queermunist she/her

tbh it’s mostly just a gimmick to excite voters, not just a luxury. The Party still basically picks who the nominee is.

There was a show primary but candidates were essentially stonewalled from participating and voters browbeaten for not supporting Biden, which is why only wackos like RFK Jr are the only other people who ran.

This is the choice that was forced onto us. The Democrats could have had a Primary and instead they chose this for us.

Holy shit this is really cool.

There was a 100+ year period of relative peace and prosperity after the conquest of Constantinople, just like today where Western Europe has had a period of peace and prosperity after the defeat of Nazi Germany. The revolts began when the Ottoman Empire entered stagnation and decline because of warfare with Europe. It has nothing to do with ethnic and cultural conflicts, it’s all economic and political and it always has been. The ethnic and cultural dimensions of the conflicts are merely set dressing for deeper structural causes of war.

Now that we have entered our own period of stagnation and possible decline, be prepared to live in Interesting Times.

The Ottoman Empire existed, you do realize?

And lets not forget shit like the CIA overthrowing attempts at democracy.

And of course the UN partitioning Palestine to create Israel.

And all the fucking oil wars.

A comforting lie.

The IMF loots countries that take loans and in contrast China forgives loans. The reason Africa is aligning more with China is because they’re getting a better deal. If they really were just the same as the West then China wouldn’t be winning the continent.

We exploit Africa. China has begun to take up Western marketshare in Africa because they’re less exploitative and offer a better deal.

Even countries that use the same calendar don’t call it the same thing!

Korea and Vietnam each have their own Korean and Vietnamese New Years, but Malaysia literally calls it Tahun Baru Cina (I’ll give you three guesses what Cina means). In fact, several countries call it something like that: Singapore and the Philippines calls it the Chinese New Year, Brunei calls it Tahun Baru Cina, etc. Meanwhile, China doesn’t even call it a lunar new year, they call it the spring festival.

Lumping them all together is just something we’re doing to make it easier for Americans.

Not every “lunar new year” is on the same day in every country; there are different lunar calendars.

The Chinese New Year is not the Buddhist New Year is not the Islamic New Year, yet we’re smashing them all together.

This is cultural insensitivity.

It’s worse. For example, this war has been the deadliest for journalists in modern history, and by proportion of people killed maybe even the deadliest ever. They don’t just target them in their homes, they target the families of journalists too. This is something new.

🙄

Gospel is an AI that Israel uses to select targets.

Israel’s “Gospel” has shown us where this leads.

(it leads to civilian casualties and war crimes)

ugh yeah that’s its name, forgot how fucking awful it was

40k was supposed to be a parody 🤢

The targets are selected by AI dude, they’re just killing whoever the chatbots tell them to kill. 🙄

banned on Reddit in 2019 for fascist propaganda

lol is this what you think happened?

That’s all we’re worth, huh?

Games are not complete products on launch anymore. It’s all in Beta and the customers are the testers.

I must be out of my depth! Yuan is traded for dollars every day and there’s a current scheme where it’s traded/invested in the CFETS basket of 24 national currencies they do business with, so I can’t make heads-or-tails of what you’re talking about.