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[–] 26 points 7 months ago (7 children)

NATO is suspending sharing intelligence with the US lmao the downfall is speeding up

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    [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    Stay safe, everyone. Keep up your studies and habits, take care of yourselves.

    As always, communism will win.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I just deleted my Twitter account.

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    [–] 18 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I hope you all have a nice week :D

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Elementary school backpack from the DPRK

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago (15 children)

    Different ways to say popcorn in Latam!

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    [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    “Socialism. People’s Power.”

    The MST(Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra ) l is holding its 14th National Meeting in Salvador, Bahia, with 3,600 delegates from across the country in attendance.

    The agenda includes building socialism and fostering unity among the peoples of the world.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I noticed a blind spot in my thinking today. I have a tendency to go along with the mindset of "good and bad drivers" and "there are bad drivers everywhere", probably because that's the point of view I've encountered my whole life, is putting blame on drivers themselves as individuals. But what of the systemic influence? The conditions of roads and the difficulties of driving competently for extended periods? In all the places I've been in or heard about in the US, roads are consistently inconsistent in design. There are repeat patterns, sure, but it's evident they were not thought through well into the future, especially for the number of cars on them. Nor for various businesses shoving their way in as something people may need to turn to get into.

    So although I'm sure there's varying levels of skill at driving a car, that doesn't necessarily even correlate to any given boneheaded decision on the road. People are expected to make snap decisions under stressful and dangerous conditions on overcrowded and convoluted road designs that they are sometimes completely unfamiliar with. Of course it's going to be bad sometimes. If anything, it's a wonder it's not worse than it is.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    This is a very clever but simple idea. Back in my hitchhiking days I would obviously spend lots of time standing beside a road watching cars go past and I noticed that some places had significantly more dents and miscolored fenders etc. (like Tacoma, Washington) I always assumed it as just a town of "bad drivers" (like a fucking liberal dipshit) Its so obvious that it must be the material conditions. I'm sure proximity to an international airport is going to mean more fender benders but instead we've been conditioned to blame the people.

    Thanks for this.

    That said there are some really bad drivers, like me.

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    A Dutch dog breeder decided to quit because their dogs were probably being used by the IDF and the increasing (legal) pressure from activists became too heavy. Activism works.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Hello everyone, just submitted documents for internship.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Look up Batlic football team fans for upcoming trip

    Literal Nazi's

    Sometimes the jokes write themselves

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    I've been organizing with a pretty organic student group at my college and it's been pretty frustrating to watch the Democrat machine begin to co-opt us (indivisible showing up to student organized protests and ignoring our messaging discipline, and fucking Disrupt trying to absorb us).

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    Any other USians have that "growth mindset vs fixed mindset" thing really pushed on them in elementary school?

    I feel like it was in a literal sense true but I always felt really infantilized by it. Although tbh I always felt infantilized at school in general anyway.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Currently in the process of joining a local coop supermarket where everyone becomes a member and joins in running the supermarket as a cooperative, using only bio and fair trade products at an equal or even lower price than regular supermarkets.

    Not necessarily communist led but still a cool thing to join of you have such a thing nearby. Great way to meet people, I guess.

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I saw this reel about a guy saying that private chinese investors are in a dire situation because they don't have real estate schemes where to funnel their money so they are doing this scheme where they buy expensive pokemon cards in china and then take these abroad to sell to get foreign currency. It was framed in a "oh look at the authoritarian ccp prohibiting investors!" but i see it as a pretty awesome way to get rid of speculators. China doesn't even lose anything since the only thing leaving china is pokemon cards, i.e. a worthless piece of cardboard 😂

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Inside you there are two wolves. One does ruthless criticism of everything that exists. The other follows party discipline. Both are Lenin.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I can't deal with my parents infantilizing me anymore. I have to move out

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I have the opportunity to go to Tallinn soon so I figured why not but I did not think about it being winter and it being -15 to -20 degrees over there and now I don't know what to do lol. Maybe I should visit some anti communist museum for shits and giggles.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    rest in peace to pretti and renee good and rest in peace to michael parenti. man. this is just. wow

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    A Kurdish protest in my city has been the target of a knife attack it seems. 6 people have been injured. I know a lot of people active in the left wing scene who often visit these rallies so hope nobody got hurt. So far no info on the suspects.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I can't watch the videos of the Good or Pretti killings. I know that's understandable but even just looking at the thumbnails my heart rate starts to rise.

    I saw a photo of the interior of Renee Good's car after the shooting. The blood all over the airbag makes me so...afraid for some reason. Maybe I place myself in her shoes at that moment. I don't know. I don't know

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    God I hate this new censor in YouTube that silences banned words like "murder" or "suicide". First off, removing the word but maintaining the context changes absolutely fucking nothing, regardless of the type of content. Secondly, it actually calls more attention to the word itself because of the sudden sound cut and your mind quickly fills the blank, so you're even more likely to go "oh, suicide".

    I understand (though still find stupid) silencing swear words, though it should be a client side optional thing. Silencing "bad words" is just stupid and can make serious videos about serious topics (like, say, a documentary about war) sound horribly silly with every other word silenced out.

    Sounds like this:

    James ____ John three times in the head ____ing him instantly. Two years later he was charged with first degree _____, but was eventually acquitted. In this lecture we'll explore this famous ______ case.

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