Correct. The Resistance has been clear on this: it’s a setback for Hezbollah but they have ways of getting materiel from Iran into Lebanon.
Reminder: an iPhone manufactured in China for $300 and sold in the US for $1,000 adds $300 in GDP to China and $700 in GDP to the US.
A cup of coffee that sells for $3.00 in the US but the farmer in Nicaragua makes $0.03 on the beans adds $2.97 to US GDP and $0.03 to Nicaraguan GDP.
Now, because we’re all Marxists here, consider where the value is being created. And additionally, for those of you who’ve read volume 2 of Capital, you know that it’s only in the sphere of production where value is actually created.
Such an incredible amount of US’ GDP is actually just the appropriation of surplus value from the Global South. It’s almost sort of like neo-merchant capitalism.
And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me
And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA
PBS Kids has such really good content, I would argue it’s one of the very few good things to come out the United States.
I am also old enough to remember the time when congressional Republicans got angry at PBS because Sesame Street in South Africa (different show, produced locally in South Africa) discussed HIV because so many kids there have it. Truly a breathtaking display of ignorance and hatred.
The one for little kids specifically, under 7 I think
Yep, that’s book I’m in the process of reading now. It’s very good, and Luna has added a lot of annotations which are very helpful. I’m also a little envious of students in Vietnam who get to learn this in a classroom setting.
That’s actually the book I’m reading. I only just recently got into the part on materialist dialectics, so admittedly my question is jumping the gun a bit.
This is helpful, thanks.
I’m currently listening to the audiobook of How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber. I actually really like it and find it to be very helpful. Basically what it comes down to is validation, which makes sense. It’s also something I’m very familiar with. Years ago my ex-gf and I were having a lot of troubles, and based on our relationship dynamics I spent like a year or two diving into validation techniques. It didn’t work with her and obviously we’re not together anymore, but I’m realizing those were valuable lessons for how to interact with my kids.
Normally, I would never beg for upvotes. However, I just asked a burning question I have about dialectical materialism in the philosophy comm; and it looks like that the last post there was over a month ago. So I’m worried our local philosophy-heads will never see it without upvotes. If you all wouldn’t mind to take a second to upvote this and support your obscure comms on hexbear!
https://hexbear.net/post/4103314
Yes, this decentralized approach not only harms with ideology, but also in states where schools are funded locally (that’s most of them). So rich neighborhoods have great schools and poor neighborhoods can’t get by.
I’ve gone off on this a couple times now… but there is nothing in that bill that states the Federal government is spending any money to do this or making anything mandatory. It’s simply “directing” VoCMF to create “educational materials”. For better or worse, education in the US is all done at the state and local level, the federal government doesn’t have any juice. Even when Common Core was being pushed years ago, that was never something mandated by the federal government, which has no ability or authority to mandate anything curriculum-wise. Realistically what will happen is a VoCMF will come up with this material and then it’s up to individual school districts or states to implement it if they want.
It feels weird being this position of explaining why this isn’t that big of a deal, but I don’t like when we spread information that isn’t backed up by reality. People are just seeing that congress passed an anti-communism bill regarding education and are drawing conclusions that are totally opposed to how education at the federal level operates.
Kinda disappointed MintPress would run with this angle, since I like them a lot and think they do good work.
Are there specific time periods / places in history you enjoy learning about at this moment?
NOTE: I am under the impression that some users MAY consider me posting this was some sort of endorsement of AOC. I can assure you, I can’t stand her and consider her a social fascist. Nothing good to say at all. When I heard Nancy fell down and couldn’t get up, the vision of this meme popped into my head. I found the upper right pic in a Google search and I cracked up at the comparison to the Assad pic, so I made the meme. It’s really not any deeper than that. It’s just a play on the notion that they two of them are “enemies” even though of course they aren’t IRL.
Stole $53 million and has only spent 3 years under house arrest. White people have it so good in this country jfc
I am going to make a longer post about this soon, but there is far too much dooming about this than is warranted by reality on the ground. It’s not like Iran loaded up these big trucker convoys into Lebanon to help equip Hezbollah. It’s always been on the down low and it appears Assad hasn’t really been all that helpful for a while now. At worst, this is a situation that we just can’t make any conclusions about and realistically I think this is a setback but by no means a decisive blow. Unless the rebels commit serious resources to stopping the flow of support then it will still go on (and surely the rebels have a thousand other priorities); and even then it’s not for sure they could stop it. I agree with the Ayatollah’s sentiment: it’s a setback but they will work around it. Don’t sleep on the resourcefulness of the Resistance. You might say “what if Israel holds the entire Syria / Lebanon border? It’s a huge border and Israel still hasn’t cracked the Hamas tunnel network in Gaza, so color me skeptical that they will be able to completely cut off Hezbollah and Iran.
A nice summary of all the horrors Milei has inflicted on the Argentinian people.
Yes, I know how awful evangelicals are in the US, I can only imagine how bad it is in Brazil.
The what now?