Abby Martin and Empire Files have a bunch of videos about Palestine. The most impactful for me is the documentary Gaza Fights For Freedom, about the 2018 March of Return. There’s also the interviews she did with Israelis on the street, asking what they think about Palestinians. In fact, this whole playlist is worth watching.

This travel documentary filmed by a Japanese tourist who visited the West Bank in 2022 shows the daily reality for Palestinians dealing with checkpoints, settler violence, etc.

I’ve heard good things about The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi, but I haven’t read it myself.

Donald J. Boidreaux ‘Shutting The Fuck Up Forever’ Is Good for the Public

Thanks, I’ll watch this later when I have time

I don’t think I need to know about that

Good Burger

Umberto Eco’s criteria are a good guide to spotting early fascist movements: https://www.faena.com/aleph/umberto-eco-a-practical-list-for-identifying-fascists

Fascism doesn’t logically imply racism

I disagree. All the fascist movements I’m aware of used nationalism to trick the working class into collaborating with the bourgeoisie, and bigotry towards minorities and foreigners to stoke anger and resentment. Maybe in theory fascists could create that in-group/out-group distinction without race or ethnicity being the dividing line, but I think that there will always be some kind of bigotry involved.

see environmentalism of eco-fascists

I don’t think that counts as progressivism when their plan to reduce environmental impact involves killing “undesirables” to reduce the population.

some modern neofash parties adopting social democrat policy points

I’m pretty sure those are just talking points meant to lure in rubes, or are meant to apply only to the in-group when they take power.

Maybe it’s possible for fascism to exist without explicit bigotry, but at that point I think it would just be regular authoritarian liberal capitalism.

Do you mean Orville Richard Burrell, Norville Rogers, or Joseph William Utsler?

It’s not a competition, you don’t need to compare yourself to your coworkers or police their work ethic.

Now if they’re ordering you around that’s another issue.

IIRC they all kinda pretend that parking doesn’t exist

All birds are descended from the theropods that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-are-literally-dinosaurs-heres-how-we-know/

All birds are dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs are birds though

Mike Gravel was a pretty cool guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel

The AES podcast has a good episode on Laos: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/8d546709-2b54-498a-a29d-a0bde330a940/id/25666209

Luna Oi has a lot of videos on how socialism works in Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4l7I2RxGBJ3i_EFi1SzuA

I’ve heard them called “bicycle-shaped objects”

I’ll add the caveat that any bicycle sold at Walmart is complete garbage and will probably break on you

Snack foods. Store brand Cheetos taste the same for half the price

Yeah those paragliders should be IOF helicopters and tanks

but 90 deg counter-clockwise

What is non-structural geology? Is there such a thing as purely decorative basalt columns? Non-load-bearing mountains?

Thanks! I did a fresh install of Debian (64 bit) with KDE, and it seems to be working for me, except it’s already frozen up and needed a reboot twice. I might go with a more lightweight DE if that keeps happening.