davel

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[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the opposite of fascism being “deeply entrenched” anywhere in the USSR during it’s existence.

I didn’t catch the “in the USSR” part. It was entrenched on the other side of the Iron Curtain, with great effort from the US military-intelligence-industrial complex. Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

👆 History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

FAFO aside, this couldn’t happen to nicer finance industry ghouls 🔎~🎻~

Edit to add: Dollars to donuts the US government prints money to make them whole.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I guess the RVC members are known, so they can’t easily be retooled as a stay-behind paramilitary inside the future rump state of Eastern Ukraine? Would they Ukrainianize themselves, would Western Ukraine integrate them, or else where would they go?

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Incidentally, Yanis Varoufakis (who has a few mentions on ProleWiki) co-wrote a book in 2004: Game Theory: A Critical Text

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I fucking love Fage Greek yogurt, but it’s pricey. Making it myself never occurred to me.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

That’s what I used, too, though it was a decade ago.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

It is difficult to get a liberal academic to understand something when their tenure depends upon them not understanding it.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 months ago

I think this article from a US NGO (Global Energy Monitor) provides overwhelming evidence that they already are.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

oxidation/reduction

I’ve always found this is one fascinating, as if to live at all is to perpetually play with fire, flirting with death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Thanks for being a shitcommenter, @freagle@lemmygrad.ml :P

 

An excellent Critical Theory Workshop lecture and Q&A on fascisms and liberalisms—contemporary but also historical—through a dialiectical materialist lens.

 

Found via Jamie Zawinski (“JWZ”): Thread federation

This is a great (long) look at the issues around federating between Mastodon and Threads from several angles, and manages to do so without letting the white-hot rage at Zuckerberg's fetid empire shine through and overpower the discussion of practical considerations.

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