Yeah those can be pretty useful. Frustratingly, it looks like an Amazon listing can be 100% replaced with a different product but keep the old reviews. Or maybe something else is going on, but I'll often check the reviews and find that all the older ones are for something totally unrelated to the listing
At this point the only way I've found to get good results is to treat it like eBay and choose a seller carefully
With how much of Amazon's business model is based on laundering counterfeit products, I bet the answer is "very often"
The blame will always be diverted toward China, but it's Amazon that has a dynamic, scalable system for sellers to launder fake/defective/used/expired products through official product listings
That's why I've always dismissed it out of hand. A bigass cauldron kept boiling to throw people in? That's so much work, fuel, and time. Any participant who isn't truly a sadist with a very specific desire to watch people boil would lose motivation before even having a chance to do it
The Black Myths Podcast covers a wide range of topics centered on anti-black myths, from a black Marxist perspective. I've loved everything I've heard from them
Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery focuses mainly on its namesake, a lynchpin of white, western, Christian settler-colonialism as well as other indigenous issues. It's a project by members of the Onandaga Nation working out of Syracuse University Department of Religion. They aren't explicitly Marxist but they're sure as hell adjacent. They do have some guests with some L takes on issues irrelevant to their field, but these are generally old white lawyers who've done good work with the American Indian Law Alliance going on a tangent about China or something before the hosts nudge them back on topic
Indeed. It's named after the Russian dictator John Linen, who bankrupted the country with his collection of coats. According to some sources, each of his coats was worth a full 20 linenyards, i.e. factories for making linen
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Yeah those can be pretty useful. Frustratingly, it looks like an Amazon listing can be 100% replaced with a different product but keep the old reviews. Or maybe something else is going on, but I'll often check the reviews and find that all the older ones are for something totally unrelated to the listing
At this point the only way I've found to get good results is to treat it like eBay and choose a seller carefully