I didn’t know that sportswashing had been coined, never mind studied. I suppose a happy side effect of having no interest in sports is that it’s ineffective.

Edit to add: It does seem to be fairly new term:

The first usage of the term “sportswashing” may have been applied to Azerbaijan and its hosting of the 2015 European Games in Baku.

Paywall bypass: http://archive.today/x5obz

Unless people learn how the media actually work, I don’t think they’re going to increase their media literacy.

The only people who are actually taught how the media and propaganda work are those who are earmarked to do that work for the bourgeoisie after they complete their degrees at elite universities.

Not only are there lost luggage haul videos, but also:

• Reaction videos to lost luggage haul videos
• Link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos
• Comments on link aggregator posts of reaction videos of lost luggage haul videos <— YOU ARE HERE

SF isn’t what people think it is. It has the most billionaires per capita in the world. There are few school-age children here, because many move away before their kids reach that age. We don’t have many old people, because many find they can’t afford to retire here. SF is not a real place, it’s a playground for the wealthy.

The SF Standard ghouls are having a banger day 💀 Fuck you, Michael Moritz.

wtf am i doing here

It was fat, juicy, money printer go brrr grift

Engadget, 2020: Hyperloop projects are now eligible for federal funding in the US

Children of Men

If the European bourgeoisie want to dismantle their own bourgeois union of states, whatever you do don’t get in their way 😂

I thought the bourgeoisie wanted Brexit so they could ditch European Union labor (& consumer & environmental) protections domestically. What do they get in these terms, a greater ability to wage lawfare on European states?

If Netflix was looking for a way to get me to unsubscribe, they may have found it.

The bourgeoisie have profitable opinions not serious ones.

Takes pinkwashing to a whole new level.

Great, now I can’t unsee this. THANKS. Conan Trains With The Women Of The Israel Defense Forces

I cannot believe how my fellow Americans—even my PMC peers—have never figured out that our military-industrial complex is not keeping us safe, as evidenced by the two smouldering piles where our most iconic towers once stood in our premier city. Like, the concept of blowback is just absent, it seems.

I like Varoufakis in a harm reduction sense but this schtick of his is unhelpful. It’s good to describe capitalism’s transformations, but don’t say stupid shit like capitalism is dead.

In deference to their wishes I suggest landleech.

Berkeley Property Owners Association: Why We’re “Housing Providers”

We politely decline the label “landlord” with its pejorative connotations.

Cf. job creators

Caitlin Johnstone: Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution