I doubt it. What makes you suggest McDonald’s?

If Hollywood wants to sell more movies it should consider writing better ones. All these marvel superhero things are the same movie in different colours ad nauseum. When you’ve got the captured western audience with no discerning taste, you can sell whatever slop you like. But it gets boring quick and anyone with an alternative is almost certainly going to pick the alternative.

That’s probably where I read it. I’m tired lol.

There are diagrams in that Vietnamese college book on diamat. I’ll try to think of the title and translator. Was it Luna Oi, maybe? You could ask to use them, with a link to the book. The ebook is free, anyway, so they might just appreciate the advertising.

Robert Hutchinson, After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals.

How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials

After Nuremberg is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals convicted at the twelve Nuremberg trials of 1946–1949. Because of repeated American grants of clemency and parole, ninety-seven of the 142 Germans convicted at the Nuremberg trials, many of them major offenders, regained their freedom years, sometimes decades, ahead of schedule. High-ranking Nazi plunderers, kidnappers, slave laborers, and mass murderers all walked free by 1958. High Commissioner for Occupied Germany John J. McCloy and his successors articulated a vision of impartial American justice as inspiring and legitimizing their actions, as they concluded that German war criminals were entitled to all the remedies American laws offered to better their conditions and reduce their sentences.

Based on extensive archival research (including newly declassified material), this book explains how American policy makers’ best intentions resulted in a series of decisions from 1949–1958 that produced a self-perpetuating bureaucracy of clemency and parole that “rehabilitated” unrepentant German abettors and perpetrators of theft, slavery, and murder while lending salience to the most reactionary elements in West German political discourse.

Have you seen this, @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml?

I concur. I liked how creative it was, still.

The frame or the glass?

Some good advice in here already. I’ll just add some thoughts about choosing media.

I had the most luck with translations of my favourite books. But only certain books. Books that use a lot of description are much more difficult. I really struggled with Gabriel Garcia Marquez because he paints such a detailed picture. E.g. you won’t just see someone in a room with a glass, you’ll see the furniture and jars, vials, dishes, etc. That’s a lot of extra, relatively rare vocabulary. It slowed me down too much to enjoy. (I have heard that ‘Nobody Writes to the Colonel’ and some other of his shorter works are more suitable for beginners but I haven’t yet read them and I want to really enjoy them all on my first read through, I’m waiting a bit before I get stuck in.)

Books that are a little more action-packed have been easier for me. Now I also enjoy books in my favourite genres (historical fiction, fantasy) by my favourite authors even if I haven’t read that specific book by them before. It’s still easier than reading new authors.

My main point is not to be embarrassed about putting something down and trying again later. Pick things you can enjoy most right now.

For Spanish, you can also change the language of many video games, Netflix shows, Disney plus shows, etc. Audible have a decent range, too.

To get a consistent accent, I started by only listening to one accent. Now I don’t mind what I listen to. It limits your choices to start with but you often have both available on Netflix, Disney, and Audible.

The same somebody who told us they wanted interest rates to rise to prevent wage increases and to encourage the poor to spend their Covid ‘savings’.

Sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing.