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featurebugI sometimes imagine what life would be like after the end of capitalism and what the future would look like.
Probably a few good years of prosperity and peace until some mad lad digs up Stalin’s spoon. Then it’s a toss-up. We may be sharing toothbrushes or we may be progressing as a society. Preferably both if I’m being honest. I wouldn’t mind a more intimate relationship with my neighbors.
I bet that war in Ukraine is secretly a struggle for control over the spoon…
In all seriousness though, I do the same thing. I wonder how different my life would be or my life so far would have been in such circumstances.
Got banned on reddit again for wishing an American soldier gets cheated on by his wife and his knees to be blown up by an IED
Sexing with soldiers wives/husbands is praxis
Oh man there was a really funny post back on r/cth from some guy absolutely roasting some chud soldiers with “I fucked your wife” jokes wish I could remember it, was funny as fuck.
Liberal snowflakes can’t take a joke (not joke) these days smh
That’s just praxis. Keep it up comrade.
I wore a union sweater to work today as it is comfy and warm and someone in the bus greeted me very kindly because of it
why is r/librandu like this?
Looking at the source about Uyghurs, VICE again? is this believable?
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Is librandu even leftist? I checked it years ago but it seems anti-BJP at best.
If there’s no peace talks yet, I hope Russia advances quickly. I’m kinda frustrated with the slow speed of their advances. I just feel like there’s not much time left before the west will escalate even further, and it would be good if Russia gained more ground so they can protect themselves better
You may need to brace yourself for disappointment. Peace talks are not happening and i see nothing that would indicate that Russia views this the way that you do. They seem to regard territorial gains as an afterthought at the moment to their strategy of attrition. Nothing about this has changed for well over a year now and i don’t expect any big surprises. Just more of the same slow and steady grinding.
I think that Russia considers that time is on its side and that it is in no hurry whatsoever as far as Ukraine is concerned. Putin basically said as much in a recent conversation with international reporters at the St Petersburg Economic Forum. I don’t have the exact quote on hand, but paraphrasing it was something like “yes we could go faster but at the cost of greater losses which we do not want”.
They have also consistently maintained that no additional mobilization will occur, which means that the pace of advance will continue to be limited by the rather modest (compared to what Russia could deploy if it wanted to) size of the force they have dedicated to this conflict. Furthermore, the appointment of a civilian economic administrator to the post of defense minister indicates that they want to prioritize a healthy civilian economy that is not overly skewed toward the military side.
All of these are indications that they are pursuing a strategy not centered around immediate military gains but around long term economic and social stability, even at the cost of a slower resolution to the Ukraine conflict, particularly since they seem convinced that the longer it goes on the weaker the West gets and the worse the global crisis of the US empire will become.
Edit: I have to add a caveat which is that of course all of what i said is contingent on there being no sudden, unexpected developments on the Ukrainian side such as a major political crisis in the Kiev junta or a sudden collapse of the front due to attrition of trained manpower, equipment shortages, demoralization, etc.
All you said was true, I know this is a war on attrition, but I also want the Donbas to be fully liberated so they are not on the direct frontline if shit really hits the fan
So the DPRK’s football team qualified for the second round of World Cup qualifiers for Asia after finishing second in their group. Japan finished 1st, DPRK 2nd, Syria 3rd and Myanmar 4th. It would be really cool if they managed to reach the world cup.
Palestine also finished second in their group so they also progresses to the next round
It’s the spectre of communism! The ghosts of the DDR team which triumphed over their Western brethren in 1974 giving their combined strength to the DPRK.
DPRK has actually done quite well historically in the world cup right? Correct me if I’m wrong but both Koreas have actually made it all the way to the quarter finals at some point if I remember correctly.
Last decent result was a QF in 1966. Last participation in a tournament was 2010 in South Africa. Other than that they never really achieved something sadly, apart from Asian Cup participation.
they were last in the World Cup as recently as 2010 in South Africa. My primary memory of them in that tournament is Emmanuel Eboué trying to listen into their team huddle as if he spoke Korean, good bit guy was a mediocre right back but was definitely funny dude
DPRK won it once, I believe.
I do not think that’s true
Romania beat israel to advance is the world cup qualifiers
3 body problem netflix adaptation boils down to “the West saves earth from the consequences of chinese communism”.
From what ive read online, the story in the books mainly happens in China (in the adaptation the good stuff happens in terf island, except for the bad stuff which is left as it happens in the books, in China of course), and China and the west join forces to fight the turncoats. In the netflix adaptation, the chinese turncoat defects to the UK and its some english aristocrat ghoul bossing everyone to fight her society.
Which leads me to ask, if you’re moving the story from China to terf island, why keep the cultural revolution stuff? Its such a shameless anti-china propaganda lmao
Terf island sounds like what a really successful cultural revolution would look like, so it kinda fits.
I am too mature and principled to be fooled by bread and circuses
new dragon age trailer drops
Yesterday, my daughter was born healthy folks! I feel blessed!
Congrats! Wish you and your beautiful daughter the best! ❤️
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Never understood people’s obsession with cars being freedom. I take the bus to work sometimes. I get on the bus which stops nearly at my front door, sit down and look outside, and get off in front of my work. Zero effort required from my part. Investing in public transport is investing in freedom.
im anxious around people and feel constantly on edge or potentially threatened even when others are kind and flash a smile.
having a space where i can be certain things are where i expect them and when im looking for stuff i dont need to keep up appearances…
Bikes are true freedom. Commuting takes roughly the same amount of time because I don’t have to take the same crappy routes as with a car.
It’s a myopic view that is held mostly by people living in areas where public transportation is non existent and cars are the only means to get around. Either that or a city bloke who is rich and doesn’t want to mingle with the rabble.
You don’t live in a society where you are physically incapable of doing absolutely anything without a car.
That’s your answer. A winter coat is impractical to someone in the Sahara, but that person works appreciate it a lot of the eh got thrown into Alaska.
I know, my rant was more city specific I guess
cars are the opposite of freedom in my opinion. I grew up/live in a city where there is fortunately rudimentary public transit but a lot of shit is highly inaccessible without a car. Especially in the winters here having to rely on the bus to get to work was absolute hell, but even then having a car is such a massive chore. Outside of rent it is my biggest expense in a month and driving is highly dangerous despite the fact that id consider myself quite good at it. Id much rather be able to just rely on public transport and not have to deal with the cost and stress of driving on a daily basis, would feel much more free id say. And thats not even considering the social aspects of not having a car here and how that can limit you, wish it were just typical (and practical) for most people to take transit
Is your city under the management of Capitalists who only implement architectures that benefits the rich people, raise cost of living, and creates an environment where environmentally destructive investment is the best choice for personal finance?
I suppose it depends on how good your public transport is. I wasn’t quite so lucky when I had long commutes a few years back. 15 minute bus, 10 minute walk, 30 minute train, 15 minute walk, and the same thing in reverse getting home. Usually in the mornings without any space to actually sit at any point in the trip. Sure did wish I had a car at the time, lmao.
I don’t know where else to post this so it’s going here! I love seeing Dr. Katchanovski go off on Twitter. He’s usually pretty tame but sometimes he’ll let loose a little (especially people he retweets lol):
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energy from that picture.
Dying for EUROs and then Copa America to start, need my football fix. Friendlies and Brazilian league not enough to take the edge off
Same, especially since I didn’t watch the last WC. I need my international tournaments man. As long as England doesn’t win, that is.
England winning would be a disaster we would never hear the end of it.
One of my favorite EURO memories was watching them lose to Iceland in I think 2016 in a bar packed full of englishmen in downtown Toronto. Barely got out of their alive, hoping for more of the same this year
I was awakened by a loud bang today. I figured it was probably some random drug war in which a grenade was thrown, as that happens often around here so I went back to sleep.
Apparently a building several kilometers away in the city exploded. So far 1 person is dead and several people are heavily injured. A freak incident, you would say, if it weren’t the fifth or so place that randomly exploded in the few years that I have lived here. This is a city that is notorious for the bad upkeep of buildings, so I wonder how many mine fields our citizens are living in.
if it weren’t the fifth or so place that randomly exploded in the few years
That’s really troubling. Are most of these from failing gas infrastructure or similar? The only buildings that have blown up where I’ve lived were meth labs.
The last few incidents were from gas leaks yes. This one probably too though there is no confirmation yet. They called in the governments special explosive forces halfway through the rescue operation but there’s not further news about them.
A second dead person has been recovered now. It apparently is the sixth explosion in which people die in six years in this city.
Three died so far. Absolute tragedy.
Is it just me, or does the page now repeatedly scroll up while creating a thread?
A similar thing has happened with me. It’s usually when there’s a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you’ve opened some screenshots, etc?
The screenshots don’t make any difference. I tested this out on the create post page without inserting any images or URLs in it and I still got the glitch.
It’s an HTML bug, I’ve encountered it on other websites. I forget what causes it, but I assume it’ll be fixed with the next update.
