Why get a haircut if you’re going bald anyways

I suppose it could be

Do you think they can tell

In general the ppl associated with global south media orgs are a lot more informative and less annoying (e.g. cryptofascism, bad haircut) than USA alt media ppl

You’re just ignorant, papers like The Guardian do it too, it’s not only the UN Rapponteur for yadda yadda, there are huge NGOs dedicated to lobbying for these legal changes to protect the human trafficking industry. You’d never guess - they’re funded by human traffickers themselves to present the cause to intl orgs like the UN and Gates Foundation. The paper trail is all out in the open. I’ll walk everyone through it some other time, but this whole thread screeches desperation and loneliness. Seriously creeps me out the way horny idiots fall for the Onlyfans psyop. You’re as bad as the dudebro podcasters lol

Yes it is accurate, how can you ask that in the context of Ukraine, a country where too many refugee women have been pushed into the legal sex trade or pornography in western countries out of desperation? One model which is palatable even to libs is decriminalizing the lower levels of the sex trade and providing people real opportunities in life, infrastructure, subsidized education, while deconstructing the industry itself. That is why I framed the UN’s inclusion of sex trade managers in the category of sex worker as a threat

I hate it when I have “some consent issues”. Like saying coal mining in apartheid South Africa had “some respiratory issues” or “some disaster issues” Yes, I am saying pornography is not magically exempt from the colonial structure of the sex trade because a camera provides a legal pretext.

Sure ya I think someone compared Russia’s lingering War on Terror Israel policy to “playing with matches while the west douses you in gasoline” or something to that effect. Look if there is somehow success in [Trump impression] “un-uniting them” then I argue the resulting split will not be Sino-Soviet ☝️🤓

1. Rugpull people on minerals & privatization deals

2. Take insurance payments when factories you finance get destroyed

3. Kill everyone

4. Turn everyone who escapes into a slave

5. ???

6. Superprofits

I will concede that Ukraine existing anti-human trafficking enforcement is in a dire state, but I see no reason to actively enable it??

I knew this one was gonna be a banger

Is this helping the Ukrainian people, in your opinion? Stripping their country of its population and reducing their women (and twinks) to the most undesirable work? Who can be happy about this save for market speculators? Putin didn’t even want this war for a decade of Ukraine shelling and torturing people in Donbas

Okay, well, good luck figuring it out. You seem intrepid, if borderline illiterate.

Lol you clicked it but didn’t read it? Why didn’t you put it in Archive.org if you think it’s evil propaganda? Has porn melted your brain?

To answer your mindnumbingly stupid question, the UN is arguing that because prostitution exists, there should be legal protections for pimps and a reclassification of child rape victims as "workers*.

There is already a liberal pro-woman solution to this called the Nordic Model where you stop arresting prostitutes, get them economic support to leave the trade (as they do want to by and large), and arrest the traffickers instead, as criminalizing the women alone has always kept them from organizing.

Why do you need porn, no imagination? No removed? Just a fan of rape and trafficking?

Oh also major sleepy error I made there is using developmentalism as an antonym to subimperialism but if you pretend I just said “mutual development” it’s fine i guess

Although Russia is still a bit of a neoliberal hellhole, it has a lot of institutions, trade relations, and physical infrastructure which are holdovers from the USSR, and its MoD’s separate academic tradition & role in economic decisions + renationalized control of nuclear industry, oil etc sets it apart from more compliant states. At this point Russia has far more economic links to Asia than the western world. Of course if they’d been given the opportunity United Russia gooners would have gone for a subimperialist relationship with US + Europe and not bothered with all of this developmentalism stuff, but it’s really just too large and independent for that to be permitted, making Russia the primary example of an entity the west cannot lay siege to. Lot of Russian poli sci and foreign relations teach people to make decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism backed by unanalytical historical (including Solzhenitsyn-tier sources so) analogies, they’ve got annoying war on terror Israel policy. They have copied a lot of China’s foreign relations because it produces political stability + reduces foreign diplomatic pressure (independent allies can’t be easily coerced), healthy trade relationships, stable skilled workforces to build industrial capacity that can travel abroad for training, low cost of labor through infrastructure rather than exploitation, creating military self-sufficiency + providing training & technology transfers rather than overburdening yourself through suppling military aid to an isolated country. They don’t have contrary foreign policy building isolated blocs that they attempt to build up into semi-self-sufficient partners, there is a mutual interest in constructing international institutions + law (which mostly de facto dont exist, coalition of the willing rules based yadda yadda) and opposing unilateral sanctions. Instead of picking different countries in the periphery to sponsor they have a mutual interest in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Sahel states, etc are able to develop. KPRF is a lame socdem party but they pressured Kremlin for intervention to stop the aggression against DPR and LPR, and have been successful in ways that the western union/antiwar protest left has not. Like Latam socdems there is more potential for something there because it’s not organizing labor aristocrats & humanities washouts, it’s in the global semiperiphery

I’m not ragging on people, many developmental, human, and theoretical advancements were all made possible by the USSR, it’s just important to see why it was in a position to be disassembled & how some of its institutions persisted, and how it was unable to uproot imperialism, why there was a doctrinal split with China (which made mistakes too). So with all that out of the way, China and Russia now have no reason to go through a diplomatic or military confrontation, and since they’re so economically + militarily interdependent, they have a zillion ways to quash anything before it comes to blows. Even simply postponing the signing of a new bilateral cooperation agreement or not incentivizing tourism would be a stage of escalation in the event of a dispute. Most likely we’ll see more pressure against Russia from across the arctic circle & from eastern Euros + Scandinavians, not Russia working against China and Southeast Asian countries. Russians - even the more 4th positionist/neolib-nationalist-style Russians - are genuine about economic crosslinking, problem is their western-academia-brain-poisoned leadership has been slow to recognize how essential it is + how little western countries will compromise on their mission to undevelop & privatize the natural resources of every global south country & keep their trade links linear + how much allies like Iran & central Asia states need support in order to make international law real for the first time

China and Russia have completely different foreign policy than Cold War China and the USSR, there’s been no sign of friction over China maintaining attitude of neutrality re: Ukraine, they are increasingly collaborating on infrastructure + involved in each other’s supply chains. There’s plenty of other stuff to worry about. I just don’t see any series of events leading to tensions

Russia is even more fucked up than just a capitalist country. Like the infrastructure itself there are some institutions which retain a lot of influence from the USSR, Kremlin + central bank nonwithstanding, which is why I recommend Samir Amin’s book abt the transition to and out of the Soviet mode of production. The MoD has had a major role in the economic planning of the country and it’s not academically bought-out by the west. Its influence grows the longer the conflict in the Ukraine and soon the arctic progresses

Chungus director

Yeah just launching an outlet won’t do anything either we need to create a real crowd-controlled distribution system parallel to social media. Stuff like lemmy is a baby step

I don’t know how it can happen, I just have a pile of stuff about how messed up Nigeria is + historical reasons for it. This is my problem with the alt media particularly, they only traipse around after the general news narrative. If you want to actually get ahead of it and learn about Kenya, SAfrica, Nigeria, Argentina, Myanmar, Indonesia, etc in depth they will not help you at all. A friend compared it to small business owners painting themselves as opposition to big corporations when they just sit on the sidelines waiting to side with capital if it wins

It would be nice if they actually helped regions without real opposition media groups instead of trying to be the backup MSM that points out hypocrisy in opinion pieces