Grayzone does actual investigative reporting from an anti imperialist position and as such I’m very glad they exist. I think we should read them with a critical eye, as we should when reading anything, taking what is of value and leaving weaker/incorrect bits. Grayzone and Max B sometimes give me libertarian vibes, but I feel like with the orientation of their work being mostly war/conflict reporting, any weird economic takes can be discarded. In that sense it’s actually very good Ben Norton and Max B went separate ways bc Ben’s work is much more focused on economics, so the outlets have different focuses.

Sidebar: I remember watching Aaron Mate and Ben Norton reporting together like 10 years ago on The Real News. Cool to see they both are still doing important work.

Wow it’s making sense now. I casually read the links threads and the China section usually has some “china bad” or “china gonna collapse” garbage. Also the smugness of her comment replies.

There’s absolutely no evidence they didn’t huff jenkem either.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with managers or management. Such a function is required if larger and larger teams are to work together effectively. Coordination, strategy, and planning are all valuable and sometimes cannot be effectively undertaken by individual contributors.

Probably plenty of managers are petty hitlers, etc. and plenty of managerial roles are set up to pit manager against worker by setting managers up as slave drivers, but it doesn’t have to be this way imo.

You likely mean getting the federal reserve under control. The Treasury is already under executive control and is intended to be so.

Well said!

Does this invalidate all his analysis? I’m sure it’s helpful to have that context, but it’s possible to be informed by people whose ideological program doesn’t perfectly align with our own.

I’ve learned a lot over the past few years from people like mearscheimer, Alexander mercouris, Jeff Sachs, even Andrew Nepolitano, all of whom have varying levels of bad positions.

Liberals analyze the world on vibes, which tends to mean they need complete ideological alignment with their information sources, which is obviously limiting. But having a philosophical framework orienting our analysis frees us from that limitation because it allows us to read widely, including sources with major problems, without risk of falling for their bad takes.

Rugrats holds up, I swear. It’s super creative and funny. One of my favorite parts is that the babies, being babies, don’t understand what a lot of words mean, misuse them, and mispronounce them. Really cute and hilarious.

Classic meme format gets new life.

A+ meme, and also I’m in fact looking for sincere ideas/resources for how to be a parent trying to raise little comrades. Anybody got anything that comes to mind?