Its already up on your favorite Usenet.

I hear it is.

The punchline better be good.

When I was told this my brain almost couldn’t process what I was hearing.

When you have to pay almost $5000 for a replacement antenna that costs the MIC $5 to make, you’re going to get F-15s held together with duct tape.

I don’t know what’s going on here but I think you need to touch grass.

I like the 70s text book vibes.

And what was the outcome of this “mass heroism seldom paralleled in history”?

Parenti tells you in the previous paragraphs:

The latter course, I believe, would have produced a more comfortable, more humane and serviceable society. Siege socialism would have given way to worker-consumer socialism. The only problem is that the country would have risked being incapable of withstanding the Nazi onslaught.

So yes, the Soviets had two roads in front of them. Yes, one of them might have “produced a more comfortable, more humane and serviceable society.” And yes, that would have been a better choice. Yet, history shows us what happens next. How long would that comfortable existence last against the Nazi blitzkrieg?

That is the point Parenti is making here. Often Stalin is criticized for the USSRs industrialization policy with out ever considering the consequences of taking the other path. We cannot relitigate history, we can only learn from it.

It’s part of his greater point about siege socialism. That socialism under siege warps it’s priorities in defense of the revolution. The people during Stalin’s time sacrificed much in defense of the revolution. We can not simply judge socialism based on the form it takes while under siege.

What even would it mean to “win” the “ai” race? AI is a broad and almost meaningless term. The space race had a concrete end which was getting to the moon. What’s the equivalent in this context?

Get bogmoged loser.

Holy compression Batman!

I’m on mullvad and it works. What server(s) were you using?

Yes.

Where are these “riots”?

But also, this is a retreat, do not see it any other way. Someone made it clear to Trump that if pressure continued at pace in MN these strikes could expand wider, or become multiday long. This to me is a clear signal that what the people of MN are doing is working, and they should keep doing it. That isn’t to say that I think the raids are going to stop, but I wouldn’t doubt they shift to odd hours, and attempt to avoid people as much as possible when doing so.

I mean, there has been a lot of consolidation of the music industry. There isn’t the same kind of music apparatus like there was when those songs were written. Plus, there have been some good protest songs recently. On May 6th, 2024 Macklemore put out Hinds Hall, then in September he put out Hinds Hall 2, then 11 months ago he put out Fucked Up. He’s also not signed to a label, so maybe that’s why. Famously, groups like Bob Vylan and Kneecap have taken a lot of heat for their positions. Vylan was dropped from their label, I believe they were facing charges. Kneecap was facing terrorism charges which were eventually dropped. Sure, this isn’t explicitly ICE related, but these struggles are all connected.

Radio is basically dead, most of the US and Canadian radio stations are corporate owned. As of 2021 only 80ish US stations were independent, and 13 Canadian stations were independent. The idea that a corporate owned radio station would play a “protest” song in 2026 seems unrealistic. Plus, most people are getting their music through corporate algorithms via services like Spotify or YT Music. Maybe there is some really great protest songs, but I have a feeling they don’t get the same kind of traction in the algorithms as other forms of music.

Lemmy accepts some video formats but most instances struggle with video. You’re better of hosting it elsewhere.

22min long, I’ll have to save this to watch later.

Yeah, it’s strange. It could just be a “me” thing. If I open the twimg.com link it does work for me, but the embed doesn’t, even if I view it from Lemmygrad, even in a private window with no extensions in FF.

If you have Firefox, have you tried this -> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1048378

I have not tried that yet. I’ll give it a shot later.

These types of embedded videos never seem to work for me. Your post’s link is directly to twimg.com, and the UI wants to embed it. Honestly, you should head over to tankie.tube, sign up for an account, and use the “Import with URL” feature to automatically rip and upload the video to the site. You can then provide the direct link and source in the description of the video.