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Liberals are already seething. Guessd in Mexico we are not “civilized” enough for a female president.

F16s are notorious for needing very special conditions in the airfields to operate. They have neither the time nor the resources to make and maintain the airfields domestically in Ukraine. But the NATO countries have the budget assigned and the places far behind the front lines to be able to do it. If they try to do so inside Ukraine, they risk being targeted by Russian missiles and air force, specially now that the Ukrainian air defence is basically depleted. Using NATO bases is not just an adventure, it is necessary given the conditions to which the AFU has been degraded after two years of war. Two years ago, that was maybe realistic, but Russia made sure to strike airports and hangas non stop at the start of the war. There’s a reason we have seen less and less Ukrainian planes as time passes, and more and more Russian ones.

We are going to see another 'Gulf of Tonkin" incident, are we?

I haven’t seen people comparing Palestine to Ukraine, but I have certainly seen people saying that the recent offensive against Israel is somehow all planned by Moscow…

Lately I’ve been really into PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation and Fishing for Fishies by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I have listened both like more than 30 times already.

Very interesting interview indeed. It reminds me of the book The Last Soviet Republic: Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus. So many points are brought in the discussion, specially the history, economics and security issues. Belarus managing to keep many part of the soviet system is for sure an achievement, as it prevented its destruction, like what happened in the other post soviet republics. Certainly, that’s why I’ve seen Belarus still getting called a socialist system, in spite of its particular set of contradictions. Its market socialism having been presented as an alternative to China’s SWCC doesn’t mean a competition in socialisms, but rather a different model which we should be studying, not just for its failures and pitfalls but also its victories. And this synergy between both forms of socialism is again brought to the table by Mironchik in regards to its industrial capacity ib relation to both Russia and, specially, China. I also remember at one point of the book the author talks about how Lukashenko has been weary from the beginning about military escalation with Poland (being a NATO member and such) and it seems he sees conflict with Poland as a real possibility, if not inevitable. Looks to me like the comment was not just speculation at the time of the book, and now Mironchik confirms that Belarus has indeed been preparing for a potential conflict, specially given the history of the reactionary governments of Poland placing a target on Belarus and Ukraine. Having nukes is a sure way to avoid getting invaded and cut in half again.

Ah, yes, the Whites™ from Whiteland. Yeah, honestly, fuck those guys.

Many papers published as pre prints in arxiv never make it out of there, there’s too much rubbish in the academic world, just like this article. And not only in the social sciences, I’ve seen plenty of bad papers in chemistry and biology there too.

Good old McCarthyism

That’s great! I haven’t done any writing or worldbuilding in years and I want to start again.

I love Children of Men because it freaks me a bit. Of all the “dystopian sci-fi” movies I’ve seen, this one is the most realistic about what a post-pandemic world deep in a capitalist crisis and war would look like. And so many things from that movie have actually come to pass.

I’ve always hold sympathies for leftist causes. It is not that I was a red diaper as they say, but I was raised by my mother to help others and be compassionate. I think it is fair to say that her interpretations of Christianity and catholisism also had an effect in that, although I’ve never been too keen on the church. Even as a kid I admired Hugo Chavez, because while I didn’t understand everything he said at the time, I knew he was talking and acting in favor of the working people in Venezuela. As an adult with class consciousness today I realize that growing up in a world where there’s no Soviet Union has been quite fucked up and feel hopeful thanks to China’s rise.

I feel I was primed to turn left in my politics since childhood and being a biologist the appreciation I gained for life in the planet was also a huge influence, but the pandemic was the turning point where I realized all the lies and the capitalist system as the driving force behind the crisis more than the virus. Marxism and dialectical materialism have exactly both the scientific outlook I always look for and the call to action that reminds me the world can be changed for better. Also, one day a colleague posted a video on facebook about K-pop’s late stage capitalism and it was a rabbit hole from then on due to my ADHD making me hyperfixate on it.

I don’t even remember how I found GenZedong, but I think it was through BayArea415. Damn, I miss him.

Didn’t read the description until I posted a comment. As OP says. Fuck the PAN. Fascists and nazis that have put Mexico into the worst cycle of violence of the last 100 years.