boloparts
boloparts wrote
Reply to My introduction.ppt by Anna_says_hi
welcome!
boloparts wrote
Reply to Tuesday Free Talk by tuesday
Is it just me or is reddits recent changes making it feel very much like facebook
boloparts wrote
Reply to comment by itsalways1312somewhere in The Veteran that burned themselves might've been an Anarchist. by ChaosAnarchy
Thanks. I guess people downvoted me for expressing uncertainty? Strange crowd
boloparts wrote (edited )
Have a look at the recent crimethinc post on it. It's still unclear to me how this person was anarchist and a part of the US air force, but they seem at least to be claiming anarchism.
boloparts wrote
Cape Town made it through with some last-minute rain back when this was a thing (the article is from 2018), but it was close and everybody was rationing water for some time. There have been other metros that have run out of water. The Eastern Cape has been abandoned in some ways by government.
But I've been in other countries where water only works for certain hours of the day, too, or certain days of the week. Things can always get worse and more dysfunctional and become the new normal.
It will be interesting to see what happens when a major city ends up actually totally running out.
One thing I've found here is that since we have scheduled power outages each day, people have adapted to it. It makes some suffering happen, but a lot of that is economic. Much of this stuff doesn't really suit generalised profit making unless you have the resources to produce your own power etc. So it creates more inequality, but it also makes more people less dependent on and more flexible to some elements of infrastructure.
boloparts OP wrote
Looks like we have US neocolonialism and global power struggles over Africa to thanks for this upcoming set of horrors
boloparts OP wrote
Reply to comment by boloparts in Behind the Baobab Curtain: Putin’s adventures are reshaping Africa by boloparts
(though I did just mention there that looking up the colour revolutions, it seems they were in the first few years of the 2000s. I had assumed that tankies predated this, so I am interested to know if anybody knows more)
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Reply to Tankie ideology as a intelligence doctrine seems to have come from Russian counterinsurgency practices by _za
looking up the colour revolutions, it seems they were in the first few years of the 2000s. I had assumed that tankies predated this, so I am interested to know if anybody knows more
boloparts OP wrote
Their purpose in Africa, as quoted in Vedomosti, sounds remarkably like this week’s shindig: “Countering Western influence, strengthening Moscow’s position and supporting countries wanting to free themselves of neocolonialism and the Western presence.”
Useful to think about in relation to a post recently about how tankie ideology as a intelligence doctrine seems to have come from Russian counterinsurgency practices
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Reply to comment by zip in Tuesday Free Talk by tuesday
It's mostly aesthetic. The feed looks a lot more like a facebook feed. Subreddits look like facebook Pages. Some other things that are less aesthetic I forgot about since I said this.