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I know we have a lot of Statseian comrades on here, especially now after the deprogram sub ban, and this might be controversial to say, considering the state of the place over the past day or so, but I really don’t care about Charlie Kirk enough to see how it warrants this much meme posting when there is so much other concerning shit going on at the moment.
It makes me wonder if there is a concentrated effort by the powers that be to latch onto this story and push it to the forefront of western discussion to distract from something actually important, like Poland potentially triggering war with Russia, or the fact that the civilian aid flotilla to Gaza has been getting relentlessly firebombed, or that theres a color revolution in Nepal underway right this moment.
I was hoping to find some discussions on these things from a socialist standpoint, but it’s wall to wall kirkposting so far. idk, seems fishy.
The Kirk noise is going to age like a pointer finger mustache tattoo.
Yeah, honestly I agree. I mean I kinda get it, but it’s a huge amount of posting for a (relatively) minor event. I logged in today mostly to see if anyone was talking about Poland and I was met with a barrage of posts about a guy in the US getting shot. I dunno, I’m not convinced he deserves the fanfare.
Yeah, exactly how I felt. I was thinking “damn, Israel just bombed Qatar, I’d like to see what Lemmygrad thinks”, and it’s the same meme 50 times over.
I don’t even think the Luigi incident got this much when it happened, and imo that was actually more worthy of being memed since it was in a way actually useful as agitprop.
Imo it’s a serious event, but i agree that we don’t need 100 posts memeing about it.
I’m pretty indifferent to this type of US domestic drama, but i think a day or so of discussion is fine, we can allow our comrades from the US that much as a treat. But yeah, after that the news cycle needs to move on, there are much more important things happening in the world.
Hot take: countries that don’t speak English natively where they teach children English in school below the age of ten are too Americanized/westernized.
Same goes for countries where they have to have the English translations on all road signs and information signs
i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized. Tho at this point, mandarin should be part of the curriculum too, i would say it’s far more important than english at this point since for really 99% of industries, if you want to acquire machinery or some input, you’re going to need to get a chinese supplier.
i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized.
Here in the Philippines, it’s both😭
When I was in Elementary, our schools had an English-Only Policy where speaking our national language (Tagalog) outside of Filipino classes was penalized. We also have an entire market for overseas work (OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers)
The Belgian city of Gent cancelled a show of an Israeli conductor. He is also the conductor of the National Israeli Orchestra, and is therefore a representative of the state of Israel. The city festival did not want to give a place to such a representative, and therefore cancelled his gig as they could not 100% conclude that he is against the genocidal actions of his state.
The media framing, however, is that he was refused because he is Israeli. This has led to a lot of ‘RACISM!!!’ reactions, and discussions about the topic are now endlessly more tiresome than they need to be.
Some different refugee groups in my city have some sort of war going on for some reason and they get to fight a lot. They use sticks and other weapons and fight in big gangs in the middle of the city. God know’s why. Now they seem to have picked up a fight in the city park in the middle of the city and someone died today. Free propaganda opp for the right sadly.
I hope you cast away all your illusions and are prepared for struggle.
There’s no real way for me to escape the nuke heavy area so it will probably be over soon
The army is increasing drills it seems. I was just vibing with my morning coffee when like 5 helicopters flew over, making a lot of noise. A while ago an airplane flew over pretty low. On top of that they accidentally torch natural parks from time to time. Fuckers.
Seen in a protest in France
I’m slightly worried about the grotesque over reaction on the Poland incident
It wont make any difference. What are they gonna do about it?
Trump will call Putin and he’ll say “I told you they would try to come up with some bullshit to start WW3.” Trump believes Putin over the yapping dogs in europe. Trump will tell europe, “You guys do what you want but we are not helping.”
Honestly I think the whole thing might have been intentional and Russia is just telling europe “put up or shut up but daddy isn’t coming to help you.”
Well its because Russa did a thing NATO routeenly does, the rules based order clearly decreed rules for thee and not to me
What’s a good Duolingo-like site to learn Levantine or Egyptian Arabic?
The city government cut down trees in my city to make way for some dumb public transport adjustment despite the neighborhood and experts agreeing that it is not necessary. They went ahead anyway and the neighbourhood protested. A huge police force showed up to intimidatie and abuse the protesters. Our local party leader for arrested and held in captivity for up to 8 hours for whatever bullshit they could come up with.
The government held a city hall meeting the other day and our party asked questions and wanted apologies. The city government just went: ‘this is the only way to get things done’.
Now, this is about some trees, but it’s concerning how the city sees intimidating and abusing residents as a way to get things done.
You too Oppo
Thank you
Have a great week everyone!
lol lmao
What is a democrat, really? How do you define a democrat? The answer may surprise you.
I just thought it was funny because of how deeply unserious Cenk is.
Why do I have “Do You Hear The People Sing” from Les Misérable going thru my head when I look at this picture?
Actual conversation I just had on FF.net: “Hey dude, I notice you cut out some chapters of your stories and said they were in other places but they don’t exist. Where I can I read your stuff?”
“Oh I haven’t posted fanfictions in 10 years.”
“What? You just updated them a couple months ago, that’s why I’m here talking to you. You probably shouldn’t direct your readers to websites that you deactivated.”
“Who asked your opinion?”
Then he blocked me. I’m a bit confused.
There are a lot of conspiracies around Kirk’s murder and none of them make any sense. I’ve seen “distraction from the Epstein files”, “whacked by Mossad”, “Ukraine/Russia did it.”, “False flag”. There are actual schemes being carried out by shadowy forces out there and I sincerely doubt a conservative debate YouTuber being assassinated is one of them.
The US has had 3400 mass shootings over the past decade(s) or so. This doesn’t even involve single casualty shootings, which is thousands more. Chicago alone had more people dying due to gun violence during the Afghanistan war than US soldiers dying in the actual war.
With this much violence happening, and with a political climate this unstable, something like this is bound to happen. The odds of the shooter being a radicalised lone wolf is much, much higher than it being a false flag imo.
Instead of putting on our tin foil hats I think we should focus on spreading the word how adventurism is not going to solve our problems, but rather that we need to build a workers movement.
