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    3 days ago

    The attempt to staple the Ukraine issue to Palestine was cynical from the start, comparing a response to 10 years of US-funded terror bombing + pillaging against DPR & LPR to the latest offensive in a war of extermination the Israelis are devoted to for the existence of their settler state and the interest of the US ruling class that enables it. The equivocation being made there runs along with the narrative of the orgs that try to paint the AoR as divided & endangering Palestinians, such as Al Jazeera and much of the Western alternative media

    They boil down the differences of the conflicts & the combatants to “people talk about Ukraine too much and Palestine not enough” - and this rarely includes any actual critique of the media outlets & NGOs that funnel money to Nazi mercenaries in broad daylight despite masquerading as media critique

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      3 days ago

      modeled after “anti-disinformation” rules that were crafted by the NATOid security racket

      Indeed. Previously:

      The new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula won’t teach [real media literacy] to you either, because it was paid for and crafted by the US military-industrial complex: New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’. This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

      The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”

      Also previously.

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        Nice ty RAND will post a lot of junk in between the full scale admissions of fucking up a proxy war or being vastly behind in refueling capacity to go to war with China directly, I often miss this kind of thing

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      Well I wasn’t trying to connect them, just showing how my attitude changed with each and thinking if mine can, others can, but I hope this situation in Ukraine doesn’t drag out that long. I suppose it depends on how long my compatriots are willing to sit and fret while convincing themselves the incremental sacrifices now cost less than the bigger, more sudden sacrifices later but we’ll see, if there’s not a global MAD until then.

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        I take the whole nuclear conflagration thing a lot less seriously than I should these days. It’s drummed up a lot by the antiwar left in the imperial core countries, along with the psychological health of veterans, and the national debt. I just can’t take the atomic clock seriously knowing it’s used to pressure against nuclear proliferation that is more likely to restrain the USA than anything.

        But yeah personally I think the simplest path for a lot of people is save up money and move out of the increasingly risky US system rather than pouring money into the US housing market (which is unfortunately the same direction the social democrat wage struggle heads). It’s personally fraught and generationally insane, I wouldn’t condemn a child to the US so uhhh yeah I just left lol

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            Hey it’s actually possible on a modest salary, you just need to a pick a country that pays its workers and will let you in

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                Working on a thing about this I will tag you when I post it. It relates to the current discourse about the labor aristocracy: worker politics in the imperial core are just about gaining faster access to the housing market 90% of the time without any regard for immigrants, the under- & unemployed, and without any considerstion at all of the global periphery. When there are reverse transplants from the core to the periphery (instead of petit boug in the periphery making enough money to come to the US) it’s done in a way where people exploit currency exchange rates to live without working the rest of their lives. (So becoming more bourgeois is almost always a retirement goal for core workers)

                So this will be a guide for how not to be a shitty expat and actually integrate

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                  That sounds great! Giving back is important to me, whether time, energy, money, food, or some combination. Not exactly sure what that looks like as I age, but I’m sure it will sort.

                  Thanks so much.

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                  I would love to read something like this, just as a curiosity. I fully intend to stick around and fight beside my comrades that can’t or won’t leave. But of course I have no kids and don’t plan to.

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                    How to deal with the proletarianization of the US is an intimidating subject that communists basically have to tread into completely alone, it’s hard work, there is no alt media or quirked up social science journal that can chart the course. Putting the escape hatch issue to bed should be a lot easier than that