https://xcancel.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1813502080557932942

The pandemic is class warfare

I’m in a town where basic shelter is unaffordable and constantly features puff pieces about the plights of our landlords, and the local subreddit has the majority of locals calling landlords parasites. All that’s missing is a vanguard that can organize and guide this sentiment.

Always bring a steward.

HR’s first impulse when receiving a serious sexual harassment complaint from my coworker was to reframe everything my coworker said in the most downplayed way. Like a, “oh shit this is serious. . . how do I get this employee to make it sound like it wasn’t a big deal”. Inhuman Resources indeed.

some decent papers in here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cuba-reader-second-edition

strawman?

I’ve done a bunch of research into the lead up to WWII and the evidence is clear that the UK was intentionally stoking tensions between Germany and the Soviets (a good summary from Counterpunch). What I still haven’t figured out, though, is why Poland was the line in the sand for the policy of appeasement. If the UK wanted an armed conflict between Germany and the USSR, why be so passive on Austria and Czechoslovakia only to flip when Poland is threatened, when a partially annexed Poland would have been the gateway for the Eastern war that UK seemed to desire?