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  • Apr 13, 2022
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    glenn greenwald not be a petty b**** on twitter for 10 minutes challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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    krishna bound
    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1514275222995841029

    glenn greenwald not be a petty b**** on twitter for 10 minutes challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

    I remember i didn't rly keep up w glenn for a while and then i tuned back in and he went from respectable investigative journalist to some typa stupidpol schizoposter all of a sudden, crayz

  • Apr 13, 2022
    Scratchin Mamba

    I remember i didn't rly keep up w glenn for a while and then i tuned back in and he went from respectable investigative journalist to some typa stupidpol schizoposter all of a sudden, crayz

    he's way worse than anyone on places like stupidpol. glenn now reminds me of those "radical centrist" fence sitter "rationalist" youtubers from the early 2010s who would claim to be "classical liberals" and then spend hours s***ting on Islam for being incompatible with the west or whatever, it's a very similar type of outward hostility while at the same time both saying and representating very little ideologically. "the left has gone too far these days!" - guy who has never spoken to a union member in his life

  • Apr 13, 2022
    Lein

    I think the reason why the Latin american countries didn't get that same allowance was because their objective was primarily exploitation not state craft. East Asia wasn't a critical economic region for them the way Latin America was.

    I think they had just as much if not even more say in East Asia at least at the beginning since the US military had hundreds of thousands of troops stationed there while in LatAm their influence was mostly by proxy. They could've set a policy similar to the LatAm one, but it would have been counterproductive because theres no economic incentive and the security aspect requires a different approach. 1. The raw materials that those LatAm puppet states were singularly structured around extracting werent there in Korea or Singapore. 2. Like you mentioned the specter of Communism is much realer in East Asia, the instability and economic weakness that comes with a 50s Cuba type of state makes it a terrible buffer state especially when it's so close to the USSR and China.

    Thinking about Africa again I'm leaning towards the explanation of neocolonialism and the structural adjustments you mentioned.

    Yeah I agree in short their interests in Latam were more based on short term corporate interests and East Asia more ideological and geopolitical.

  • Apr 13, 2022
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    krishna bound
    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1514275222995841029

    glenn greenwald not be a petty b**** on twitter for 10 minutes challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

    social media gave this guy brain damage fr

  • Apr 13, 2022
    Scratchin Mamba

    Much of Africa did develop for a while until the late 70s, much of it was undone by the third world debt crisis

    According to Howard Nicholas, that growth was dependent on the Four Asian Tiger's rapid industrialization which drove up demand for cheap commodities and you can see the same thing in the last ~20 years with Chinese industrialization and African exports

  • Apr 13, 2022
    p apollo

    social media gave this guy brain damage fr

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    this is A+ level satire

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    Turned off every single news outlet from the west. I’m not even curious as to what they’re saying or what new fake China or Ukraine narrative they’re constructing. Only a headache at this point. God I f***ing hate liberals with every fiber of my being

  • Apr 14, 2022
    fun guy

    this is A+ level satire

    https://twitter.com/Toobs42213895/status/1514173393238585348

    People who attribute everything to """"culture""""" irritate me so much, it's indistinguishable from racializing things but either they're too cowardly or dumb to see it

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    Deleting twitter too. Someone please keep this thread updated with Chen Weihua nukes

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    This article about African development is great, compares it to East Asian development which is just what I was looking for. @Scratchin_Bandit you might be interested
    newleftreview.org/issues/ii15/articles/giovanni-arrighi-the-african-crisis

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    snickarn

    Deleting twitter too. Someone please keep this thread updated with Chen Weihua nukes

    What upset you this much

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    Lein

    What upset you this much

    Liberals

  • Apr 14, 2022
    snickarn

    Liberals

    liberals always just somehow be the most annoying of all time

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    feel like ive had the exact same conversation over the exact same talking points so many times that I've gotten really good at addressing every single possible talking point

    feels rewarding

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    also ktt reactionaries be like: "ktt socialists need to get some p**** amirite"

    b**** I AM THE P****

  • Apr 14, 2022
    deadacc

    feel like ive had the exact same conversation over the exact same talking points so many times that I've gotten really good at addressing every single possible talking point

    feels rewarding

    It’s the sharpening of the mental knife

  • Apr 14, 2022
    Lein

    This article about African development is great, compares it to East Asian development which is just what I was looking for. @Scratchin_Bandit you might be interested
    https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii15/articles/giovanni-arrighi-the-african-crisis

    Def gon check this out

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    deadacc

    also ktt reactionaries be like: "ktt socialists need to get some p**** amirite"

    b**** I AM THE P****

    Bruh the hate for communists on here been getting crazier lately or am i trippin

  • Apr 14, 2022
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    Scratchin Mamba

    Bruh the hate for communists on here been getting crazier lately or am i trippin

    As contradictions make themselves more clear, people would rather seek out their own opportunist answers than deny the fact that they were wrong about the proposed solutions they despised for so long

  • Apr 14, 2022

    Socialism or barbarism

  • Apr 14, 2022
    americana

    As contradictions make themselves more clear, people would rather seek out their own opportunist answers than deny the fact that they were wrong about the proposed solutions they despised for so long

    Now is the time of monsters