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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Hot tip if you enjoy shit coffee (and have no doubt: you do)

    Buy an electric kettle (like $20-30 or something) Buy instant coffee ??? Cheap coffee, zero mess. And it tastes the same.

    One of the only good habits I ever picked up from bruvs is using a kettle (or ket’le as they say… gotta drop that t…) to quickly boil water for tea or coffee.

    (And to be clear because they aren’t thst popular in the US: I’m talking about wall plug-in kettles that have a glass container on the top for water with a base that hears the top very quickly. Not the kind you use on a stove which is the usual meaning of kettle in the US. Although that would work too, but less efficient unless you have a fancy stovetop)






  • I mean, that’s already what it is in reality. It’s why I get (maybe irrationally?) angry when anyone defends its existence. Like I’m not objecting to some baseline security for “important” officials… but that security in the case of the president comes directly at the expense of everyone not covered by secret service protection. It’s just such a clear and obvious as fuck trampling of any idea of liberalism to allow a goonsquad to have unlimited authority to remove people, arrest them for speech (and not speech that is normally disallowed- evaluated protections), extrajudicially murder citizens on a whim… it’s just the praetorian guard for modern times in every way. They can do that job without stomping rights, btw. Maybe that means more risk for the big guy… ok. That’s a risk every leader is supposed to accept. Why the fuck does one person get a personal small army that is immune to consequences?

    Just one of my personal “Things that piss me the fuck off, and I feel compelled to constantly rant to an unhinged degree IRL and online because too many people just blindly accept it as “fine and ok.”” No one has ever provided me with a valid reason within law or just “liberal thought” to excuse its existence as such though. But, whatever. Many things to rant about for which people have no answer other than “why do you care…?”




  • ADL: Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, man who reads news articles and opines on them for 12 hours, is a terrorist!!’

    ADL: ICC, a court no one in the west or Israel objected to condemning Putin for alleged crimes of the Russian military, are now antisemitic terror supporters!!!

    ADL: Initial reports are claiming a sneezing man may have said “a-Jew!” but an equal amount are saying it was a standard “achoo!” sound. Jonathon Greenblatt is standing by for the exact skull measurements of the man who sneezed before he makes judgement. He has only acknowledged so far that the man was found beaten to death by his fellow protesters and was confirmed to have been wearing a US/Israel/Ukraine flag as a cape. “Only skull measurements can determine his true feelings towards Jews” Greenblatt said on the record. Continuing, he said “No matter the outcome of this man’a skull measurements, I am extremely concerned that pro-Jewish protestors can even be accused of this crime which they may have committed.”

    After that fake pogrom bullshit, the last one seems like it’s overdue or already has happened and I am unaware.


  • I don’t feel like this is a particularly useful conversation, so I’ll just leave it with this reply and move on.

    But did you ignore the part where he can’t be full on “hang the rich, take their shit, let’s go boys”? And I’m exaggerating because you’re exaggerating. I was using Bernie as an example. I also used Lula. Why no comment on Lula? He’s not perfect either. He’s not full blown commie either. He’s to the left of Bernie though and has shown it by condemning Israel without reservations. Whatever hangups you have towards Bernie, ok, I probably share them (mostly his support or not total condemnation of US imperialism especially). If you wouldn’t cooperate with Lula though I think “lost deep, deep down in the sauce” might apply.

    This is also ignoring literally all the context just so some point, which wasn’t even a good point, imo (see above), can be made. Hasan isn’t a politician. He’s not a political leader. You know this because you correctly pointed out streamers aren’t going to save us, or whatever.

    He’s the equivalent basically of like Tucker or Hannity, etc. Not a journalist, just a person who consumes journalists’ output and then “has opinions” on that output. Basically interpreting it for a broad audience that wants to hear “politics man” regurgitate the slop but with a “but here’s what’s actually going on.”

    This is probably something most people who think like you or I could do as well. Maybe that’s why you view it as purely slop and worthless. I disagree. Just because we could do it doesn’t mean anything. We aren’t doing it. Few people are doing it with any real audience. He does it to an audience of like 30-40K live viewers daily for half the damn day. Constantly refuting US narratives, shitting on pro-imperialism chatters, etc. Is this worthless to you? To have a guy with a large audience willing to yell at chatters (normal young Americans or Europeans, for the most part) for their ignorant or just purely evil opinions on imperialism?

    To me this is the exact opposite of worthless. It has immense value. Many of these young people have never heard of Marxism. They may have little idea about why and how the US carries out its imperialist goals worldwide. He humanizes the victims of imperialism and he yells at these wild hogs the way no one else (with visibility) is doing.

    If every single chatter ended up coming to believe exactly the same things Hasan does, the United States and the world as a result would be infinitely better. More humane, more fair, etc. It wouldn’t be perfect.

    I just do not see any point in tearing down or attacking people like Hasan. Attack the right wing streamers, sure, have at it. And the libs. But guys that are 1 inch to your right…? How is this constructive? Sincerely, I would like to know what you’d rather he do, say, or whatever. Is there even an opinion on that front or is it just generalized anger at him for being a wealthy American (which is legitimate, but just say that if it’s what you feel. It makes this a lot easier)? Is it just “kill all streamers”? That’s a great meme, but this is me asking past the meme.

    I feel like most of the time people don’t really specifically have anything against him or what he says/does. They just have resentment towards the fact that he can even exist. That entertainers and streamers exist. I understand that feeling as well. In a perfect world maybe the “no streamers” thing would be real. I also don’t see a point in condemning basically the best example of one person successfully doing it in the least harmful way.

    I firmly believe that a “dude bro” yelling at teens and 20 year olds to stop believing capitalist, imperialist bullshit narratives (and showing them evidence why) is a net positive. That’s my underlying “thesis” or whatever here.


  • Without Win 11 or Linux (you really should… no no nevermind…) I think you fall into the category of “fucked.” macOS exists but it’s hugely overpriced (of course I won’t argue their hardware is usually very high end, feels and look great. Software is ok, although I never feel like macs are “built to do anything” other than iMessage (which I have a phone for) and browse the internet in a visually appealing way (which isn’t worth $2K). I also refuse to buy one for access to full Apple development. That’s monopolistic bullshit that should’ve been crushed a decade ago.

    Anyway, Win 11 and 10 are effectively the same. I don’t know why people started acting like 11 was so dogshit and 10 was fine. They’re both kinda dogshit. Overbloated, poorly optimized dogshit. MS crammed BING! into every corner of it along with their “straight to the NSA” cloud shit which I would never use even if it was 100TB for free. Ok, maybe then…


  • Hasan is absolutely NOT a “radlib” (radical liberal).

    Unless this was some poorly executed sarcasm, I don’t think you know what a radlib actually is or you’ve never watched Hasan (which is fine). Also, no one thinks streamers are gonna change anything.

    This post is effectively addressing something no one said or thought while also misusing a word as its central thesis.

    A radlib, just to put it out there, is someone who does like point of privilege stuff (we’ve all seen that video). Or is obsessed with identity over class basically. “Omg, how could you, a white-passing man, say that?!” Aka: All the most annoying motherfuckers on earth. Obsessed with aesthetics and identity, zero material analysis, zero self-awareness. It’s approximately 70% of political commentators on TikTok from what I’ve seen (which isn’t much).

    Hasan is much further left than any liberals. He presents as like a Lula style leftist. More left of Bernie. Somewhere in that area. But if you listen to his analysis on stuff and listen to the sources he cites for his thinking about stuff… he’s read Marx, Lenin, etc. I think his actual tendencies are further left of that Bernie/Lula area, but he knows that won’t sell well to your average westoid brained viewer.

    His foreign policy views alone, as an American, are enough to firmly cement him well outside the realm of liberals who are consistently (even right now. Today with the pro-genocide UN vote again) pro-genocide, pro-imperialism, pro-US hegemony which Hasan is not and no one could accidentally believe he is if they listen to him.

    Small asterisk on everything with “He must maintain a surface level presentation of certain views due to TOS on Twitch/YouTube.” We can’t know if he really believes certain things or not because he literally cannot say what he’s thinking regarding US veterans or Ukraine/Russia. If you come out super hard saying vets “deserve” anything bad happening, Twitch’s morons in charge will ban you. So, you gotta read between the lines sometimes if it’s a cornerstone of American imperialism (US military, Israel, NATO, etc.)


  • Should be noted, for clarity, that this was intended to be 4/5 pro-US vs the 5th (USSR- then an ally, soon to not be obviously)

    Then Mao beat Chiang Kai-shek and drove his loser ass from the country (to Taiwan)

    Kai-shek was being groomed and setup to be America’s puppet leader of China. Unfortunately for him and the US, the people’s liberation army had other plans…

    So the vote that was reserved for China now belonged to a fresh communist nation. How did America/the west want to “fix” this? “Create a new definition of China” effectively. This is why Taiwan was officially recognized as China for so long (1979! like 3 decades after communist victory). Like Taiwan was the “real China” and mainland China was illegally occupied by… other Chinese people.

    The UN formally recognized the People’s Republic of China as “real China” in 1971…




  • It is surprising if you haven’t been keeping up on the details (and not everyone can, obviously). The media, including social media, presented the last 4 years as being a revitalization of union power after like 40-50 years of decline.

    The reality is while there has more discussion in the media about unions and what unions can do for workers, and support for unionizing has broadly seemingly been on a popular rise, this has not been translated into workers actually unionizing.

    I know people will have a tendency to cope over this stuff, me included of course, and reason internally like “ah, well, gotta start somewhere” and “as younger generations begin working and move up to more experienced working positions, the workplaces might unionize!” Maybe. Maybe they will. Then again, maybe Trump gets a thinly veiled law (called “pro workers act for raising wages of unionizing bargaining workers who want wages bill act law”) passed to effectively make unionizing, collective bargaining, illegal. Which one right now seems more likely? Yeah…


  • I’m going to assume you mean basically just CP for the something shady part in your final comment. Because the government and many people in many countries would call this conversation shady. They’d call unionization shady. Some might call Israel supporters doxxing anti-genocide protesters shady (I agree on that one). And of course I hope we all call the CP servers shady.

    My only issue with all of this is how do you force right-wing, neoliberal, progressively more and more fascistic countries like the US, FR, UK, GE, etc. to ONLY target CP servers and never purposely target the (to sweep broadly here) “political severs.” If it could be done that the genocidal hogs and CP hoarders get roped in- fantastic. But why the hell would France or the US bother with the first (or the latter, to be honest)? They’d surely be happy to dig into the asses of all those unionizing people though because “domestic terrorism! Sabotage!” or whatever other BS they can milk.

    I guess my issue is I just look to how laws in “the west” have historically been applied against “shady” individuals. This stuff always disproportionately ends up being used against the left. That’s why for practical reasons I feel like I have to support (actual) free speech because if there are laws that can in any sort of feasible way be used to restrict the left, then they will be. It’s practically an inevitability when dealing with liberals and their “both sidesing.” Some workers discussing fucking up their anti-union boss’s machinery is seen the same as Nazis planning to mass murder people… actually they probably think it’s worse somehow to do sabotage.

    So, that’s my incomplete thoughts on that stuff



  • Sure

    And that isn’t (shouldn’t) be on him

    People use the internet and encryption, etc. to distribute CP. Doesn’t (shouldn’t) make creators of tools and services liable for the bad actions of end users.

    My meaning of “made up” was not the definition like “totally imaginary. Fake.” It was “unfair, unjust, overreaching.” Maybe I should’ve used those words instead. Imprecise wording on my part.

    AP News

    Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend over allegations that his platform is being used for illicit activity including drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images.

    Law enforcement agencies should be arresting the people doing those things (well, drugs… I don’t give a shit for the most part), not the guy who created the platform. It’s all a further expansion of a worldwide war on anonymity and encryption online. They always attack it under the guise of “protecting kids” and whatever else making it nearly impossible to argue that yes, distributing CP is bad… no shit. But these platforms are incredibly important for a million reasons. If the FBI wants to catch child abusers I’d advise them to go to any police department in America and they’ll find a nest of child and women abusers.

    I’d also propose, without evidence, him being Russian and Europe’s current frothing Russophobia played a part in his arrest. But that’s obviously speculation.