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It's not that complex - there are workers who work and spend their hours creating wealth, and there are heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who do work. It's a parasitism of a class of parasitic heirs on those of us who work and create wealth.

Nothing could make that more clear than the past year and a half. For tech workers we had FAANG layoffs, hiring freezes, lowball offers if any offers at all etc. Contrast this to the tech stock market since the beginning of last year - a FAANG index like IGN doubled, NVDA up 800%. Like Shakespeare said - the leanness that afflicts us, the object of our misery, is an inventory to particularize their abundance; our sufferance is a gain to them.

It was called "From the Killing Fields".

That's kind of the point - the US and Russia were doing the same thing. In 1961 in tge US, mobs repeatedly formed with implicit police backing and beat the hell out of white and black passengers for daring to sit next to each other, for risking their lives to affirm the idea that blacks were not less than whites. In the face of things like that, a lot of US criticism fell flat.

> Communism would have been a far bigger disaster for Germany than fascism - which is really saying something given that the outcome of fascism was the destruction of the nation and decades of foreign military occupation.

Huh? Chemnitz, Leipzig, Potsdam etc were communist.

Germany is still under foreign military occupation. Only one of the armies left. The communists formed a Sinatra doctrine that the other foreign military occupation never did.

The Wikipedia article you linked to mostly goes against what you said.

I urge people to read the link which you yourself posted - people can learn about the US arming the so-called "Khmer Rouge".

The KPNLF were in a coalition government from 1982 on with Sihanouk and the communists, whom you call the "Khmer Rouge". In fact the coalition with the communists happened as soon as the US began funding them - it was probably ordered by the US.

Any how, the US fairly openly armed what you call the Khmer Rouge, I guess a sliver of plausible deniability is enough for the minority of people like you who want to deny it. Nightline even did a whole segment on it.

When Sihanouk and the communists are in alliance in 1975, and the head of state is Sihanouk - everything is blamed on the "Khmer Rouge", whatever that means.

When the US begins arming the coalition of Sihanouk and the communists in 1979, then all the arms are going to "rival groups" in the Sihanouk/communist coalition. It's ridiculous.

When the US invaded Cambodia in 1970, Prince Sihanouk was ousted and Lon Nol took charge. Sihanouk then allied with the independent Cambodian communists, and after a war in which the US bombed Cambodia more than Europe was bombed in WWII, the coalition of Sihanouk and the communists took over in 1975.

In 1979 the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and took over much of the country with the help of Vietnamese aligned communists.

The US then began arming the coalition of Sihanouk and the communists not aligned with Vietnam. It also fought for their seat at the UN.

So the US began arming and supporting Pol Pot in 1979, as did China. This was covered to one extent or another in the New York Times, Nightline etc.

Don't really get people tut tutting Chomsky being a Vietnam and Cambodia dove when the US was arming Pol Pot starting in 1979.

> This line from the article seems to misrepresent Orwell...He makes it clear in his book that he initially had little understanding of the differences in ideology among the various left-wing groups, and chose to join the anarchists rather arbitrarily.

The one misrepresenting Orwell is yourself, he joined the communist POUM, not the anarchists.

You apparently didn't read carefully yourself. The names were never published. That the logs exposed their names to Wikileaks and other reporters is known.

If many names were published, what is one name?

> people died as a result

Who died? Who was even named?

The web site you link to says information about Afghanistan was leaked, and no informant names published.

If it has been leaked, then show me the name of one of the hundreds of names of Afghan informants that has been leaked.

You can't because no Afghan informant names were leaked.

Is this the Hamas that the New York Times and Haaretz said Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar to encourage Hamas funding last Autumn? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

Please don't give me any lectures about the group fighting alongside the PFLP for Palestinian liberation against the genocidal colonial invaders.

One part of the drivel - he says don't let the government inhibit the invisible hand of the market that Adam Smith discusses in The Wealth of Nations. But in The Wealth of Nations, the invisible hand is the hand of the government inhibiting free trade between nations.

The person who wrote this article has been on a Twitter tear for months about how the police (and not the campus police) need to shut down campus Palestinian protests. The chutzpah to turn around and bash Canada's government for outlawing hate speech. He's been advocating the police shut down campus Palestinian demonstrations for months!

Obviously people who believe people can magically turn water into wine, or that virgins give birth, or that they can walk on water etc. have better "mental health" than those who are skeptical of all of this.

> The khmer rouges were primarily China and North Vietnam backed.

Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979 and China invaded Vietnam in 1979. What are you talking about?

The US began arming the "Khmer Rouge" (whatever that means) in 1979 as well as protecting them in the UN, so the equivalence seems pretty valid to me.

Not to mention the US 1970 invasion of Cambodia and concurrent CIA-backed overthrow of the Cambodian government, which including shooting dead US students who protested against it at Kent State and Jackson State, or the US carpet bombing of Cambodia during and after Operation Freedom Deal.

Especially considering that the US began arming the "Khmer Rouge" in 1979, and then began heavily arming them a few years later.

The responses to your observation are hilarious. They'd have you think that the mass hiring by FAANG in 2021 and early 2022 followed by layoffs was a good thing. You accurately observe it as being screwy, which it is, but people are brainwashed into thinking it isn't - or is even a good thing.

It seems to me that the tech money people and executives have become nuts in the past few years. This, the YIMBY (really YIYBY, NIMBY) movement, /e/acc, the VCs going to war with San Francisco politicians (including the drunken threats from the current head of YC).

Never mind China, Europe seems to have had enough and even DC is having enough on some level. Not sure when this started, didn't seem to be at this level ten years ago.

I and others I know are against them, and we are like some of them were before their initial money raise - preparing for system design interviews, debugging from trace id's, studying covariance and contravariance. They really seem to be off in their own bubble of affluence. Not sure what year this started taking off - was definitely after 2014 at some point.

> The ICC document describes Israel as a "territory" and Palestine as a "State" (capitalised).

"...the territory of Israel and the State of Palestine" - the word and appears after the word territory. It means the territory of both. It is not just talking about the territory of Israel.

Also it refers to the names these countries use for themselves and which the UN uses as well. The official names of the countries are Israel and the State of Palestine. If Israel wants to be called the State of Israel as its official country name it would have to change its name to such, it has not.

> Among the G20, countries like China and Russia consider Palestine as a "state" but the UK, US, Germany, France, Canada and others do not.

143 countries recognize the State of Palestine. The State of Palestine is recognized by China and Russia along with other G20 members like Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey. Most of the countries in the world recognize the State of Palestine, the ones who don't are mainly in western Europe like the UK, Germany and France. As you say, make of that what you will.

How about Israel take them as refugees. After all, some of them still have the keys to their homes which were stolen in the Nakba.

> Broadly I think Israel has the right ambition (the destruction of Hamas)

Well a few months ago Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar asking them to fund Hamas ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q... ). So these endless massacres of Palestinian civilians by Israel (and effectively by the USA too) are happening for a pretty capricious reason, if that even is the reason, and I think it isn't.

Well the parent said there are no restrictions and there are restrictions.

The reader should take note that when those celebrating "the only democracy in the Middle East" shutting down a news organization, and blocking Israelis from accessing their web site - when they talk about Hamas and the political influence of Qatar - remember that Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar weeks before October 7 to encourage them to send money to Hamas ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q... ). He did this because the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank was making peaceful, political headway in getting Palestine internationally recognized.

> Another is the low-paid jobs done without proper employee registration by immigrants.

Because construction, lawn care, and sweatshop jobs by immigrants is all registered in the US.

As opposed to the US, where the heirs who don't work live in mansions, living on the handouts of expropriated surplus labor time of those who do work and create wealth.