commiewolf

joined 4 years ago
[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 21 hours ago

I'm still alive, just about, weather has been brutal where I live, if it isn't sunny and hot as hell it's constant thunderstorms

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

I reached around 1300 on chess.com before I started boycotting the site for being Zionist. I have since used lichess and barely can hover around 1000. It's very relative and depends where you play. I had a real life tournament Rating of 1200 when I played as a kid. Just have fun, ratings are Just to keep your games evenly matched.

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

If it is, good. Their training data is going to be half filled with stupid questions about sex and dating, from what I can remember about askreddit the last I was there, several years ago.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I cannot express how much I hate the new Colombian government.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then he shouldn't lie that he would do it just to convince people to vote for a Democrat. It's a failing of both him and electoralism in general.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If anything what you got is pretty much another AOC in Madani. It's the same every time with these "progressive" US politicians. Also I don't think Obama is a great comparison, he didn't position himself as a radical socialist. The purpose of characters like Madani, AOC, Bernie etc. is to take all radical energy in the country and steer it back into the established capitalist political system.

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

Rubio thinks Cubans are responsible for the BLM protests and all other leftist movements in the US.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

We can absolutely criticize him because of three facts:

  1. He explicitly promised to arrest Netanyahu on his campaign trail.

  2. He affirmed that he would indeed arrest Hamas members in accordance with ICC warrants if they were in New York.

  3. New York City currently holds the legitimate President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, in captivity. There is already precedent in the US for illegally arresting world leaders, it wouldn't even be a first.

All that aside the real problem is that he lied about something he is either unable, or even uninterested to do, purely to signal to the growing anti Zionist sentiment in the US and use it as an easy way to score votes. I think it's frankly disrespectful and a little gross to use a genocide as a means to get positive press and not follow through on your promises once you get what you want.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I think you may possibly be referring to me in this comment, and if so, I do not see at all how I said anything to come across as offensive to black people, if somehow it did come off that way I apologize and assure you that was not the intention, but surely you can see how you are refusing to look at the matter from an objective view? No country's problems exist in a total vacuum, and we cannot ignore the entire global context to condemn it based on the actions of proportionately very few people. That sort of generalization is not only un-marxist, it's verging on racist in itself.

because you know your grandpa is still wanted or what

Again, this sort of statement shows you have some widely propogated and quite frankly incorrect perceptions of Argentina that are not at all fair to use as a metric to condemn an entire country. Argentina did not invite Nazis to go and live there and work in their government and military, but a lot of western countries explicitly did this, but do not suffer the same amount of offhanded stereotyping.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's almost as if Soccer/Football fans from ANY country are made up largely of it's most reactionary slice of society, young, arrogant and often ignorant men.

You cannot point to any country's football fanbase and claim there aren't any boneheaded xenophobes, bigots and racists, but due to some astronomic global cracker projection effort, we've somehow come to the conclusion that it's Argentina's football culture (or even it's entire country! The country that abolished black slavery and segregations decades or even centuries before most "civilized" Europeans) that is totally the epitome of racism in the modern world. The lack of awareness and boneheaded confidence that so many westerners, of all races, have decided to believe in, has to be the biggest case of algorithmic boosted cultural slander I have seen.

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Oh no, communism! Godless and barbaric!

[–] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

There was a saying that Messi inherited everything from Maradona, except for a soul

 

I had the opportunity to speak and interact with younger University age people over the past few days (18-24 range) and I can only say that I am shocked by how it's almost universal that they're either irony poisoned fascists, genuine racists, or reactionaries of another sort. Pretty much politically as right wing as it gets.

I worry that the younger people in Gen Z may be potentially the most susceptible to fascist belief in a very long time, due to the combination of terribly bleak prospects and disillusionment, ease of access and exposure to all manner of online extremist pipelines (video game culture, red-pilling), and the overall deterioration of social skills from growing up hooked up to tech.

If we have any comrades around this age group, or with a lot of experience with them, do you find it to be similar where you are? Or am I just unfortunate to have a particularly sour batch where I happen to be?

 

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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