Yeah. But at least it’s a source that one can analyse and criticise. To be honest I literally just googled it and picked the first link because I’ve only read about this in telegram channels. And still, that was more effort than OP put in.

Please link a source next time, lots of ignorant replies in this thread due to the lack of one explaining the Baal thing.

Why were ‘Baal’ statues burned at Iran’s revolution anniversary rallies?

It’s a reference to Epstein.

Por enquanto não tem nenhum emulador em estado funcional, e ao que tudo indica vai demorar bastante pra que algum funcione bem.

Find out if your college has any partnership with the Confucius Institute and enroll in their Chinese classes. They have a lot of exchange opportunities which are a good first step.

Many Jews, also the Zionist ones, would oppose calling the Holocaust a cure, but it is in the Zionist vein to abhor the diasporic “weakness” which supposedly led them to go “as sheep to slaughter”, a term which epitomized the contempt with which the Israeli Zionists viewed diasporic Jews, including Holocaust survivors in general, in the early years of Israel. It was only in the 1960’s, following the Eichmann trial, that there started to be serious interest in Israel for hearing stories of Holocaust survivors, apparently since they began to witness its PR value for Israel. Before that time, Holocaust survivors were generally not listened to, and their stories merely represented weakness. The term “soaps”, common in Israeli colloquial, was derived from the myth of Nazis creating soap from human fat of Jews, and it meant “weaklings”.

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/05/the-strong-weak/

These scum were not the oppressed. If there was another Jewish holocaust they’d cheer it on so long as it furthered their aims, as they have done before. In their own words:

“Ashkenazim, removed, may you burn in hell, […] I am proud of the six million that were burned, I wish that another six million will be burned […]. Leftists are traitors, you are the cancer of the country.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/likud-court-restores-member-who-said-6-million-more-ashkenazim-should-burn/

I’ve recently replayed Tunic after some years. Marvelous game, sadly can’t talk much about it without spoilers.

I’m now replaying Fire Emblem Three Houses in preparation to cope about not being able to play Fortune’s Weave unless I befriend some wealthy person willing to lend me their switch 2. It’s right up there with Banner Saga and Berwick Saga for my favourite tactical RPGs.

Acho que no momento atual (antes da revolução proletária) não é politicamente viável abolir o arcabouço fiscal. Mas podemos fazer do limão uma limonada: ajustar o arcabouço fiscal para isentar investimentos e gastos estratégicos – como soberania tecnológica e infraestrutura! Aí o arcabouço fiscal limitaria gastos problemáticos (como penduricalhos de juízes), mas sem castrar os investimentos estratégicos.

Discordo fortemente que é necessário a revolução só pra revogar o arcabouço, como se ele fosse uma estrutura anciã e não de só 10 anos atrás. Na verdade a premissa e objetivo do arcabouço em si é sufocar e extinguir o poder econômico do estado, então a luta pra revogar ele e pra eliminar todos os neoliberalismos dele teriam exatamente a mesma dificuldade. Não tem “gasto problemático” em magnitude que justifique um limite generalizado do poder econômico do estado, e se for olhar tudo que merece exceção vai ser praticamente tudo. É tipo querer o arcabouço fiscal sem o arcabouço fiscal.

Não defendo o reformismo, mas também não podemos dar uma de PSTU e achar que a revolução é iminente.

A revolução certamente não é iminente, mas o arcabouço fiscal também não é eterno. É “só” revogar uma lei. Se não dá nem pra fazer isso, melhor largar a atuação política. Pelo menos o PSTU organiza greves e arranca melhorias econômicas pros sindicatos no qual tem presença.

Me preocupa muito o quanto tudo agora depende da prometida revolução pra acontecer. Nem parece que o governo Lula 1 já fez um monte dessas coisas “politicamente inviáveis”.

Those are still pretty relatable to broad audiences, specially teenagers. I guess I could’ve worded it better, but du hast seems to occupy the odd space of sounding really pretentious and deep, while the lyrics are just sorta bland. They’re the same guys from Amerika and Deutschland, so I’m surprised their main famous song is so toothless.

The Free Software movement in the US has very deep libertarian origins. Stallman himself for the longest time rejected the notion that software development was an industry, treating it as a hobby, and the “four liberties” are notable in being personal negative liberties following the liberal framework of freedom. I think this philosophy is the main thing that holds the FOSS movement back, with a general aversion to involvement with state institutions and a pervasive feeling of “self-reliance” with being the master of one’s own box. I believe this is why we have hundreds of half-decent Linux distributions rather than one very good one.

I recommend reading Snow Crash as one really terrible sci-fi book that makes the weirdness of hacker culture very explicit.

É aquela coisa que todo comunista parece até disco arranhado, mas não dá pra ter qualquer plano de uma soberania digital com o arcabouço fiscal. Seria lindo se o PT/PCdoB/PSoL botasse as universidades pra desenvolver alternativas nacionais de infraestrutura digital e pautasse legislação de interoperabilidade, mas tão mais interessados em estrangular o orçamento pra que as universidades se privatizem no modelo de PPP via fundação de apoio, e chamar isso de progresso.

I mean, at least K-pop songs usually have more than two whole sentences as lyrics lol.

The US and Iran have been doing this dance of negotiated symbolic strikes and retaliations for at least 10 years now. It’s a testament to Iran’s security that they have never considered those strikes an existential threat until now. They could let the US walk away with some domestic PR victory while securing their diplomatic goals like they’ve done every time. The fact that they’re not doing that indicates that it no longer seems like a safe bet, and I think it’s fair to assume the very recent example of Maduro being kidnapped mid-negotiation is a really bad look for the US foreign delegation.

They likely are hours or days from being able to assemble a nuclear bomb and nobody knows where their enriched uranium is.

Those two claims are dubious, there’s lots of satellite imagery of the facilities for both enrichment and stockpiling, and there’s no evidence that they’re actually that close to nuclear warheads, which aren’t even a red line in their negotiations.

That color revolution did almost no damage

It caused the death of some 3000 people according to Iran’s official lists and forced them to turn off the internet in many large cities across the country. I wouldn’t call that almost no damage.

Edit:

Image of the enrichment sites, in case anyone wants them for whatever reason.

Usual stuff is lots of conjecture over some boyband singers being in secret relationships with each other, and apparently some guy named G-Dragon is very controversial. Definitely not my special interest and most of it doesn’t stick with me, but it’s endearing to listen to somebody you like talking about their hobbies.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Member of Parliament, Mahmoud Nabavian:

'Before the negotiations, Trump contacted Iran through a regional country, conveying a message saying ‘let us strike two locations in Iran—and you can respond symbolically’

Iran rejected this offer, and replied that any attack would lead to a response in which at least 3000 to 4000 American soldiers would be killed. Furthermore, we would strike every single major company in the region that is U.S.-owned or has ties to America.’

@Middle_East_Spectator (on telegram)

Ironically, I think Iran would be much more willing to negotiate this into symbolic strikes if not for the kidnapping of Maduro. It makes sense to be so much more willing to escalate now if they see the US as an actual threat.

Dating in 2026 is a balancing act between knowing enough about the K-pop scene to understand the info dumps, but not knowing too much so that the other person can have the joy of explaining it to you.

I’d keep it, maybe just change the plaque. It’s a bit disappointing how tiny the actual statue is, even T-posing Jesus looks more impressive so I think some smart architect could easily improve it. Make it cool like The Motherland Calls or the African Renaissance Monument.

You should look into the various African diaspora religions, particularly those of West African origin.

I’d be very careful when saying “all religions” when you’re obviously talking about abrahamic religions, specially the dominant branches that survived, and glossing over all the variance between them and internally. Not all religions have institutions, hierarchies, scriptures or even moral guidance or justifications for the way of the world. And there have been multiple religious fractions even from Abrahamic religions who reframed it for opposition to oppression.

I’d recommend looking into how religions played a role in resistance all around the world against European colonisers, like Haiti, Peru, China. But it’s also a fun experience to read about random religions and legends from before that, get really confused, and fight the comfortable urge to understand it from a Latin-Christian perspective.

I’m starting to think Trump’s main strategic goal is to personally give me anxiety by always making it seem like we’ll finally get to see XXI century weaponry live-tested against aircraft carriers, but never following through.

Anyways, some OSINT chatter has been indicating materiel transfers directly from China to Iran, so China seems to be holding to their word on mutual defense. Some Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles have been launched at Ukraine today and CENTCOM deployment remains at full readiness. But eh, nothing ever happens.

Although your friend is right, I don’t think she gives some movements enough credit. The IRA was obviously not nationally British, but operating on British soil and besides being broadly anti-imperialist it had its Marxist phases similarly to the Black Nationalist movement in the US. I suppose some factions of the suffragettes were also pretty radical too.

But besides that and the social imperialism as others mentioned, I think it also has to do with relative size of their colonies. The US didn’t start colonising overseas nations until around WW1, so there’s been a lot more class conflict inside continental borders. Meanwhile the UK’s most notable upheavals are usually those in the colonies, like India or Turkey or Ireland.