A Canadian member of parliament called Nelson Mandela a terrorist on the floor of parliament.

Because the inflation that’s reported is some artificial measure of consumer prices. Asset price inflation (primarily stocks and real estate) isn’t ever discussed, but it’s also quite important.

By facilitating money to be pumped into the stock and real estate markets via structures like quantitative easing, zero interest rates, and dollars returning from being spent abroad, green line always go up.

This is of course reported as stock and real estate markets performing well, as opposed to when grocery or consumer goods prices go up which is reported as a completely unavoidable economic necessity.

This is super tldr but it’s basically Michael Hudson’s Marxian thesis on superimperialism and modern debt, if you’re interested in learning more. I can also expand on each of the points if you’re interested.

Edit: of course stock buybacks are another big part of why many stocks have performed relatively well in the last decade or so.

The privately owned permanent war economy continues to eat its own tail.

Programmers very often fall into the group of people who are very good at what they do and clueless about everything else, but what they do has a certain level of complexity to make them think they’re super clever and apply this to everything.

The 0.2% of greenhouse gases thing is actually accurate as far as I remember. Various natural systems move a whole lot of carbon around constantly. What isn’t accurate is that humans don’t or even can’t have an effect. The problem arises from the fact that this system is very precariously balanced, indeed perfectly balanced on all but long geologic time scales, so it cannot handle even an additional tiny amount on one side of the scales. Human emissions do pale in comparison to natural emissions, but the natural ones are taken up in some way by other elements of the carbon cycle. Industrial human emissions are not.

Anyway if they’re up to replicating and or peer reviewing climate science all by their uneducated lonesome that’s cool I guess, until then the UN panels on climate change are probably a reasonably trustworthy proxy.

The “harm reduction we just have to get him elected and then we’ll push him left” blue maga president everyone.

Science is not decided in a courtroom.

I’m not sure about clean SS as a whole but a lot of people are trying to give the 14th Galician a clean slate.

What I got out of this was learning that there was a “Nazis in Canada” investigation (Deschênes Commission) in the 1980s which came up with specific names, and those names have not been declassified to this day. The commission also decided the Galician wasn’t responsible for war crimes, even though other nations had already found the SS as a whole guilty in previous decades.

Yet most of the criticism detailed on the Wikipedia page is from Nazi apologists who seem to think that the KGB was making some immigrants in Canada look like Nazis when they supposedly weren’t.

Awesome, thanks! I’ll be sure to make it out to the Sowjetische Ehrenmal.

This looks awesome, thanks!

Politico’s corporate owner Springer likely got seed money from the CIA, in exchange for an uncompromising pro-US perspective.

We decided to archive a bunch of sXs communities a while back and only use c/sls for such content. There should be a couple c/peoplescourt threads on the topic, it must have been early 2023.

Not only did the American ruling class inspire the Nazis, they consciously chose to create the economic conditions that lead to inter-war fascist movements.

The Guardian is about as left wing as the GCHQ is.

The German left is probably as broken and coopted as in the US. Most didn’t even care when a court essentially declared anti-capitalism of any kind unconstitutional by pointing to the constitutions enshrining of property rights.

Say it loud and clear for the colonists and imperialists in Brussels and the national capitals.

Or we flip it on its head and say that the “better potential” the EU sees for non-Europeans is to put them to work for virtually nothing extracting raw materials and producing simple products to keep money flowing into the EU.

Protecting the garden.

The Nazis never lost, they just got slapped on the wrists and were told to be more discreet and tactful about their imperial interests.

Not being directly charged and found guilty isn’t the trump card they think it is. Most Nazis were never punished, many top brass went on to shape the west into what it is today.

Then the US never was.