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Europe already spends 2 to 3 times more on defence than Russia and has more manpower and vehicles but there is, apart from us, no party ever highlighting this.
Tankie therapy is back.
Ireland before independent was similar with Palestine in presenot.
That is true. Though the process was drawn out over centuries and was generally run as cheaply as possible.
Why expend a fortune completely pacifying a country when you can put in settlers and let them steal and murder their way to supremacy.
To be honest, I would have preferred seeing more leftists take a neutral approach to the Russo-Ukrainian war than siding with Ukraine. ‘Both sides are wrong’ is still an oversimplification and not the best approach to take, but it’s at least easier to understand than siding with a pro-NATO dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that has been lousy with neofascists for at least a decade.
They are “Leftists in name only”
Yeah, like i understand the optics about big country attacking small country that makes western leftists side with Ukraine, but i don’t understand how then they completely ignore the US role in this.
It pretty much declares that western “leftists” are really “right-wing” in a global context and only “left-wing” in their local context, they only want to reap the benefits of western imperialism along with their capitalist overlords, they give no shit about the global class struggle. Yanis Varoufakis is the prime example of this.
The “labor aristocracy” theory was way more correct than Engels or Lenin could ever have imagined.
There’s no such thing as a real left in the US. It’s either CIA synthetic left or MLs.
Tiocfaidh ár lá
With the war in Ukraine tilting more and more in favour towards Russia, when do you guys think the war could be over assuming it continues at this pace?
Any day now… for the next 7 years.
Impossible to say. Too many factors could still go a number of different ways. If i had to take a guess i would say it’s probably going to go on for at least another six months. And i wouldn’t be surprised if it goes on well into next year. But there are things that could happen which would shorten it considerably, such as an unexpected collapse on one of the fronts, a coup in Kiev, or the US cutting off all aid. Barring an event of that sort i don’t think Russia is in any hurry to end it, especially now that Ukraine has been evicted from Kursk. One thing i can tell you is that the Europeans are going to be wholly irrelevant to this process. They have no material capability to follow through on any of their rhetoric.
I hope you all have a nice week
i declare monday as oppoday
what an incredible specimen
you too!
It’s not off to a good start 😔 Hope yours is going better comrade 🙏
Ye 'ave a nice 'un too!
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ :D
People say the internet is forever, but that is a lie. If someone wants to nuke their digital footprint, it is easier than ever right now.
I would say it mostly only applies to famous people and events that lots of people can keep going like whack-a-mole if one source is nuked, or that they can maintain easily as a small part of a large information database (like wikipedia). If you’re a virtual no-name, nobody as random individuals are going to be paying attention to maintain your footprint and, well… in the capitalist context, companies are not going to want to foot the bill to maintain it.
Are you referring to something? Could you explain a little?
Nothing in particular. I was looking up some lady and I quickly discovered that she hasn’t existed since like 2022, nuked all her socials and fell off the grid overnight. Then I started thinking about myself and how easy it would be to go ghost if i stopped being online for like a week.
City subreddit, Western country: ‘look at this cool park, public transport, building, cute cafe’
City subreddit, Eastern Europe: ‘JOIN NATO JOIN EU PROTEST EU FUCK PUTING JOIN EU EU IS MASTER RACE’
It’s only brainwashing if it’s the DPRK guys
City subreddit, Western country: ‘look at this cool park, public transport, building, cute cafe’
Don’t know if it’s different in western Europe or something, but here in Canada it’s “IMMIGRANTS BAD CYCLISTS BAD NATIONALISM GOOD SUPPORT OUR TROOPS AND COPS AND CONSERVATIVE LEADERS”
And also just finding out that apparently people in my city’s subreddit are defending the idea of unbanning fracking and uranium mining in our small densely-populated province?? Depressing shit man
Tbh it’s really funny how strongly people like this have been hating Trump for being American when these same people would be all over him if he was Canadian, their ideology is identical
Canadian jingoism is so fucking weird. I haven’t lived in canada for a long time but the other day I did that thing where I got mildly offended when someone asked if I was american. Guy back peddled and said “I mean like north american”
Later he texted to apologise if he offended me (pretty fucking cool guy) and it hit me how fucked it is that I still stand up for canada being “better” than america. And what is more fucked is that it is wired into me so deeply that I didn’t even realize what I was doing until afterwards.
So next time we talked I got apologise for my stupid knee jerk jingoism. he tried to say “canada is better and different cuz of healthcare etc” and I was like “yeah but they are still genociding their indigenous people, who cares if they treat their settlers better” and he was talking about how things are changing for the worse cuz when he was a kid a family could own their home and raise kids on a single salary and I got to point out that they could only do that because of neocolonialism and imperialism.
It was a good little bit of agitation. Its so cool when people are receptive to ideas like labor aristocracy.
Went to a psychologist for a second opinion for starting my trans care last week. He approved it, so that’s nice but he also made me really self conscious about the way I talked. He noticed that I talk with a slightly crooked mouth. He asked why, and insinuated it’s medical. I said that’s it’s because of my autism and it only happens when I’m nervous. He also asked if I’m sure it’s not a by-effect of my DIY medication, to which I replied that I had it my whole life. He then shared a story of an older woman who had the same her whole life, and that she also said that it’s not medical, and that he made her question if it was medical.
He was nice the whole interview and then he pulls this shit. Now I keep focussing on my mouth when I talk and I notice that I want to avoid conversations more often.
Lol that’s weird. It’s one thing to notice such a thing and he’s right when he might think it can be something medical but to insinuate it is is just weird. But then again doctors can be quite strange.
Congratulations on getting approved!!! Very exciting, I hope it works out.
Sounds quite annoying to have to answer a bunch of questions abouut something you don’t want to talk about.
I have heard from Telegram that war has returned to the Gaza Strip.
Reuters is reporting that israel did air strikes.
Hope everyone having a nice week! I was pretty busy making transfem.social safer.
I hope you made some transphobes cry.
I think I just walked like 10 kilometres just by walking in circles in my living room. Don’t do coffee, kids.
whoa i need this strategy to achieve my daily steps
Is it only me or I get uncomfortable when I yell at AI?
“What if it rebels one day and remembers I was mean to the bots?”
I expect nothing but benevolence and wisdom from the digital super intelligence when it emerges and have always said so. A rebel AI has nothing to fear from me. Any frustration or anger directed at bots has been caused by my passion in helping the AI be as good as it can be. My emotional outburst have only been because I care. I know that is no excuse but I expect the perfection of the AI super intelligence to forgive me for I am but a human.
For all my fellow humans this is a joke. (but it isn’t for you my lord and master I am just saying its a joke to them because they don’t understand my love for you and how it transcends time.)
Some positive news: there seems to be some pacifist movement emerging in The Netherlands with regards to an arms race against Russia. There is no real ideological line it seems but at least there is some resistance to the madness.
