Marxist-Leninist. Tankie. Based in the imperial vassal state of Japan.

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • There are a couple issues I see with this.

    Firstly, is that is just liberal media saber rattling. Even if you DID do a nuclear a test, do you think it would change their mind? No, they would probably just say that it was one of the only functional warheads that Russia had left and that now that they used it they must have nothing left. See: Russia is running out of ammunition stories that ran for years.

    I have plenty of issues with the US military and I am continuously skeptical of their actual capabilities, but I think it is fairly reasonable to assume that they have intelligence on their enemies’ weapons programs. They are probably reasonably aware of Russian nuclear capabilities and the fact that they do in fact have weapons that are functional. Maybe not exact numbers, but they should be aware of the fact that they exist.


  • As far as I have seen, it seems to be a bastion of libthink. Lots of lib takes going back and forth and patting themselves on the back over what good people they are. I have seen more leftists remaining on Twitter than migrating over.

    Personally I am just sticking to lemmy as a social network of choice.






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    13 days ago

    While it would be obvious if you followed closely that Democrats never cared about Palestinians, they had some plausible deniability. They could pretend to care about innocents without really adopting any kind of policy. After 2023 they had to actually take a position one way or the other and everyone could see which side they supported. They didn’t even try to feign neutrality anymore, they were full-genocide.


  • His cooking is honestly fine, when he sticks to his specialities: Italian and pastries. He just gets mocked for frequently trying and failing at doing cuisine outside his expertise.

    He mostly got famous off his BBC show. He also spearheaded some actually good charities that were focused on improving the food that was served to children in public institutions. His cookbooks make absolute bank.

    As far as celebrity chefs go, he’s not the worst. This particular case just seems heavily rooted in ignorance. Which isn’t itself an excuse, especially when you are going through the effort of publishing a book on the topic.








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    Yup, nothing could have been done, she ran a perfect campaign with obviously no notes. Sending Clinton in to try to shame Arabic voters to support a genocide, absolutely the perfect move. Couldn’t possibly contribute to her badly losing districts that even Biden managed to carry.

    Nothing to learn from this, run exactly the same campaign next time and it will definitely work out.

    Oh god…actually. Do you think the Democrats would try running Harris yet again?


  • “I’m not at liberty to go into much detail, but I know Canadians would understand when you’re saying the government of Canada is taking measures to protect national security, that’s serious.”

    Read: We made shit up and everyone knows it.

    So what it sounds like is they are shutting down their offices in Canada. So basically ruining people’s ability to get support or raise any issues. Are they just trying to make the experience so shitty that people naturally leave it?

    The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has warned Canadians, including teenagers, against using TikTok.

    Teenagers, that demographic famous for listening to authority figures, will absolutely follow the CSIS guidelines.



  • Some part indoctrination with some part apathy, wrapped in self-aggrandisement.

    People are raised into the propaganda obviously, and that plays a role but I think it is exacerbated by the fact that people often have no real desire to look into if it’s true or not. That is the more insidious element. Anyone who actually put two minutes of thought into the claim that Koreans push trains to work everyday would realise it can’t possibly be true, but they don’t put those two minutes in. If they think about it at all, they just go “Oh, North Korea is so crazy, look at them. lol”. They’d much rather have a crazy mystery country to meme about AND to consider themselves better than. They get to feel superior while pretending to be empathetic to an oppressed people.

    A lot of liberals are very eager to feel superior to a marginalized people while simultaneously pretending like they care. Propaganda that feeds into that is unlikely to be questioned because they actively want it to be true.