BEHOLD, my unbiased wisdom:

Nazis: Bad.

Marxist-Leninists: Also Bad.

Me: Brave. Bow before my moral complexity. This is what nuance looks like, sweaty. 🧠💫 #BothSides

not to hand it to nazis but they were clever with picking 88 as their dogwhistle number huh

Why isn't china collapsing !? Simple, it has to be because their people are not free and the communist party decides that the economy can't collapse.

Also it's economy has market but it's not commercial ? And that means it can't crash ? But also other countries shouldn't implement this because its totalitarian/USSR/it's gonna fail ?

feds infighting when they could be enjoying borderland

SMDB

5 MONTHS AGO BABY! THIS SHIT AINT NOTHIN TO ME MAN.

The NYT article generated a ton of Bluesky posts.

A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.

2025/05/28

For 20 years, Carol Hui has served waffles, raised her children and embraced the small town of Kennett, Mo. Her detention and pending deportation to Hong Kong has hit the community hard.

https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3lqu7cz6yfk2i

Sargent has a serious case of pundit brain and polling brain to the point he's incapable of critical thinking skills and of using common sense. He believes that the dems just need to use the right messaging.

The first post of the thread.

Stephen Miller is privately raging over deportation numbers he deems too low. So he's shifting huge amounts of law enforcement resources away from fighting serious crimes and into his immigration crackdown.

If voters knew about this, they'd recoil. 1/

this reddit dipshit has compiled an incomplete list of them in a reddit comment. CW for fat phobia, body shaming, most likely some homophobia thrown in. My cringe face is stuck in some sort of cringe rigor mortis

This guy again...

Should have voted for the least worst genocider

Post link

The article

It's basically what you'd expect.

One of the more revealing – and darkly amusing – features was the phone's automatic censorship of words deemed problematic by the state. For instance, when users typed oppa, a South Korean term used to refer to an older brother or a boyfriend, the phone automatically replaced it with comrade. A warning would then appear, admonishing the user that oppa could only refer to an older sibling.

I can't figure out what they're claiming here. It replaces "oppa" with 'comrade' like in English? Or the Korean word for 'comrade'? And why would it admonish you for an autocorrection it made on its own? This is nonsensical.

Typing "South Korea" would trigger another change. The phrase was automatically replaced with "puppet state," reflecting the language used in official North Korean rhetoric.

lmao

Then came the more unsettling features. The phone silently captured a screenshot every five minutes, storing the images in a hidden folder that users couldn't access. According to the BBC, authorities could later review these images to monitor the user's activity.

Damn that's a wild claim, wonder where it came from?

The device was smuggled out of North Korea by Daily NK, a Seoul-based media outlet specializing in North Korean affairs.

Who wants to guess where Daily NK gets their funding?

Experts say this technology is designed not only to control information but also to reinforce state messaging at the most personal level.

Our noble "protecting free speech," their dastardly reinforcing state messaging.

Also, "experts"? Which experts? And in what field? Who even knows.

The regime has reportedly intensified efforts to eliminate South Korean cultural influence, which it views as subversive. So-called "youth crackdown squads" have been deployed to enforce these rules, frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language.

"""reportedly"""

Some North Korean escapees have shared that exposure to South Korean dramas or foreign radio broadcasts played a key role in their decision to flee the country. Despite the risks, outside media continues to be smuggled in – often via USB sticks and memory cards hidden in food shipments. Much of this effort is supported by foreign organizations.

"Some North Korean escapees" apparently none who have names or positions, because none were found in this article.

from https://x.com/PuppyGirlRiot/status/1929501446820560989

Acetaminophen + 10% alcohol

mmm liver-hurting juice

In contrast, our societies today instead try to maximize consumption, which devalues our people as they get softer, flabbier and, even, fail to reproduce.

This does not mean consumption as measured by economists, in dollars, although there is substantial overlap. It means consumption in the sense of satisfaction of individual human appetites, eventually to the detriment of the whole human being and his or her society.

The most unimaginably challenging megaprojects are not even interplanetary, but interstellar. A civilization genuinely committed to undertaking such projects would finally generate the political capital necessary to streamline the economy, eliminate rent-seeking, and solve a million other minor and major problems, annoyances, and inefficiencies. It would also finally generate demand for human beings and therefore offer the possibility of solving the fertility crisis.

I can't for the life of me figure out where I got this old ass image from, but I find it intensely funny as a philosophical amoralist. Hell, it's funny from a vegan perspective, or even from a "this reads like satire" perspective.

"It's a trespasser so I killed it", "the rodent was a thief so I gave it the death penalty", "You are a psychopath for questing the arbitrariness of conventional moral standards".

Best part is, according to the metadata of this screenshot, I took this screenshot on some post titled the biggest flaw of my hero academia, which raises more questions than it answers.

YouTube link

Meet Juan Carlos, the embodiment of the American dream. He came to this country with virtually nothing and now owns a car collection that includes a Ferrari F40, a Michael Schumacher kart, Insane sleepers, and limited-edition vehicles that can never be replaced. Tune in to see what he owns and how he got here.

Fortunately about half the comments are roasting the guy

"Ukrainians holding their pride march in a subway because of russian bombs are immeasurably more powerful and real than any western tankie with a hammer-and-sickle or a Lenin profile on a trans flag."

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