Based… as a ethnic Chinese-Canadian this fight is infinitely important and dear to me, for all that it also fills me with dread.

I’ll probably check it out later! :> sounds comfy…

If you want, the Hexbear traaa group has a awesome matrix channel :) (https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat)

This. The South Korean military is literally subordinate to the US’ (on paper, “only in times of war”). Maybe they could break free, but until then the idea the US wasn’t involved in the motions of declaring and enforcing martial law, etc. is pretty laughable.

Pretty much, honestly while it may be a long slide down (or not) I expect this country to become the next Argentina in our lifetimes if shit doesn’t explode (pretty much necessary to save us from rentier-oligopolistan)

What an absolutely beautiful smile. It must be protected 🫡

Must admit, for all the tactic was cursed I can’t claim any pity on Pavlou, maybe his mother (if she isn’t as wretched as the son she shat out). Definitely kick-out-of-party material but if this were the only questionable thing about Hinkle I can’t claim I’d not salute him and give a grin as he were on the way out.

Ay lelkins o7

Agreed, if it must be (actual) liberty or death, there’s only one option (though the entire world other than the west is constantly seeking peace, and whatever conflict happens is entirely and infinitely the west’s fault). Some things are worse than death, and the west has proven time and time again to offer exactly that, a slow death with no dignity, no humanity, no decency given.

I hope if the world does head down this path- hell, even if it doesn’t- that a hell of some sort exists, and if not that future humans or other sentients will create it. “Eternal torment” is more mercy than the ghouls of empire deserve.

I get it sucks that they are walling us off from there users, however we cannot do much

Does it suck? Personally it sucks more to breathe the same air or exist in the same spaces as these libs. Let them wall themselves off, eventually they will be walled off from the vast majority of humanity that is looking on in disgust at them- and then hopefully in time that wall will close in, and those who cannot develop the human decency to leave their wretched spaces will go straight to the dustbin of history.

Agreed, liberals always are a direct enemy of the left- and not merely a “lesser evil” to fascists, but equal and with no meaningful difference from fascists (which just happen to be their mask-off honest selves).

Happy bday! :D

Kindred Spirits on the Roof is an absolutely cozy yuri VN! And for a more- interesting one I have to infinitely reccomend Seabed, which is a kinetic (linear) novel dealing with- mystery and grief to best explain it without spoilers (I think). Seabed is so absolutely lovely, I played it on the Switch and had to get it on Steam as well and- IDK, it just sticks with me even years later.

We Know the Devil is another wonderful, if short, queer VN.

Faerie’s Bargain: The Price of Business is also peak goblin merchant energy and queer AF.

And Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is awesome as well, with working-class and (accurate history to what I recall? anyways touching on the ugly subjects so CW maybe) Americana IMO.

Other than that have to agree with 999… played it literally over a decade back as a kid but it was fun. I have a few of the other games mentioned here on my to-do list or wishlist.

Others on my to-do list (good enough I already own no less) among many others would include: Amelie, Heaven Will Be Mine, Scarlet Hollow, Mamiya, I was a Teenage Exocolonist, Lay a Beauty to Rest: the Darkness Peach Blossom Spring, and Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. And AI: the Somnium Files, which my partner really enjoyed from my library, though I’ve not played yet 😅

And while you probably also know them already, I gotta recommend the Ace Attorney and Monster Prom series. And while it’s not quite a VN, I have to infinitely recommend Disco Elysium (but you’ve also probs heard of it)

Goals tbh

Mood ^^ well we both know where we were presumably raised at, so- yeah. Like recognizes like

Honestly seems like the world’s best weather to me, but then I am a creature of the cold

I know that… it might have been bilibili or something that did a literal “Marx” anime. I downloaded it but gonna look it up… here it is (The Leader)

Fingers crossed though, if and when they do launch- the rest of the world must return in kind and 1000x over. The rest of humanity is not defenseless, and if they wish to use such WMDs the US best prepare for MAD and to be eradicated off the face of the planet, this is the deterrence game the US has forced the rest of the world to play and if they want to push their luck they will die by it.

“Genocide” is only an overstatement IMO because the Donbass had the means to defend themselves on some level. It was still a campaign of terror and bombardment, with what could be described as pogroms, massacres, and a whole lot of hate crimes as well as government-instituted discrimination against the ethnic Russians and other minorities in Ukraine.

If what constantly occurs against indigenous peoples in the Anglosphere is considered a genocide, which it should be, then the attacks on ethnic Russian, Roma, Caucasian (from the Caucasus), etc. peoples in Ukraine certainly should fit the bill.

Any white, west-European descended people getting even a tenth of the Donbass and ethnic Russian treatment would be crying “genocide” about it forever. Hell, just look at the Rhodesians or the constant fearmongering (and settlers claiming decolonization is “genocide”) etc.

Not even “useful idiots.” If it repeats fascist talking points over and over again, and consistently sides with the fascists, they are fascists.

And if they “somehow” aren’t (which isn’t ever the case), by their actions they are indistinguishable and deserve the same punishment as the fascists. We don’t hate fascists just because they identify as fascists, just like Hitler would not deserve the death penalty simply for being born “Hitler”- their crimes are a matter of their actions.