The work is all that matters now.
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Biden says U.S. is “all in on Africa’s future”
The words chunking uneasily out of your mouth are too little too late Ol’ Son. You were shitting that bed on the regular before I was born and those poor blacks are never going to believe a word you say ever again.
Multipolar future for Africa & the Middle East
I’m sure they’ll take your money but the strings you’ll try again to attach to it this time are a dead currency and worth about as much as your lying, cynical platitudes.
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This week, Glenn Greenwald launched a new nightly news show on Rumble.
His early attempts at high production value are kitschy and crude. Purely in terms of the look of the show, from the graphics to the camera angles, it looks like what we used to try to pull off in high school TV production class, It’s awful. And moreover, Glenn, I have never ever understood why anyone would ever wear a tie without having to wear a tie. It’s a symbol of strangulation and a marker that says, it’s okay guys, I’m serious and totally on board as a team player within the system.
Which you clearly are not, which is why we love you dearly, no homo.
Presentational absurdities aside, this show is fucking brilliant and you should make it your new 7 PM EST nightly news choice.
Each of the initial four nights has been an A+ for content and analysis. But if you just want a little sample first, I suggest checking out the Wednesday night show, which recapitulates the strong points of the first two nights and then goes on to practically apply them and tell you why it all matters.
I’ll be watching tomorrow, and watching as the second week starts on Monday too. I won’t tell you what to do, but you know what I think.
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The work is all that matters now. Politics is tangential and sometimes even a distraction.
Building an infrastructure both logistical and digital to support the work is essential, even though it always seems to take too much time. It’s not easy, to fit in the soaking of rice every night, or to make it edible every day. It’s not easy either to keep my mind focused and on track and full of purpose.
I’m one human and deeply flawed.
Nevertheless, I have a job to do and I know roughly what it is, and recrimination is nothing but an even more useless distraction from it.
I’ll try to remember that.