The limits of a liberal democracy and peformative politics on climate change.
darkernations
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Thank you for taking the time to explain for all these queries; much appreciated! Stay safe brother.
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What's stopping the state from "embracing" the sanctions Russia-style and going full throttle east? These western appeasing libs? If they are coming to power because of concerns with lack of geopolitical assertiveness from former government then wouldn't they lose that power if they renege? Or are these "western" bourgoisie in Iran just that powerful? Are there competing factions of bourgoisie?
Damn that's fucking bleak. Are they at least looking east or are they looking to be Honorary "Aryans" (ie I realise the irony of using that term to symbolise white supremacism to an Iranian)? Is there any chance that they may adopt anti-western-hegemony despite their bourgoisie sensiblities, even from a national self preservation point of view?
If we were to take the truly anti-racist approach on excess deaths and assume they (globally) would have all been developed (less take HDI greater than 0.9 as a very low bar to define "developed") then excess deaths will likely be an extra billion on top of the estimates already stated
“What makes them unique is the ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ approach, which aims at fooling law enforcement into believing Active Clubs are just about sports,”...
Yeah there were no sheep's clothing.
I no longer believe in Chomsky's manufacturing consent. I think the right wingers are correct when they say the media gives the "people" ( I strongly believe the reactionary masses make up the "elite" rather than just billionaires) what they want in the US; the narratives are a license for their violent bigotry as they understand at some level they benefit from the exploitative relationship the US has with the rest of the world (even the vassal states that benefit from this hegemony).
If having the ability to livestream the genocide on their phones for the past couple of years isn't going to change their minds, then their consent for murder was never manufactured in the first place.
If you consider excess deaths from the birth of US (including all that is not "direct" military action) it is likely to be 500 mill - 1 billion deaths.
Addendum - conservative estimates
Excellent, thank you!
Thanks for explaining. Is it easy to turn off censorship in qwen 3 ("non-coder" here but that doesn't matter as I will be starting that journey soon enough as I up my maths)? Also I thought the free version of deepseek r1 on the app is 7b?
Sort of tangent: do you know how to evade deepseek self censorship? Would deploying it locally help or is it better to use alternative LLM (preferrably non 5/9 eyes servers)? It's great for learning polical econpmy and history and especially ML theory (checking sources along with way) but it stops itself when it gets more interesting (ie learning about ML pragmatism)
I understand what I posted before (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8309838/6593453) might contadict my current sentiment and this may be my bias as a westerner showing but I am thoroughly enjoying the backlash tears against Mamdani. And in this sociopathic malignant society that indeed is refreshing.