Reading Graeber’s Dawn of Everything and the history of the many “failed starts” of agriculture is so interesting. As well as why humans actively avoided it in many cases.

Learning about the Hannibal Directive was a new low

Someone find the article of the Economist glorifying Britain’s genocide in India from a back in the day. It seems like little has changed.

Looool. Iraq war consent manufacturing all over again.

Republican: “Everything to the left of me is woke.”

Republican pretending to be liberal online: “Everything to the left of me is tankie.”

At the end of the day it’s a word that can mean anything you want, and is only useful as a tactic to divide resistance against right wingers.

Crying about “tankies” is just calling everything “woke” with extra steps. Not everyone there automatically supports NATO/Ukraine but it’s far from what you describe.