They probably didn’t move there with the intention of doing good to anyone but themselves. So I think this “doing more harm than good" really is just a turn of phrase meaning they realised they did harm and not necessarily a sign of hypocrisy.

Can you blame them? Doesn’t that constitute success?

So maybe this morality blame game is a different game altogether?

So, whole towns, maybe countries are being gentrified now? And these towns, countries might have done that deliberately? Mad?

Sounds like it, we just have to ignore the basis of our fucking capitalist/nationalist system. You need to attract capital to survive, and when you do, it fucks you over. And it can do it easily, cause it can just say screw you, if you don’t play ball, I go to another nation state.

And then people are being told to get angry at the foreigners, the internationalists, the Jews, the gays, until of course bad things are starting to happen. And we’ve been played by this cycle for centuries by now. It’s been analysed, talked about, a little bit fought about, things got a little better after some world wars, and now we’re at the end of a cycle again, and everybody’s shocked. SHOCKED.

And I’m bloody sick of it.

How did neo-liberalism make it to the left?

What far left?

“in principle I guess” kinda gives it away.

really, do you want to say these anti-anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine are actually spreading from Russia, of all places?

And if they’d give him the opposite line the next day, he’d have no problems repeating it, duly.

Klaro

Oh man, and the “scoop” was so underwhelming anyway

Can’t believe it’s been 24 years. This was the small timeframe my generation tried a little bit of protesting and was met by incredibly brutal force and new tactics by the police. Good old kettling goes back to those days. Genoa felt like a turning point and energised a lot of people, but events later that year kinda overshadowed everything and brought in unimaginable new powers to the security forces. Oh well..