After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.

While I wouldn’t put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there’s nothing to be concerned about here.

The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.

He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn’t at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.

He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it’s generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.

The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can’t find much on this Del Guidice character but there’s a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata’s ideas on cold fusion and the “memory of water” were not well accepted amongst peers.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a “capitalist bomb”, because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.

Of course.

It’s just how people were back then. You have to evaluate people as a product of their times. Just because he was a rapist, plagiarist, cop, anti-semitic, homophobic, and liked Hitler doesn’t mean he was wrong about evil totalitarian stalinism! /s

Also true.

Didn’t Orwell say he couldn’t bring himself to dislike Hitler?

Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.

As far as I’ve seen it’s just libs who are desperate to smear him. It’s embrassing having your only talking points dismantled with primary sources.

The US isn’t even the best at that grift. Germany spent about double that over a decade while emissions increased.

IIRC his wife admitted at some point that Gulag Archipelago was a work of fiction.

I’m only superficially familiar with Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism, but it speaks to the same idea. As the tagline on his book says, is there no alternative?

I feel this. It’s also something I try to talk about with others, but I always have the feeling that it falls on deaf ears. At best I get general uncomittal agreement and some liberal platitudes about how this is just the way things are in return.

Sometimes I ask people what made Trump so uniquely bad. The only answer I’ve gotten so far, one which can’t be applied to every other US president, is his unfiltered and brash communication style.

I also think that Trump was good vis a vis nations in the US sphere of influence. The leaders of those countries started thinking about what happens when they’re not the US’ puppets. Unfortunately those thoughts were all forgotten as soon as Biden was elected, as everything went back to normal.

Can’t have wars between nations if you don’t teach people that other nations exist or aren’t truly sovereign.

Until 2018 the Democrats even allowed their “superdelegates” (typically elected officials from the state levels) to vote for whoever they wanted, no faithless action required. That could (and maybe did?) swing candidate selection, as superdelegates make up 15% of the total.

There’s a bunch of different categories so I’ll keep it general.

A delegate is someone who votes at the national party convention on behalf of the people who voted in the state or district party primary election for a given presidential candidate.

It’s basically the electoral college but for the party.

a lot of national subreddits are compromised like r/afghanistan

I’d assume any r/country is modded by people in a US government controlled agency or institution.

Random word generator.

The “conspiracy theory” that she’s actually a spook is quite fun.

That’s pretty much standard practice. Report what’s politically expedient in the moment. Nobody will care about the revision half a year later.

I’ve experienced plenty of extremely rude MFAs (Medizinische Fachangestellte, I don’t know what an Anglo equivalent would be) in Germany as well. I think the issue stems from how overworked they are and how many patients they deal with every day. The lack of investment in public health here is mindblowing. Some still manage to put on a polite mask, but many are extremely direct and even rude.