[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

They have no shame.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have read that China is not getting rid of their reserve dollars overall suggesting that countries that want to trade in dollars with China can still do but it can now be done without US oversight or control? If that is the case the "de-dollarisation" effect would be much higher than the trade in the above local currencies would imply?

/edits: clarification

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks. Do you know if Patreon does Monero?

Addendum: I think they don't.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are they on anywhere else?

Addendum

African Stream:

RedStream:

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Happens commonly in Europe too. I remember reading a while back since China stopped a significant amount of recycling for Europe (I think due to trade restrictions) a bulk of the waste ends up in the hands of organised crime? Hopefully someone with more up-to-date knowledge can correct this if not accurate.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tacit admission of the Lebensraum playbook and aligning with Nazi strategy; the Grand Chessboard was more explicit, not to mention installation of Nazis in leadership roles in the early days of NATO (now they hide behind false rhetoric of promoting democracy). Of course there's a multitude more examples from Gladio to Azov and this is just another one to add to that fascist pile.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And yet too many people still believe that inflation is primarily due to "too much money chasing too few goods" (and therefore need to stiff the working classes of their income some more).

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Harris' personal problem: the internalisation of white supremacist imperialist politics.

In an alternative timeline she would have been better off internalising Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" instead.

/edit: clarity

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sounds as suspiciously sourced as the Statistics School of Stéphane Courtois

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You are right in that I should clarify with regards to limited resources; I mean developed infrastructure (both "soft" and hard eg people and buildings) in the context of an underdeveloped country like India and the uneven development in wealthier capitalist countries taken as a whole.

Furthermore we should also consider a privatised system can include "public" infrastructure systems in a capitalist country (there are myriad ways one could analyse this from the financialisation of tuition fees to the contracting out of education materials and infrastructure that is overwhelmingly dictated by the private sector).

My argument is not really for or against entrance exams (this should be determined through peer reviewed research and may be discipline specific) but there are other loci of focus that are of greater importance to avoid higher education just reflecting wealth demographics and bourgoisie sensibilities including the artificial scarcity of higher paid labour.

I also tend to lean towards Paolo Friere's Pedagogy of the Oppressed on a more enlightened path for education.

Addendum: I should add that I actually agree with your initial premise that medical schools should have neither entrance exams nor lower degrees; there are places in the world (geographical/historical) where this is/was the reality. However, we should work towards overthrowing the systems that generate the constraints that you have outlined. We shouldn't just treat the injury of a fallen patient but also question why the patient collapsed in the first place.

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I agree current systems disproportionally favour wealth over merit but given limited resources how would one filter candidates efficiently to select those truly motivated and disciplined to study? If one approaches the problem by eliminating privatisation of education you can then work towards a more meritocratic system with or without entrance exams?

[-] darkernations@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I wonder how the sangh will spin this to blame "urban naxalites" (if they do).

"Truly a terrible time to be an Indian right now."

I think it was Amartya Sen who claimed an excess of 2.5 million deaths per year since formal end of colonisation compared to China - even taking into account liberal "accounting" of deaths (things like unborn children etc). Unfortunately for the majority it has been a terrible time to be an Indian for about the past few centuries though obviously the fascist hindutva for the past decade has not helped. (Someone with more knowledge please correct this figure if inaccurate)

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