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Bulletins and News Discussion from November 11th to November 17th, 2024 - Chapo? Like, the President-elect of Mozambique? - COTW: Mozambique
  • The most in-depth coverage I could find is from Russian state media.

    https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/22410749

    From what I’m reading, it looks like a full-on coup has taken place. Both Russian and American media have reported the seizure of the parliament building, with Russian media further reporting the seizure of the presidential administration building.

    American-aligned media report heavily referencing US State department media reports:

    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/15/protesters-storm-parliament-in-abkhazia-amid-dispute-over-russian-investment-treaty-a87022

  • One of the Stupidest critiques of Marxist Class analysis I've seen was just recommended to me by my poli sci professor
  • The author portrays an evolution of social and economic theory that passes from Marx to Weber to Foucault. In other words, Marx without Lenin. The tactic is diversionary rather than disinformative. Insofar as you will discuss Marxism, it will be in the context of critiques of Marx made by academics operating in capitalist countries. I don't mean to say that Weber's or Foucault's theories are entirely wrong headed, just that as long as you are occupied with them you will be ignoring the strains of Marxist theory that have underpinned any actually successful Marxist political project.

    If you want to pick nits though, this passage made me squint:

    Democratic government was the result of a political revolution of a new class-the commercial and industrial capitalists or, as Marx called them, the bourgeoisie.

    Here the author is stating without citation that Marx believed democracy was achieved by bourgeois revolution. Big if true. Perhaps a certain kind of democracy within a certain class? Where did Marx make this claim?

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  • I missed this one. It appears the RF is trying to set up reciprocal foreign asset seizures ahead of expected formal seizure of RF assets in the US. Here’s a very short article in Xinhua.

    This actually looks like an attempt at de-escalation to me. The seizure of foreign property is an act of war, and the Putin administration seems to be looking for a way to appease RF entities holding those frozen assets in the US without a war declaration, should those assets be subject to formal seizure by the US. Am I reading this correctly?

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  • The Cuban Communist Party is mad at the German Embassy over a Facebook post.

    On that same date, Press Freedom Day, 8 161 kilometers from Berlin, the German Embassy in Cuba, and through the Facebook account of that legation, consummated a gross act of interference and flagrant violation of international standards for diplomatic relations, by altering the text and photo on the front page of Granma with erasures typical of (un)classified documents, even on the name of Palestine. "There is not much to see here," the publication added.

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  • To my ear, this style is the Nashville version of "Adult Contemporary" ca. 2010. Similar things were happening in Evangelical Christian music at the time.

    does this style actually sound good?

    It sold a lot of records. A more interesting question might be "is it country?", or "who gets to decide what country is?". It's probably better not to argue about that sort of thing on the internet though. Instead, here's a video of a contemporary christian group from Nashville performing a minor novelty country hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ow1pV2MqN8

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  • Thank you for this update! I didn't follow Bentley closely, but he has been on my mind a lot since his reported death. It's the kind of thing that won't be widely reported in English because his existence was embarrassing to the American project in Ukraine. WTF happened to Texas???

  • Is there stuff other than pics of Hunter Biden's dick that I should care about on that laptop?

    I guess people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop thing on the internet again because of :melon-musk:. That story about Hunter just leaving it at a computer repair shop seems kinda sus, doesn't it? But I'm not super interested in pulling at that thread. Anyway, at the time I did hear reports of the story getting suppressed. Is that just because it was full of pics of the dude smoking crack with his dick out, or is there also something substantial and worth keeping in mind as history unfolds behind us?

    I'm asking here because I don't really want to go fishing around on the internet for Biden dick pics. That's icky. Feel free to just post PPB or whatever here too, but I'm all ears if a kindly comrade feels like filling me in.

    :soviet-heart:

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