.
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Plutonis posted:What the gently caress lol a HOI4 mod I follow (Cold War: The Iron Curtain) is adding Mark Ames in the future as a General/Advisor for Limonov if he manages to get in power in Russia that's awesome lol
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Plutonis posted:What the gently caress lol a HOI4 mod I follow (Cold War: The Iron Curtain) is adding Mark Ames in the future as a General/Advisor for Limonov if he manages to get in power in Russia lmfao
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Radio War Cabinet Nerd
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The IS-K episode is great and I'm glad that it's saying what we're all thinking.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The IS-K episode is great and I'm glad that it's saying what we're all thinking. Other than "isis k is a cia cut out that attacks America's enemies" (duh) I really struggled to understand most of it. The guy just said so much and assumed so much knowledge from me the viewer
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It was definitely a "gotta listen to this one a second time" for me as well but I thought it was good. Like everything made sense in isolation it was just a lot... and unfortunately on some topics you don't really know much of anything unless you know a lot.
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the tl;dr that i got from the is-k episode was that IS-K and the occupation regime had a lot of semi-formal contact and some quite open collaboration at times. the impression was that the afghan occupation regime found IS-K a useful wedge group to wield against the emirate, since IS-K could plausibly claim an alternative mantle for the title of "most murderously sectarian". the idea seems to have been to divide and conquer. additionally, the ISI seems to have been pretty close with IS-K and there's at least some circumstantial evidence that the US have been providing them with direct support on some occasions they're probably not directly controlled by the CIA or anything like that, but the case for there being some fairly meaty links between the occupation regime (and, by extension, the americans/NATO) and IS-K sounded very strong
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beer gas canister posted:"we have a lot of pedants listening" lol ladies and gentlemen, we got him 
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lmao, poor bastard is gonna have that line put back at him till his dying days
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It's regrettable but he has to run the gauntlet now. Everyone get your canes.
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"The buzzards might gag, but they will always feast." is a banger final line though
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incase anyone wants to lol @ some libs, there's a live oneConsolidated Ed posted:stop recommended mark ames poo poo you dumbshit, hes a rapist. he and matt taibbi cowrote The Exile while raping their way across eastern europe. hes a huge piece of poo poo and i dont understand why people havent thrown him in a dark hole yet.
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