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by “you” i meant the reader not you the poster, just to be clear

i am loathe to give these goverments in particular any credit at all, doing less than the minimum after de facto full support for many months

there does appear to be a vibe shift though and i am certainly glad for every person who survives because of it, but i refuse to give these criminals any credit

not doing shit except talk is a concrete action, i agree

or should we talk about the weapons these three states alone have sent so far?

they are running a fucking game on you

I am getting VERY tired of this 50k number being cited every article, it has barely moved in like a year despite the fact that the bombing has re-escalated

it’s literally disinformation to continue citing that number at this stage

https://proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/beinart-there-is-only-shame/

Critical review of Beinart’s new book by Josh Gutterman Tranen in Protean Magazine.

i suppose that’s a particular studio?

but in what way is fascism reflected in the porn? like uniforms or what? im struggling to conceptualise it lol

wtf? is fascist gay porn really as big of a thing as you imply here?

as a straight im suddenly very curious about the cultural history of fascist aesthetics in gay porn

what an unmitigated disaster

clown

But isn’t so much journalism nowadays characterised by unsubstantiated speculation? (i.e. propaganda, if not simply clickbait filler pretending analysis)

It seems to me your criticism amounts essentially to your dislike of the thesis of this piece. This can be legitimate, but not what you’ve argued here.

Isn’t this piece an example of precisely the supposed promise of the internet, in the sense that journalism becomes democratised and anyone can publish and disseminate analysis, which can be evaluated on its merits rather than institutional validation and inertia based on opaque criteria? (I would of course argue the aggregated needs of capital, but I won’t force that in)

what the fuck are you talking about

I’m afraid the political problem you describe is much deeper and more entrenched.

The class of aggregated economic interests that brought the western world the “centrist ditherers”, as you describe them, are increasingly backing right wing politicians to divide and confuse discontent majorities, now that the social contract is in obvious and advancing decay around us, due to decades of aggressive privatisation of public goods like utilities, education, healthcare as well as related but also wider economic slowdown.

Ironically it was precisely this kind of “centrist ditherer” that spent the last half century destroying these public goods and therefore inflaming the social discontent, which capital must now fuel right wingers to quell.