Ah I remember when this one came out, I think it was posted in some comm here before. It is just think-tank level of slop.

Novara has always been extremely liberal. It’s primary function is to make sure any leftism in the UK cannot escape liberalism.

It all just fucking debt it’s insane. Might soon be time to pull out of the market.

Yea this is a common stereotype. Obviously I can only speak from my own experience in STEM, but the best teachers have generally been the professors who knew the material best, i.e. the most respected experts in their field.

The worst teachers were the professors who had to give a topic/course in a field or sub-field which werent their primary interest.

Will this be the final nail in the coffin for the EU project? Probably not entirely but it might weaken it enough.

I am personally happy to see the entire state collapse after reading about their “innovations” converting telephones into electric-genetalia-shock-torture machines during their war with Algeria. May all colonizers die in puddle of their own piss, preferably with some current running through it.

This seems a bit too generalized to draw any conclusions. Of all the teachers I’ve had issues with, there has been no clear category of subjects they taught. On the contrary, I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue with a STEM teacher.

Having also worked as a teacher for 12-15 year olds and I can tell you that of all the reasons teenagers “hated” STEM subjects, I don’t think me or my colleagues were the primary ones.

it’s very diverse.

Tell me about it. When I visit my wife’s family on Java I have to bring dictionaries on 4 different languages to make conversation.

though majority is Muslim.

This is what confused me when reading your previous post. What are the internal mechanism which makes this possible in Azerbaijan?

BBC is a bit like USAID which has a negative correlation with the adherence of human rights in the states they operate in.

I have turned many liberals through persistant shitposting in groupchats.

As Mao said: “Political power grows out of the pixels of a meme”

Apart from all my coursebooks for my studies I recently went down a rabbithole researching the Heroic Age of Antlantic Exploration, which started in the 1890s with the goal of finding out if Antarctica even properly existed, and went on until the so called mechanical age of Atlantic exploration. This culminated in me reading Endurance by Alfred Lansing and Madhouse at the end of the Earth, which were really good reads. I highly recommend it if you like stuff like this. Sadly many of the persons who accomplished many cool things down south later joined the white army fighting the Bolsheviks, kind of an anti-climax.

A factor in the decline is of course also that their state just killed many of them. This in itself is a lesson, there needs to be enough educated people who can stand up and lead when push comes to shove.

Also, lessson nr 2 which have proven true regardless of where you are: either the org is armed or it fails.

Well, they do have been warning people to stay away from that airport. But civilian ‘mass casualty events’ are the imperialists M.O, so I hope more details emerge. As a general rule, whenever there is a false-flag, suspiciously little details emerge after the fact. See Nordstream, the random rocket towards the UK Indian ocean base (diego garcia I think its called?), or others in history. IF this truly is Ansarallah, I expect all details will be published and that the media will make a big fuzz. If we only get the media fuzz however…thats usually the sign.

Also I imagine this will generate 1000% more attention than the Saudi airstrike on the maternityward some days ago.

My little brother just moved to Rotterdam for a year with his dutch girlfriend, 1850 euro for rent – albeit it was a nice large apartment in the city center. That’s 3 times the rent I pay here in Sweden! Although with how much my rent is rising maybe I’m there soon enough, at least if we count per m².

public transportation is not always a viable option if you live outside of the big cities.

Yea that’s the case here as well. I am just fortunate to live in an apartment in a city with good personal finances and own no car, so I am sheltered from most expenses that might rise as immediate consequence of the war: gas and mortgage. I feel like people have grown indifferent to the ever rising costs since the pandemic. In my conversations with people I mostly get shrugs or surprised looks when I ask if they think the current Iran war is a driving factor behind costs. So it was more this sentiment I was thinking of.

Europe in particular is in a really bad situation because the US just forced Europe to release diesel reserves to stabilize market prices before midterms. But once that’s gone, and prices actually start climbing that’s when the trouble starts.

Of for sure, I just spoke personally. Even then, prices have continued to rise so much since the pandemic that it’s still difficult to know what is the cause of incremental inflation or fluctuations of diesel prices. I imagine that the conflict will be felt much more as reserves dry up.

The countries I expect to adopt are in the Global South.

Definitely, I can’t help but feel that our current decade is the deciding shift and that the decades to come really will belong to the “third world” this time. We’ll see on the 100 year mark of the Bandung conference how well we fared, but I am cautiously optimistic.

Nicely written as always. Admittedly, the squeeze has not been felt very much here in Europe so far (I don’t drive so have no notion of increased gas prices), but I reckon that will change during winter. With no end in sight to the western aggression in west Asia, it will be interesting to see how the things will go come new years in, especially, Germany and UK who are very fuel/export dependent.

My hope is that this is a turning point for EU where they see that

Now that oil is scarce, countries that have chosen non-alignment are the ones that are best positioned to weather the crisis.

but I fear (and am almost certain) that they are structurally in way to deep to even consider diversifying and approaching China. Will be interesting to see if a few breakout nations (like Spain) can at least muddle the waters a little.

I recently read some transcripts and reports from the original Bandung conference and was saddened by the world we could’ve had. Now instead the Sahel states and BRICS have to start all over, in even more hostile conditions than what they had in the 50s. Well, at least now there is no delusion regarding the lengths the imperialists are willing to go, and they have a manufacturing powerhouse in China which hopefully can accelerate their development at record pace.

Yes, in the minds of some liberals (probably many actually) a country with a black/woman or both leader cannot be evil or imperialist. Just like my parents scuffed at Biden but had no issue with either Obama or Hillary for no other reason that “well he’s black” or “omg a democratically elected woman”. Truly insane people. I wonder what will happen if Kim Jung Ae takes an official role in DPRK, their heads will probably explode.

The State guaranteeing employment is still not enough, because the Keynesian systems post ww2 tried just that and began to creak and break in the 1970s leading to the neoliberal counter-reform faction winning power.

Oh totally, a welfare state cannot function within capitalism long term regardless. I kind of clumsily tried to make the point that it is at least manageable during periods of industrialization and growth, because there are jobs. Obviously under capitalism this will never happen long term.

It /should/ be easy to refute but whether or not we have the right conditions to have our ideas take hold is another thing entirely.

Most people think only of the spectrum represented in the parliament. So when they think “communists” or “leftists” they think of whatever succdem party the media is currently calling “far-left”, and then nothing else. So we are already set back enormously because they keep making things worse (and moving to the right). In the minds of most people, they have to choose between eroding welfare services + higher taxes vs eroding welfare services + lower taxes, and obviously most are gonna choose the latter.

Why would workers trust you if you are actively trying to make their lives worse and take away their hard won rights and social safety nets?

I don’t know, seems to work just fine for the bourgeois in the Nordics. Write a book about how you think “the welfare state = apartheid” and say that it is your life’s mission to dismantle it, and you’ll become prime minister with a majority government (Sweden).

To me it seems the issues of the welfare state stem from de-industrialisation and the ever so common economic crises arising from capitalism. A welfare state cannot function in capitalism unless there is also continuous job creation. It makes no sense that an ever decreasing portion of the working population needs to fund the income of others who want to work but cannot, because the jobs don’t exist. The state should handout “welfare” insofar that it guarantees you a right to work. Otherwise it will just spiral as it does now in the Nordics: no jobs --> more people utilizing the social safety net --> more strain on the welfare state --> higher taxes for the workers --> etc.