Cool, thanks for the update. I don't follow German politics as well as I should, so it's very appreciated.
Aren't they mostly socdems? Don't get me wrong, it's better than AFD. Just, the best we can hope for with them is slowing the rise of the AFD, unless they turn further left.
He fried the brains of so many people in the media this week, by (rightly) calling the US a larger terrorist threat to the world than Al-Qaeda. I like to think it made a few people think at least. Real people I mean, not the liberal braintrust.
There's a second one that's also very good. It's a collaboration with some Palestinian artists.
He came out with this song in 2005, when he was 25. It kind of got buried and went unnoticed in his career blow up, but there were signs even then.
BREAKING: Yemen's Houthis appear to have directly struck the YASREF oil refinery in Yanbu on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast this morning, the 400,000 barrel per day Aramco-Sinopec joint venture and one of the Red Sea's largest diesel exporters. Footage shows a large fire, with heavy black smoke from a flare stack, thick black smoke rising at ground level across the site and workers evacuated.
NASA FIRMS shows two heat anomalies inside the refinery, one at high confidence, with fire radiative power above normal for the site. Yanbu is the terminus of the East-West pipeline and the port holding the week of crude stocks Saudi Arabia has left for export.
There’s a video of the burning refinery in the tweet. Things are going to get crazy soon.
He's clearly stroked the fuck out. Like, look at him lol.
It's questionable how much he's actually there.
I think people have a right to know if an org harbors sexual assaulters.
If the party is shutting down internal discussion and democracy, it’s no longer democratic centralism. The only alternative is to discuss outside of internal channels.
Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be one of the best things to happen in decades. Iran has been pushing back the imperialist machine in every way, and getting a nuke would solidify their position in a way nothing else can.
Well, assuming you are thinking about Hearts of Iron, I think you've got the wrong image of this game. Each Paradox game has entirely different teams, with different people and different visions. Victoria 3 isn't a Nazi larp simulator. While you can get to a fascist government, and simulate the rise of Nazism, it's grounded in a material analysis of things. You can tangibly see how the fascist movement is a reaction to people wanting better things, a repressive movement to keep the status quo maintained in a time of turbulence.
It's not kind of thing that appeals to the average chud HoI4 gamer. That's not to say there aren't any fascists lingering around, but Vicky3 tends significantly more left wing in the player base, from what I've seen. Like, you're basically playing economic development and imperialism simulator for most of the game, and not in a jingoistic larp sense, but in a materialist, "the game shows many of the incentives that lead to these things", and the forces and movements that arise from them.
Getting good at the game requires you to learn more about the world we live, and the economic realities much of it. While liberals and fascists can and do still play this game, with varying degrees of cognitive dissonance, it's fundamentally different in so many ways than Hearts of Iron.
Also it, explicitly really, shows that the best society is a communist one, with equal rights and open to all. It has the highest standard of living possible, and it's a great move in terms of economic development as well.
It's generally been getting better and better! There was some recent issues with the recent naval rework, but the devs at least are experimenting and trying new things to improve the game over time.
If you haven't played since the trade rework for example, it's like a whole new (better) game.
Victoria 3 has always been pretty fun as a communist to play. It's not a perfect economic simulator, but its rooted in materialist analysis. You see it all. Building the economic forces, proletarianizing your people, and eventually building the drive for revolution. It's very fun.
The new DLC seems super promising so far, based on the dev diary. I'm so excited.
Some images:
The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison
The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
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30 years for moving some pamphlets.
A little peek into some very depressing happenings on 
See the first link at the bottom, for the main evidence dump and collation.
For a brief tldr, a convicted pedophile abuser, Brynn, got uncovered as a mod in a subreddit for trans women, /r/mtf. In leaked discord convos, the head mod, CedarWolf, was shown downplaying it, and suggesting they swap their account for a new, anonymous one. Cedarwolf is a mod on over 100 subreddits, most of them LGBT related.
With the news blown, instead of like dealing with it responsibly, they just locked down, deleted, and banned anyone who mentioned it on subreddits they controlled. They're going all in on damage control and pedo defense. They made a few posts trying to downplay the news as misleading or harassment, but the community was not accepting it. For a while, they locked the subreddit entirely, but apparently Cedarwolf stopped looking at it for a bit, as it's now entirely filled again with posts calling for them to resign.
The news stayed relatively quiet for a bit, but now it's to the point that Elon discovered it and is tweeting about it. Needless to say, this is fucked in so many ways. It's likely people were put at risk or harmed by the mod teams behaviors and actions, and it's also perfect propaganda bait for right wing shitheads as the news continues to slowly grow. Predictably, Reddit admins are choosing to stay uninvolved, given their "libertarian" lean.
(Also the pronoun use in regards to CedarWolf is deliberate. They aren't a trans woman, despite running a trans woman subreddit. They're he/they/she non-transitioning bigender).
I don't have the full list of all assorted evidence, as this is more just me being depressed and venting, but here's a few bits and pieces.
Main collection of evidence. User since deleted their account, so it's an archive link. Has pictures of discord screenshots, plus snips of the mod's sex offender registry. An ex, who's a reddit mod of /r/egg_irl, posted in the thread alleging that the modremovedd and abused her.
Post with various response/discussion links
Sex offender registry of Brynn
Elon Musk discovering the story through a TERF propaganda outlet and massively amplifying it.
Link - xcancel
Platner really is a level of organic stupid that we should be proud of. He's the pinnacle of American culture.
Love my non-political anime
