Recently, I had a conversation with someone in academic circles who argued that figures like Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, and Noam Chomsky cannot be spreading russian propaganda — because they well educated.
That argument is flawed.
Here is why: open.substack.com/pub/romanshe...
GEN. PETRAEUS: The real test case is not Iran, it is Ukraine. That’s the cutting edge. That’s the laboratory for the future of war.
And it already has hints of what’s really coming, which will be truly threatening: autonomous systems, not just remotely piloted ones.
The 1st step to confronting kremlin's aggression is to stop being surprised by it.
A war crimes tribunal for the perpetrators & decades of reckoning for the society that bought the lies, cheered the war at worst, and chose apathy at best, that's the only known antidote to the banality of evil.
16/17
Trump’s former Whitehouse lawyer….
“I don’t think anyone outside the United States thinks Trump is sane”
Peter Magyar announced that CPAC Hungary and the rightwing Mathias Corvinus Collegium will no longer receive funds from the Hungarian state, and there will be investigations into the use of state funds to finance them. This is the end of the two biggest rightwing numbskull factories in Europe. 😎
Yup. Multicauses/Omnicauses are something for political parties. The tragic case of FFF showed that trying to get two broadly orthogonal causes under one hat leads to fracturing within weeks and massive loss of political momentum.
just as a matter of fact, regardless of the moral rights or wrongs, effective political advocacy groups are almost always tightly focused on a single issue.
May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.
I'm watching the Hermitcraft charity stream and they are reading out donation names for one of the segments... and some people put their donation name as "Jesus is Lord" or "Christ is King." What do they hope that accomplishes?
"Voting doesn't work" motherfuckers! Watch as enough people vote to literally rewrite a constitution! Watch and fucking seethe!!!!
I’m actually pretty stoked for Viktor Orban to lose his election in a week. Will be very satisfying.
Good thread.
And yes, this is how good journalism works.
Why don't we chant that everywhere Trump goes?
I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.
This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.
It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences
Bring back Ostracon, let him stay in Moscow.
Hasan Piker is showing us what genuine left-wing illiberalism looks like www.thebulwark.com/p/why-democr...
OMFG
This makes me want to cry & puke
RFK Jr used to host his own truly vile, anti-vaxx, anti-science podcast laden with kooky conspiracy theories
Now he'll be doing the same but it will be a GOVERNMENT PODCAST (an HHS podcast), amplifying the danger/damage even further
apnews.com/article/rfk-...
Because evidently the MLists & Maoists found this, this is not a statement about resisting unjust power - not that Mao was concerned with that - but that maybe the Maoist strategy where you make conflict into a contest of national will, with civilians as a resource to expend, is bad to embrace.
Hopefully it will not only activate more opposition to Victor Orban but also will kill JD Vance's political career. He's a traitor.
The fact that Donald Trump didn’t follow through on his threats of committing genocide doesn’t mean we should move on from the fact that he threatened to commit genocide.
To understand the russian information war, read Mehdi Hasan's attack on President Zelenskyy,in which he establishes a false equivalence between Iran and Ukraine👇
Authoritarian dictatorships are weaponising the concept of international humanitarian law and using it to attack Western democracies.
Calling for the erasure of a civilization is dangerous and unhinged coming from any leader, let alone an American President. It is not a tactic. It is not a joke.
America is not at war with the Iranian people. (1/2)
I believe that if we are going to be rescued from both WWIII and climate breakdown, #Ukraine and its allies will be the ones doing it.
medusaglare › Artemis I| 7h @ Threads i thought i stopped caring about space. turns out I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA. • 18.3K Q145 G807ł → 143
Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.
My politics currently have two non-negotiable "litmus" tests:
1. Do they deny climate change?
2. Do they make excuses for Russia's invasion?
Anyone who fails either is dead to me.
A third is along these lines: Have they have clearly and knowingly lied about something to push an agenda?
Hasan Piker fans acting surprised that those who dedicated the last 4 years of their life supporting Ukraine hate him.... seriously?
Hasan spent the last 4 years amplifying Russian propaganda. He is widely disliked by people in our circles.
It is bad enough to say this about immigrants. It's worse to say it about diasporas or expelled populations of refugees who truly have no homeland. At that point, I believe it is an eradicationist sentiment, and not merely reactionary.
East Africa would get very crowded, too. Just sayin.
Fact-checked: TRUE!
