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    Is the state of geopolitics under going a significant change in the last few months?

    • Xi isn’t talking to Biden. US diplomats are chasing down Chinese counterparts to even get basic courtesy.
    • China improved the Suadi/Iranian relationship.
    • Ukraine is trying to get China to talk more about their peace plan.
    • The German chancellor came to the US to say the US didn’t bomb Nord Stream 2.
    • The winter doesn’t seem harsh enough to have turned the tides in Europe
    • 7 countries in Africa are in revolt
    • Workers are rioting in France
    • US rail workers were stopped from striking
    • Credit Suisse got acquired as part of the financial destabilization that started with SVB
    • US capital is going on strike as hundreds of thousands of workers have lost their jobs at tech companies
    • Finland is joining NATO
    • Russia is planning to move nukes to Belarus
    • Japan is discussing arming itself
    • 200+ Chinese billionaires are no longer billionaires
    • Germany is having nationwide transit strikes
    • More international deals are being made in currency other than USD
    • China is outpacing the US in high tech
    • The US is committing to building hypersonic missiles, years after its opponents have
    • Mass shootings in the US are way up this year for the 3rd year in a row

    It feels like in the last few months, things have been accelerating. I’m seeing symptoms, signals, and shifts in the above list. It feels like before the year is out we may have one of those weeks where decades happen.

    Am I missing something? Am I seeing something?

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    Americans are accusing all trans people of being terrorists depopulating our schools

    I fucking hate this country

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        recent shooting done by a trans person

        ignore the rest being white supremacists, its the trans people who are the problem apparently

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          Don’t wanna come off as too much of a tin foil hat, but it’s a little strange that this just happened after Tucker Carlson was “warning” of arming trans people and while Anti Trans legislature is in the mix.

          Is it a possible false flag? Am I being insensitive as a person or is that just cause the amount of shootings?

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            I don’t think you need to put on a tin foil hat to think about how this will make sure trans people get even more vilified. False flag? I don’t know. But they will probably not let this slide without getting some anti trans shit going.

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            May be. Could also be that because of the likes of Carlson and the aforementioned legislature, trans youth are becoming more alienated than ever. This is not to sympathize with or forgive a mass shooter. But we know the root cause of this shooting epidemic is alienation, more often than not leading the shooters to becoming Nazis. I find it feasible that a trans kid could snap like this, is all.

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              That’s also a possibility. Either way this could trigger a bloody back and forth of shootings between fascists and trans youth, where the trans youth clearly are not in a position win out. It would alienate many would be allies by attacking school children with acts of terrorism and not an organized struggle against fascism and the state.

              On top of that with the new surveillance state law getting pushed, we are living in scary times.

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          The white supremacists are always cast as Lonely Misunderstood SoulsTM.

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      The people saying that are the terrorists.

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      I am amused by the notion that the government supposedly doesn’t know about all that suffering. As if it’s not aware. As if it’s not intentional. And libs have the audacity to mock Russian citizens with the “bad boyars, good tsar” junk

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        Yeah a lot of American politics revolves around begging politicians to do the thing they’re ostensibly there to do. It really makes the notion that we’re a democracy laughable.

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      Get out there and vote. If that doesn’t work, vote harder. If it doesn’t get better, we’ll try again in a couple of years, where we’ll vote again. Repeat this indefinitely, and you have democracy. Simple!

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      “Japan is hardly socialist” how tf did they come to the conclusion that they are at all? (Probably “socialism is when the government does stuff”)

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    If Donald Trump or Desantis wins in 2024, it’s gonna be because people who grew up with Pewdiepie and all kinds of other fascist dogwhistles are now able to vote.

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      Don’t forget the Democrats alienating every single marginalized demographic that reluctantly came out to vote for them in 2020.

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      Nah bro its just the eternal cycle of red team being awful so blue team win but then they’re even worse and red team win again and so on.

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        DeSantis is worse than Trump, tbh.

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      I think the bourgeoisie still want Biden in charge but at the same time they are probably realizing how disastrous the war in Ukraine is and could reflexively start their pivot to mask off fascism

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    Was dealing with some feelings of anxiety for the last two months, which focussed on money related thing and a fear of poverty. But the thing is, there was no real reason for it. I’m okay money wise.

    Decided to talk to someone last week and they suggested taking a vitamin B complex supplement. I already take B12 but they said it might not be enough to cover for the rest of the B vitamins.

    I didn’t feel like my problems were taken seriously, but I tried it anyway because I figured it wouldn’t hurt me. I’ve been taking the supplement for a couple of days now and no joke I feel so much better. It’s like a 10kg weight is lifted from my chest and the fog in my head is going away.

    Who woulda thunk.

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      Well that is interesting. I should try it as well. Are you taking B as part of a complex?

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        It’s a B complex so it contains all vitamin B in one pill. It contains around 200% or a daily recommended dose.

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      Never underestimate diet and nutrition.

      I’ve been taking a Vitamin D supplement because I have a huge deficiency.

      I was prescribed it by my psychiatrist and it turns out that Vitamin D deficiency can cause mental problems.

      Well, I’ve been taking it (a powerful supplement that you can’t get from the store but have to be prescribed) and it seems to be helping quite well.

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      Is Indonesia like Latin America in that regard? As in, virtually everyone has indigenous ancestry, but relatively few people have maintained their precolonial customs, language, religion, etc

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          Interesting to hear how colonialism impacted these peoples differently. Thanks for sharing! I hope Indonesia continues to resist western imperialism

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        Latin America is different, in a way, since the racial relations are not the same as in America, though there is its own brand of racism.

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      What do you mean by “conventional meanings” of indigenous, isn’t there just the one?

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        Silly Westerner.

        Edit: I’m being cheeky here, but to answer your question: no, there technically isn’t.

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    Finland, the baltic states, Croatia and Ukraine. What do they have in Common, My Fellow Lemmygraders ?

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    The Christian Health Insurance, one of the biggest insurers in the country, just started an onlyfans account for educational purposes. Sometimes reality truly is stranger than fiction.

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      I dread to ask, but what kind of content are they posting?

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        Seems to be mostly sex ed stuff. They hired an influencer to sit in lingerie explaining vasectomy and stuff.

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          Christians are doing this? Strange times.

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          Who would pay for that? When the equivalent is free. (Being on onlyfans means people have to pay for it, right?)

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            It seems to be free if you have an onlyfans account, but I’m not familiar with how onlyfans works

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          If that happened in Italy the scandal would be sooo big, even for a petty normal thing like that

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      Should I use onlyfans?

      Or is it best not to use it?

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        No, the only successful people on there are pettybooj white women. If you want to support your friends just give them money. If you want to support sexworkers contribute to exit funds.

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          I’m starting a TikTok to make money to support myself and others, an extra way of funding myself and my efforts.

          Perhaps I shouldn’t start an onlyfans. Gotcha.

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    Perhaps I shall make more posts about CPUSA since people were interested in them last time (since most people aren’t used to getting a CPUSA-point-of-view post or barely know about the org outside of, say, Black Bolshevik or Settlers).

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    Healthcare in Europe still costs a lot and while cheap but low quality one is readily aviable on ebeery street corner, good but expensive one is scarce

    (my medicine is weed BTW)

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      Maybe a tough one, but how would you describe the Russia-Ukraine situation to somebody who’s on the Fence, or living under a rock so to speak?

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        Ukraine is Nazi-infested; Russia is right-wing, but not controlled by a fascist faction.

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        Which ones?

        I’m not always here.

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            Keep up the good work, I’d say. I don’t know how you come across these details, but I’m glad you share them. I’ve learned quite a bit.

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              Thanks! Occasionally I’ll share a link that I found while lurking Reddit or whatnot, but most of the time I find these doing searches on ResearchGate, Libgen, Google Books, Google Scholar, SearXNG, or, as a last resort, Wikipedia.

              It helps that I am inquisitive, possibly more so than others my age, and I wonder about details with which I have only the vaguest familiarity; as, I know that Germany, Italy, and Japan were all allies, but what did they actually do together? I had never seen anybody discuss that. And asking things like that turns me towards research such as this.

              Seeing others benefit from my knowledge is my goal, but expanding my own knowledge is worthwhile all the same.

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                It’s important work. Funnily enough, I frequently refer to this IRL in conversations about education and propaganda. Like you, I know the Nazis weren’t alone, so I ask, ‘why weren’t you taught anything about the Spain, Italy, and Japan in school?’ That question is often enough to get people to think about the extent to which the West really did (it didn’t) eradicate fascism after WWII (which serves my rhetorical purpose). But I don’t have much more to add than that because, I also wasn’t taught about what the fascists of other countries were up to in the twentieth century. So it’s great to see someone digging up sources.