Too little too late, friends. The rich are only rich by social agreement.

This is all moving so fast, and then I remember that this particular cascade started with the SMO so it’s been years. It feels like we’re moving into mid-game though.

Amazing. How quickly Ukraine is shifting away from the genocidal West after committing so much to becoming their junior partner.

This shift in India’s behavior is palpable. I like the analysis published recently that India is positioning itself to be the unsanctioned supply chain conduit for Chinese goods. That sort of thinking means India will follow its own economic self-interest into aligning itself with China and reducing the friction to the spread of BRICS influence ascendancy over G7

Uh, security at multiple levels, dispute resolution, dealing with inaccurate floating point math, CAP theorem limitations, throughput… And those are just the challenges I can come up not having worked in the financial clearing domain.

No. You cannot just build one of these at a code jam, you cannot launch a startup to build one of these in a few months. It’s a system with one of the highest fidelity requirements outside of medical equipment. Even space technology is allowed to fail for being off by a little bit. Financial systems at scale are hella difficult.

Libs don’t need to explain away pro-Russian propaganda because if it’s pro-Russian then it’s already propaganda and if it’s propaganda then it’s a lie so nothing can penetrate their impenetrable pillow fort of safe vibes.

It’s an incredibly complicated thing to implement, even if white Europeans did it first.

I disagree

I don’t jive with the verb in “imperialism represents”. Imperialism is a thing, it might also be a sign, but I don’t think it’s primary reality is as a sign, but rather as a dynamic (a.k.a. complex of behaviors exhibited by a system).

This is the work we have to do as individuals, to struggle with our understandings against the real world we live in and challenge our own positions and understanding to more thoroughly champion those values we hold dear. Keep going, you’re on the right path. Keep struggling, it only gets harder for a while. If it starts getting easier, you’re going the wrong way.

Keep going! I think you still need more precision. Your racialized students are all victims of racism at nearly all times. What you’re talking about is when racialized students are victims of harm (which comes in many forms) where that harm is the intimate form of structural racism.

So when someone uses a racial slur, racialized people experience harm if they are exposed to it. A) what is that harm if the slur was used at them versus if that slur was used near them but not at them? B) is there harm if no racialized people are exposed to that event?

Being able to articulate these sorts of nuances in a way that is internally consistent will be the result of struggling with these concepts and coming to deeper understandings and the path forward will be clearer.

To put a finer point on it, if a white child, in a room of 5 white children and a white teacher, uses a racial slur, how would you describe that, how would you understand the consequences of that, how would you make the decision on whether and how to intervene, and how would you communicate your decision in context?

You might be surprised to know that the comparison is missing a critical piece - chance of imprisonment is way higher in the USA than in the USSR. The much referred by poorly understood GULAG system, at it’s height, when it was literally housing Nazi prisoners of war from Germany who entered Russia, still housed less prisoners per capita than the USA does during peace time.

There’s another piece missing from the comparison as well, which is how many people per capita are homeless in the USA and how many per capita were homeless in the USSR, but I can leave that as an exercise for the reader.

I will challenge for the sake of you refining your argument: bigotry is equivalent with rude behavior and aggressive confrontation. Bigotry is not limited to the structures of racism. You can be a bigot against people without hair, bigot against people based on height, a bigot against people based on body fat, a bigot against people based on body shape and proportions, etc.

Racism, on the other hand, is a structure that exists even without bigotry. Bigotry is a symptom or an outgrowth of structural racism. The earliest racists didn’t spend their time being rude and getting into fights with people, they spent their timing writing academic essays, giving lectures, and generally being perfectly calm, reasonable high society people who just believed things like race is inherent in the person and values are inherent in the race.

I challenge you to get more precise about why you think bigotry is different than other forms of conflict, connect it to the structural so that you’re not only dealing with the individual, and proceed from there with a refined analysis and set of proposals.

I highly doubt anything Pelosi does is going to crush a clique from advancing in an already infiltrated controlled opposition group

I mean, generally it’s because they think anyone to the left of them has no chance of changing anything so they believe that they must choose the D in order to stop the F. They gave up on their own values so often and so thoroughly that showing them that supporting the D is equivalent to supporting the F is tantamount to a direct attack on their core Identity and forces them to confront themselves and their compromises. This causes rage.

That’s what Galdio and the fascist parties are for. Thankfully France showed them the door, but Italy and Germany are still high risk, as is Poland

Homer Simpson Bart meme: Euro-centric society

Remember that literally almost everyone believed in eugenics back then. The whole concept of race itself is wrapped up in that pseudoscience. Every early medical school in the USA made it’s core function the advancement of race “science”. It’s not just the rich, it’s not just the 19th century. It’s still dominant today as seen by the amount of serious reporting of social phenomena along race lines as though race is a trait of the people in society.

Because DSA is a sham?

I don’t know if risk factors into it as much as what other alternatives are there? If Europe turns on the USA, there’s not much to be done. The only real hope is for Europe to become the front lines.