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3 days agoI thought Elon Musk had fallen out with the regime
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Hot take: The death penalty in peacetime is abhorrent but if you’re absolutely going to do it then at least do it by firing squad. Yes it’s messy, yes it’s probably traumatising to the people present, but if you’re such a big bad boy that you think you have the right to kill someone in cold blood then you’re also big enough to deal with the gore that goes with it.
14·3 days agoThey wouldn’t have released the suspects if they thought they were doing any kind of armed attack. Considering the way the regime has thrown the book at peaceful anti-genocide protesters, I also doubt that they would have released them if they thought they were political activists.
In mind the two most likely explanations are that this is either some kind of dumb misunderstanding or that it was a false flag operation.
Is this antisemitic left in the room with us now?
If I don’t do it someone else will do it. And then I won’t get paid.
From what I have read from people who were around at the time, there was a real uneasiness in the latter part of the war among the more well-off segment of the Danish population about the prospect of being liberated by the USSR and subsequent relief of actually being liberated by the British. I recall a sarcastic characterisation of the mood as people being afraid that the Soviet soldiers would “come and eat our poodles”.
The Red Army liberated the Baltic island of Bornholm and most official historiography treats this as a “second occupation”, just as bad as the German one. On Bornholm many people celebrate liberation day not when the Germans surrendered but when the Soviets left.
Today the Soviet war effort is systematically neglected and downplayed in Danish opinion. For instance, most educated and well-read Danes knows for a fact that the only reason the USSR didn’t collapse instantly was the lend-lease agreement and all people know about the Soviet-German pact of non-aggression is that the Nazis and the Soviets allied with eachother to conquer Poland, simply because they were both equally evil.
I found this article today from the reactionary tabloid B.T. It is an excellent example of how idiotic Danish political culture is.
The subject matter is embarrassingly trivial, literally nothing happened: A based kid took a Vietnamese communist party flag to a debate and a social democrat ghoul-spawn had a hissy fit, recoiling, one imagines, like Dracula confronted with a crucifix.
Somehow, B.T. decided this non-event was national news.
It starts by calling the Vietnamese flag “Soviet” to make it sound scarier, relying on the reader’s inner Goebbels to fill out the blanks. Then they wheel out the avowed Zionist Adam Holm for some boilerplate anti-communist pearl-clutching, while the apartheid regime he is dickriding is currently doing exactly what he accuses the USSR of having done.
The social-democratic shitstain then demonstrates the party’s remarkable talent for hating the left with a ferocity it can never summon against anyone to its right. Apparently communism isn’t “Danish” because Karl Marx should have watched more handball and told more racist jokes. He also lectures everyone about democracy while demanding that only “Danish values” — whatever the fuck those are — belong in Danish schools. He signs off with a bizarre Trumpian “we pay for it” line suggesting that taxpayers are funding communist flags.
And the so-called left is barely better. The Red-Greens have a completely undeserved reputation as dangerous far-left radicals when they’re really nervous, house-trained social democrats who will happily throw their own members under the bus to appease the reactionary press.
The kid with the flag seems alright. Everyone else involved sucks ass.
This was so aggressively idiotic I could feel my brain cells dying. I translated it because I suffered, so now you can suffer too:
The Red-Greens' partner organisation put up a ‘Soviet’ flag: Young Social Democrat now threatened with police report
A banner belonging to Red-Green Youth during a school debate has sparked a conflict with DSU, the Danish Social Democratic Youth. Now a representative of the youth movement has threatened to report the matter to the police unless a Facebook photo is deleted.
The two left-wing youth parties have fallen out with each other.
A Soviet flag bearing the hammer and sickle has sparked a conflict between Rød-Grøn Ungdom, one of Enhedslisten’s young partner organisations, and the Social Democratic Youth of Denmark (DSU).
A DSU politician is now being threatened, in a message seen by B.T., with a police report unless he removes the Facebook post at the centre of the dispute.
The post was shared by Noah Zdrinka, the Social Democratic youth chairman of DSU on Amager.
According to the youth chairman, it shows a representative of Red-Green Youth hanging up a large red hammer-and-sickle flag at a political debate at NEXT Education Copenhagen’s Nørrebro campus.
The occasion was the Democracy Day earlier this month.
The hammer-and-sickle flag is particularly controversial because the Soviet Union, which ruled under this symbol, was responsible for the deaths of millions of people.
The well-known historian and journalist Adam Holm tells B.T.:
“It is sad that the Red-Greens’ youth organisation does not understand that the Soviet Union’s flag symbolises a dictatorship. The young socialists themselves believe that they stand for tolerance and humanity, yet they nevertheless choose to advocate for a state that murdered and imprisoned millions of its own citizens, including many loyal communists.”
Adam Holm emphasises that, naturally, there is nothing wrong with being a committed socialist, just as one can embrace other ideologies.
“But it reflects a very troubling view of history to hang the hammer-and-sickle flag in a classroom today during a discussion about democracy. The Soviet Union was an anti-democratic country from 1917 until its collapse in 1991, and it caused enormous suffering.”
Adam Holm continues:
“If the red-green socialists wanted to do their cause a favour, they should instead use the flag as a warning and say that socialism in the 21st century must never end up like the Soviet Union, with mass graves, a culture of fear and censorship.”
Noah Zdrinka told B.T. about the experience on Friday:
“I was astonished and surprised that someone could choose to hang up a flag associated with mass executions and forced-labour camps. That is not a message that belongs in Denmark.”
But surely democracy isn’t only for people who agree with you?
“I’m not saying that people have to agree with me. But the political values associated with that flag are not Danish. They can take that somewhere else. It is not something that should be present in Danish schools.”
The youth politician from Red-Green Youth shown in the photograph subsequently threatened Noah Zdrinka in a message seen by B.T. with reporting him to the police for “digital defamation” unless the Facebook post was removed and Zdrinka deleted the photograph from his phone.
Noah Zdrinka has no intention of doing so.
“People should know that there are people going around hanging these kinds of flags in our Danish schools, which we all pay for.”
B.T. put the criticism to the youth politician from Red-Green Youth.
Read the youth politician’s full comment here:
In a message to B.T., the representative of Rød-Grøn Ungdom said:
“While I was on holiday in Vietnam, I decided to buy the banner from a shop run by the Vietnamese Communist Party. You see similar flags all over Hanoi—they hang from lampposts, in shops and from people’s balconies.
“So, for the debate, I personally decided to hang it up in solidarity with the Vietnamese people, who fought for their freedom from the French colonial empire and later had to defeat the United States, the world’s greatest military power, in a defensive guerrilla war, before finally freeing themselves from foreign domination. In much the same way, Palestinians are currently fighting to free themselves from Israeli crimes.
“But Noah, from the Social Democratic youth organisation, was the only person there who lacked the basic decency—and was so fixated on attacking RGU—that he came up with the extremely narrow-minded idea that this Vietnamese banner, bearing a symbol of the international workers’ movement that clearly represents workers and peasants around the world, was actually intended as a tribute to a specific, notorious five-year period in the early history of the Soviet Union.
“The two symbols aren’t even visually identical. The Soviet symbol has a star at the top, whereas the Vietnamese one doesn’t. But Noah was the only person there who was naïve enough not to at least ask about that detail. This would be like condemning the Danish flag because of the Spanish Inquisition, which lasted from 1478 to 1834. It’s essentially propagandistic mudslinging and selective historiography.
“I am reporting Noah to the police—not because I regret putting the banner up, but because I don’t use social media, and I therefore don’t want other people posting pictures of me on social media without asking for my consent first.”»
Since the person does not wish to disclose their age and apparently does not hold any particular position within the youth party, B.T. has chosen to anonymise them.
In a message to B.T., he says that the flag he hung up was one he had bought during his summer holiday in Vietnam, from a shop run by the Vietnamese Communist Party.
“For the debate, I therefore personally decided to hang it up in solidarity with the Vietnamese people, after they had fought their way to freedom from the French colonial empire, and later had to defeat the United States, the world’s greatest military power, in a defensive guerrilla war, in order finally to become free from foreign overlords (…).”
The person maintains that the symbol primarily represents the international workers’ movement, rather than “a specific scandalous five-year period of the Soviet Union’s early history.”
“This would be equivalent to condemning the Danish flag because of the Spanish Inquisition between 1478 and 1834. It is quasi-propagandistic mudslinging and selective historiography.”
Doesn’t your explanation sound a little like when someone says that the swastika is actually a sun symbol and isn’t defined by the Nazis’ use of it?
“If—and only if—I were a Buddhist, I would use the swastika as a sun symbol. Now that I support the international workers’ movement, I use the hammer and sickle as a symbol of the international workers’ movement.”
The youth politician will not do it again.
At least not as part of Red-Green Youtg. Chairperson Olivia Koekoed Olesen makes that clear to B.T.:
“It is not a symbol that should be used on behalf of Red-Green Youth at all, because it is associated with a violent and undemocratic regime.”
“It is incompatible with our politics, because in Red-Green Youth we are first and foremost democrats, and therefore we distance ourselves from symbols that are associated with undemocratic societies that do not recognise fundamental rights,” she says, and goes on to make clear:
“When we became aware of the situation, we therefore immediately made it clear to the member in question that this is not compatible with being a representative of Red-Green Youth, and that it must not happen again.”
B.T. confronted the Red-Greens about the case involving its young partner organisation. Its parliamentary group leader, Peder Hvelplund, said:
“Like Red-Green Youth, I believe that people should stay completely away from using a symbol that is, of course, associated with the Soviet regime’s terrible crimes and atrocities and its blatant lack of democracy and civil liberties.”
30·5 days ago“The good thing about Wagner is that he’s not that German” is not a take I expected
The bible consists of many books written by many authors over the span of many generations. If you want to you can find scripture to support almost any political position. People who point at the bible to justify their opinions are therefore deeply unserious and both biblically and politically illiterate.
19·6 days agoThe conclusion must be that your fetishes are simply not marketable enough and must be replaced by those demanded by customers.
7·6 days agoPff! A square root is when you take the bottom part of a tree and knock off the round bits. Everybody knows that!
Thanks. I am very flattered by the comparison.
I think I might be. I swear to God, every day it’s something new with this guy.
Today we talked to the guy who had done the caulking around the new windows. He knew that they should have had the masonry repaired before they put in the new windows. He knew that just caulking over the damage to the masonry was the wrong thing to do and that it wouldn’t last.
But the site manager insisted that he should do the job wrong, even when the caulking guy told him all this and told him that the work would come with no warranty whatsoever.
21·9 days agoBut he still means The Jews when he’s talking about lizards, right?
This site manager is comically incompetent. He doesn’t seem to know anything about the site he is supposed to manage. Getting any concrete information out of him is near impossible. Dealing with him is like sitting with a child who didn’t do his homework.
Yesterday we discovered by change that the locked metal box they have put on our front door with keys to the house for the builders was unlocked. I called the site manager and told him how unsatisfied I was. From what he said I suspect that he himself was the clown who hadn’t locked the box but he wouldn’t own up to it, this guy doesn’t take responsibility for anything.
Later that day, one of the builders had a look at the box. It turned out to had been mounted wrong so that it could be opened without knowing the combination. The same thing had happened at several other houses on the street, the builder told us. He also told us the combination to the box: 1234. I suspect they just use the same combination for all the boxes.
And guess who personally mounted all the boxes on the street: The site manager.
The housing association is renovating all the houses on our street and they have hired the most incompetent deadbeat to manage the construction site.
They started work on lots of houses simultaneously and now everything is running late because they don’t have enough people to finish the job on time.
At our house they managed to turn a three day job into a three week plus project, seemingly for no reason other than incompetence.
So I asked the site manager why they’re running so badly behind schedule. Surely there must be some massive unforeseen problem? Nope, when asked he couldn’t point at any reason for the delay. Instead he embarks on a string of bullshit excuses. I had to understand that there’s so many houses they’re working on, they have so many tasks and they can’t have 60 plumbers at the site at the same time and besides there’s so many things that have to be coordinated.
Yes, Bob. Exactly.
There are lots of things to coordinate.
THAT IS WHY THEY FUCKING HIRED YOU! TO COORDINATE THIS SHIT!
Besides, I’m not asking for 60 plumbers, am I? I’m just asking for one, one single plumber to come to our house, install the radiators that are supposed to be installed, and allow us to have heating.
One in three Gen Z men are lying
15·11 days agoMostly not
(Source: I’m a white guy)
Isn’t that like when Balenciaga sells nasty torn-up t-shirts that costs the same as a small car?
I’m wondering whether that would be a smart move for them. I might be prejudiced but I suspect that the Saudi military exists more to dole out oil money to privileged citizens in the form of phoney-baloney jobs rather than for actually fighting. Sending them to actual war where the other side shoots back might violate that social contract and threaten political stability. So would sending them to war and making it obvious to everyone that they’re simply not a very competent or useful fighting force.