There’s definitely a ‘divide and conquer’ aspect to it imho — you’ll notice that ‘working class’ never makes it into the list of liberal ‘identities’, apart from as shorthand for ‘low-information reactionary’ — but you have to be careful, because people often use ‘class first’ politics as a fig leaf for actual reactionary positions.

It’s something I’ve wrestled with a lot over the years, and what I’ve settled on is:

• Class must come first. The prime ‘identity’ must be ‘worker’
• But this should cash out as e.g. “I believe that workers have the right to express their gender identity however they damned well please.”
• And the concept of work needs to be expanded beyond that which is rewarded under capitalism: caring for children is work, living with disability is work etc

Tbh even if there was sufficient political will to pivot to China (there is some, and it is growing), people underestimate just how entangled European military structures are with the US via NATO. This is by design of course, and a situation EU atlanticists have historically been very happy with, but pulling out is no small ask.

Pirate because you just want to list all available movies in ascending order of runtime

Wew birds is wimmin, guv’nor

I use stow and it does the job get nicely, but it’s possible that there’s a better option these days

This is such important work o7

I would wait until it’s out on physical or streaming tbh. Sometimes you get lucky and there’s a press or awards release before then, but they’re often annoyingly watermarked. Once it hits streaming you only have to wait as long as it takes for someone to rip it

‘intent’ is a bit of a devious notion in this context though, isn’t it? Whose intent?

We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days.

We didn’t have these when the current global power structure was established. We didn’t have AK-47S either, and much of the world had yet to industrialize. It was a very specific context.

A global hegemon on the scale of the British and then US empire is kind of a blip historically though — it’s not obvious that another state will continue in the same role

I love the use of screen tones on the waterfall one

Tony Blair was a trot, Keir Starmer was a trot. I feel like this says a lot lol

They have to work with Adobe. Or any of the big musical instrument sample libraries.

Quite possibly. Pink and green is right — it looks like a nineties music video lol. I’ll pay closer attention to the filename next time it happens (it all comes in via *arr, you see), and maybe I can find a way to filter them out of the searches…

I’m glad this brings you joy, but

Keyboard-driven workflow

is not something I’m looking for when I unwind with a movie

I tried using Gmail through Thunderbird, but the problem is that the filtering is web UI only

Resistance to Israel in the west has historically been spearheaded by anti-zionist jewish orgs. The main failure of the Western left wrt Israel was that we didn’t listen to these comrades when they sounded the alarm about e.g. the IHRA definition of antisemitism

Damages your enamel too…

What is the deal with Ukrainian Nazis anyway — do they see themselves as not Slavic or something?

Is this a bit

It’s often used misleadingly. For example, in an election in a de facto two-party system, it’s often said that you should vote for ‘the lesser evil’, but this presumes that your vote will decide the result of the election, which it clearly won’t. Thinking e.g. “the Dems winning would be the lesser evil compared to the Republicans winning, and I’m voting third party (or spoiling or even abstaining)” is therefore entirely coherent imho.

I would like to see it used more to describe political situations outside of the West tbh. When we talk about x regime, it should always be ‘compared to what’. But of course, no-one cares about ‘lesser evils’ in this context, which I think says a lot.