The vocab word of the day is ‘Finlandization’. The term comes from the fate of Finland after the Winter War with the USSR. It remained a sovereign state, in control of its own domestic affairs, but had its foreign policy making ability neutered in the post-war peace.

Taiwan is, de-facto, a sovereign state, despite recognition being limited, re: the one-China policy. This lack of recognition, however, means that Taiwan is highly limited in the foreign policy decisions it can make.

Generally speaking, Taiwan is in the orbit of US geopolitical interests. It produces Electronics components largely for western markets, and it’s proximity to China makes it a strategic asset. So, if Taiwan decided to break off relations with the US, or enter into some kind of federation agreement with mainland China (things that are unlikely, but let’s pretend they were to happen for a moment), such a thing would most likely not go over well. The US has carried out coups in countries for less.

So when @umbrella@lemmy.ml says Taiwan “isn’t sovereign”, this is what is meant.

Its consider cringe by “the youths” to be out in public

FTFY

For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.

I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don’t think exists anymore.

None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences

Where’s my woke Jihad?! SMH

Thank you for actually taking an interest. Frankly, most people have zero idea what it even is. Those that do, know it as a vague anti-fascist symbol. I know we here all know it’s history, as used by the SPD, but we’re a bunch of dorks on an insular web forum.

But when people ask, I explain it’s history, that it occasionally had other meanings ascribed to it, in addition to the anti-communist one, and explain that even though I’m an ML, I use it because chuds don’t recognize it, like they do the Antifascist Action logo (which, btw anti-communist anarchists looove, despite it being invented by communists). And most people find it neat and move on.

Ultimately, a logo isn’t a magic sigil of “cast liberalism”. You just talk to people and be normal. What’s important is that you’re out there doing the work as an ML. anything else is secondary to that.

Should ML orgs be using it? No, that’s silly. But for me, a trans girl living in chudsville USA, who isn’t exactly keen on getting harassed as a “Tr*nny Anteefuh”, it’s a comprise that has only led to me meeting cool communists in my area.

Ok, post over. Let’s all go home now

This rips, someone with artistic skills should render the in the style of the three arrows, as a bit

Idk, i have a 3 arrows patch on my bag, because it’s a way to dog-whistle my leftist politics to others, without chuds recognizing it, like the one with the flags.

Its usage has extended so far beyond its original anti-communist usage, that it’s just a more obscure antifascist symbol at this point.

raises hand

So I’m color blind, and I’ve never really given it much thought before. Apple Juice is yellow?

Hexbear this, hexbear that. Where are my Hextwinks at?!

Ok but fr, Ohio and West Virginia, two States that we like to dunk on today for being chud hell hokes, have really interesting radical histories around things like abolitionism and labor

I mean, the point they’re attempting to make is that owning a book isn’t the same thing as endorsing its contents. Which is true, but that alone ignores the years of context regarding this guy’s past racism and antisemitism

I don’t claim to know much about that soggy island’s politics, but I’m going to assume a not insignificant part of that, is due to “your party” being an absolutely fucking dogshit name

I own copies of Mein Kampf, the Communist Manifesto, the Bible, the Quran, and Dianetics. This doesn’t mean anything tbh

Yeah bud, me too. It’s not about the presence of the Nazi book, its about the confluence of the Nazi book with everything fucking else he’s been doing for years on end!

So far, Jeff from HR is clocking some insane gooning hours. Dude hasn’t cum in weeks, but cranks that hog like crazy, on the reg

Based, PHPBB is truly the People’s Forum

Is that a old timey signature in all of your posts? I dig it. Hexbear PHPBB when?

Can confirm, when I took my first dose of HRT, the Estrogen immediately gave me that red robot vision from The Terminator, and it tells me the masturbation stats of every man I see

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That first video is utterly unwatchable holy shit.

It stands for “Men Going Their Own Way”. The other person claimed MGTOW freaks are all gay. But really what it boils down to is that MGTOW is a part of a larger constellation of violently misogynistic, fascist adjacent, terminally online “men’s movements”, to have crawled out of the dark corners of the internet over the last decade or so.

So MGTOW, Incels, pickup artists, and other assorted weirdos all boiled up out of the same primordial internet sludge, and they’re trying to hop onto Lemmy. And I think it’s imperative that we bully the shit out of these dweebs.

Don’t let Nazi’s into your bar, or else it’ll become a Nazi bar, and all that.