CascadeOfLight

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[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

US/UK: loading up Saudi planes full of bombs

Saudis: So this will help me sow the wind, right?

US/UK: Yup

Saudis: And you're gonna help me avoid reaping the whirlwind right?

US/UK:

Saudis: Right?

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The description of the factory and just how many facilities, amenities and cultural activities were organized there really struck me - and in particular, how obvious such an arrangement should be. Like, of course a place of work, the place at which workers spend most of their life, the place that produces everything needed for life, should have every facility needed for life! If it's being organized by the workers who run it, that is.

It really showed, from a specific angle I hadn't conceptualized before, just how much of a tyrant's domain the capitalist workplace is, like here is this place that could be a nexus of community, but instead on top of it is squatting a dragon that demands you to leave all your problems and your humanity at the door. Housing? Your problem. Childcare? Your problem. Medicine? Your problem. Your only purpose is to enrich the owner, and maintaining your wellbeing is of absolutely no concern, beyond the wage they must grudgingly pay you. And if you're really lucky and get a job in the upper echelons of a very wealthy company, they might give you the kind of perks that, as we can see here, any socialist factory worker would demand as a matter of course. Like those Silicon Valley campus type companies, with all of their obscene wealth, manage to produce a pale shadow of the work-life integration of a factory in the USSR in the 30s.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Spears just work

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

So it is, I should have known enough Cyrillic by now to have spotted that

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm afraid I can't remember where I read it. The only source I could find from a cursory search (on Yandex of course, western search engines return nothing) is this blog post which says that it was adopted at the second conference of the OUN, in fascist Rome in 1939 at which time Bandera was networking with all the European fascists - however this blog also doesn't cite any sources, so it's not much more help.

I did manage to find this photo of a banner in occupied Ukraine during WW2

It says "Heil Hitler! Slava ~~Nazis~~Hitler, Slava Ukraine!"

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

During the "strategic alliance", they also used Slava Ukraini and Slava Heroiam as the call/response to their Nazi allies' Heil Hitler.

Like if a Banderite and a Nazi met, it would either go "Heil Hitler" "Slava Heroiam" or "Slava Ukraini" "Sieg Heil".

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I like that it uses all the visual and narrative cues of a US army recruitment ad just for the guy to get turned into red paste in moments of actual combat, I've gotta give em that at least

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

And the Ukrainian nazis know it

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Forsooth, ere the day of judgement come, forget ye notte!

Lo, did King Georgius of the Hedge, second of his name, perforce, in expansion of his realm, commission that this deed be done.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 72 points 2 weeks ago

When the time comes, the capitalists will sell us the GPS coordinates we will use to drone strike them

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

1000 people a day for a year versus almost 2000 a day for fifty years. Ah yeah these things are basically equivalent, I have truly become an enlightened centrist.

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

From 1971-2021 US sanctions killed over 28 million people, of whom at least 14 million were children, through starvation and denial of medicine.

In a world that already grows enough food for 10 billion people, 10 million people starve to death every year, a situation that can only exist because the US Empire enforces that injustice with absolutely staggering violence. You literally cannot conceive of how much blood is spilled across every single day of 'peace'. There has never been a more bloodsoaked entity than the United States.

 

now that it turns out it's 'racist white men'.

Also just learned it's a quote from a white nationalist neonazi in 1993, I never saw it used for anything other than antisemitic dogwhistling but I assumed the phrase was stolen from some liberal philosopher and taken out of a specific historical context... but no, just a neonazi.

 

Lo, did King Georgius of the Hedge, second of his name, perforce, in expansion of his realm, commission that this deed be done.

 

This story sets my blood absolutely boiling every time it comes up. A 15 year old girl was sex trafficked to Syrian extremists, by a people-smuggling ring run by a man later discovered to be a Canadian intelligence asset, was "married" within 10 days of arriving in Syria, had three children before she was 19 all of whom died, and the day after she was discovered alive in a refugee camp and expressed her wish to come home, she was illegally made stateless by the Home Secretary revoking her British passport in the name of """protecting national security""".

And these savages are literally baying for her blood, gleefully pointing out "It's not illegal because she's not stateless, she can go to Bangladesh, oh but they dispute that she's a citizen and they've said if she goes there they'll hang her for terrorism! Hahaha! pLaY sTuPid GaMeS " smuglord

but she still has extremist beliefs and won't condemn ISIS

OF COURSE SHE FUCKING DOES, SHE'S LIVED IN A TENT IN THE DESERT SINCE SHE WAS 15. HOW COULD SHE POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN DERADICALIZED?? Oh, some fucking "anonymous source" in the Telegraph says she was "an 'enforcer' in IS's 'morality police'"? That's fucked up, did she like do anything or kill anyone though? No? Of course not.

These same fucking people will then turn around and shed their crocodile tears about oppression in Xinjiang. If she was Chinese she'd have been brought back, put in a deradicalization center for a few months to a year, given teaching on why her extreme beliefs were wrong along with some education and training, and now she'd be working in a garment factory or something, with a long and normal life ahead of her. Instead the compassionate, civilized West has condemned her to a legal black hole, trapped with no future in the desert camp that her children died in, for the crime of being kidnapped as a child by our own spies, to an extremist organization that, as we all know here, is a US project.

The whole thing is a perfect encapsulation of the inherent brutal, savage cruelty and criminality of western regimes and the bootlickers in their population. I try to remind myself that there are good people here who also think this is a travesty, but when I read this thread I can only get a few comments in before I get the urge, like bile rising up my throat, to scream UNLIMITED GENOCIDE ON THE FIRST WORLD.

inshallah-script the forgiveness they have shown her, will in turn one day be shown to them.

 

Redditors react to a video of a bike ride around Pyongyang

Video: the most normal city ever filmed

Redditors: So spooky! Everything looks... wrong! This guy is taking his life in his hands to film this! avgn-horror

Also Redditors: Looks too normal, this has to be staged, they're actors and this is a propaganda channel! phoenix-objection-1phoenix-objection-1


Side note: my tolerance for western bullshit on the DPRK has reached the negatives, five seconds in these comments and you can cook an egg with my blood. Salute to the small handful of brave comrades pushing back on propaganda in the replies kim-salute

 

Laugh! Laugh at the inferiority of the untermenschen-crafted weapon! soypoint-2

Featuring such golden comment chains as:

One a/c on the assembly line. Look at manufacturing sites for F-35 and F-22. Dozens of aircraft lined up. That’s the difference.

That’s the first thing I noticed. Russian industrial capacity has literally collapsed, I never realized they were this weak. Compare that to their Chinese allies who have been able to produce an impressive number of J20s pretty fast even though the SU57 had its test flight earlier

Too many people stealing money and limiting their capabilities. Good lol*

*not like our trustworthy Raytheons and Northrop-Grummans, of course edgeworth-smug

 

For when you spy that fash-on-fash violence.

(Great minds think alike but this one has no background)

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