My finished shot from this morning's total lunar eclipse. This image was captured by using two telescopes, one to capture intricate detail on the lunar surface, and one to capture the rich tones cast by Earth's shadow across the disc. Go ahead, zoom in on it!
@ggreenwald I miss the Chomsky days, when questioning US hegemony, the security state, domestic spying, regime toppling, coup-fomenting, etc, didn’t get one branded by the ‘left’ as ‘most certainly on Putin’s payroll’.
@nmaureennm222g2 @MartinLZinn@Snowden No. Try not to be so simple. The point is that this is the result you get when you isolate a country, antagonize them, instigate colored revolutions in their neighborhood, levy sanctions, etc. Backing a person or a country into a corner eventually leads to extremism.
@MartinLZinn@Snowden Not only rebuffed, but continually ridiculed, humiliated, and demonized. One doesn’t have to be a fan of Putin or support his actions to see that the US has been trash-talking and knee-capping Russia since he came to power. The US simply can’t function without an arch-enemy.
@longrally I haven’t noticed it getting worse yet, but I do miss the golden days of blogs and rss readers. Blogs about CSS and web dev were my main thing, and it felt like a community - you felt like a guest on someone’s page.
@FriedrichE49 Obama and Hillary broke left brains. I guess that other stuff I mentioned was never on solid footing anyway, maybe it just seemed so to me.
@FriedrichE49 The left’s changed in recent years, at least in the US. Chomsky concepts, like questioning wars and US/capitalist hegemony were pretty mainstream left topics, & ID was less important. Now, wars, coups, low/mid class-hostile agendas are fine as long as all the ID boxes are checked