They should do a follow-up "analysis" where

(1) Capitalism is more advanced in isn'trael compared to West Bank or Gaza

(2) The isntreal working class is therefore more advanced than the Palestinian masses

(3) The hope therefore rests in the mass proletarian uprising of the isntreal working class, which we are sure is happening any day now.

(4) Hamas attack hinders isntreal working class from achieving this consciousness.

(5) Hamas bad. We condemn Hamas. Q.E.D.

now whenever I see footages like this I CANNOT HELP BUT ASK: what's gonna happen to their sperm?!

Omg the two even look alike with their glasses

Dealing with Newsom probably does not involve having to witness elderly abuse …

The collapse of the Qing Empire - it is because of the gold mines of San Francisco that in Chinese it is called Jiu Jinshan 旧金山 - Old Gold Mountains.

Where is the supposed hint? This lump of words is not even a full sentence lmao … Is the idea that the old gold mountains caused the Qing’s collapse?

Bernie: CIVILITY!! NORM!!

When will anglophone news sources learn not to refer to Chinese persons by their given names lmao. It’s so flirtatiously endearing to refer to Wang Yi as Yi — or to Xi as Jinping ~~~~~

Wait so … this is literally G7 minus Japan, who apparently can’t be included in the Zionism support fest?

What kind of white power meeting is this lmao.

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And sucdems say I’m too cynical in thinking that most first world “progressives” just want more shares of the imperial spoil.

OMG FINALLY. Have been meaning to offload this re AC Odyssey. Less problematic than the awful treatment of slavery, but equally to-your-face-annoying, the whole main story — to the extent there is one — is basically ORANGE MAN BAD (Kleon was literally orange haired lmao) POPULISM BAD (I’d be mad if war and hunger going on but Perikles keep jerking off to his temples) BUT WE MUST DEFEND DEMOCRACY TOGETHER WITH, hold on … SOCRATES?! Like it’s so nauseatingly CIVILITY liberalism it made me stop half way in my ng+ play through after I so painfully fine tuned all my gears and engravings /rant

my conspiracy brain tells me it's not actually aimed at average western readers. During this round of real estate downturn (which started in 2020) there's been some concerted effort both inside and outside china in the business/finance journalism to force the gov to pump out massive amounts of cash and bail out those loser-financiers (perhaps à la USA in oct 2008?). Instead, not only is the gov reluctant to do so, but they've also done the appallingly unthinkable of jailing many CEOs and board members (the gov has also, to my limited understanding of macroeconomics, refused to let those real estate firms declare bankruptcy before they actually finish those construction projects for which people have already paid the deposits and taken on loans). Anyway, there's probably a rather materially cynical reason for all this clamor of "Xi's intentionally letting the economy go bust"

Grew up in China and did college in US. First time I read about “mandate of Heaven” in English-language histories of China I had to look it up cuz I had no idea what they were talking about, even with guess work

“Healthcare leftism” = I just want more shares of the imperial spoil but those fucking tankies want to destroy the empire!!!!

reminds me of how the first National Assembly of the "democratically governed" "Taiwan" lasted from 1947 to 1991

When you try to sound like an intellectual but don’t even know how to write

I read it and I don't have anything smart or rational to say, other than how tired I am of this one particular assumption palpable in the way many Western lefties think (including this piece, I feel): "y'all in the third world need to catch up with us — that is, become Western/modern AND THEN, ONLY THEN can we start building solidarity to takedown capitalism." It seems really difficult for many on the Western left (whatever that definition is) to imagine solidarity NOT on the terms of their Eurocentric history and experiences. /rant.

I'm not an American so I can't vote in your stupid elections anyway

Lmao I’m glad i’m not the only one who loves to troll the lib yanks this way.

French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”

(Actual military history may vary)

Speaking of the looks of vikings and viking adjacents (in this case Normans), I have to paste this description of Bohemond de Hauteville by Anna Komnene in her Alexiad ...

Now the man was such as, to put it briefly, had never before been seen in the land of the Romans, be he either of the barbarians or of the Greeks (for he was a marvel for the eyes to behold, and his reputation was terrifying). Let me describe the barbarian's appearance more particularly – he was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus... His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red. His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears. Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils...the breadth of his chest. For by his nostrils nature had given free passage for the high spirit which bubbled up from his heart. A certain charm hung about this man but was partly marred by a general air of the horrible... He was so made in mind and body that both courage and passion reared their crests within him and both inclined to war. His wit was manifold and crafty and able to find a way of escape in every emergency. In conversation he was well informed, and the answers he gave were quite irrefutable. This man who was of such a size and such a character was inferior to the Emperor alone in fortune and eloquence and in other gifts of nature.