We already saw those sort of actions in the last year. The trend can only accelerate without intervention by the working classes.

Nah, they were just upset that Russia would use the ISS as a political platform for “anti-Ukraine propaganda.” I wonder how many times the Americans have celebrated something political up there and it’s reported on without such commentary.

NASA and westoid media was coping hard about this one.

Inb4 Rogers increases prices 40% to invest in improved infrastructure increase profits some more.

We’re definitely going back to company towns.

I just read that Russia is selling crude oil to India for 30% less than the benchmark Brent crude rate. Putin price hike indeed.

Inflation is just capitalist greed.

This sort of thing will only happen more and more often as the commons are hidden behind ever higher pay walls.

In general I actually really like the meta-reporting FAIR does. They have such a satisfying no-nonsense style of calling out mainstream media on their bullshit using the very same media institutions as sources and references.

Whether he’s ML or not I don’t know either, but he has that very poignant anti-war and anti-imperialist viewpoint which only ex- imperial soldiers usually have.

Gotta make sure the serfs keep breeding, once the capitalists work this batch to death they’ll need fresh meat.

That’s absolutely terrifying.

That’s a death penalty I can get behind.

…they’re not having the US government chasing them across the Atlantic.

Not yet they’re not. Wait until a legal precedent is set with Assange (too many have been already) and any journalist the government doesn’t like the look of can be locked away or worse.

Whichever way you look at it, exposing sources in an unethical way just doesn’t warrant the treatment Assange has gotten nor the threat of three lifetimes in prison. This isn’t about that, nor is this isn’t about a really stretched charge of hacking, it’s about showing anti-imperialist and anti-war journalists and whistleblowers who’s in charge.

Their American overlords whispering in their ears to just pull the fucking trigger already is a reason I guess.

They have been and are popular, but such movements are diametrically opposed to the current western world order (imperialist capitalism). There can be no equality under capitalism. The capitalist class, the people who own almost everything and control almost everything, provoke and inflame differences between working people, so that we spend time and energy fighting amongst each other for scraps instead of going after the causes and perpetrators of inequality.

The movements for worker’s rights, women’s rights, and racial civil rights, etc, were all egalitarian movements, and they included far more people than we’re taught today. The history we usually learn about those movements is highly sanitized to remove the revolutionary and class struggle character from those lessons. The capitalists can’t allow us workers to know that by organizing together we can have the egalitarian world some of us dream of.

I think some of his points are valid, mainly the sheer impossibility of moderating platforms with millions of users online at any given moment. It’s just hard to square his insistence that the companies running the platforms are neutral while they’re owned and operated by the ruling class. Then of course his random plugging of the lab leak silliness and his Musk stanning just throw me off completely.

His name is just too fitting.

The exports figure doesn’t tell the whole story though. There was a twitter thread going around earlier in the week showing that most grain is consumed in the country its produced in. The shortfall is something closer to 1%, which of course hits poor and less agricultural countries most heavily but can be made up with exports from other countries like India. I get the impression that the issue is global shipping logistics and the greed of capitalists, not a huge shortfall in actual food supply.