You never want to let a good crisis go to waste.

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That will make the US tech industry sad, because the H-1B visa system serves to suppresses wages. The visa holders aren’t to blame for it of course, despite the two-faced, self-serving right-wing rhetoric.

Bourgeois elections have their uses and they are few, and different from what social democrats see in them.

V.I. Lenin: Should We Participate in Bourgeois Parliaments?

Regardless of which tendency is “orthodox”—a fruitless conversation given that each tendency claims orthodoxy—the great majority of Marxists in the world are Marxist-Leninists, and the only successful communist projects to date have been Marxist-Leninist ones.

Ostensibly it’s the amalgamated narrative of the model’s corpus, but corporations, most notably SpaceXAI/Grok, will often tune the narrative to their taste.

Businesses will always side with fascists, because fascism is the last bastion of capitalists to retain control of the state and preserve capitalism.

Western Marxists meaning compatible-left Marxists of the imperial core. Western Marxism: How It was Born, How It Died, How It can be Reborn

On the one hand, Western Marxists and Marxist-Leninists are not the same, but on the other hand, both of them—and even anarchists sometimes—get called tankie by liberals anyway.

There’s nothing new here. Juche necromancy is a decades-old inside joke about Western media fabricating North Korean assassinations, only to later find the person is still very much alive.

Many such cases!

Donbass happened in 2022 and was deemed a false flag.

No idea what you’re referring to here. “Donbass [sic] happened”?

Whatever you’re getting paid for spreading false information is way too much.

“Anyone who disagrees with me on this miniscule open source social media platform is a paid foreign agent.” Come on, dude.

There are of course fascists to be found in Russia, but their numbers are dwarfed by those in Ukraine, and the support the Russian state gives them is negligible compared to what the Ukrainian state gives its Banderite fascists.

Thank you for the cute polar bear achievement badge, attractive computer science video essayist.

There may be diminishing returns to additional intelligence.

Exactly. We currently have no reason to assume that the RSI graph is exponential rather than logarithmic, and if I were forced to place a bet today, I’d go with the later. Maybe it could go exponential at some point, but my bet would be that that isn’t on the near horizon.

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Previously:

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: audio | transcript
• Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine Former Israeli Prime Minister Bennett’s recent comments about getting his mediation efforts squashed in the early days of the war adds more to the growing pile of evidence that Western powers are intent on regime change in Russia.
• Internationalist 360°, 2022–2024: History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

Previously:

• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
• https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/40th-periodic-report-human-rights-situation-ukraine-treatment-prisoners
• https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152743054/human-rights-watch-ukraine-landmines
• CNN coverage of Donbas in 2014 https://xcancel.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296
• https://mronline.org/2023/07/30/russia-donbass-and-the-reality-of-the-conflict-in-ukraine/
• https://www.kanekoa.news/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started
• HRW https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munitions
• Donbas documentary 2016 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bN68OfFKaWs
• Ukraine in Donbas https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/
• Poroshenko saying the quiet part out loud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk

Previously:

NATO expansion:

• George Washington Univ., 2017: NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
• Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
• Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
• Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
• Jeffrey Sachs, 2023: NATO Chief Admits NATO Expansion Was Key to Russian Invasion of Ukraine

 
NATO in general:

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

Everyone on Lemmy already knows that Republicans suck; you’re repeatedly preaching to the choir.

But even if we magically raptured all Republicans, this would still be a capitalist shithole, so please start thinking bigger.

I think we’ll know what to do with the means of production once seized; I wouldn’t worry about that.

The tools that will not dismantle the master’s house are the bourgeois democratic ones. We can’t seize the means through their political system. We have to overthrow & replace their system through revolution, not reform.

You can still find similar products if you shop online specifically for borosilicate, but they won’t necessarily be from Pyrex. For instance, OXO has a good reputation: https://www.oxo.com/oxo-gg-2-cup-glass-measuring-cup.html

Last I heard, there were two Pyrex’s in production, and you could tell the good from the bad by subtle differences in branding.

Edit to add: https://lifehacker.com/that-viral-pyrex-brand-hack-is-horseshit-folks-1850157381

So, how can you actually tell if you’re dealing with “real” Pyrex? As a rule of thumb, it’s safe to simply assume you aren’t—at least, not if you’re in the United States. The “real stuff” hasn’t existed at all in the U.S. market for at least 30 years. Pyrex started phasing out borosilicate glass in the 1950s and had stopped using it entirely by 1998, when World Kitchen (now Corelle Brands) bought the license to the PYREX and pyrex brands. Unless you buy your cookware from a vintage shop that can prove it was manufactured in the 1940s or earlier, you’re very unlikely to come across borosilicate glass pyrex.