Not 2468?

Exactly.

Don’t worry so much about it and just post anywhere that fits the topic. If there is something objectionable there you will for sure get feedback from the community. It’s not a bad thing if your posts open a discourse.

Turns out you can very reliably judge whether someone will be principled in their domestic policies by whether they are principled in their foreign policy positions. The “supports AES states” litmus test.

If someone claims to be any kind of socialist but denounces socialist countries as “authoritarian”, they probably will not actually govern as a socialist but as yet another liberal when you vote them into power.

I am considering permanently stopping making any posts here going forward.

I don’t have any problems on my end. Have you tried viewing it in a browser?

Could it be that the text is too long? I already cut out a large portion of the text so it wouldn’t be overly large, as the original article is quite lengthy, especially when including all the pictures. Maybe it needed to be cut down even more?

I generally prefer copying at least a part of the text of articles into the body of posts i make that i think are important to read because i know that some people may not click the link and will just read the post itself, and i would prefer leaving at least the parts of the article that i think are good.

You can always just click the link and go read it directly on substack, including the parts i left out (some of which i don’t agree with btw).

Here is The Deprogram hosting a completely insane Russian leftcom (antitcommunist) to talk about how the Ukraine war is heckin imperialist Russian fascism.

That episode is where they lost me. Up until then I really thought they were a solid podcast, despite their flaws. But to me it is inexcusable to choose to platform a representative of a tiny minority of contrarian ultra-leftists over any one of tens of thousands of actual Russian communists, the overwhelming majority of who support the SMO and supported it before it even started. It is indicative of deeply entrenched western leftism on the Deprogram that they never thought of asking a communist from the Donbass who actually lived through the eight years of being constantly shelled and attacked by fascists to come on their program and explain the pro-SMO viewpoint, or give some insight into how the people of the Donbass view the Kiev regime. That is the very least you should do if you want to do the liberal “both sides” thing. You owe it to your audience to at least hear the side out that most Russian communists support, but they didn’t even do that.

Finland was part of the Russian empire so there are some Slavic influences on Finnish culture, but there are probably even more Swedish influences since it was also part of the Swedish empire at one point. Linguistically it’s neither Slavic nor Germanic.

Translations into my native language are hard to come by. So i usually read either in German or English. Both have advantages and disadvantages. The English translation tends to be more compact and faster to understand since the grammatical construction is simplified, but the German has more nuance. I would like to be able to read it in Russian as well one day.

If i was Taiwanese i would be ashamed and embarrassed to be led by such a cucked comprador regime.

Assuming anyone who downvoted this post did so purely based on the title and didn’t even bother to watch the video.

Clear Nazi shit and they know it and are now trying to weasel out of the backlash. Not a coincidence that it’s all Poles trying to justify it as “ancient slavic symbols”. Most people who are obsessed with ancient runes and European pagan symbols are Nazis. Whether they’re Germanic or Slavic makes very little difference

The last one, if it’s real, is the most damning by far.

Do you think your current phone is still adequate and will continue to be adequate for the the next couple of years? If not then buy a new one. If it’s still doing its job and not likely to break down soon then why not wait? Chinese chip manufacturing is only going to get bigger, more advanced and cheaper over the next few years.

The stock market is a casino, and the house (aka the rich) always comes out on top. So just be prepared to lose money. The game is rigged.

Also, most religions consider gambling a sin. I’m not personally a believer but i can understand why that tenet was adopted.

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I like the wheat framing on socialist emblems:

Well, you know, if something is asserted without evidence it can be dismissed without evidence. It’s up to the person making the claims to back those claims up with evidence, not you to find evidence to debunk them.

I think it would be easier to answer if we knew what specific story you are referring to and what the source is.

I will say one thing though, which is that Tibet is very large and very sparsely populated. You would have to try very hard to specifically dump next to the very few places where people actually live.

Not to mention that this goes against the general trend that China has been on for more than a decade now where they have put a lot of political emphasis on cleaning up and protecting the environment.

Is there still waste and dumping happening? Probably. But not nearly to the same extent it was twenty-thirty years ago.

Ukraine.