Andor makes her look like an idiot so good job Andor
Chana
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Maybe. It will be years and years of time. That's a big layout to do pro bono.
He could sue and possibly even win but it would be a 5 year lawsuit and his opponents have infinite money. It's a substantial personal sacrifice to go after imperialist goons via the legal system.
I think regular education about mutual aid would be helpful. For example, while anonymity does mean capacity for harm and then reacting meta posts, look at what happens when donating to, e.g., charities: you end up mostly paying for PMC paychecks and tax breaks for corpos. Edit: maybe adding an explainer comment pinned in every mutual aid post would be a good way to implement this.
I do think that having a vouching system is the best way and my understanding is that this is basically the status quo to some extent. You may want to define some kind of unvouching process in cases where there are verifiable issues. I think this will actually increase trust and donations if communication and messaging are on-point.
So re: meta posts, I think there needs to be more process, not just allowing meta posts and comments. This requires more mod intervention, so I'm sorry to be basically volunteering others' time, but I do think it will be beneficial to have meta posts go through a filter and deliberative process and with clear results and strategic messaging. The alternative, i.e. status quo, is likely to be ad hoc discouragement. The coupling of "this is why you should keep helping our comrades" to any meta posts is very important.
they must run a new placebo-controlled trial after a variant arrives
The dominant variant shifts every 3-6 months.
Nary a one!?
I don't see anything to be conflicted about here. If I had to suggest something, maybe participate more directly in organizing so that you can feel confident that donation money is well-spent. Getting a personal sense for how serious a local party is can be revealing.
Just about every socialist has lived under capitalism. We seek to overthrow the dominant socioeconomic order. Existing socialist projects must still live and develop in capitalistic ways and have different experiments in how they diverge from this. But people there still have/had jobs, retirements, houses.
Which period of the monarchy do you pine for?
Do you have a sudden craving for plain bread and drinking milk?
All my ~~apes~~ liberal-brained fascist apologia are gone.
I think Ghorman has a mix of inspirations. I think its main character is different from Gaza, however, and in ways that matter.
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Ghorman is portrayed as vaguely Western European, with French-Germanic language, exclusively white people, a wealthy country with one make export: extremely expensive textiles made of silk. They are not portrayed as imperialized, but as a wealthy and proud group. Their racial characteristics are in line with those of the empire, just without British accents, whereas imperialized groups in Star Wars are depicted as racially diverse humans or "aliens".
The Ghorman resistance is portrayed as incompetent and arrogant, generally unserious and making poor strategic choices. They are constantly surprised by the outcomes of their actions. They do not listen to the free advice of people with more experience and revolutionary resources. Their main leader is literally a wealthy businessman nationalist. The people under him are naive youths. They have no consistent goal or idea of how they accomplish the major goal of removing occupation. They think a big show of "peaceful protest" and singing songs in a square will work and are massacred for it. Very late in the game their main leader realizes his idealism will lead to this massacre but nobody listens to him. He has no caché even among his alleged subordinates. They are a liberal bourgeois shitshow. They are even depicted as a color revolution in many ways.
Ghorman is closer to the idea of fascism returning home, or otherwise betraying its allies for its own interest. It has the one common attribute with Gaza, which is genocide and forced migration by an imperialist group, but it is not done for colonization, but resource extraction. They're mining a mineral so extensively that it ruins habitability. There is no real precedent for this among Euro imperialists: they destroy habitability via extraction outside the imperial core, not within it. Even when conquering one another! Ghorman us a mixture of elements.
But the main "message" of Ghorman is that "if it can happen to us, it can happen to you", something that wouldn't make sense if they were already considered marginal and downtrodden. Ghorman are insiders of the Empire, they are rich, they are ethnically privileged, but the Empire saw it necessary to destroy them to keep the rest of their subjects in line via a superweapon, so Ghorman was destroyed. And via the propaganda apparatus, consent for this was manufactured and bourgeois democrats sold it as a necessary evil against an arrogant state gone rogue.
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Sucks for the students but I am hype for the US brain drain