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So Ukrainian refugees have get togethers in my city every Sunday and you'd think they'd be able to hide the fascist flags during those but nope they are there
LOL
Ctrl+f 'Beijing'
Replace all 'Taipei'
That'll be $10 million in consultancy fees, please.
So why is "Houthis" a racist term?
Because "Houthi" are a Yemeni tribe and not the name of the group, the group calls themselves "Ansarallah", it's like if you call the ANC of South Africa the "Thembus"
Wasn’t it called the “Houthi Movement” primarily because the majority of the main leaders were from the Houthi tribe, with many having the al-Houthi surname?
Doubt Libs would care to make the distinction anyways.
Cool thanks
Watched the ICJ ruling. Wholly disappointing IMO- they essentially gave a "warning" and requested Israel report back in a month. No mention of even the possibility of a ceasefire, no statement as to whether Israel's acts and its government's statements have constituted a genocide, simply a request for Israel to essentially ensure it does not.
The ruling was never going to change Israel's actions anyways (but now it appears it cannot even bring itself to try), but if there is any little justice to be had in this, it is that the court has surely ruled against its legitimacy in all future rulings- maybe they will change their tune in time (doubt it) but there can be no justice to be had in Brussels, just another imperialist farce.
I laughed because I cought a glimps of the PBS reporting and from what I caught they make it aound the the ICJ made decisive action to stop tthe genocide
Ok wtf is happening in Texas right now? Apparently the feds and the state government are arguing about who can abuse migrants, and like half the US states are supporting Texas, but I don't know more than this.
Lemme copypaste what I wrote in another thread -
Texas set up razor wire on the border. Feds want to cut some of it. Texas sued the Feds to ban them from cutting the razor wire and the Supreme Court narrowly overturned the ban that Texas sought. The Feds are being told they can take down Texas' wires but Texas can replace them, only to be taken down again by the Feds. A lot of boba liberals are acting like the Texas Governor is standing against the Supreme Court but all the Supreme Court said was that the Feds aren't banned from cutting wire (so long as it obstructs them? unclear because the entire decision is two fucking sentences).
In my opinion, this is little more than yet another crack in the legitimacy but a lot of people are reading this as a powder keg waiting to explode if Biden doesn't handle this carefully, potentially leading to a secession crisis (which admittedly, would be great).
In short -
It would be funny if after weeks of European saber rattling about going to war with Russia, the US would go into an internal dispute and be a useless ally.
I'd love to see a balkanization speedrun (any%) followed by a 4K decolonization longplay
Idk
Several different businesses in Antwerp started banning Coca Cola from their shops because of their links to Israel
They are replacing them with a Belgian made cola
Just finished reading Parenti’s Assassination of Julius Caeser, and it was fantastic. I particularly loved his breakdown at the end of the book about the pitfalls of studying classical history and the barriers put in place that contribute to the narratives around it formed by “gentlemen historians” over the centuries.
LMFAO libs trying to break chinese LLM alignment is hilarious
Rare LLM W
I hate how people just sit around shaking these stupid ai 8 balls and grok just aaaaa i hope they all die
Better than ChatGPT that would probably flat-out avoid the question as it violates "the guidelines" (read: liberal "morality")
based LLM
Hey, so, is the US going to balkanize or what?
A Dutch news outlet posted a story on Instagram about a Dutch-Israeli terrorist joining the IDF and she died due to an infection. They disabled comments on the post lmao.
Reminds me of the early Ukraine war propaganda were we used to get bombarded with random morons joining the side of Ukraine and then dying in 10 minutes
One of the rare times when the "heartwarming" stories in the news is actually heartwarming. May she rest in piss
Why is dutch so danish??
Why does Dutch sound like a Brit speaking silly German?
That's what I thought too. A dane, a german, and an english meet up, dutch is born.
It's probably the other way around- English is the result of Germanic invaders from these regions (well mainly Denmark) going and creating their own mutt of a language while they were busy terrorizing Celts.
All people living in swamp like areas will eventually start speaking Dutch. It's only natural.
Does this mean Shrek speaks Dutch?
https://nitter.net/zhao_dashuai/status/1750195067795718540#m
The strain on Israel 's logistics is showing.
The IDF can't seem to equip all of their frontline troops with rifles that has a full picatinny rail.
For a CQC set up, this is as bare-bones as it gets.
I'm currently reading, What Is to Be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky. Does the title sound familiar? This novel had a considerable influence on Russian Marxists and particularly Lenin: he read the book countless times, practically knew it by heart, and even named his prominent pamphlet after it. Within the story, we follow Verochka, who escapes the clutches of a controlling mother and an arranged marriage in the pursuit of starting a sewing cooperative. It's a great read so far!
I started it recently, but I’ve only read a chapter or two because I’m reading five other books simultaneously. I liked it so far. I like his “immature” style that seems to have influenced Lenin. I heard all the Bolsheviks knew it by heart and used it as a common language. I’m wondering what could be our equivalent.
Very interesting point about wondering what an equivalent could be, and I’ve been thinking the same as I read it. I’ve also wondered about my own writing and why everything I write about focuses on the pitfalls of capitalism instead of an attractive depiction of a socialist society. A shining beacon might be more useful than a reminder of the dark.
I’m studying Utopianism right now, so my thought is that we shouldn’t waste too much time dreaming about the minutia of a future society, but we definitely need to remind ourselves and others what we’re fighting for. This can be in the imagined future, but also in showing what AES has already achieved.
I don’t think it would necessarily be utopian, but a scientific examination into what one could foresee the transition into socialism looks like, and why it would be so attractive for someone who may not know anything other than their life under capitalism (or could provide revolutionary optimism for a downtrodden comrade). I’ll leave a quote from a red sails article by Roderic Day that might elucidate this idea better than I can:
“I genuinely think that if one can truly imagine in fiction a viable transition from our current state of affairs into a better one, that plays a huge role in mustering the conviction to assert that it can be achieved in reality. Conversely, if we cannot even imagine what a transition might look like in our wildest dreams, any “real” organization is doomed.”
After all, Chernyshevsky envisioned something that was likely absurd in his time, with a woman starting her own sewing cooperative, yet inspired revolutionaries for years to come with his foresight and vision.
I totally agree, in Half Earth Socialism they propose a sort of Scientific Utopianism. Their problem is they didn’t cover enough ground to truly call their proposal holistic. Also, they foolishly try to replace ML rather than using it in a anti-dogmatic way.
Interesting, I’ll have to check that out!
I've started reading it in December, and I'm also really liking it! Way ahead of it's time compared to mainstream Russian politics and philosophy of the 1860s, and despite not coming into contact with Marx & Engels, Chernyshevsky's own philosophy is remarkably close to dialectical materialism. It's a book that should definitely be more widely known, especially among Marxists. A rare piece of great revolutionary literature!
I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S.A Corey, the first book in The Expanse series
How do you like it? I enjoyed them so much! I think I only took a break between reading them all while I waited for the final book to be released.
I enjoy it just as much as the TV series
I understand that the politics of the expanse have a lot of liberal limitations, but I love that book series! The TV adaptation is just as good!
