commiewolf

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[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I have unfortunately not met any Iranian person who isn't a bizarre monarchist and anti Islamic republic conspiracy theorist ( who believe that the west orchestrated the Ayatollah coming to power somehow).

It's as if the entire diaspora is brainwashed.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Happy birthday comrade

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 days ago

"hey hey! ho ho! I - C - E has got to go!"

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Game of Thrones season 1 released 7 months before Skyrim

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

He would not have considered himself American.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean this with the best of intentions but please read the room comrade. I feel that I know the thread that has promoted these feelings in you and your comparisons of Tupac and immigrants in the west as representing "western culture" is a insensitive at best and insulting at worst, and I think part of you surely understands that there is something about your own examples that you're not mentioning.

People are dying, yes, it's making every global South comrade here furious, yes, and you'll start hearing statements that may hurt your feelings, but rather than telling us to silence our opinions, maybe take our side and see the failures of your society from our perspectives.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Half a point? This is completely the point! Overwhelmingly the reaction to these two events shows how backward and (frustratingly) indifferent the people of the US have become. As a socialist I don't need to couch my utter disappointment with "well some of them are genuine" to make American comrades feel better. The hard truth is that there is work to be done, and nobody has more of a job to do than the western left in order to fix it.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He's completely on the money this time and I don't understand why it's controversial. The level of outage over this has completely exposed how little the US "left" cares about the lives of non Americans. Even when it's the same regime carrying out both actions, this one completely overshadowed the news and discussion while scores of innocent people in Venezuela were killed within goldfish memory. He's making a remark about the lack of empathy they have for the third world, not condemning them for caring about this incident. Ideological consistency should be something every real leftist follows, and if you see all human lives as equal you would have been a hundred times more aggressive and outraged over Venezuela than what many of these people clearly have shown themselves to be.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 week ago

This is the next phase for an empire declining in it's rate of profit. The only way for continued growth for the existing model is an economy of conquest, which is why they're committing to spending 1.5 trillion dollars on the military. It's only going to worsen.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The AI they've used is kind of sus, as all the women are elderly and not conventionally attractive, while the men are all young, shirtless, sweaty, and look like models.

Wtf was it used for before this?

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Not great, dear American comrade. It's been a while since I've been so full of anger and helplessness towards the imperialist regime, it's hard to keep in mind that not all of the people in the core are evil.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

There's technically more legal justification for the US to invade the Netherlands than for Russia to. "Invasion of the Hague" act and all.

 

I've been without work for a few months now, and I have little to no money saved up. I'm pretty soon no longer going to be able to afford rent, and it's been made clear that I will not be able to access the healthcare required for my hearing loss. After a months long back and forth with the government bureaucracy and insurance providers, I'm shit out of luck for the time being.

I just want to know if anyone here has similar experiences, and what to expect.

 

Apologies for the awkward dimensions, this was how it was posted.

Transcript:

Mr President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century—maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.

I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you!

Mike Huckabee

 

What is going on right now in India/Pakistan? I'm seeing all sorts of very concerning news and I hope any Indian, Pakistani or Kashmiri comrades here could help explain.

 

I have seen no end of Muslims, almost exclusively Sunni, online and in real life, celebrating the fall of the Syrian Arab Republic. Even where I live, there are Syrians celebrating it. I don't know if it's just sectarianism, brainwashing, or ignorance, or some combination of it, but almost all of them I have seen are celebrating this.

Be it in comment sections, social media posts, cheering in the streets of European cities, etc. How have so many of these people consistently sided with Gaza from the start, but celebrate an Israeli backed terrorist takeover of Syria?

The reaction to stories from Al Jazeera revealing the reality in Palestine were unanimously celebrated by these same people as standing up for the truth, meanwhile, when the same Al Jazeera peddles anti-Syrian propaganda, they are happy to welcome it as equally good news.

I don't want to lose faith in the Muslims and Arabs of the world, but if they're so mixed up in sectarianism and willing to lap up the propaganda in support of a Jihadist regime, I can't see how we'll ever know peace or stability in the Middle east.

 

During an unrelated discussion about something or the other (sports or something), I brought up a list of Asian countries, and instinctively accidentally said "DPRK" instead of "North Korea" during an actual conversation irl with a liberal that I often talk to. And after a little bit he produced the quote in the title. Referencing Voltaire's "Not Roman, not holy nor an empire" quip.

In this context our liberal here was clearly taking a jab at the DPRK and how it supposedly doesn't live up to it's name.

At the time it annoyed me but I said nothing of it and laughed it off and got back on topic.

But thinking back I'm wondering if it could have been an opportunity to perhaps break some of the conditioning and maybe have him reflect on his preconceived notions. What would have been the best way to actually explain how the name is actually rather fitting, without risking triggering a liberal brain malfunction that defaults to spouting propaganda?

 

Was curious if there were any quotes that we'd like to share.

It's pretty hard to find anything from Stalin for example that isn't blatantly made up to demonize him.

 

A few days ago this suddenly popped up out of the blue, thoughts? I think more countries should tell the Dutch to go fuck themselves, if you ask me.

 
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